A Daejeon Trip? No, a Daejeon Food Tour

I went on a trip to Daejeon, a city famous for being a "boring city"!

When people think of Daejeon, Expo usually comes to mind first,

but I didn’t go anywhere near Expo and only visited good restaurants.. haha

Since it’s called a boring city, I thought there wouldn’t be many travelers and left feeling relaxed, but!

What do you know... there were a lot of people traveling to Daejeon.

The first restaurant we went to was Daejeon’s "Gwangcheon Sikdang"~!

The entrance was small, tucked between alleys, but there were quite a few people waiting out front!

There wasn’t a separate parking lot, which was inconvenient, but there was a public parking lot nearby,

so we parked there and walked over comfortably!

We waited about 20 minutes before our number was called and went in,

and unlike the entrance, the inside was spacious! We went to the seat the staff guided us to and ordered right away.

We ordered boiled pork slices (small) for 20,000 won and seasoned noodles for 7,000 won, and the two of us ate enough without feeling short.

The seasoned noodles also had a big piece of tofu in them, so they felt even more filling~

After eating at Gwangcheon Sikdang, we came to the cafe street in Soje-dong,

and I remember it being very close by car!

There wasn’t really a proper parking lot here either, so I saw a lot of cars parked along the main road~

Our group also barely found a parking spot and parked,

then moved straight to "Cafe Workshop" right in front~

It was so hot that we couldn’t even choose a cafeㅠㅠ We escaped into the cafe right in front without any choice... haha

We ordered the signature Workers Coffee, a milkshake, a brownie, and cookies!

Looking back, it was sweet + sweet + sweet + sweet haha, but we still enjoyed it~

This is Daejeon’s "Taepyeong So Gukbap," a place you can’t miss when talking about Daejeon~!

It was a rich beef-soup-style gukbap that’s great as a drinking snack, great for hangovers, and also very good as a meal!

I had gukbap + yuk sashimi together, and while the yuk sashimi was tasty,

I prefer clean-tasting broth, so the gukbap really suited my taste~

This is Daejeon’s "Ossi Kalguksu," where we waited the longest in Daejeon! hahaha

Every table here had a menu item called mul-chorong.

We went as two people, but we ordered both the kalguksu and mul-chorong!

Maybe because I had high expectations... but for my taste, it didn’t seem like something worth waiting that long for.....?

These days there are so many great kalguksu places,

so it just felt like an ordinary bowl of kalguksu, which was a bit disappointingㅠㅠ

It’s worth trying if there’s no wait, but I wouldn’t really wait just for it... ㅎ.ㅎ