Samgyetang Restaurants in Pyeongtaek

Are you looking for the best samgyetang restaurants in the Pyeongtaek area? Then, here are nine spots where you can find ginseng chicken soup to fill your bellies and beat the heat.

Where is Pyeongtaek?

Feel free to skip this section if you live in Pyeongtaek or know about the area.

Pyeongtaek-si is located in the southern portion of the Gyeonggi-do province. This large city includes both US military installations, Camp Humphreys and Osan Air Base.

The samgyetang restaurant recommendations provided exist within the city of Pyeongtaek.

In this blog post, South of Seoul provides addresses and phone numbers. However, we recommend using this information in either Naver Maps or Kakao Maps for the best results. As a result, such apps help you figure out how far each restaurant might be from you.

What is Samgyetang?

If you have been following along with A Year to Learn Korean Cooking blogs, we recently posted about this fabulous ginseng chicken soup, Samgyetang 삼계탕. This soup features a whole young chicken stuffed with garlic, glutinous rice (sweet rice), jujubes, and ginseng. However, some locations add other herbs or even medicinal herbs to the soup to make it an even more of a health food. While Koreans believe this soup will help to refresh your stamina and replenish your body from the heat, this soup may also become favorite Korean comfort food.

Although samgyetang can be eaten year-round, Koreans eat this most often during the hottest days of summer (also known as the dog days of summer). It is not uncommon to see people lined up on the three hottest days referred to as Sambok 삼복 (sam meaning three and bok referring to a Chinese character of a dog lying down due to the hot weather). The three hottest days of the year (sambok) change each year but usually occur between June and August. These days are known in Korea as chobok 초복, jungbok 중복, and malbok 말복. This spans about a month since chobok and jungbok are ten days apart and jungbok and malbok are twenty days apart. For 2023, the dates are as follows: July 11 (chobok), July 21 (jungbok), and August 11 (malbok).

Also, there are many kits and options that allow you to make samgyetang at home relatively quick and easy. However, if you prefer to let someone else do the cooking for you, check out one of the nine recommended samgyetang restaurants below.

Nine Samgyetang Restaurants in Pyeongtaek

KimchiRednecks Samgyetang Videos

Since we love to try new foods and find local places to enjoy the fabulous Korean cuisine, we eat at a lot of different locations to experience whatever is available. Often we will choose a recipe and try a few restaurants and then research recipes, so we can make the dishes at home. Currently, we have two samgyetang videos available, but since this list is pretty big, we will definitely be checking out more of the above options for variety.

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