Cha Seung-won’s Bibim Guksu: The Noodles He Made for Gong Hyo-jin
Cha Seung-won serves bibim guksu—Korean noodles mixed with a red chili sauce—with cucumber, perilla leaves and a boiled egg in this Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village 5 scene. His guest is actress Gong Hyo-jin, and the noodles follow a freshly fried seafood pancake. If you came looking for the dish rather than another celebrity profile, here is what to watch and what the ingredients mean.
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Why he makes this lunch for Gong Hyo-jin
Early in the clip, Cha proposes bibim guksu as something they can prepare quickly for lunch, with a pancake alongside it. The group gathers small perilla leaves, prepares the seafood and gets eggs ready. At around 5:39, he asks for a boiled egg to put on top because they have a guest. That small finishing touch explains the egg-topped bowl you see at the table.
The official Diggle Classic compilation brings together cooking and the cast’s conversation. It was uploaded on December 16, 2023; that is the compilation’s upload date, rather than a claim that the meal was filmed that day. You can jump directly to the relevant cooking scenes using the buttons below.
What goes into the red sauce?
The sauce-making sequence starts at about 1:35. The on-screen captions identify gochujang, a little maesil-cheong, vinegar and sesame seeds, and the bowl also shows red chili powder being added. Gochujang is Korean fermented red chili paste. Maesil-cheong is a sweet syrup made with green plums; it is not the same product as plum wine.
The caption describes three scoops of gochujang using the utensil in the scene. This is not a standardized tablespoon measurement. The clip does not give a complete measured ingredient list for a home-sized batch, so use it as a visual cooking guide rather than a precision recipe. For groceries, look for the Korean names 고추장, 고춧가루 and 매실청 on the packaging.
The toppings make the bowl easy to recognize
Perilla leaves: the small leaves collected near the beginning are prepared for the noodles. Perilla, called kkaennip in Korean, has its own herbal aroma and is different from sesame seeds.
Cucumber: thin strips sit over the red noodles, giving the finished dish a green contrast.
Boiled egg: a halved egg finishes the guest’s bowl. It is a topping, not egg mixed into the sauce.
Sesame oil: around 15:35, Cha asks for a little more as he finishes mixing. Additions and quantities should be checked in the original scene rather than inferred from the finished photograph.
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What is the pancake served before it?
The companion dish is geobukson pajeon, a pancake containing gooseneck barnacle meat. “Geobukson” literally means “turtle hand” in Korean, but the ingredient is a shellfish, not turtle meat. The clip shows the group removing the edible part before cooking. Around 12 minutes, they begin eating the pancake while the noodles are still being finished.
This makes the episode useful for overseas viewers who know bibim guksu but do not recognize the seafood on the table. It is an island-cooking meal assembled from the ingredients available to the cast. It is not a restaurant menu, so there is no restaurant address or reservation link for this particular scene.
Useful moments to watch
0:26: the lunch plan and perilla leaves.
1:35–2:05: the red sauce and its on-screen ingredient captions.
8:07: the cast identifies and prepares geobukson.
12:01: the pancake is served.
15:25–17:20: noodle finishing, egg topping and the completed table.
Another Korean pancake to try next
For a different celebrity cooking video, Sung Si-kyung’s chicken-and-scallion jeon uses chicken rather than this episode’s seafood. Our English guide explains that dish and links to his original cooking video.
Read Sung Si-kyung’s chicken and scallion jeon guide →
Source: tvN / Diggle Classic, Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village 5 compilation (December 16, 2023). Original captions and transcript checked October 22, 2026.