At Irile Gosho Minami (Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto), a Korean restaurant in the Karasuma-Oike area, diners can casually enjoy ginseng-do (ginseng chicken soup), a representative dish of the "medical food" principle. The restaurant's ginseng ginseng soup is based on a recipe directly handed down from the owner's mother, the proprietress who opened Hanmi Ichi in Tsuruhashi (now Utsubo-honmachi), Osaka. The whole chicken is stuffed with glutinous rice and slowly simmered with ginseng, jujubes, and other ingredients used in medicinal cooking. The chicken meat falls apart, and the rich flavor of the soup, which is infused with the goodness of the ingredients, is sure to blow away your summer fatigue.

Located in Ponto-cho, Kyoto's elegant flower district, is a high-class Korean restaurant [Ponto-cho Yi Nanhe] (Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture). Here, you can enjoy Korean-style meals of carefully selected black Japanese beef from the Kyoto meat market. The Shinshu Premium Wagyu Beef Bulgogi is highly recommended. This sumptuous dish consists of sweet Wagyu beef thighs marinated in a special sauce, grilled with Korean vermicelli and vegetables, and wrapped in a vegetable wrapper.

Karasuma Kogi Club (Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is the best place to enjoy samgyeopsal at a reasonable price in the Imadegawa area where many students live. The pork belly is 3 cm thick. It is super juicy and more than worth the price. The toppings include sunchu, sesame leaves, ssam (pickled radish), and other toppings to change the flavor. The value-priced menu, which includes special jjigae and pudae jjigae, is in the 2,000 yen per person range, making it a very cost-effective option.

In the quiet residential area of Kiyomizu Gojo, the restaurant Gusantoko (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is one of the busiest places in the city. This Korean restaurant, run by a father and son, is popular for its taejikbap, sundaegukbap, and other traditional Korean soup dishes. At night, takganmari, a simple dish of whole chicken and green onions, is also popular. The soup soaked in chicken broth has such a rich flavor that you will want to drink it all up. Leave room in your stomach for ramen or rice porridge to finish off the meal!

Demachi Stand (Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto), located at the intersection of Kawaramachi and Imadegawa, has started an all-you-can-eat samgyeopsal course in response to enthusiastic requests from guests. The menu offers 11 unique types of meat, including salted lemon samgyeopsal with lemon on top and Chinese-style hot and spicy samgyeopsal. The all-you-can-eat course also includes a la carte dishes such as pancakes and tteokbokki, making it a full meal course that you will not want to overeat!