Jang Won Jung

Jang won jung has a nicely chosen Korean-​style décor. Service was great and staff was super friendly. They brought out warm tea for me to drink as soon as I sat down. This was really nice to sip on especially since the weather was a bit cooler tonight.
My mom and I ordered two dishes:
#39 Kalchi Gui and Dwen Jang Jjigae (Grilled Cutlassfish and Soy bean paste soup combo)
The fish was grilled to a very nice crisp texture. I was also really happy it wasn’t salty. We requested that the soup be made on the bland side as this soup is often times too salty at restaurants. The soup base is salty and therefore can be salty if they use too much of the soy bean paste. I was actually kind of shocked about how salty it was even after asking for it on the bland side. My mom had to pour half of her water to dilute the saltiness.
#20 Deluxe Oxbone Soup
Today was one of those days where you see this on the menu and think. Yup! Gotta have it. I loved everything about the soup except the ginormous chunk of oxbone. I love oxbone but when it’s too big, the texture and mush as you bite and nibble on it is a bit overwhelming. They give you a small dish with soy sauce and wasabi to dip your meat in. The flavors didn’t really balance for me. I was wishing I could have Jang su Jang’s (on venture Drive) wasabi soy sauce for my meat.
The side dishes are mediocre. I felt all their side dishes aside from their spicy potato slices and radish kimchi could use some improvement.
I didn’t bother reading Unilocal reviews prior to coming here, but perhaps I shall have to try their hwejang gook next time as it seems to be a popular item.

How the hell I stumbled into this place I’ll never know…
Oh yeah, I couldn’t find that damn Bonjuk porridge place!
So I sat down and ordered what looked like porridge on the picture in the menu. BTW, the Korean ladies don’t speak a lick of English. They just smile and point. Felt like I was in a MASH unit.
When the food came out, I ordered a bowl of pig’s feet soup and noodles! It was piping hot and served with kim chee and ponchon. And that fricken long metal «ice tea» teaspoon that can’t pick up more than 5 drops of broth and you get third degree burns with every slurp. Hey, just fess up and get the wide porcelain soup spoons the Chinks developed and use.
Not a bad adventure for $ 11.99.

Superb, clean food. The service was excellent. The seating is comfortable. 5 stars. We do not know Korean, so we asked for the special menu with pictures.

Fantastic dinner! So much great food. We chose 3 main dishes that were so tasty. There service was phenomenal! They have service buttons that you buzz when you need them. They also give you free yogurt drinks at end of your dinner!

Just let me tell you.
Just find this place and order anything.
You’ll love it.
Thank you for delicious food each time.

My wife and I stopped in for dinner the other night after reading some reviews, and I have to agree with the majority of the reviews. The food was cheap and quite tasty. I am a native speaker of Korean so there was no communication problem like some of the reviewers. Service was great and attentive. Definitely will be back for more.

Went again and had gamja tang and soondae bokgeum. Both were very good and banchan is very good. The more I go the more I realize this place really serves authentic korean food. They will not disappoint.

We really love this restaurant. It is a little out of the way, but it has really good Korean food at good prices. the banchan are very good, and they have a lot of good soups. My personal favorite is ddukbaegi bulgogi. It has a really rich flavor, along with noodles, vegetables, and such. I think it is 8 dollars as of this writing. I have also had their dolsot bibimbap, which is very good, and also their daegi bulgogi. All of it is very good, and a good value. If you do not speak Korean, the menu would not be much help. But my fiancée is Korean, and so I am all set. She also loves the place, and in particular loves the sun ji soup. Not my favorite, but she loves it and says it tastes the way good sun ji soup is supposed to taste, so I will take her word for it.

I’ve been driving by this place for years and haven’t even noticed until now. It’s a small restaurant which specializes in different soups, not ordinarily found in most Korean restaurants.
FOOD: I didn’t get my usual Bi Bim Bap since this place is known for their soups. I got the Grilled fish with Den Jang soup. The cod type fish was grilled to perfection with a light taste that’s not fishy. The soup was boiling with tofu and squash — delicious! I’d come back for this again!
Overall, I wouldn’t come here for typical Korean food, but rather for specialized Korean soups.

WOW. the server is SUPER nice and informative. Normally I get the annoying American vibe at similar places. The «Oh… you don’t know? Why are you here?» look. Here, I could just as easily be sitting down to a home cooked dinner at a friends home.
All the food was excellent and arrived faster than expected.

Cheap traditional Korean food. Where? Here.
Most of the soup/​stew dishes are under $ 10.
But heed my warning, you need to bring someone who is Korean, or know a bit of Korean yourself.
Because seriously, every time I go here it’s 98% (older) Koreans. My co-​worker and I are the 2%.
My co-​worker always gets the ddukbaegi bulgogi. I think it’s $ 6.99-$ 7.99? I don’t think you can find this dish for cheaper any where else.
Last time I came here on the coldest day this past winter and I decided to be a baller and got the $ 12.99 samgyetang, and oh boy. Maybe it was the cold weather, but MAN that was satisfyingly delicious.
I also tried their budae jjigae once and was very disappointed, maybe I’m use to the budae jjigae at jang su jang. No spam, no noodles, and the soup was not rich. Won’t be getting that again. But I tried they galbi tang and sulongtang and both was good.

I desperately needed some sunji haejang gook. Today is the first time I’ve ever had to call in sick and didn’t know where to go for it. This will probably disgust the American population and people in general, but sunji gook is basically cow blood soup. The broth is not red, it’s clear/​yellowish with lots of boiled cabbage veggie leaves. The sunji portion looks like blocks of dark brown tofu. I’m sure this sounds unappetizing but it’s full of iron. I probably would’ve been scared to try it had I not already been enjoying it before knowing what it was, but there you go. I feel much better already and the gook itself was delicious.
My sister ordered gamjatang, also very good. I wish this place wasn’t in the middle of nowhere but oh well, I’ll still be going back for a booster from time to time.

This place … What can I say … Traditional Korean food for the best price.
I’m not really into Korean BBQ and all the cliché Korean foods that people rave about. I’m into soups … And I believe this place has a variety of soups to eat.
I had the it’s basically a Korean sausage soup.
I first tried this soup in Lagrange with my boss… But it was over priced.
This place … Very reasonably priced.
Loved the servers because they remind me of my mother…

For non Korean, it was little difficult to order… Waitress could not speak much English, picture menu was not complete. Need to do homework before you go.

Time for some bi bim bob, bulgogi and a seafood pancake. This place is the true thing. No English menu, but they have pictures. Waitresses are very, very old school. Soap operas play on the TVs behind the counter while old Asian men smoke cigarettes out front. If you are looking real Korean food in the ATL, you should check this place out. Don’t expect to be pampered, merely tolerated. It is well worth it.
We enjoyed our weekend lunch and the bill was very reasonable.

Pretty much what they said. I was here for lunch a couple years ago, and they’re still around and doing a solid lunch business. IMO, this is a solid 4 star joint.
We got the stone bowl pot and a beef bulgogi soup, and this (plus banchan) was plenty for two of us (even had some leftovers). Total with tax was under $ 16, which is a steal, waaay less than the prices at Woo Nam Jung. The ingredients were fresh and tasty. We liked the banchan (no fried fish, but there were some interesting non-​pickly things, and even a sweet dessert type stringy thing.
It is best if you can snag a Korean to facilitate understanding the menu, but it’s not hard to navigate to the basic stone bowls and bulgogis. I think they do speak a little English and next time we’ll probably ask about some shrimp or tofu dishes. One of the servers repeatedly, three times I think, asked if she could take our sriracha while we were still eating.
We told her ‘no’ each time. What’s the deal with that? Can you invest in more than one or two bottles of sriracha, please?
We don’t live close enough to come for dinner, but for a Korean lunch this place is excellent (if you can deal with the cultural differences in service).

Jang Won Jung is located at the northernmost section of a giant Korean shopping center on N. Berkeley Lake Rd, in between Buford Highway and Pleasant Hill (closer to BuHi). This huge complex has been around for at least a few years and never really materialized. Occupancy is sparse, but there are some notable tenants like Well Bean Tofu and Everysing Karaōke. Also the former site of EeRecipe Rice Crepes House. Jang Won Jung is on the opposite end of those.
This is an authentic Korean restaurant that caters to Koreans. So unless you know Korean, you might have a difficult time ordering here. The servers don’t speak very good English and the menu is written in Korean. There is romanization of each of the menu items, but it won’t do you any good if you don’t know what those words mean to begin with. So you can either look up the items on your phone (cumbersome), know which dishes you want to order ahead of time, or bring a friend that knows Korean.
Maybe this review will help you decide what to order. Some good dishes I’ve had here include:
Dolsot bibimbap — Korean mixed rice served in a stone bowl
Ddukbaegi bulgogi — marinated bulgogi beef soup
Doenjang jjigae — soybean paste stew with noodles and vegetables
Entrée prices run the gamut from $ 5.99 for items like the doenjang jjigae to $ 38.99 for a large black goat jeongol (stew). Most of the selections are under $ 13, though, so this restaurant is a relatively good value for Korean food. The dolsot bibimbap is $ 6.99 and the ddukbaegi bulgogi is $ 7.99.
Banchan (Korean side dishes) selection is good. They include kimchi, picked bean sprouts, pickled greens, fish cake, egg, daikon, and jellyfish. The kimchi and other spicy banchan are spicy. Good quality. Some of the more unique items include the egg and the jellyfish. I don’t see too much of those as banchan. The egg is white and fluffy, like a cake almost. The jellyfish is cut up like noodles.
The dolsot bibimbap is served in a black stone bowl. Unlike other restaurants, it doesn’t crackle. The steamed white rice is topped with sauteed bean sprouts, shredded carrots, cooked spinach, dried seaweed strips, a freshly cracked egg, gochujang (chili paste), and other namul (seasoned veggies). You mix it all together yourself. The quality of the ingredients are good and overall, it makes for a satisfying and well-​rounded bowl of rice.
Both the ddukbaegi bulgogi and the doenjang jjigae are served piping hot. Both of these soups/​stews are also served in black stone bowls.
Do not confuse the ddukbaegi bulgogi with regular bulgogi. Whereas regular bulgogi (the more popular kind in America) consists of shredded marinated BBQ beef on a skillet, the ddukbaegi bulgogi makes a soup out of the meat and also includes vegetables. The meat is tender and the broth is mildly pleasant.
The doenjang jjigae is a heartier stew with clear, slippery noodles and lots of veggies (carrots, onion, etc.). I like the freshly chopped scallion and sesame seeds they put on top.
Jang Won Jung is a casual restaurant that is nicely decorated. It looks like most traditional Korean restaurants in that it uses a lot of dark woods in its design. There are large, semi-​private booths and tables with built-​in grills. Like most Korean places, there is a button on your table that you can press to get the attention of the servers. Service is very good.
The restaurant is open from 10am to 11pm, 7 days a week. If business is slow, they can close early.

I can’t read Korean. And it doesn’t help when the menu doesn’t describe a thing… better get their picture menu, because then you can point to something you might want.
*DO* get the haejangguk — its only $ 6 and its the Korean «phở» in my opinion. Soothing, warm, lots of veggies (er, well lots of cabbage)…the broth is savory without being super salty. The galbi tang is something to pass over. It’s just pieces of meat in a broth with sliced radishes or something.
Their banchan was NOT plentiful, but not a horrible selection. It comes with potatoes, seaweed, pieces of gyeran jiim (egg pieces), bean sprouts, and kim chi.
Overall I wasn’t impressed the second time around, but always end up coming around this area. I will come back again for the haejangguk — I’ll permanently remember this name — because it was the best thing there and surprisingly also the cheapest.

My full name is Jang Won Choe. And of course, when I saw this place I had to come here. I like the name better than Jang Su Jang because this place had 66.66% of my name! Woo hoo!
I didn’t know what to expect when I came in. From reading the reviews, I thought it would be like GoYang House. Instead, it looked like a regular Korean restaurant with a large selection of traditional Korean foods. The prices ranged from $ 5 to about $ 20.
I ordered the haejang gook. It cost only 4.99! It tasted great. And even with that price, the portions felt big. At GoYang house, their haejang gook feels small; you can almost eat two of them. Here, at Jang Won Jung, one fills you up quite nicely.
They brought out a nice variety of banchans. They didn’t have too many exotic ones, just your basics like your variety of kimchees and other pickled vegetables.
I think this place is a high value restaurant. For $ 5, you can get a decent meal from here. Their menu is huge, and I would love to try their other dishes to give it a fairer judgement. But coming all the way to Gwinnett is tough for me. So for now, I give this place solid 4 stars.

When was the last time you remember being able to order a lunch entrée for $ 4.99 at a Korean place?
…maybe 10 years ago? For myself, I know I’ve never encountered such a deal, even in LA.
Jang Won Jung is settled at the northern edge of a large «International Plaza» just a bit a ways from the Super H Mart area, that is only about ¹⁄₃ occupied with businesses right now. The plaza is HUGE… but a bit barren at the moment. We originally went to the plaza to try out «Bön Juk», a Korean porridge specialty house– but decided that it was too expensive. We walked by another Korean place («Tto Tto Korean Restaurant and Catering»), too expensive… and then our last option was to go here before we’d have to drive back to Super H Mart for food.
The interior is old school– woody, dark stone/​granite kind of feel, but still welcoming. There was a widescreen TV playing Korean dramas, of course. :-p
Okay, about the food:
Seoulungtang (Beef-​bone stewed soup with noodles) — There’s not a lot of stuff in this soup, besides a few slices of beef brisket, thin noodles, and lots of chopped scallions– but this soup is GOOD!!! The only place I’ve had this soup in ATL that compares is Abaee Noodle. You can tell it’s been boiled with beef bones for a long time. And for the low price of…$ 4.99!!! :) Sorry, I’m a glutton for bargains. Score: 4.5
Dolsot Bibimbap– standard veggies, egg, minced meat in a hot stone bowl over rice– The veggies were fresh, and not overcooked– a light dish, even after adding their hot sauce. Again…$ 4.99. You can’t lose. Score: 3.5
Korean Sausage– I’ll have to say that these «sausages» have nothing on those at Abaee. Don’t bother with these. $ 7.99 Score: 2
(forgot the name of this dish) — Description: Basically bulgogi with japchae (sweet potato noodles) in a stone bowl with broth. This dish was on the sweet side, and was definitely more flavorful than the dolsot bibimbap. A bit more expensive at $ 10.99, but not bad. Score: 3.5
The banchan (kimchi, daikon kimchi, pickled onions, pickled cucumbers, steamed spicy eggplant, mung bean sprouts, finely sliced boiled daikon) were standard fare, though I did appreciate the eggplant– it’s the first time I’ve seen it as a Korean banchan. Score: 3
Overall score: I’d give this place a 3.5 for the food itself, and an extra half star for it’s ridiculously good prices for certain dishes at lunch. Give this place a shot, peoples! Not the easiest place to find, but for lunch, you can’t beat the value! (Am I starting to sound like a car salesman???)