Gyeongju restaurants

[edit] Gyeongju restaurants

Daehan Buffet Tel. (054) 771-6625. This is on the second floor right at the main intersection right at the Jung-ang market.
Shilla Buffet Tel. (054) 741-7600. Northeast of the Noseo-ri tumili, on the second floor of a building that's set back from the street. This is right across the street from "Terrace" and directly north of the easternmost of the Noseo-ri mounds.

Gyeongju Hyugeshil On the south side of the main east-west street, two long blocks west of the train station. At windows on two sides they serve twigim, fried chicken, hopang, odeng, sandwiches, burgers. Inside there's the more traditional Korean bowls of food served in an informal atmosphere.
Kimbap Chunguk (054) 742-1041. This national chain has a branch a few doors south of Gyeongju Hyugeshil. Lots of variety with a focus on kimbap. Cheap and acceptable for the price.
Nătuur High fat and expensive. Also very tasty and addictive. Try their green tea flavour if you want something out-of-the-ordinary. It's a ways east of Mellys.

Melly In Gyeongju, a branch of this chain restaurant is located across from the KB Bank, on a little lane heading east from the street that runs to the east side of the Noseo-ri tumuli. Pizza, spaghetti, risotto.
Terrace (054) 773-8084. Fusion with strong Italian influence. Highly tasty sphagetti. And, chicken, steaks, pilaf, sandwiches, lasagna, ribs, beer, wine, liquor, anju. Their prices are high but so is quality and atmosphere. Terrace is just north of the easternmost of the Noseo-ri tumuli, and across the street from the Shilla buffet. There's a real focus on meat dishes here, but they have been known to create special orders for vegetarians.

Shinseong Shiktang (054) 773-8768. Typical small Korean restaurant: food, anju, drinks. It's just north of the express bus terminal and east of the intercity terminal. A chain-smoker's paradise.

Dajuk Tel. (054) 773-5939. Open 9 am to 10 pm. It's billed as a Korean offhand porridge restaurant. There are over a dozen types of juk or rice porridge, both traditional and modern. An excellent mushroom-oyster juk goes for 8,000 won and the vegetarian yachae juk is 5,000. This is accompanied by a half-dozen bowls of banchan including a very tasty mul-kimchi.
Jung-ang market has at least one booth that sometimes offers the traditional juk bowls. It's on the west side lane through the market, west of the shiktang stalls.
Seongdong market has several booths offering the three traditional kinds of juk - they are a lot cheaper but serve smaller portions without many add-ons. They are all in the same area on the west side lane through the market.

Near the southeast corner of Tumuli Park is an area of ssambap restaurants.

Oncheong Ssambap Tel. (054) 772-2256. Ssambap here is 7,000 won and features a large assortment of leaves, a fried fish, another fish boiled with soy sauce and radish slabs, bulgogi, rice, twenjang, two or three other kinds of soup, and lots of panchan. Good quality food, all of it.
Shigol Ssambap Tel. (054) 742-5022. Twenjang ssambap is 8,000 won; bulgogi ssambap is 10,000 won. The bulgogi is a bit more expensive here, but comes in a cheolpan in which diners cook their own over a stove on the table. Added to the beef are chap chae noodles, onions and vegetables. Was the only place in all of Ssambap village that was open on Lunar New Year's eve.