Gogung
고궁
The house of a Jeonju master cook who has worked at bibimbap alone, serving it with stone-plate bulgogi and tteok-galbi as a set.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 고궁
- Address
- 33 Songcheonjungang-ro, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeonbuk
- Opening hours
- not published by the operator
- Closed
- Not published by the operator
What to eat
Jeonju bibimbap — the city's rice bowl selected
Nearby
Sambaekjip
A kongnamul-gukbap house beside the Jeonju Gaeksa. Its Century Shop citation records a shop opened some seventy years ago by the present owner's mother, now run by a second and third generation together.
Hasukyeong Gamasot Bibimbap
A bibimbap house built on a house-blended sauce and rice cooked fresh in a cauldron.
Gajok Hoegwan
A Jeonju bibimbap house opened in 1979 by Kim Nyeon-im — the first designated master of Jeonju cooking and a provincial intangible cultural asset — and now in its third generation.
Hangukjip
Jeonju's oldest traditional bibimbap house, running since 1952 and now in its third generation, using only its own fermented pastes and hanwoo beef.
Stories about this place
- Four Jeonju Bibimbap Houses and a Bean-Sprout Soup: Three in One Lane, One 4.7 km Out
Every restaurant in Jeonju this site has a sourced record for — five of them. Four serve bibimbap and one serves bean-sprout soup; the three nearest the Hanok Village sit within 33 m and 212 m of each other, while Gogung alone is in a different district, 4.7 km away. None of the five publishes its opening hours or its prices.
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