I went to Gwangju, South Korea for business and it was always great to have a delicious lunch.
Today I visited Chilbong-i Jjamppong near Hanam industrial complex where the coworker who lives in Gwangju recommended.
This was a Chinese restaurant. And What is Jjamppong? Jjamppong is a Chinese-style hotchpotch cooked with noodles or a hot spicy sea food soup with noodles.
Unlike other Chinese restaurant, the interior of this restaurant was very neat and nice.
Actually when I got there, I didn't feel that I was in Chinese restaurant.
I heard that it was originally a café on the first and second floor. But because of bad business result of the cafe, they turned its first floor to the restaurant.
I went a little early and there were no many people, but a lot of guests came in while eating.
When I finished eating, there was full of guests without any vacancy.
We ordered Chilbongi Jjambbong and tangsuyug(fried/battered pork served with sweet source)
You can choose the spicy level of the jjamppong here. It has 4 levels and I chose level 1 which is basic and normal version of it.
Recently the trend of jjamppong is having a strong hint of fire but the jjamppong here didn't and it didn't have strong taste(not very salty, sweet and spicy).
And the owner told that the noodles contains lotus leaves which give benefits: stress release, helping digestion and etc. and noodles were slightly green.
Tangsuyug(fried/battered pork with sweet source) had lotus roots which also give some heath benefits and the taste and texture was good.
And the pork was coated with sweet rice flour so it was very chewy and sweet like a rice cake.
As you can see the photo above, the interior was quite great and that's why almost guests were females and couples.
The second floor cafe was open still, so if you want to have a dessert it would be a good idea to visit up there.
Location: 23-26, Mongnyeon-ro 394beon-gil, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
