Jomurak Dakgalbi, Gapyeong: Charcoal-Grilled Chicken with a Stretchy Dip

Jomurak Dakgalbi (조무락닭갈비) is a charcoal-grill restaurant in Gapyeong-eup, Gapyeong, in Gyeonggi Province. Its main dish is dakgalbi (닭갈비), seasoned chicken that diners grill over charcoal in salt, soy-sauce or gochujang flavors, according to VisitKorea, the Korea Tourism Organization's travel site. Many travelers know dakgalbi as chicken stir-fried on an iron plate, but Jomurak Dakgalbi uses a charcoal grate.

VisitKorea says Jomurak Dakgalbi has its car park on the ground floor and its dining hall upstairs, about five minutes by car from Jaraseom (자라섬).

Charcoal dakgalbi on a wire grate

In my photo from October 2020, a round stainless-steel ring is set into a striped wooden table. A wire-mesh grate sits over charcoal that is ash-gray on top and glows red in the gaps.

Dakgalbi in salt, soy sauce or gochujang

Jomurak Dakgalbi's menu lists salt (소금), soy-sauce (간장) and gochujang (고추장) dakgalbi. A blogger who ate there in August 2024 says each flavor can be ordered one portion at a time. Bloggers who visited in August 2024 and April 2026 each preferred the salt version to the other flavor they ordered.

The pieces on the grate in my photos look like skin-on thigh meat, with dark specks that look like black pepper. I can't tell from the photos which seasoning they had.

The stretchy yellow dip

A black bowl of yellow sauce sits beside the grate in most of my photos. In one, a piece of chicken comes up on chopsticks coated in the sauce, with a thin strand stretching back toward the bowl, much like melted cheese. The August 2024 blogger writes that Jomurak Dakgalbi sells a handmade cheese fondue sauce (수제 치즈퐁듀소스) as an add-on, and Polle's menu listing shows the cheese fondue sauce at ₩5,000, so the dip in my photos is probably that sauce.

Side dishes and noodles

VisitKorea says every table at Jomurak Dakgalbi has an ordering terminal, and that a self-service bar offers extra side dishes such as beet ssammu (비트쌈무, pickled radish slices for wrapping meat), pickled mustard greens (갓절임), white kimchi and bellflower root (도라지). It lists bibim makguksu (비빔막국수), buckwheat noodles mixed with a seasoned sauce, as the finishing dish.

Jomurak Dakgalbi's prices and hours now

Jomurak Dakgalbi's dakgalbi costs ₩17,000 per 230 g portion for salt, soy-sauce and gochujang, and its cheese fondue sauce ₩5,000, according to Polle, a restaurant review site (no update date shown; checked November 15, 2026). Jomurak Dakgalbi's hours, according to an April 2026 blogger, are 11:00–18:30 Monday to Friday and 11:00–19:30 on weekends, closed Wednesdays. That post lists weekday hours and a Wednesday closure together, so call first.

How to order

VisitKorea says orders go through the terminal on each table, so the card is mostly for asking staff for help.