What's for Lunch?
One Korean dish, picked for you — and how to order it.
Where the dishes come from
The pot holds 38 dishes from our Korean food guide — every one of the 40 except kimchi and steamed egg, which are side dishes rather than a lunch. Soup, rice and noodle tags are our own sorting; kalguksu counts as both soup and noodles, gukbap as both soup and rice.
“Nothing spicy” keeps dishes rated not spicy or only a little warm. Ratings are our rough judgment, and many places will make a dish milder if you ask (덜 맵게 해 주세요).
Each result links to the full guide page and gives one sentence you can say to order it.
How does the lunch picker choose a dish?
You choose a type (anything, soup, rice or noodles) and whether to skip spicy food. That narrows the pot: 38 dishes for anything (27 without spice), 17 soups (11), 5 rice dishes (4) and 6 noodle dishes (4). When you press the button, your browser makes a random eight-character code and puts it in the link together with your filter.
The pick is a highest-score-wins draw, known as rendezvous hashing: every dish in the pot gets a score from a hash of the code and the dish's name, and the top score is your lunch. Each dish has roughly the same chance, the same link always shows the same dish, and if a new dish joins the guide, an old link changes only in the rare case the newcomer outscores it.
It's a random pick, not a recommendation: it doesn't know what's nearby or open, prices, allergies or diets. Nothing about you is stored; the filter and the code in the link are all the page needs. Press the button again for a new draw.