Somunnan Seongsu Gamjatang (Pork Bone Soup)
Restaurants · Seongsu & Seoul Forest
Dine on generous portions of pork bone soup topped with perilla leaves and enoki mushrooms, then finish your meal with cooked fried rice.
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Why visit
- Somunnan Seongsu Gamjatang is a hearty pork-bone stew stop with a useful choice for travellers: order a bubbling pot to share, or a single-serving gamja-guk bowl. Go for tender meat, broth and a fried-rice finish, with the expectation of a busy dining room.DiningCode
Choose a bowl or shared pot
- Diningcode lists small, medium and large gamjatang pots, plus regular single-serving gamja-guk and an ugeoji version with cabbage greens. The regular bowl is the straightforward solo choice; a shared pot gives companions a meal to build around add-ons. Its listed prices are ₩12,000 for a regular bowl and ₩32,000 for the smallest pot.DiningCode
- Recent diners describe different spice impressions. Naoko23117's December 9, 2025 Trip.com review found the pork fell easily off the bone and did not find the red broth spicy; _We***43's May 14 review called it slightly spicy and strongly flavoured. Ask about the broth if you are sensitive to spice.Trip.com
How to finish and what to expect
- For a longer shared meal, consider sujebi—torn pieces of dough cooked in broth—and bokkeumbap, fried rice at the end. 미코옹 praised both on April 20, 2026. 버드엄마's September 29 review preferred the savoury fried rice to the less satisfying ramen addition.DiningCode
- 김달미's September 15, 2026 review found a medium pot sufficient for their group of three and described recurring queues. 버드엄마 still encountered plenty of people on a late-night visit. Those accounts suggest a lively meal stop; leave flexibility for waiting rather than planning a tightly timed, quiet dinner.DiningCode
