Juicy.Tasty.Korea: [EAT_TRADITIONAL] 4.Jokbal_Pig's feet

2016년 10월 29일 토요일

[EAT_TRADITIONAL] 4.Jokbal_Pig's feet_족발

blogger:Jutako

Restaurant Name

경원집_Kyungwonjip

Today's main dish_Jokbal

Did you already read what's today's menu? Maybe... some of you, who are not familiar with Asian food, could get surprised a bit. Today I had one of the very traditional Korean foods! Today' blog will be very "Korean." I hope you enjoy!

A happy pig! 꿀꿀!

What Jokbal is made of? I already gave you a hint upside! Jokbal(족발) is made of pig's feet. Does your country also have this type of food? Depending on your answer, I guess you might like this food or maybe not.

How to make Jokbal? Simply to say, boil pig's feet with medical herbs and roots, and some vegetables... (Plus... more stuff! Hard to list all of them) After boiling, we eat the Jokbal with many different kinds of sources, vegetables, and side dishes.

What's so good about this food? When chef boils pig's feet, it's boiled with a lot of healthy ingredients, such as milk vetch root, Korean angelica root, acanthopanax, jujube...etc. What? you started feeling headache? :) Alright. Just keep that in mind! Heathly ingredients. Let's start seeing the restaurant now.

Front view of restaurant

Side view of restaurant

It's known for a long history. It says 50 years!
Should be really good one, isn't it?

It's just a normal restaurant. There are not much things to talk about, in terms of outside view or interior. However, the location was very convenient and the restaurant was quite cleaned, even though it has a long history! I came here in order to taste famous Jokbal! So, that normal restaurant visual wasn't disappointing me at all. The taste will pay off my effort :)

It's recently been in a famous food TV program!

One of my friends sent me a photo of this place and asked me to go together, as it's so famous and it was on TV program. I also had high expectation on this place, because it was on TV very recently and me and my sister are big fans of that food TV program, 맛있는 녀석들. Until that moment... I really trusted that TV program.

Let's go check the menu!

The menu here is very simple. I would say they are very specialized in few dishes? :) Left side is showing some food, which are good with drinks, while right side is showing lunch menu.

Tip) Top menus

Jokbal

빈대떡(bindaetteok_mung-bean pancake)

Since I went there at night, me and my friends ordered a bottle of 막걸리(makgeolli_rice wine), and also ordered those top two dishes, Jokbal & Mung-bean pancake.

Mung-bean pancake! (Separate order)
There are some squid inside!

From here, it's all free side dishes coming with Jokbal!

Shellfish Soup

Salted[pickled] shrimp

Pickled onion

Salted oysters with hot pepper

lettuce, green onion, garlic, green paper,
and source(쌈장_ssamjang)

Maybe you think the free side dishes are a lot and cool? But I think it's kind of normal in Korea that you get many free side dishes, when you order a main dish. It's a Korean thing. So, remember it's not only in this place! Next time I will take you to a "heaven of side dishes!" Promise you!

Because the Jokbal is not seasoned or marinated much, the side dishes are quite strong. I guess maybe it could be a bit too strong for those of you, who are not familiar with Korean food. It's definitely good to eat jokbal with side dish together though. Wonderful combination! So, try it!

Main dish_Jokbal!

At the bottom, you can see the bones.

Pig bones are normal "decoration" in Jokbal. Please don't feel that you got cheated :) It anyway makes the dish plentiful and tasty!

Have one bite~

With green onion together

Put whatever you like and wrapped in lettuce

Jutako's recommendation_No comment...!
My order: Large size Jokbal & A pancake

Price information
Jokbal: 3,5000 KRW for medium size Jokbal (2-3 people)
4,0000 KRW for large size Jokbal (3-4 people)
Mung-bean pancake: 1,0000 KRW per a pancake

I don't know how to end this blog today. I am not saying this restaurant wasn't good, but I personally don't want to recommend this restaurant. I strongly recommend you to try Jokbal, if you visit Korea, but this place is not the best place for Jokbal in my personal opinion. I have had Jokbals a lot of times in my life(?), but this place wasn't my best choice...

Not always we can make best choice... right? :) That's why I am writing this blog, in order to help you to make wonderful choice, when you travel in Korea! I have learned a very important lesson today; Do not trust mess media!!! Precious lesson :)
Jokbal: 3,5000 KRW for medium size Jokbal (2-3 people)
4,0000 KRW for large size Jokbal (3-4 people)
Mung-bean pancake: 1,0000 KRW per a pancake