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Jeyuk-bokkeum

Jeyuk-bokkeum (Spicy Stir-fried Pork) · 제육볶음

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 35–40 min
Serves: 2 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

This jeyuk bokkeum stir-fries pork shoulder with gochujang and chili flakes. Its cut thickness and sauce play a different role from thick slices of pork belly cooked with salt.

Alternate the strongly seasoned pork with rice or leaves. For a jeyuk set meal, establish which soup, rice and sides are included and which additions require a separate order.

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Prep: 10 min
Cook: 8–12 min
Wait: Refrigerated marinating 15 min
Ready in: 35–40 min

Even with thin slices, verify 63°C/145°F in the thickest piece and rest the pork for 3 minutes.

Ingredients (2 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Pork shoulder (thin sliced)	400 g	Pork belly or collar work too
Gochujang	2 tbsp	Korean grocers online
Gochugaru (Korean chili flakes)	1 tbsp	Half as much crushed red pepper
Soy sauce and sugar	1 tbsp each	Corn syrup for the sugar
Minced garlic	1 tbsp	Anywhere
Onion	1/2	Anywhere
Scallion	1 stalk	Leek
Korean green chili	1	Serrano
Sesame oil, pepper, sesame seeds	A little	Korean grocers online

Step by step

1.Dress the marinade
Mix the gochujang, chili flakes, soy sauce, sugar, garlic, and pepper, coat the pork, and rest fifteen minutes.
2.Cut the vegetables
Cut the onion into thick strips and slice the scallion and chili on the bias.
3.Fry the pork over high heat
Heat the pan thoroughly, add oil and the pork, and fry over high heat, tossing. Never add water.
4.Vegetables and finish
When the pork is nearly done, add the onion, scallion, and chili and fry one or two minutes more. Once the thickest piece reaches 63°C/145°F, remove from heat, rest for 3 minutes, and finish with sesame oil and seeds.
5.Set the baekban table
Serve with hot rice, lettuce, and doenjang-jjigae. It is also excellent heaped straight over rice.

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Guldari Sikdang (Mapo main)

Gongdeok, Mapo-gu, Seoul

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Yeonnam-dong Driver Diner Street

Yeonnam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul

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The fictional face of this dish

Fire element · a sharp, vivid face

You cannot stand anything complicated. Settle it spicy, finish with a bowl of rice: the firepower face of the set-meal lunch that feeds the whole nation.

Upright: Fire catches on your daily bread today. Do not measure; fry it over high heat. Push simple, like a lunch special, and the answer comes out.

Reversed: All flame and no seasoning. Charging on momentum alone leaves the center raw, so re-dress the marinade before you attack.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

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

Those eye corners sweep up clean. A raised Palace of House and Land judges fast and cannot watch dawdling. You are jeyuk-bokkeum itself, child: no half-day waits like gomtang. Yours is a life decided in five minutes on a hot pan. But speed only counts as a virtue if the seasoning has soaked in. Lay half a spoon of care on top of that pace.

That mouth is big and easy, a Palace of Speech loaded with nerve. Words that gather people, and appetite to match. Why is jeyuk the nation's lunch? Because it never fails, whoever you eat it with. You are that kind of person: seat you at any table and the gathering starts to turn. But a big mouth sends out spicy words too, so mind your chili-flake dosage.

That forehead is compact and firm. A narrow Palace of Career means the self-made face that earns with its own hands. Your fate is guarding the stove of a set-meal diner: no glamorous tasting course, but rice-strength that sells every single day. The world may be slow to notice, but the regulars know you. Do not lose those regulars; they are your capital.

You are not the one for special days; you are the one responsible for every day. Anyone who knows anything knows how great it is to be on the table daily without fail. Keep your flame exactly where it is and fry up another round today.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Doenjang-jjigae receives your spicy momentum with its nutty patience, the born partner of the baekban table. But beside the delicately raised yakgwa, your chili-flake generosity turns overbearing, so leave the dessert seat to someone else.