CU Pbick 4900 Kimchi Jeyuk Lunch Box [Korean Food]

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Single-dish lunch boxes are the budget backbone of Korean convenience stores, and CU keeps iterating on them. Today’s pick is CU’s new 4900 Kimchi Jeyuk Jeongsik, jeyuk being spicy stir-fried pork. It’s the Pbick version of the single-dish line CU has run for years. Word was that the Pbick relaunch bumped up the portions across the lunch box range, so I picked one up right away. Being a single-dish box, it suits anyone who thinks one good pork dish is enough to make a meal. Let’s take a look.

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📋 At a Glance

Product: Pbick 4900 Kimchi Jeyuk Jeongsik
Brand: CU (Pbick line)
Price: 4,900 won
Net weight: 348g
Calories: 605 kcal
What’s inside: kimchi jeyuk made with domestic pork hind leg, a rolled egg, rice
How to heat: remove the lid, then microwave 1 minute 30 seconds at 1,000W
Verdict: ★4.0 — the pork is cut to a good thickness and the portion is generous, so the value here is real.

Pbick 4900 Kimchi Jeyuk Price and Background

Calling this an entirely new product would be a stretch. It’s better understood as the successor to the single-dish kimchi jeyuk boxes CU has released under names like Gogi Deumppuk Kimchi Jeyuk and Maekom Handon Kimchi Jeyuk. The price has moved around a lot with inflation over the years. The first version launched back in 2020, and from there it climbed steadily through 3,900 won, 4,300 won and 4,700 won. This one, true to its name, costs 4,900 won. Few products track the rise in prices since 2020 quite this literally.

Total net weight is 348g with 605 Kcal. Multi-side lunch boxes of comparable weight and calories now sell in the mid-to-high 5,000 won range, so as a filling single meal the value clearly holds up. For reference, heating takes 1 minute 30 seconds in a 1,000W microwave. You’re supposed to take the lid off first.

Convenience store lunch box comparison image

What’s in the Box

Let’s run through the contents. As mentioned, this is a single-dish box, so there isn’t much to examine. True to the name, it sells kimchi jeyuk and nothing else, which means one main side and one supporting side.

The Kimchi Jeyuk Is Basically the Whole Box

First up is the kimchi jeyuk, the core of this box and effectively all of it. Across the many revisions the style has shifted a fair bit. Some versions came swimming in sauce, while others went for a drier grilled style. Others again leaned harder on the kimchi. This time it’s the drier grilled type, with pork taking a bigger share than the kimchi.

Outstanding value lunch box features photo

The supporting side is a single piece of rolled egg, cut in half. Thinking back, this slot has changed quite a bit over the years too. The ones that stuck with me were stir-fried kimchi, and another with garlic scapes and imitation crab. This time, since the dish itself is kimchi jeyuk, they seem to have deliberately avoided another kimchi side.

Value for money satisfaction information

The pork here is listed as domestic hind leg. It isn’t sliced too thin, and there’s a reasonable amount of fat mixed in, so the texture looks promising. The kimchi, on the other hand, doesn’t look especially abundant.

Taste Test: Does One Dish Carry It?

Time to eat. Since this is a single-dish box with no other sides to break things up, the kimchi jeyuk alone will decide the whole impression. I started with a single piece of pork straight from the dish.

The heat is mild rather than sharp. In a single-dish box, too much spice makes it hard to finish, so they clearly kept it in check. The sauce is gochujang-based with kimchi folded in, which brings a light sourness and that characteristic tang. However, a slightly sweet finish keeps it from standing out too much.

4,900 won set meal lunch box information

The Pork Is Cut Just Right

My own view is that even in a convenience store box, pork sliced paper-thin into bulgogi-style sheets belongs only in filler products. This one has real thickness, so there’s something to chew. At the same time it isn’t so thick that it turns tough, which lands it right in the sweet spot. Admittedly that’s partly down to personal preference.

Kimchi jeyuk basic side dish composition

One Dish Does Get Repetitive

The downside is inherent to the format: eating nothing but kimchi jeyuk does start to wear on you. The rolled egg is there to break that up, but it’s so plain that it barely registers. Still, kimchi in the pork makes it less monotonous than plain jeyuk would be, and paired with rice it works nicely.

Convenience store lunch box mukbang photo

Final Verdict on the 4900 Kimchi Jeyuk Jeongsik

One thing is certain: if you like kimchi jeyuk, this is not one to skip. The value is excellent and the portion is generous, making it a more filling meal than you’d expect. How about you? If kimchi jeyuk never gets old for you, buying this on impulse is unlikely to leave you with regrets. For anyone traveling in Korea, it’s also one of the cheapest ways to try a proper stir-fried pork dish.

The background on CU renewing its entire lunch box range under the Pbick brand is covered in (Korean source) Electronic Times’ report on the CU Pbick series relaunch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is kimchi jeyuk exactly?

It’s pork stir-fried in a gochujang-based sauce with kimchi mixed in. Here the pork is domestic hind leg, cut thick enough to chew, and the kimchi adds a light tang that a plain jeyuk wouldn’t have.

Q. Is it too spicy for someone new to Korean food?

Not at all, in my experience. The heat sits at a mild simmer rather than a burn, since a single-dish box would be hard to finish otherwise, and a slightly sweet finish rounds off the sourness of the kimchi.

Q. Is 4,900 won actually good value?

Yes, on the numbers. You get 348g and 605 kcal, whereas multi-side boxes with similar specs now sell in the mid-to-high 5,000 won range. The same line started at 3,900 won back in 2020 and has passed through 4,300 and 4,700 won since.

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