Jeju & Seogwipo Street Food - Part 2 - Ivan Teh

Jeju & Seogwipo Street Food - Part 2

More Jeju & Seogwipo Street Food that I've tried during other visits to Jeju & Seogwipo, South Korea, continuing from Part 1.

Dwaeji Bulgogi Dosirak / Marinated Barbecued Pork Meal Box

This list includes dishes not listed in Jeju & Seogwipo Street Food - Part 1. Cuisine is mostly Korean, with some American and Chinese influences.

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The Beer Smiley Orange Wit is a wheat beer, brewed by the Craftbros Brewing Co. in Seochu district, Seoul, South Korea. Characterised by its vibrant happy packaging, it has a bright yellow golden colour, with aromas of orange, coriander, corn, and banana. The body is smooth, light, and joyful, with tastes of tangerine, caramel, wheat, and grapefruit. Has a fruity grainy sour sweet bitter flavour, with a short finish, cheerful and easy to drink.

Beer Smiley Orange Wit

Beer Smiley Orange Wit

The Beer Bring Spring is a farmhouse ale saison, brewed by the Magpie Brewing Co. in Jocheon town, Jeju, South Korea. It has a pale golden straw colour, with aromas of malt, lime, hay, and white pepper. The body is smooth, dry, and lively with gentle carbonation, and tastes of lemon, cloves, cornflakes, and white bread. Has floral earthy fruity spice sweet flavour, funky yet drinkable, with an eye-catching packaging.

Beer Bring Spring

Beer Bring Spring

The Beer Cass is a popular South Korean beer, a non-pasteurized lager style beer, brewed by Oriental Brewery in Gangnam district, Seoul, South Korea. It has a bright straw golden colour, with aromas of hay, white rice, corn, and grass. The body is light, crisp, and dry, with moderate amount of carbonation, and tastes of wheat, cornflakes, biscuits, and malt. Has a refreshing grainy sweet flavour, with a dry finish. A popular manner of drinking this is to mix it with plain soju.

Beer Cass

Beer Cass

The Beer Filgood Happoshu is a happoshu / low-malt beer with less than 67% malt content, brewed by Oriental Brewery in Gangnam district, Seoul, South Korea. With its quirky and ironic bright packaging, it has a pale amber golden colour, with mild aromas and tastes of wheat, green grape, spring water, and white bread. The body is thin, mild, and light, refreshing with a hint of grainy sweet bitter flavour but not much else. It's meant to be a 'fake' beer, marketed as a beer-like / beer-lite beverage with lower taxes, but stands out when paired with spicy dishes.

Beer Filgood Happoshu

The Beer Jeju Osung Son IPA is an India pale ale, brewed by the Jeju Osung Traditional Restaurant in Saekdal neighbourhood, Seogwipo, South Korea, and is designed to pair with their food. In fact, it's rare to see it being sold anywhere outside of their restaurant. It has a deep amber maroon colour, with strong aromas and tastes of tangerine, hallabong, hops, and spring water. The body is lively, smooth, and well-balanced, with fruity sour sweet zesty tangy flavour, and a sharp finish.

Beer Jeju Osung Son IPA

The Beer Geomeong Ale is a dark ale, brewed by the Jeju Beer Company in Hallim town, Jeju, South Korea. It has a deep charcoal brown colour, with aromas of toasted rye bread, liquorice, wheat, and barley. The body is light, rounded, and smooth, with tastes of toffee, toasted white bread, coffee, and chocolate. Has a robust earthy grainy sweet smoky flavour, with a lingering finish.

Beer Geomeong Ale

Beer Geomeong Ale

The Beer Jeju Pellong Ale is a pale ale, brewed by the Jeju Beer Company in Hallim town, Jeju, South Korea. It has a medium amber orange colour, with aromas of grapefruit, lychee, mango, and spring water. The body is thick, rounded, and smooth, with tastes of tangerine, strawberry, dandelion flowers, and mineral water. Has fruity floral zesty tangy sour sweet flavours, and a crisp finish.

Beer Jeju Pellong Ale

The Beer Kelly, whose name is derived from 'Keep Naturally', is a Danish barley lager brewed by the HiteJinro Co., Ltd., in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea, launched in April 2023. It has an orange amber colour, with mild aromas and tastes of malt, straw, barley, and cereal. The body is smooth, light, and refreshing, with faint grainy sweet earthy flavour, and just a touch of bitter flavour on the tail, with a short finish.

Beer Kelly

The Beer Works Korea Green Grape is a fruit beer brewed by Beer Works Korea in Jongno, Seoul, South Korea. Infused with green grape juice, this has a golden green yellow colour, with aromas and tastes of wheat, green grape, caramel, and white bread. The body is smooth, light, and sticky, with intense fruity sweet bready flavour, and a short finish.

Beer Works Korea Green Grape

The Beer Gompyo Wheat is a unique craft wheat beer brewed by the SevenBrau Co.,Ltd. or 7Bräu Microbrewery in Hoengseong, Gangwon, South Korea. It has a cloudy amber orange colour, with aromas and tastes of wheat, barley, peach, and mango. The body is creamy, rounded, and smooth, with a soft foam head and bright grainy fruity honeyed bitter sweet flavour, and a clean finish.

Beer Gompyo Wheat

The Baechu Miyeokguk / Cabbage & Kelp Seaweed Soup is a popular postpartum remedy, though it's also served regularly in restaurants to accompany a meal. Filled with cabbage and kelp seaweed stewed till soft, the cloudy warm broth / soup holds creamy rich vegetal earthy briny salty sweet flavour. Healthy and nutritious, this is often paired with white rice.

Baechu Miyeokguk / Cabbage & Kelp Seaweed Soup

The modern Italian Korean fusion rendition features silky chewy al-dente spaghetti pasta noodles, tossed aglio olio style with anchovy fish paste sauce, fried garlic, and olive oil, then garnished with crisp rocket leaves / arugula and tender lean Jeju black pork loin and black pork belly. The result is an addictive and punchy profile, bursting with meaty savoury fishy salty briny vegetal bitter sweet earthy spice flavours, yum.

Black Pork & Anchovy Spaghetti

Black Pork & Anchovy Spaghetti

Black Pork & Anchovy Spaghetti

A warm and hearty bowl, the comforting Bomal Juk / Top Shell Porridge features a thick gloopy rice porridge congee, infused with the essence of top shell snails, garnished with deshelled chunks of more top shell snails. It carries a lovely grainy earthy savoury salty herbal flavour, and is popular for breakfast or on cold days.

Bomal Juk / Top Shell Porridge

The Bomal Miyeok Kalguksu / Top Shell Knife Cut Noodles features a warm soup / broth that carries deep robust earthy savoury vegetal salty flavours. The chewy soft knife-cut noodles are made from either wheat flour or buckwheat flour, and hold medium earthy grainy sweet flavour. The dish is garnished with tender shiitake mushrooms with vegetal earthy savoury flavour, wispy kelp seaweed with vegetal briny salty earthy flavour, springy deshelled top shell snails with earthy savoury salty flavour, and crisp spring onions with vegetal sweet flavour.

Bomal Miyeok Kalguksu / Top Shell Knife Cut Noodles

Bomal Miyeok Kalguksu / Top Shell Knife Cut Noodles

The Bossam / Seasoned Boiled Pork Wrap features a slab of pork, often pork belly, boiled with water, soy bean paste, garlic, instant coffee powder or brewed espresso coffee, and other assorted herbs and spices (including bay leaves, spring onions, ginger, or chili powder). The thinly sliced cuts of tender juicy boiled pork, with a deep brown colour hue from the coffee, is a culinary masterpiece. While regular pork can be used, the most popular is black pork, which is jiggly soft tender and non-greasy, carrying meaty savoury sweet flavour. It's meant to be paired with a range of seasonings and other ingredients tableside, such as sea salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, gochujang / fermented chili paste, sangchu / lettuce, and more.

Bossam / Seasoned Boiled Pork Wrap

Bossam / Seasoned Boiled Pork Wrap

The Chapssal / Glutinous Rice is made by boiling short-grain white rice in water, then reducing it. The result is a very sticky texture, with grainy sweet flavour. While it can be eaten on its own, this is also used as a base to form other dishes.

Chapssal / Glutinous Rice

The Cinnamon Twist Doughnut is visually long, firm, and knobbly, studded with white sugar crystals and cinnamon sugar. While it appears soft, it's actually rather hard in texture, with a chewy crunchy grainy bite and bright floral earthy sweet savoury flavour to the doughnut.

Cinnamon Twist Doughnut

Served as a side dish to accompany a Korean barbecue meal, the Doenjang Jjigae / Soy Bean Paste Stew is a staple soup / broth / stew made from doenjang / fermented soy bean paste, water, minced garlic, and red chili. Garnished with tender daikon radish, crisp green onions, spongy tofu bean curd, tender aehobak / zucchini, the stew carries robust vegetal grainy sweet savoury earthy spice flavour. Depending on the stall, other ingredients may be added, including pork belly, chicken egg, white clams, black mussels, squid, green chili, red chili, or deshelled prawns. Warm and comforting, especially when paired with white rice.