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Jeongam Tojongdak, Yangyang: Native Chicken and Duck Baeksuk in Ganghyeon-myeon

A black earthenware pot of chicken in broth topped with chive-like green stems, red jujubes, a pale chunk that looks like potato and strips of dark mushroom, set on a steel ring in a striped wooden table with small bowls beside it.
The baeksuk pot in October 2021, on a steel ring set into the table.
How to order Address & map

Jeongam Tojongdak (정암토종닭) is a restaurant in Ganghyeon-myeon, a rural district of Yangyang on Gangwon's east coast, that serves baeksuk (백숙), a whole chicken simmered in a pot. At Jeongam Tojongdak the pot is black earthenware and sits on a burner set into the table.

The baeksuk pot and what comes with it

The pot in the photo above holds pieces of chicken in broth under chive-like green stems. Red jujubes, a pale chunk that looks like potato and strips of dark mushroom are also visible. The mushroom may be neungi (능이), a wild mushroom named on the wall sign described below, but the photo cannot confirm it.

Baeksuk is usually lifted out in pieces and eaten with salt or a dipping sauce. In my photos a small dish of what looks like salt sits behind a serving bowl holding a chicken leg with the bone sticking up.

A pale blue-white bowl holds a chicken leg with the bone sticking up in light broth, with dark mushroom pieces and green stems on top; behind it are a small dish of salt-like powder and bowls of side dishes.
A serving bowl of chicken in pale broth, with a small dish that looks like salt.

Small side dishes crowded the table too: a basket of whole green chilies, a salad in a creamy dressing and a stir-fry of mushrooms and red peppers, among others. Juk (죽), rice porridge, came separately in a stainless steel bowl with a ladle standing in it.

Small dishes on a striped wooden table: a basket of whole green chilies, a salad in a creamy dressing, a plate of reddish pan-fried slices, a stir-fry of mushrooms and red peppers and other side dishes, with a round burner set into the table at the right edge.
Side dishes on the table, with the burner at the right edge.
A stainless steel bowl of rice porridge flecked with green and orange bits, a ladle standing in it, with a wooden tissue box and a stack of pale blue plates beside it.
Rice porridge in a stainless steel bowl, with a ladle.

Chicken, duck and the farm behind the menu

Jeongam Tojongdak serves tojongdak (토종닭), native Korean chicken, and duck. The origin-of-ingredients sign on the wall in October 2021 lists the chicken and duck as domestic and farm-direct (농장직영), and neungi as wild-gathered.

A sign with handwritten entries on a wood-paneled wall, listing ingredients such as rice, chicken, duck and neungi mushroom with their origins, beside a window with a white valance.
The origin-of-ingredients sign on the wall, October 2021.

A Tistory review posted in June 2023 says Jeongam Tojongdak cooks with chicken and duck raised on a farm. The menu banner in that review's photo says the same and adds that Jeongam Tojongdak uses ssam greens it grows itself.

Prices, hours and the right address

Seoraksan neungi baeksuk (설악산능이백숙) cost ₩90,000 and native chicken baeksuk (토종닭백숙) ₩60,000 on the menu banner in a photo in the June 2023 review. Duck baeksuk (오리백숙) cost ₩70,000, and neungi duck baeksuk (능이오리백숙) ₩100,000. The June 2023 reviewer says Jeongam Tojongdak is open daily from 10:00 to 21:30 with no closing day, and advises booking ahead because baeksuk takes time to cook.

Three adults who ordered one chicken baeksuk left food over, the June 2023 reviewer writes, and the reviewer thinks one order suits four.

Two places called Jeongam Tojongdak turn up in map searches, according to the same reviewer, and the one they went to by mistake was a farm. The reviewer gives the restaurant's address as 12 Jeongam 2-gil, while Kakao Map lists 14 Jeongam 2-gil in Ganghyeon-myeon, so check both numbers in your map app.

How to order

Show this to the staff

토종닭 백숙 하나 주세요.

Tojongdak baeksuk hana juseyo.

One native chicken baeksuk, please.

오리 백숙 하나 주세요.

Ori baeksuk hana juseyo.

One duck baeksuk, please.

미리 예약하고 싶어요.

Miri yeyakago sipeoyo.

I would like to book ahead.

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