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Haejangguk

Haejangguk (Hangover Soup) · 해장국

Difficulty: Medium
Time to plan: Varies with preparation and reheating instructions
Serves: 3 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Decision notes · editorial comparison of references and preparation plans

Does haejangguk tell me which ingredients are inside?

Haejang is a meal context, not a fixed ingredient list. Ask about blood curd or backbone; compare the actual bean-sprout-soup menu if those contents do not suit you.

Check before ordering or preparing: Ask about blood curd, offal, backbone, soybean paste and solo-bowl contents.

KTO describes different haejangguk versions including blood curd or pork backbone. KTO · Hangover Soup (해장국 / Haejangguk) · 2026-09-13

Alternative to compare: Kongnamul Gukbap (Bean Sprout Soup with Rice)Make an order card Prepare this version

Food notes and context

Haejangguk does not name one fixed ingredient formula. This page describes beef-bone broth with cabbage greens and soybean paste, with blood curd as an optional addition.

Establish whether blood curd, offal or meat is included before comparing it with bean-sprout gukbap. Haejang describes a dining context, not a promise that a bowl removes alcohol’s effects.

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Prep: Prepare stock and cooked greens
Cook: Simmer greens and reheat optional cooked blood as labeled
Wait: No long bone extraction
Ready in: Varies with preparation and reheating instructions

Prepared bone stock cuts the total to about 50 minutes. Cook blood curd until steaming hot and firm through the center.

Ingredients (3 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Ready-to-use beef-bone stock	3 labeled servings	Dilute concentrate as labeled.
Fully cooked cabbage outer leaves	2 handfuls	Fully cooked, tender radish greens are an option; do not add dried greens directly.
Fully cooked blood product (optional)	300 g	Fine to omit; tofu stands in
Doenjang	2 tbsp	Korean grocers online
Gochugaru and garlic	A little	Korean grocers online
Scallion	2 stalks	Leek
Soup soy sauce and salt	To season	Anywhere
Cooked rice	3 bowls	Torim style, or served separately

Step by step

1.Prepare ready-to-use bone stock
Prepare the liquid quantity for three labeled servings and bring to a boil. This route does not extract stock from bones; do not add a separate 800g of bones.
2.Dress the cabbage
Massage the boiled cabbage leaves with doenjang, chili flakes, and minced garlic.
3.Blanch the blood
Use only a blood product labeled fully cooked, with storage and reheating instructions. Prepare it as labeled. Omit this optional ingredient if raw or if its cooking state is unclear.
4.Boil together
Simmer the seasoned cooked greens in the broth until tender. If using the cooked blood product, follow its reheating instructions through the center, then season with soup soy.
5.Serve in the stone bowl
Serve at a rolling boil in stone bowls, scallion on top, rice in or alongside.

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해장국 · Haejangguk · Haejangguk (Hangover Soup)

1명이 먹으려고 합니다. 인분·접시·냄비 중 주문 단위와 최소 주문량, 추천 양을 알려 주세요. / This is for 1 person. Please explain whether you sell portions, plates or pots, the minimum order and the recommended amount.

밥·반찬이 포함되나요? 따로 주문하는 항목과 추가 비용을 알려 주세요. / Are rice and side dishes included? Please explain separate items and extra charges.

주재료와 양념에 무엇이 들어가나요? / What are the main ingredients and seasonings?

Ask about blood curd, offal, backbone, soybean paste and solo-bowl contents.

If you have ingredient restrictions, name them and ask about sauces, toppings and preparation equipment. The seller must confirm whether changes are possible.

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Cheongjinok

Jongno, Seoul

서울특별시 종로구 종로3길 32, 1~4층 (청진동)Location sources checked 2026.08.09

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Sambaijip (main)

Jeonju, North Jeolla

전북특별자치도 전주시 완산구 전주객사2길 22Location sources checked 2026.10.24

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The fictional face of this dish

Water element · a face of soft curves

You forgive last night's mistakes with a bowl of dawn broth. Like a cauldron that has not gone out in nearly a century, the master's face of tolerance that keeps its post.

Upright: Whatever last night was, your cauldron is boiling this morning. Do not scold the one who stumbled; hand them broth first. That tolerance is what makes you the master.

Reversed: You have loosened everyone's insides while your own ledger tangles. Even the haejangguk house closes out its register, so tend your own gut and your own accounts today.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

That forehead opens wide as a dawn market: a large-vessel face. Haejangguk is that vessel: a broth that asks no questions about the night before and receives everyone. Why has Cheongjinok endured ninety years? Because it fed every dawn of Jongno without a verdict. Your embrace is that embrace. The one who warms without asking is the greatest elder of all.

Those eye corners droop gently: a face of affection. The haejangguk keeper never startles at a customer's state; they guess at last night's battle and set down the bowl. Your eyes are those eyes, reading a story instead of a fault in someone's disheveled morning. That is why people come to you on their worst mornings of all.

That chin is thick: a sturdy old age. Haejangguk knows no fashion; as long as there are long nights, the trade is eternal. Your livelihood sits on the same untrending ground. Not the splashy opening but the cauldron that never goes out: the hundred-year houses proved that road, and it is yours.

To loosen the knotted gut, that is the original meaning of haejang. You are the one who unknots people's tangled insides and tangled days, so do not set down that ladle. The footsteps that seek you at dawn are your life's medals.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Kkakdugi brine beside the dawn stone bowl is a match certified by hundred-year houses. Summer-only kongguksu misses you in both season and hour, so keep your dawn and let them keep their noon.