Tosokchon Samgyetang

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.

Arrived slightly before lunch and a long queue formed, but the queue moved quite fast. Appearance looks traditional and the staffs serves pretty fast. Placed our orders and was promptly served with the ‘ban chan’. A small cup of ginseng liquor was served and it was very refreshing with a good ginseng taste to it. Ginseng chicken soup is really tasty and delicious. Serving is just nice for one pax. Will definitely visit again if ever in Korea.

Absolutely phenomenal experience! From the moment we walked in the ambitions was warm and inviting the staff were incredibly friendly attentive and made us feel right at home every dish was packed with really nice Korean flavour and the kimchi was perfectly spiced. The atmosphere was also incredible. You can tell they put a lot of love into their food easily one of the best Korean dining experiences I've had highly recommend this and. This place had no rude staff and you will not regret coming here. This is not bad and it's very suitable for Asians. Recommend!

I had dinner in this restaurant. Very traditional place with a local atmosphere. Soup was good but not for everyone’s taste. There’s an instruction on the menu that shows you how to eat as it’s not common for foreigners. There were lots of local people as well as some tourists. It gives me an idea about the food quality if there are local people eating. The place is hidden in a small street with a large unexpected entrance. It was around 19:30 pm and I found a seat very easily.

April25, best Ginseng Chicken in Seoul. Recommend you to visit. Went back again today 20/4 for the 2nd time this trip, with the ginseng roots & wines got the energy to continue shop & shop. Will want to do a 3rd time before going home. A must eat place in Seoul.

I think if you are a tourist you can DEFINITELY find a better place for Ginseng chicken soup. First of all this place is absolutely disgusting in terms of hygiene, it’s was SOOOOO dirty , I entered and I wanted to walk right back out …… 🤢 But it was raining heavily outside so I just ate here . Second of all, my chicken soup was not super hot , the chicken and the rice inside was only warm, not hot . The taste is absolutely nothing special and I had better ones and cheaper else where . There are way too many staff, everyone is busy chatting amongst themselves…..when I walked in it felt like I was bothering them chatting , they gave me a look and Jsut point where to sit , how lazy can you be ???!!! 遊客嘅話可以唔使嚟，你是但搵一間都好食過佢！！！

Been around for ages, beautiful old hanok space converted for business. Very busy, but line moved quickly - wait time <3min. Service was good - lots of staff and we got 3 refills of generous Banchan. Kimchi was good even though I dont usually like kimchi with saewoojeot. Broth was unusually rich and meat and ginseng were generous. There is complimentary shot of ginseng ju (wine). We got 4x the 20,000 won (approx 20$ cad) regular samgyetang and we were stuffed. I love places like this which have stuck with their area of expertise and keep up tradition over decades - worth a stop! When you are done - walk 4 min north to Leedorim for a treat for the senses over coffee and dessert!