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.
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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.
What to eat
Tosokchon samgyetang — whole young chicken stuffed with rice and ginseng₩20,000
Jeon Han / Republic of Korea (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Tosokchon samgyetang — whole young chicken stuffed with rice and ginseng selected
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