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[SojuQueen]

With grocery prices sky rocketing, what is still the cheapest and healthiest Korean restaurant food to get these days? Not street food

[Harpeau]

Either Tuna or Vegetable Kimbap without ham is fairly healthy.
Also soup at certain restaurants~ or even make it at home.

[Illysook]

Home Plus has a restaurant in the middle of the store where you can get Udong for 3500 Won.

[DorkothyParker]

Daenjang chigae. (bean paste stew).
Diner (orange place, as we called it) stews and soups are usually pretty inexpensive and super filling.
Don't eat the rice!

[chungbukdo]

Sundaegukbap

It is a bone broth and usually has some organ meats like liver. Bone broths are full of leached minerals from the bones like calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. And sundaeguk usually contains liver, which is one of the foods with the highest amounts of B vitamins and vitamin A.

I recommend you order your root vegetables and stuff online. Moo (Korean radish), goguma (small yam/sweet potatoes), carrots, garlic, and onions are all about a dollar per lb. Same with rice although not as nutritious, its a good staple. I live in the boonies, so my coteacher is a farmer and I get hooked up with a good chestnut price, but if you buy them in a box online they're also decently priced. In my opinion, it is much healthier to have tubers/root vegetables, chestnuts and stuff instead of the staple carbs in the Western diet: wheat, sugar, etc. There are a lot of healthy cultures that exist on these foods and have dramatically lower degenerative disease rates than we do.

Korean Kimchi is a bit expensive online IMO (still cheaper than the stores) but Chinese kimchi is usually decently priced. However I bought Chinese kimchi once and it went bad really quickly for some reason, defeating the point of getting 10kg of it.

[Rutherford]

If you want delicious, healthy food for under 5,000, look for 한정식 (hanjeongsik), 쌈밥 (ssambap), and various types of soup.

Hanjeongsik is just all the various veggie side dishes with soup and rice. Ssambap is usually a big plate of leafy stuff that you wrap rice up in. There's also a bibimbap and noodle place near my school where for 5,000 won you get a great bibimbap (2 eggs if you want for the same price) with a bunch of great, fresh veggie and fish sides. This is kind of out in the country so the quality is good and the price is low.

I agree with the above post about eating veggies and tubers. I've been eating a lot of sweet potatoes, carrots and zucchini lately and it fills me up. I've been eating a lot and not gaining any weight. I think when I used to eat the same amount of brown rice I felt more plugged up and gained weight. I'm going to get a crockpot/slow cooker soon so I can just dice a bunch of veggies up with some meat and broth and spices and have a cheap easy meal ready when I get home every day.

[Triban]

chungbukdo, where do you buy online? Gmarket or somewhere else?

[interestedinhanguk]

백반정식 has rice, soup and a number of side dishes and usually some fish or maybe meat (sometimes costs extra for the meat). There's plenty of vegetables and other good stuff. There should be a good variety (well, at least as far as Korean food is concerned).

I often go to one of these places for lunch and always have the standard rice-sou-fish(meat instead of fish once a week) with 7 more side dishes, all I want to eat for 5,000 won. There's usually something fried, a kimchi or 2, fish cakes, steamed vegetables, scallion pancake, egg, salad, etc.

[red_devil]

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[NYC_Gal 2.0]

I'd have to say a chamchi (tuna) kimbap without ham and light on the mayo (if you have any mayo at all), if you don't mind the white rice.

[red_devil]

[chungbukdo]

[chungbukdo]