Recommended Jokbal Restaurant in Gangnam, Ohyang Jokbal — The Bossam Is Delicious Too!!

There are days like that. It’s lunch at work, but you feel like it’s a little over the top, yet you still think about it and want to eat it. Today was exactly one of those days.

Fortunately, everyone at work was on the same page, so we ended up ordering jokbal and bossam.

We had only casually mentioned that we wanted jokbal, and before long everyone was saying, “Me too, me too,” so we ended up placing the order very quickly and decided to order both jokbal and bossam at the same time. At first, we thought about ordering them separately since the best places for jokbal and bossam are different, but the delivery fee wasn’t exactly light.

We had already decided to order the jokbal from Ohyang Jokbal, so we ordered the bossam from there as well. To get straight to the point, since it’s a place that does jokbal well, the bossam was also very good and had no unpleasant smell.

This is the medium size from Ohyang Jokbal. It seemed like a lot, but only two strips were lean meat, and underneath that was all jokbal!! In other words, bone~

I thought it wouldn’t be too much since it was enough for five people, but with the bossam too, it was just the right amount to leave us pleasantly full.

I was trying Ohyang Jokbal for the first time, and not only was there no smell from the jokbal itself, but what I especially liked was that they simmer it with various ingredients to remove any unpleasant odor. Sometimes the aroma of those ingredients is so strong that it masks the smell, but the scent of those traditional medicinal ingredients can feel off-putting. Here, the aroma from the spices and other ingredients didn’t come through too strongly in the jokbal, which was nice. If you’re looking for jokbal that’s chewy yet tender, I can strongly recommend Ohyang Jokbal in Gangnam.

This is the bossam.

We also ordered the medium size for the bossam. It looked a little small in the photo, but perhaps because we were eating it with the jokbal, the amount was actually plenty.

There was absolutely nothing left over. I really think we finished every last bite.

Personally, I think bossam tastes good when it has a certain amount of fat so it isn’t dry. Ohyang Jokbal’s bossam had just the right balance of lean meat and fat. Maybe that’s why it was naturally tender, and we were able to enjoy moist bossam.

The side dishes that go well with jokbal and bossam came with the order.

There were napa cabbage leaves like white kimchi and radish salad. Of course, these are the kind of side dishes that go well with bossam, and they matched it really nicely.

There were also ssamjang, salted shrimp, garlic, spicy seasoned peppers, radish salad, pickled radish, garlic, and some kind of pickles.

If anyone knows what that long, round-looking thing in the pickles is, please let me know. The texture was better than I expected, so I really wanted to know what it was.

This cabbage salad is something that can’t be left out as a side dish to eat with jokbal at Ohyang Jokbal. The cabbage salad dressing is a garlic sauce, which is why it goes so well together.

They say it’s also Ohyang Jokbal’s signature sauce, and I immediately understood why the moment I tasted it.

Jokbal and bossam alone are great, but it feels a little lacking if you leave out carbohydrates. So we ordered rice balls.

It’s good to shape them into bite-sized balls and eat them as rice balls, but since there were several of us, we decided to just scoop them and eat them that way, and that worked well too.

Rather than making someone go through the trouble of shaping them into rice balls, it’s also fine to just mix the seasoning well with the rice so it goes together nicely and eat it with a spoon.

The side dish that goes hand in hand with jokbal and bossam is definitely makguksu.

But!! Was it because we ordered during a busy lunch hour?!! The disposable container that was supposed to contain the makguksu sauce was packed full of garlic and scallions, so we were completely caught off guard;;

In situations like this, don’t panic—just call the store and let them know what happened.

That was sorted out, and the sauce arrived only after we had already finished the bossam and jokbal, so we ate the makguksu as a snack.

I already knew that Ohyang Jokbal was a great jokbal place in Gangnam, and even the staff said that if we were going to order jokbal, we should order it from Ohyang. But it was the first time for everyone to try the bossam, and it was delicious too.

I wanted something greasy even though it was lunch, and I think it turned out to be a successful lunch.