Jang Tur Charcoal BBQ Restaurant, Canterbury

First let’s talk about the egg soup. All the regulars rave about it. There’s a good reason. The gyeranjjim looks ominous at first, a bubbling mass of pale yellow that arrives in a ttukbaegi, a traditional Korean earthenware bowl. This Korean favourite is made by steaming eggs with seasoned stock so the egg puffs up like a mattress. As it rises, the egg soaks up the stock resulting in a kind of soupy soufflé deliciousness with every spoonful. What’s even more amazing about the egg soup here? It’s free.


Gyeranjjim egg soup


Dining room at Jang Tur

The dinner crowd at Jang Tur, a Korean barbecue house hidden on a bleak stretch of Canterbury Road, is almost always completely Korean. Some nights the place is heaving with big groups and cheerful family gatherings that span several generations. Other times it’s a lonely set of couples huddled over the grill. Décor is minimal. In fact the best things in the room are the red metal drum tables with stainless steel tabletops, a charcoal grill recessed in the middle.


Charcoal barbecue


Marinated squid $15

The one-page menu doesn’t muck around, reading more like a shopping list with minimal descriptions. Garlic tiger prawns, chilli marinated squid and marinated scotch fillet are all $15 for a plate. You’ll have to cook your own on the thick wire grill, set over slabs of charcoal that add an unbeatable smokiness to each protein.


Jebichuri thin skirt $15


Jebichuri on the charcoal bbq grill

Jebichuri ($15) is translated as “inner part of beef” but really it’s thin skirt, part of the diaphragm muscle that’s much loved because of its intensity of flavour.


Beef intercostals $15

“Meats between spare ribs” ($15) is the literal explanation of intercostals, sometimes known as rib fingers.


Complimentary lettuce cups, garlic, chilli, cucumber and carrot


Complimentary garden salad

Wrap up the cooked meat in the free lettuce cups provided and dunk them into the dipping sauce. A free salad (ours even came with avocado) will help delay the meat sweats. Wash it all down with Korean beer or sake. They do BYO for $3 a head too.


Ox tongue $15

Delve into the ox tongue, small beef intestine or chilli marinated giblets (each $15) if you’re game.


Marinated beef rib $20

Whatever you do, make sure you order the marinated beef rib ($20). Unwrap the scroll of thinly sliced meat from around the rib bone and slap it on the grill. You’ll have to arm wrestle for the ultimate trophy: rights to gnaw the fatty bits straight off the bone.


Marinated beef rib on the charcoal bbq


Barbecued dinner, Korean-style


Korean barbecue meats 


The rear entrance via the Aldi carpark




Jang Tur Charcoal BBQ Restaurant
169 Canterbury Rd, Canterbury, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9787 4561

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 5pm-10pm

Parking available in the Aldi carpark behind the restaurant 
(entry via Aldi Street or Jeffrey Street)


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This article appeared in the August 2015 issue of Time Out Sydney [Read online] 
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