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Chodang Halmeoni Sundubu

초당할머니순두부

A sundubu house in the Chodang tofu village. Its Century Shop citation records that the curd is set daily with Korean beans and seawater brine from the East Sea.

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Place information

Korean name
초당할머니순두부
Address
77 Chodang-sundubu-gil, Gangneung, Gangwon
Opening hours
not published by the operator
Closed
Not published by the operator

History

According to the shop profile published by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Small Enterprise and Market Service, the restaurant makes its tofu by a method handed down from the family's grandparents and father. It has also been designated a Baeknyeon Gage ("hundred-year shop").

  1. 1989

    Chodang Halmeoni Sundubu founded

  2. 2020

    Baeknyeon Gage designation

Ministry of SMEs and Startups / Small Enterprise and Market Service, Baeknyeon Gage directory — Chodang Halmeoni Sundubu: year selected (2020), year founded (1989) and profile (a method inherited from grandparents and father) ·

What to eat

Chodang sundubu — soft curd set with seawater brine₩14,000

Priced from the 순두부백반 row on Naver Place — the curd served as a set meal; the same list gives 얼큰째복순두부 at 15,000 won.

Chodang sundubu — soft curd set with seawater brine selected

Nearby

The marker stone at the entrance to Gangneung Coffee Street, cut with the street's name in Korean and English, with Anmok Beach and the East Sea behind it

Gangneung Coffee Street

A seafront row of roastery cafes along Anmok Beach, where most shops roast their own beans and seat you facing the water. The street keeps no hours of its own — each cafe sets them — so check the one you are aiming for.

The wooden hall of Ojukheon seen head-on from its forecourt, its two plaques reading Ojukheon and Mongnyongsil

Ojukheon House

The house where Shin Saimdang lived and her son Yi I was born — among the oldest surviving Joseon dwellings, with the room called Mongnyongsil held to be his birthplace. The Yulgok Memorial Hall and the Gangneung Currency Exhibition Hall stand in the same grounds, so the woman on the 50,000-won note and the son on the 5,000-won note can be seen together in the house they lived in.

Stories about this place

  • Eight Century Shop Restaurants in Korea, Region by Region

    Eight restaurants the Ministry of SMEs and Startups has designated as Century Shops, running from Gangneung down to Suncheon. Each entry gives the dish to order, the city it stands in, what the designation credits the house with, and what a serving costs.

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