A Pyongyang-style chicken house in Seongsu, Seoul — the Seongsu branch of a place from Anguk — where half a chicken, its broth and the rice arrive as three separate bowls.
Had to wait 22 of 22 · Foreign customers in the room 16 of 16 · Open kitchen 14 of 15
A second-floor snack shop near Seongsu station where two people cook to order — small rolls of gimbap, tteokbokki with no rice cake in the rabokki, and glutinous-rice sundae. Yunjeongine means roughly "Yunjeong's place"; bunsik is Korea's cheap snack-food register.
Friendly staff 6 of 6 · Reachable by transit 6 of 6 · Second floor 6 of 10
Bonjuk means the chain's own congee — bon is its coined word for root or origin — and the second half of the sign is bibimbap; this is the small ground-floor branch by the Hillstate flats in Seongsu, where office workers come at lunch and, by two writers' reckoning, the only place in Seongsu that sells congee at all.
Seats to sit and eat 3 of 3 · Takeout 2 of 2 · Clean 1 of 3
