If there may be one factor that you could strive when in Seoul, it’s Ganjang Gejang. For the uninitiated, Ganjang Gejang is a conventional Korean dish that contains recent uncooked crabs marinated in a light soy-sauce primarily based brine and it’s completely scrumptious.

The most effective locations to take pleasure in Ganjang Gejang in Seoul is Gebang Sikdang, a small and cosy restaurant in Gangnam which was featured within the Michelin Information Seoul 2023. Helmed by Bang Geon-hyuk, a style marketer, and his dad and mom who’re veterans of the soy sauce marinated crab restaurant enterprise, Gebang Sikdang is out to please and here’s what you’ll be able to look ahead to throughout your meal. 

Gebang Sikdang’s menu primarily focusses on uncooked crab dishes and also you’d be delighted to seek out dishes just like the Soy Sauce Marinated Crab Roe Bibimbap (21,000 gained), Spicy Sauce Marinated Crab Set (market worth), Spicy Sauce Marinated Crab Roe Bibimbap (21,000 gained) and extra. Every dish is served with a seasonal fruit salad, 2 facet dishes of the day, kimchi and dongchimi, soybean paste soup and laver. Nevertheless, do notice that every diner is required to order not less than 1 meal.

However, the star of their menu is the Soy Sauce Marinated Crab Set. This set contains a portion of soy sauce marinated crab, a seasonal fruit salad, a facet dish of the day, handmade seasonal kimchi and dongchimi, clam seaweed soup. While the value of this set is topic to the market worth of the crabs, this set shall be definitely worth the whereas.

As somebody who has by no means had Ganjang Gejang, I didn’t know what to anticipate. I used to be pleasantly shocked by how a lot roe the dish was served with, and by the scale of the blue crab.

Gebang Sikdang marinates the uncooked blue crabs with soy sauce, chilli pepper powder, garlic, ginger, rice malt, and different elements and this made for an beautiful flavour profile. The crab meat was recent, smooth but agency, and every chunk was an exquisite explosion of salty (which comes from the crab roe) and candy (the soy sauce). That stated, because the flavour profile of the meat is sort of robust, chances are you’ll want to combine the meat along with the rice for a extra balanced meal.

One other dish that we actually loved was the Spicy Sauce Marinated Crab Roe Bibimbap. The kick from the gochujang paired completely with the candy flesh of the uncooked crab, and the saltiness from the laver added one other layer of flavour to the whole dish. So for those who’re somebody who wants spice in your meals, this can be a greater choice for you than the Ganjang Gejang.

Given the scale of the restaurant, we’d extremely advocate inserting a reservation upfront of your journey. Reservations could also be made by way of CatchTable, and a deposit of 20,000 gained can be required per diner. For many who are driving in Seoul, parking is out there onsite albeit in restricted portions.

Gebang Sikdang
17 Seolleung-ro, 131-gil
Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Tel: +82-10-8479-1107