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Seongil Sikdang, Seoul: Spicy Pork Ribs, Gondeure Rice and a Giant Pancake

A wide black pan on a tabletop burner, heaped with bean sprouts in a red sauce with steam rising, and a black bowl, a spoon and a small dish of glossy orange-brown pieces that look like pickled radish on the wooden table around it.
A wide pan of bean sprouts in red sauce on a tabletop burner, February 2022.
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Seongil Sikdang (성일식당) is a pork-rib restaurant in Galhyeon-dong, a neighborhood of Seoul's Eunpyeong District near Yeonsinnae Station. Its main dish is maeun deunggalbi-jjim (매운 등갈비찜), spicy braised pork ribs that arrive in a wide pan on a tabletop burner, piled with bean sprouts.

The maeun deunggalbi-jjim pan

In the cover photo above, from February 2022, steam rises from a wide black pan heaped with bean sprouts in a red sauce. A December 2023 reviewer found wheat rice cakes (mil-tteok, 밀떡), glass noodles and ribs under the layer of sprouts and wrote that the meat came off the bone easily. A January 2022 reviewer says the pan arrives ready to eat but can be simmered longer to thicken the sauce.

Seongil Sikdang lets diners pick the heat level, say both reviewers. The 2023 reviewer chose level 1 of 3, which the reviewer likens to Shin Ramyun, and did not find it spicy. Reviewers on Polle, a Korean place-review site, call the sauce slightly sweet, and one says the heat builds afterward.

A spoon lifting a bone-in piece of meat, bean sprouts and thick pale slices that look like mushroom stems out of a wide pan, with a green onion stalk on top.
A spoon lifts a bone-in piece of meat, bean sprouts and thick pale slices out of the pan, February 2022.

Gondeure rice and the giant buckwheat pancake

Gondeure-bap (곤드레밥) is rice cooked with gondeure, a mountain thistle leaf eaten as a vegetable. Seongil Sikdang's menu board, in a January 2022 review's photo, says the shop cooks the rice in a cauldron (gamasot, 가마솥). The December 2023 reviewer says the rice tastes even better eaten with the ribs.

A spoonful of rice flecked with dark green leaves, topped with sauce-coated pieces of meat and thin strands that look like bean sprouts, held above the pan with a black bowl at the left.
A spoonful of rice flecked with dark green leaves, topped with sauce-coated meat and thin strands that look like bean sprouts, February 2022.

Memil-jeon (메밀전) is a thin buckwheat pancake. Polle lists Seongil Sikdang's version as a giant, 35 cm Bongpyeong buckwheat pancake at ₩3,000. In my photo, a very large gray-brown pancake covers a round white plate whole, with a green onion stalk across the middle.

A very large, thin gray-brown pancake covering a round white plate on a wooden table, with a green onion stalk across its middle and its right edge curled up, beside a white paper pouch printed with blue waves.
The whole pancake on its plate, February 2022.

Seongil Sikdang prices, hours and limits

Seongil Sikdang's 2-person set cost ₩33,000 on the menu board in a January 2022 review's photo. Polle's menu list (checked November 15, 2026) shows Seongil Sikdang's 2-person set at ₩39,000, with the 3-person set at ₩62,000 and the 4-person set at ₩78,000. Seongil Sikdang sells only 100 portions a day, says Dategom, a Korean date-course blog (page updated January 2026), and the December 2023 reviewer adds that it closes when they sell out. Seongil Sikdang opens 11:00–22:00 with a break from 15:00 to 17:00 and closes on Mondays, according to the same two sources. Polle and Dategom both say Seongil Sikdang has no parking.

How to order

Show this to the staff

매운 등갈비찜 2인 세트 주세요.

Maeun deunggalbijjim i-in seteu juseyo.

One 2-person spicy rib set, please.

덜 맵게 해 주세요.

Deol maepge hae juseyo.

Less spicy, please.

메밀전 하나 추가해 주세요.

Memiljeon hana chugahae juseyo.

One extra buckwheat pancake, please.

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