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Sinhodeung Jangjakgui, Goyang: Oak-Fired Chicken Stuffed with Rice, Served Flat on Foil

A chicken lies flat on a round pan lined with foil, its skin reddish brown with a few sesame seeds, with a bowl of red sauce and a white bowl with a spoon beside it on a light wooden table.
The chicken lying flat on a foil-lined pan, November 2021.
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Sinhodeung Jangjakgui (신호등장작구이), the Seooreung (서오릉) main branch in Goyang (고양), Gyeonggi Province, serves dak jangjak-gui (닭 장작구이), a whole chicken stuffed with rice and roasted over oak firewood. The restaurant stands in the Seooreung area of Deogyang District, and Esquire Korea's August 2021 guide to a day out around the royal tombs calls it the area's representative restaurant.

Sinhodeung (신호등) means traffic light, and a September 2024 food column on Gyeonggi Province's website says the shop is named after the traffic light in front of it.

Dak jangjak-gui: the chicken pressed flat

In my photo from November 2021, the chicken lies flat on a round pan lined with foil, its skin reddish brown with a few sesame seeds. Esquire Korea describes the method: the chicken is stuffed, skewered and turned over a strong oak fire, then pressed flat on a hot iron plate lined with foil. The Gyeonggi column adds that the glutinous rice inside sears into nurungji (누룽지), scorched rice, on that plate.

Pale rice mixed with black grains and one glossy dark-brown round piece shows between pieces of chicken on the foil-lined pan, with skewers on foil behind.
Pale rice mixed with black grains beside the chicken on the foil-lined pan.

The rice in my photo is pale and glossy with black grains mixed in, plus one glossy dark-brown round piece. Esquire Korea says the stuffing has seven ingredients, among them glutinous rice, black rice, ginseng, jujube and pine nuts, and describes a faint oak aroma, a crisp outside, a moist inside and a mild flavor. Three Polle reviewers call the chicken or the portion small, and one of them says an average adult could finish a whole bird alone.

Dak-kkochi skewers and a bowl of noodles

Chicken skewers on foil, glazed in a red-brown sauce and sprinkled with sesame, with green pieces that look like scallion between the chicken.
Skewers glazed in a red-brown sauce and sprinkled with sesame.

Dak-kkochi (닭꼬치), chicken skewers, are glazed and sprinkled with sesame in my photo, with what looks like scallion between the pieces. A Polle reviewer says they come in spicy and teriyaki versions that can be ordered half and half.

A stainless-steel bowl with a heap of shredded cabbage and sesame seeds over a dark red sauce, with the chicken and skewers on foil behind it.
A stainless-steel bowl heaped with shredded cabbage.
A skewer of glazed chicken and what looks like scallion is held above a stainless-steel bowl of thin dark noodles in red sauce, with a few pale shreds that look like cabbage.
A skewer held above the bowl; the noodles beneath are thin and dark.

A stainless-steel bowl in one photo is heaped with shredded cabbage over a dark red sauce, and a similar bowl in another holds thin dark noodles in the sauce with a few pale shreds that look like cabbage. Polle and K-Trip Tips list makguksu (막국수), buckwheat noodles, but I can't tell from the photos whether this bowl is that dish.

Prices and hours at Sinhodeung Jangjakgui

Polle's menu, checked on November 14, 2026, lists Sinhodeung Jangjakgui's wood-fired chicken at ₩24,000, skewers at ₩16,000, makguksu at ₩8,000 and janchi-guksu (잔치국수), noodles in a light broth, at ₩6,000. K-Trip Tips, updated in April 2025, gives Sinhodeung Jangjakgui's hours as 12:00 to 24:00 with no closing days and marks parking as available. Several shops use the Sinhodeung name, so check the address, 396-14 Seooreung-ro; the Gyeonggi column says the others are not a chain but shops opened by acquaintances and disciples.

How to order

Show this to the staff

닭장작구이 하나 주세요.

Dakjangjakgui hana juseyo.

One wood-fired chicken, please.

닭꼬치 반반으로 주세요.

Dakkkochi banban-euro juseyo.

Half-and-half skewers, please.

막국수 하나 주세요.

Makguksu hana juseyo.

One makguksu, please.

Polle lists Sinhodeung Jangjakgui's takeout chicken at ₩23,000.

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