Tosokchon Samgyetang

A super popular restaurant that absolutely lives up to the hype. Be prepared for a long queue that often stretches around the corner of the traditional Korean hanok building, but the wait is well worth it. The restaurant is famous for its signature Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup, which is an exceptional dish. They offer different cooking styles, including a standard white chicken soup and a special silkie chicken version. They serve a special ginseng wine in a small cup that you can drink it on its own or pour it into the soup to enhance the flavor, and it's also available for purchase as a souvenir bottle.

First visit to this popular samgyetang shop and did not see much crowd at 3 plus afternoon. Not many options in their menu and we ordered Samyetang and seafood with green onion pancake. Food preparation was swift and our food was served within 5mins of ordering. Pancake was made with lots of egg tasted more like an omelette. Chicken is cooked tender and taste of soup is delicious. Overall good and filling meal.

Big portion, good taste! However, kim chi is the best. Chicken was boiled till soft bone, but no salt at all so guest will need to put on. Good for kids and elder.

This place is very popular with tourist and local. The gingseng chicken soup is famous and lives up to its reputation. We ordered normal and black chicken soup and both are really fantastic! We visited this place almost 10 years ago and they haven't changed! I hope to come back again soon.

A wonderful experience for the traditional environment as well as authentic food. The buildings provide a rustic atmosphere, and chicken is so tender it can be taken apart with chopsticks alone! I highly recommend the pancake to share, which is hearty and more like an omelette but the best seafood pancake I've had on my trip thus far. Definitely a destination!

ORDERED: 🐔 Jeongigui Tongdak: Tosokchon Rotisserie Chicken (₩ 19,000 / ~A$21.00) REVIEW: I'm not a fan of ginseng chicken personally (but my family is). So, I ordered a roast chicken instead so that I could still eat with them. 😗 Good: 1. Skin was crisp and a nice brown colour 2. It came with radish, a simple mayo salad and a chilli sauce 3. Portion was 1 whole chicken Not good: 1. Some of the white meat - especially the breast part - was dry. Perhaps I was having an off day because another google reviewer loved this dish. When you finish eating, flag to the waitresses/aunties that you've finished and want to pay. We were given the table number/QR code sign to bring to the front. This was where we paid for our food!

Not sure what the hype is all about here or it must be an acquired taste or something because the main dishes were bland and I mostly followed the instructions on how to eat it. The grilled chicken was dry and lacked any flavor. 4/10 The ginseng chicken had little flavor and the rice in the middle was just rice with soup. Using the salt and sauce helped a bit but not much. 5/10 The seafood pancakes were the best thing that we ate. 7/10 The service here completely sucks. Our waitress was rude and didn’t even give us much time to even look at the menu before storming over and demanding we order. When we ordered, she said we needed to order the dishes equal to the amount of people we had with a snarky attitude. OK, it would had been nice to know that rule first. She then kept rushing us to order like calm down, you just told us this rule and we need some time to look at the menu. The place was mostly empty so not sure why she was rushing us. Also, a warning that the drink they gave us when we sat down is straight up liquor would had been nice before we drank it thinking it was tea. We thought they’d only give us the ginseng shot after you order the chicken but they just straight up gave it to us right when we sat down. Only good thing was there was no line.

We love the gingseng chicken soup from this restaurant. The soup was thick with a mild flavor. The chicken was extremely tender, with the meat falling off the bones. Inside the chicken were sticky rice, jujube, gingseng and probably some other ingredients. It comes with some side dishes, which are refillable. Today was a holiday so the area was packed full of families and tourists. The restaurant had a really long line, but we only waited about 30 minutes before getting seated. It's a huge space inside with many rooms.