Tosokchon Samgyetang

토속촌삼계탕

A samgyetang house west of Gyeongbokgung, worked into a remodelled hanok in Chebu-dong; its menu also runs to black-bone chicken and lacquer-tree chicken.

Language

The queue outside Tosokchon Samgyetang on Malbok: a name board reading 土俗村蔘鷄湯 / 토속촌삼계탕 under the tiled eaves of the hanok, a vertical 蔘鷄湯 sign beside it, customers going in through the open door, and a line of people running down the lane behind a yellow rope.

Place information

Korean name: 토속촌삼계탕
Address: 5 Jahamun-ro 5-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Opening hours: 10:00–22:00 (last entry 21:00)
Hours notes: No closing days are recorded here. The source these hours come from also says it never closes, but the restaurant's own site publishes neither its hours nor its closing days as text, so there was nothing to check that against.

Official site

Nearby

National Palace Museum of Korea

A national museum inside Gyeongbokgung's walls, at the south-west corner. It holds what the buildings alone cannot show — royal seals, the court protocol records, palanquins, the water clock. Saturdays and the last Wednesday of each month are the only nights it stays open to 21:00.

Tongin Market

Plan around the lunchbox cafe rather than the market: it closes on Tuesdays and stops selling tokens well before the market itself shuts.

Gyeonghoeru Pavilion lit at night, mirrored whole in the still surface of the pond

Gyeongbokgung Palace

Best for a first palace visit in Seoul; allow time for the central halls and check the official schedule before adding a guard ceremony.

National Museum of Korean Contemporary History

Across from Gwanghwamun Square, covering Korea since the ports opened in 1876. Where the Seoul Museum of History takes the city, this takes the country, so the two do not overlap. Wednesday and Saturday are the only days it runs to 21:00.

Stories about this place

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