맛집 (matjip)
MAT-jipnounColloquial
A Korean slang term. Browse all Korean slang.
What it means
A restaurant worth travelling for. Not fine dining — a 맛집 is more often a two-table place with one dish and a queue.
Literally: Taste house.
Examples with translations
이 근처 맛집 좀 알려줘.
Tell me somewhere good to eat round here.
맛집 찾아서 한 시간 운전했어.
We drove an hour to get to a place worth eating at.
Other forms
- Romanised as:
- matjip