Bukchon Kimchi-jae

Bukchon Kimchi Jae is a Korean restaurant in the Gye-dong alleys near Anguk Station, serving dishes made with aged kimchi. Its main dishes are aged kimchi kimchi stew, aged kimchi galbi jjim, kimchi duruchigi, and mackerel kimchi stew, and the kimchi galbi jjim comes with soft galbi in a thin broth. The dining room is large, so even when the lunch crowd arrives the wait is not long, and the aged kimchi kimchi stew comes with one free ramyeon noodle addition. The flavors lean toward the familiar rather than the distinctive.