Changsin-dong Maeun Jokbal
창신동매운족발 본점
Jokbal Bossam
About
The spicy version of pig trotter, in the sewing-factory quarter below Naksan.
Most jokbal is braised in soy sauce and served mild; the Changsin-dong style takes the same slow-cooked trotter and coats it in a chilli sauce that is genuinely hot, not decoratively so. Changsin-dong itself is worth the trip: a dense hillside of small sewing workshops that has supplied Dongdaemun's fabric market for decades, still noisy with delivery motorbikes at night. The meat arrives glossy red, cut off the bone, with lettuce, perilla and a bowl of cold noodles to put out the fire. Order the half-and-half if you are not sure — one side spicy, one side plain — because the heat here is not a bluff.
Menu
- 핫스페셜족발 (대)₩35,000
- 핫스페셜족발 (중)₩25,000
- 매운미니족발 (대)₩36,000
- 매운미니족발 (중)₩24,000
- 매운미니족발 (소)₩12,000
- 매운무뼈닭발₩12,000
- 매운바베큐생삼겹₩12,000
- Beef Tartare₩18,000
- 매운순살족발
- 영양족발 (대)
- 영양족발 (중)
- 매운석쇠족발
Local tips
- Ask for banban (half spicy, half plain) if you're unsure — the spicy side is seriously hot.
- The cold noodles or a bowl of rice aren't optional extras; they're the thing that lets you keep eating.
- Wrap the meat in perilla leaves rather than lettuce — the leaf stands up better to the sauce.
- Come after dark and walk the hill afterwards; Changsin-dong is a genuinely working neighbourhood, not a preserved one.
Details
- Dongmyo Station (Lines 1, 6), Exit 6
Opening hours
- Sunday
- 10:30–22:00
- Monday
- —
- Tuesday
- 10:30–22:00
- Wednesday
- 10:30–22:00
- Thursday
- 10:30–22:00
- Friday
- 10:30–22:00
- Saturday
- 10:30–22:00