Subok Dwaeji Gukbap

Notes

• My recommendation is the suyuk-baekban (boiled pork slices served as a full meal set). The meat quality is on another level. You get to taste real hangjeongsal (pork jowl) suyuk at its best. The photo is the suyuk-baekban.
• Prices keep going up, but since it's a true local institution, there's no real substitute. That said, plenty of places come within 70-80% of it, so it's not a bad idea to hunt those down too.
• If you eat dwaeji gukbap here and then move up to Seoul, you won't be able to stomach similar soups like sundae-gukbap (Korean blood sausage soup) or suyuk-gukbap (boiled pork slice soup) because they taste so bland by comparison (I actually know quite a few friends like this).
• Heads-up When you eat dwaeji gukbap, don't forget to add saeujeot (salted fermented shrimp) and jeongguji (garlic chives)!! (Skip them and you'll make any Busan native furious.)