Black pork with Perilla leave

Jeju Must Eat: Dombedon Black Pork Restaurant

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Last updated on May 15th, 2026

Dombedon is a popular restaurant, that served the traditional Jeju dishes Dombe aka black pork meat raised on Jeju Island.

Black pork is Jeju’s famous dish, one of the must-eat when visiting Jeju. It is not only tasty, and is said to be beneficial for health and beauty purposes, especially for women.

We are wondering how well the food quality in the Jeju restaurant, especially for a special dish of grilled black pork. As a result, we are voted for Dombedon (늘돔베돈) for our first dinner at Jeju.

Jeju Must Eat, Dombedon Restaurant

Black Pork Street Entrance

Dombedon Restaurant is located at the Jeju black pork street with a wide range of restaurants that specialize in black pork in the same row. This restaurant is hard can’t miss as it is the busiest shop located at the entrance of the street with the little pig welcome signboard.

How To Order At Dombedon Restaurant

Dombedon Menu

We reach Dombedon at around 7 p.m after the walk from the Dongmun market. The waiting time is just 5 minutes for the previous table to clean up.

The menu is in Korean with English/Japanese/Mandarin translated below. The picture and price are also well listed on the menu. So it is not difficult to order at Domdedon Restaurant. We choose the 450g of black pork set for 2 pax at 43,000 won, a bowl of rice at 1000 won and additional order of the soju at 4,000 won.

Dombe Meat And Side Dishes

Dombedon Side Dishes

The whole restaurant is full of the delicious smell of grilled pork. Most guests are groups of Korean adults and couples. Please take note that Dombedon does not serve solo travelers unless ordering for 2 pax.

A wide selection of banchan (starters/side dishes) is served including raw garlic, mushrooms, dwejeong (red bean paste), bean sprouts, kimchi, seaweed, coleslaw, steamed egg, and tofu soup. I enjoy Korean food so much and especially love their Korean banchan.

Complimentary Roasted Black Pork

A plate of cooked roasted black pork belly is served as complimentary from the 2 pax meal set.

Dombedon Black Pork Platter

Without a long wait, the black port is served by staff to our table. Firstly, he started to grease the grill with a big cube of pork fat and then place the pork and mushroom on the grill.

Once everything was ready, he smile and ask us to wait for the pork to be well cooked before cutting it into slides. We also added the garlic, kimchi, and bean sprouts to grill together with the meat.

Golden Brown Grill

Waiting for the well cooked black pork

Wait for the meat to change to golden brown and you can start to enjoy it. We also wrapped the pork belly with the Perilla leaves or lettuce served together with banchan.

The meat is too delicious and tasty even without any marinated on it. The restaurant prepares its meat using traditional cooking methods, as opposed to simply grilling the meat like many restaurants in the downtown area do.

Our dinner at Dombedon is really enjoyable. We like their food, the atmosphere, and the service.

How To Go To Dombedon Restaurant

Dombedon is strategically located at Black Pork (Heuk-dwaeji) street. It is also nearby Dongmun market and Jungang underground shopping street in the old town area.

We went to Dombedon after a short visit to the Dongmun market by a few minutes of walking. Our dining experience in this Jeju must eat, Dombedon is a pleasant dinner with great food and friendly staff. Worth a try for their famous grilled black pork.

  • Address: 25 Gwandeong-ro 15(sibo)-gil, Geonip-dong, Cheju, Jeju-do, South Korea
  • Opening Hours: Daily from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m.
  • Korea GPS Tel No: 753-0008

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Bibim Guksu Closer Look

Jeju Must Eat: Sister Noodles aka Jamae Guksu

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Last updated on May 15th, 2026

Jeju Must Eat, Sister Noodles (Jamae Guksu /자매국수) is a hidden gem restaurant and highly recommended by locals. It is located at Guksu Geori (Noodle Street) at Jeju city.

We kicked start our Jeju road journey today with the traditional food of Jeju – a bowl of tasty pork noodles at Jeju must eat, Sister Noodles (Jamae Guksu /자매국수). Jamae Guksu is one of the Jeju must eat in our Jeju food guide list.

We were there on the weekend morning around 10 a.m. and surprisingly already have a waiting queue in front of the restaurant. We parked our car on the backstreet and walk to the restaurant as the available parking in front of the restaurant was already full.

How To Order At Jamae Guksu

The queue at Jamae Guksu

There is a queuing machine located at the front door but unfortunately all in Korean. We looked at each other but still continue to proceed with the ordering.

At first, the machine will ask you to key in how many people before proceeding to food ordering. There is the English menu stated outside of the restaurant but not on the older machine. We just blindly ordered the noodles based on the price as we would like to try out all the noodles. We also would like to add on the “mui-mandu” (dumpling) as a side but end up giving up.

Once everything is done, you will be required to key in your phone number as the reminder message will be sent to your phone when it is your turn.

We try to key in our country phone number as we are using the Wifi eggs but the machine keeps on pop up error message. We ask for help from the customer behind and she explained that the Korean phone number should start with 010-XXX-XXXX. So we end up modifying our phone number in order to complete the booking.

For safe, we still proceed to the counter and inform the ajumma to alert us when it is our turn. I would suggest you direct proceed to the counter to ask for a queuing number instead of get the queuing number at the machine-like us.

The Menu of Jamae Guksu

Jamae Guksu Menu

Although the line is long the waiting time consider fast. We were waiting outside for around 20 minutes before our table got cleared up. The restaurant itself is not too big and only can fit less than 20 tables.

Visited customers are majority Korean instead of foreigners like us. Once we get into our table, the staff then brought some side dishes and our bowl of noodles came really quickly.

Jamae Guksu – Gogi Guksu

Gogi Guksu at Jamae Guksu

Gogi Guksu /고기국수  is the Japanese style of pork noodle soup with slices of pork belly in light milky pork broth. The soup broth is tasty, pork slice is generously spread across bowl.

Jamae Guksu – Bimbi Guksu

Bibim Guksu at Jamae Guksu

Bibim Guksu /비빔국수  is the dry mixed spicy noodles with a mixture of vegetables like cucumber, kimchi cabbage, lettuce, and mung bean sprouts. Some pork belly slices are also served together with the Bibim Guksu.

Jamae Guksu – Myeolchi Guksu

Myeolchi Guksu at Jamae Guksu

Myeolchi Guksu/멸치국수 is the noodles in vegetables in fried Anchovy Broth.

Seaweed Topping On Jamae Guksu Noodles

The broth is Gogi Guksu is slow-cooked by Jeju black pork for more than 10 hours, making it so delicious and tasty.

A container of seaweed is placed on the table, take as much as you want to enhance your guksu. The taste of the guksu becomes very savory and delicious.

We ended up unable to finish the whole three bowls of noodles due to the big portion.

Jamae Guksu Noodles

As we have ordered all the noodles soup from Jamae Guksu and personally I do feel the Gogi Guksu is still the best. The Gogi Guksu tastes really good with mouth-watering delicious. The meat is also refreshingly light, thinner, and less fatty.

I strongly recommend eating here as the taste is good and cheap.

How To Go To Sister Noodles/Jamae Guksu

We went to Jeju must eat, Sister Noodles aka Jamae Guksu by driving from our hotel, Whistle Lark before continuing our 6 day Jeju Road Trip. However, limited parking is available in front of the restaurant on first come first serve basis. Alternative to park at the backstreet of the restaurants.

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  • Address: 6, Wollang-ro 4-gil, Jeju, Jeju Island 63098, South Korea
  • Opening Hours: Daily 9 a.m to 9 p.m
  • Korea GPS Tel No: 727-1112

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