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Milmyeon Sikdang, Gyeongju: Cold Wheat Noodles, Two Ways, and Dumplings in a Steel Pan

A wide steel bowl of bibim-milmyeon: a tall mound of pale noodles with dark red sauce pooled around it, topped with shredded cucumber, slices of pale meat, pale strips and an egg dusted with sesame, on an orange table beside a small steel bowl of golden liquid.
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Milmyeon Sikdang (밀면식당) is a milmyeon restaurant in Gyeongju, on Taejong-ro 791beon-gil (태종로791번길), a residential side street a little away from the city center, according to a June 2025 review. Milmyeon (밀면), cold wheat noodles, comes mixed with a spicy sauce as bibim-milmyeon (비빔밀면) or in chilled broth as mul-milmyeon (물밀면). VisitKorea, the Korea Tourism Organization's travel site, says Milmyeon Sikdang has specialized in milmyeon since 1972 and calls it Gyeongju's first dedicated milmyeon restaurant.

The bibim-milmyeon bowl

In my April 2021 cover photo, the noodles stand in a tall mound in a wide steel bowl, with dark red sauce pooled around the base. Shredded cucumber, slices of pale meat, pale strips that look like pickled radish and an egg dusted with sesame sit on top. VisitKorea describes the bowl as chewy noodles with tangy seasoned radish, spicy sauce, boiled meat (suyuk, 수육) and a boiled egg.

The mul-milmyeon bowl

A steel bowl of mul-milmyeon: pale noodles in clear yellow broth, topped with a mound of dark red seasoning, an egg dusted with sesame and shredded cucumber, with a small steel dish of orange-brown liquid at the lower left.
Mul-milmyeon in clear yellow broth, with a mound of seasoning on top.

In my photo, the mul version has pale noodles in clear yellow broth, with a mound of dark red seasoning on top, an egg and shredded cucumber. VisitKorea says mul-milmyeon comes in a clean broth made only from Korean beef bones, with domestic ingredients throughout. A review posted in June 2025 on Tistory, a Korean blogging platform, notes that even this bowl carries a little seasoning, which adds some heat.

The sonmandu dumplings

Two rows of half-moon dumplings on a yellow perforated mat inside a round steel pan with two loop handles; green flecks show through the thin wrappers, and a small steel dish of dark sauce sits at the left.
Dumplings in a round steel pan, on a yellow perforated mat.

Milmyeon Sikdang's wall menu, visible in reviewers' photos, lists sonmandu (손만두), handmade dumplings, beside the two noodle bowls. In my photo they lie in two rows on a yellow perforated mat in a round steel pan, with green flecks showing through the thin wrappers. The June 2025 review says the wrappers are thin enough to see the filling, which tastes of meat and chives.

Prices and practical notes

Milmyeon Sikdang's wall board, photographed for the June 2025 review, listed mul-milmyeon and bibim-milmyeon at ₩8,000 each and sonmandu at ₩6,000, with a larger portion for ₩1,000 more. Milmyeon Sikdang's board, in a photo from a review of a June 27, 2026 visit, reads 9.0, 9.0 and 7.0, in thousands of won. Milmyeon Sikdang is crowded around lunchtime, the June 2025 review says, and the reviewer suggests arriving between 11:00 and 12:00. A reviewer who visited Milmyeon Sikdang in June 2026 advises parking in a public parking lot and walking. None of the pages I read about Milmyeon Sikdang lists its opening hours or a closing day, so check before a special trip.

How to order

Show this to the staff

비빔밀면 하나 주세요.

Bibim-milmyeon hana juseyo.

One bibim-milmyeon, please.

물밀면 하나, 손만두 하나 주세요.

Mul-milmyeon hana, sonmandu hana juseyo.

One mul-milmyeon and one sonmandu, please.

양념장은 따로 주세요.

Yangnyeomjang-eun ttaro juseyo.

Please give me the sauce on the side.

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