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Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang

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Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang. (2026, October 22). The Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/nsw-good-food-guide/guk-s-eedaero-gamjatang-eastwood-20250620-p5m95h.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

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Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang is a unique Korean restaurant in Sydney that exclusively serves gamjatang, a spicy pork bone stew with potatoes and vegetables. Owner Jongguk Lee emphasizes the cultural significance of this dish, using up to 60 kilograms of pork bones daily to create its rich broth. Diners receive their pot at the table with a portable gas cooker to keep it warm, allowing them to enjoy the depth of flavors from herbs and spices that make the five-hour simmered broth milky and umami-rich. The restaurant often requires queuing due to high demand.

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Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang in Eastwood, Sydney, stands out as a unique dining experience focusing solely on gamjatang, a spicy pork bone stew with potatoes and vegetables. The restaurant's owner, Jongguk Lee, believes gamjatang is the soul food of Koreans and serves it using 60 kilograms of pork bones daily to create a rich broth. Each pot arrives at diners' tables on its own portable gas cooker for an interactive dining experience. The secret herbs and spices in Lee's soup result in a deep, umami flavor from the five-hour simmering process. Patrons are advised to arrive early or be prepared to queue due to the restaurant’s popularity. Additionally, the bokkeumbap fried rice served tableside is recommended as an excellent way to end the meal using leftover broth.

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Topics

Eedaero Gamjatang Guk Korean Korean$ Sydney

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Guk ORG · 2× Eedaero Gamjatang ORG · 1× Jongguk Lee PERSON · 1× Korean NORP · 1× Korean$ ORG · 1× Koreans NORP · 1× Lee PERSON · 1× Sydney GPE · 1×

Narrative

You’ll often find gamjatang – a spicy pork bone stew with potatoes and vegetables – buried on the menus of Korean restaurants in Sydney, but it’s not often you see a restaurant offering it as the sole menu item.

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2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang · assertive framing

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restaurant → find → item

Guk’s owner Jongguk Lee calls gamjatang “the soul food of Koreans”, though, and he goes through 60 kilograms of pork bones each day just to make the broth. asserted

he → call → broth

Each pot arrives at the table on its own portable gas cooker and the rich, red broth dusted with perilla seeds. asserted

pot → arrive → seeds

A staff member flicks on the flame. asserted

member → flick → flame

The cauldron bubbles. asserted

cauldron → bubble → ?

Diners stir pork bones, wombok, shallots, potatoes, enoki mushrooms and perilla leaves. asserted

Diners → stir → bones

The herbs and spices in Lee’s soup are a secret, but the result is a deep umami flavour, with the five-hour simmer of the pork neck and spine bones creating a milky broth to bolster the herbal notes. asserted

simmer → create → notes

Good to know: The bokkeumbap fried rice, prepared tableside by staff, is a riveting way to end the meal when added to the leftover broth. asserted

rice → know → broth

Good Food reviews are booked anonymously and paid independently. asserted

reviews → book → ?

A restaurant can’t pay for a review or inclusion in the Good Food Guide. asserted

restaurant → pay → Guide