Well, when in Korea, eat as the locals would. This was the mantra we had for the trip to Jeju. On the second day prior to taking a hike to Seongsan Ilchulbong, or Sunrise Peak, we stopped by one of the local eateries for some good old fashion brunch by this place called Bujeon Restaurant (ë¶€ì „ì‹ë‹¹).
Bujeon Restaurant is located nearby Seongsan Park
Like many small restaurants in Jeju island, this one has a bit of a home-style ambiance to it, with perhaps seating enough for 20 pax and staffed by a senior lady, who is the cook, server, cashier, dish washer all rolled into one.
Naturally, we ordered by pointing fingers on the menu, which luckily had Chinese characters and photos on them. And since there were only half a dozen choices presented, it was pretty easy to pick four. The lady then went off into the kitchen to cook, leaving us to “chit chat” with a couple guys on the other table.
The conversation went like this
“we’re from Malaysia”
“Malaysia, ok! China, no no no no no no!”
pancake with scallion, seafood stew
Despite being a one-man (or woman) show, food arrived all at the same time after 15-20 mins.
The pancake with scallion (13,000 KRW) was delicious if not a little bit on the oily side, especially since scallion being one of the more famous produces of Jeju island.
The seafood stew (13,000 KRW) came with boiling hot with plenty of seafood, including mussels, crab, prawn, clams, and of course – abalone! I certainly didn’t complain for having another abalone, yums.
bibimbap, sea urchin (uni) noodle
The bibimbap (10,000 KRW) here was pretty good as well, a mix of their bean sprouts, vege, seaweed, and pickled radish.
Lastly, the rather unique dish that we’ve never tasted before was the sea urchin noodle (13,000 KRW) which carries a sweet seafood note contributed by the sea urchin and decent amount of kelp balanced by sesame seeds. Lovely especially when it was cold out.
menu conveniently in both Korean and Chinese
Brunch came to be 49,000 KRW, convert to Malaysian Ringgit and it’s a bit of a heart attack inducing figure but pretty typical around here. Also judging by the scribbled over menu, inflation played a part too.
Now we’re off to Seongsan park!
Address:
178-4 Seongsan-ri, Seongsan-eup,
Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do,
South Korea
GPS: 33.462941, 126.933290
Tel: +82647821033
Around RM168.00 is pretty reasonable. We would have to pay quite a lot too if we eat at a Korean restaurant here. At least, what you had was guaranteed authentic!
suituapui: that’s true, smaller towns usually have to pay more for imported food.
The price of the meal you had wouldn’t even induce a heart murmur if you had it for lunch or dinner. Just that we usually wouldn’t eat or pay that much for breakfast. Wow, that is one capable lady running the entire show by herself. P/S: I’ve heard about your type of “conversation” before where Malaysian Chinese would disassociate themselves from China Chinese…lol! 😀
eatwhateatwhere: haha you do have a point, and yes Malaysian Chinese memang don’t want people to know we’re associated. lol.
I thought Jeju island has good range of seafood, it’s so surprise that scallion is famous too! That was cooked sea urchin?
Choi Yen: they have good shellfish I guess but not nearly as huge a range as we have here.