Food Detective / South Korea / Bossam
Bossam (boiled pork wraps) · 보쌈
보쌈 · Bossam
Boiled pork slices you wrap in cabbage leaves with spicy radish kimchi and salted shrimp.
- Kind
- Meat
- Cooking
- Boiled
- Taste
- Salty, Filling meal · Spicy
- Served · texture
- Hot · Soft pork with crunchy, spicy radish
INGREDIENTS
Ingredients, including hidden ones
- Main ingredient
- Pork
- Usually included
- Vegetables
- Can be in the sauce or broth
- Shrimp paste, salted or dried shrimp, Fish sauce
- Often seasoned at the table with salted shrimp (saeu-jeot) — ask if you avoid shrimp.
- Made with kimchi, which is usually prepared with salted seafood (jeotgal) or fish sauce.
Basis: General recipe. Shops differ and unlisted ingredients can be present; this is not an allergy guarantee.
CHAINS
Which chain, which menu item
Prices in local currency (KRW).
| Brand | Menu item | What’s different | Serving | Price |
|---|
| Nolboo 놀부 | 놀부보쌈 (Nolboo bossam) Status unknown | No brand description | One serving | Price not published |
| Keunmam Halmae Sundaeguk 큰맘할매순대국 | 보쌈정식 (Bossam set meal) Status unknown | No brand description | One serving | Price not published |
Find Nolboo stores ↗Find Keunmam Halmae Sundaeguk stores ↗
“Signature” is used only when the brand itself says so. No sales ranking is invented, and no dish is judged tastier than another.
PRICE GUIDE
General price guide · Usually a platter for two or more
- Budget
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- Typical
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- Premium
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Separate from chain menu prices. Premium reflects setting and service, not a rip-off.
SIMILAR
How it differs from similar dishes
| Difference | Suyuk | Bossam |
|---|
| What it is | The boiled sliced meat itself | Boiled pork served as a wrap set |
| Comes with | Salted shrimp, kimchi | Cabbage leaves, spicy radish kimchi, salted shrimp |
| Meat | Usually pork, sometimes beef | Pork |
ORDERING
Phrases to show when ordering
- 새우는 빼 주세요
- Please leave out shrimp (saeu-neun ppae-juseyo)
- 해산물은 빼 주세요
- Please leave out seafood (haesanmul-eun ppae-juseyo)
- 멸치 육수나 액젓이 들어가나요?
- Is there anchovy broth or fish sauce in it? (myeolchi yuksu-na aekjeot-i deureoganayo?)
- 돼지고기는 못 먹어요
- I can’t eat pork (dwaeji-gogi-neun mot meogeoyo)
- 소고기는 못 먹어요
- I can’t eat beef (so-gogi-neun mot meogeoyo)
- 계란은 빼 주세요
- Please leave out egg (gyeran-eun ppae-juseyo)
- 견과류 알레르기가 있어요
- I’m allergic to nuts (gyeongwaryu allereugi-ga isseoyo)
- 안 맵게 해 주세요
- Not spicy, please (an maepge hae-juseyo)
- 알레르기가 있어요
- I have an allergy (allereugi-ga isseoyo) — then say the ingredient
A request, not a guarantee the ingredient can be removed.
Recipe sources: Wikipedia — Bossam (2026-10-18). Photos are Google results AMS does not vouch for; check opening status on Google Maps.