Gilpost · Haeundae-gu, Jung-dong
Chinese
Chingchun
칭춘 A five-table Chinese restaurant in a residential lane in Haeundae, known for its free pickles, its tenderloin sweet-and-sour pork, and half portions that let two people order several dishes.
Data as of · Published ·
Chingchun is a Chinese restaurant in Osan-maeul, a lane of houses between Mipo and Jung-dong station in Haeundae. Two writers did not realise it was a Chinese place, the sign being what it is, and four reach for other comparisons — a modern wine bar, a café. There are about ten seats: three tables for four and a six at the back, by two accounts. Noodles, fried rice and the full range of dishes — and because the dishes come in half portions, two people can order several. Eleven of the twenty-two ate the tenderloin sweet-and-sour pork, and thirteen write about the free pickles. The kitchen is open to the room and the provenance of the ingredients is posted on the wall. Half past eleven to nine, closed for two hours from three, closed Mondays. There is no car park. The posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 부산광역시 해운대구 좌동순환로446번길 19-8 (중동) 19-8 Jwadongsunhwan-ro 446beon-gil, Haeundae-gu, Busan |
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| Phone | 051-746-0321 |
| Typical spend | ₩7,500 – ₩9,000 |
| Floor area | 47 m² |
| Status | In business |
2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 10 posts: 9 wrote 11:30–21:00.
| Open | 11:30–21:00 9 of 10 posts last seen 2026-04 | |
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| Break | 15:00–17:00 10 of 10 posts last seen 2026-04 | |
| Last order | 14:15 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-04 | |
| Last order | 20:15 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-04 | |
| Closed | Monday 10 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09 |
Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.
These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. 
Place — check hours
What sets it apart
- Thirteen posts write about what comes free, which makes it the most consistently recorded thing here. It is the same three every time: pickled radish, pickled mustard stem, pickled cucumber. What the writers keep noting is that this is more than a Chinese restaurant usually bothers with — not just the radish and nothing else, as one puts it; another, who thinks a good pickled mustard stem is rare, rates this one; a third admits he could drink on them alone, and did. The cucumber draws the most comment: dressed rather than merely pickled, and exactly right against the oil of the cooking. One writer asked for it twice more. As one of them reasons, a place that gets the pickles right usually gets the cooking right too. What does not come is also on record: one writer asked after the raw onion that Chinese restaurants normally put out and was told they do not serve it — and the vinegar-soy dip comes only if you order the fried dumplings.
- Eleven people ate the tenderloin sweet-and-sour pork and not one has a bad word for it. Three rate it among the best they have had: the best lately, in another's top three ever, and for a third exactly the thing she had been wanting. It does not look like the usual: tenderloin rather than loin, and cut into small ovals or flat slabs rather than batons — so scissors come with it (two posts). Two compare it to the flat northern-Chinese style, and one jokes that the meat is thick enough to feel healthy about frying. One writer alone caught something else: a familiar smell she could not place until she worked out it was smoke in the sauce — not off-putting, she says, but sweet and appetising. One finds the sauce sharp rather than sweet, and two note a dipping sauce brought separately.
- Nine writers say the portions are large and nobody says they are small — and that holds even for the half plates. A September 2026 post catches it best: two of them ordered three dishes, all halves, plus a bowl of noodles, on her companion's reasoning that beef comes in small portions. It does not. A half is plenty, she concludes — and she notes that the owner had said at the point of ordering that it would be too much for two. Her closing advice is to take that seriously. The others agree: smaller in the photograph than in life; a bowl so full that eating does not seem to lower it; rice beyond finishing; food left behind. Two ways out are on record: one writer (November 2024) was told a set could be made for one, and another resolves next time to ask for half and take the rest. One did take the rest home.
- It is small — nine posts say so and none says otherwise. Five of them counted, and the counts nearly agree: a six and three fours; three fours and a six; four tables or so; three tables of three or four; room for four or five parties. Small is not always a complaint here — not big but snug, says one; another likes it quiet and close, and says it feels like somewhere only the locals know; a third notes the style of the room against the few tables in it. Two say the six at the back makes groups possible: one party of six took it, and another writer recommends the place for four or more. One post is about the air — on her two previous visits she had found it close and stuffy, and that day it was clear and comfortable (October 2024). She was on her third visit when she wrote it.
- Nobody calls it expensive — all five writers who discuss price say the opposite. Not a burden against other Chinese restaurants, one says, and the plain noodles actually cheaper than most; the quality more than the money, says another; the bowl heaped out of proportion to the price, says a third; one simply says the soup was worth more than the ₩8,000 she paid; and one finds even ordering à la carte good value. Four single out the sets. And yet two prices have moved: the spicy soup is ₩8,000 in posts from November 2024 and February 2025 and ₩9,000 on the April 2026 menu; the pork set with one of each noodle is ₩25,000 in two November 2024 posts and ₩27,000 in October 2025 and April 2026. The writer who said the soup was worth more than it cost was writing when it cost ₩8,000. The latest priced post is from April 2026, so whether it has moved again we do not know. For what it is worth, swapping the plain sauce for the stir-fried one adds ₩2,000.
- Six posts write about the owner or the staff, and none has a complaint. What they overlap on is being given things unasked: a set made for one, readily (November 2024); scissors brought over without being requested, because the dish plainly needed them (October 2024); a warning at the point of ordering that this would be too much food for two (September 2026). The night the fried rice came burnt is on record too: mentioning it at the till brought an apology and the observation that he would have made another had she said so (December 2024). One praises the woman who served her; one finds the owner kind and the room easy. And one writer troubles to be precise about the degree: kind in the right measure, she says, because too much of it is a burden of its own. The kitchen opens onto the room, and one writer notes that your order is heard in it directly.
What 22 bloggers said
We read all 22 in full. The most common claims are “Crispy batter” (9) and “Large portions” (9).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 3 · no 5 |
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Things you can check on site
| Complimentary starter | 13 of 22 posts |
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| Open kitchen | 6 of 22 posts |
| Takeout | 2 of 22 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 2 of 22 posts |
| Toilet outside | 2 of 22 posts |
| Free refills | 1 of 22 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 22 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is gibon chan (기본 찬 (단무지·짜사이·오이절임)) — 13 of 22 posts.
The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place
What to order
Sides, and what comes with it
To drink
Parking
1 posts say you can park; 7 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.
| Posts saying you can park | 1 of 22 posts |
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| Posts saying you cannot | 7 of 22 posts |
Seven posts say there is no car park, and the one that differs is not describing a car park. The seven write from experience: one parked in the lane and says so; one found nowhere to park nearby either; one, noting it is a residential street, recommends the public car park; one says that if you drive you will have to find your own spot among the lanes. The exception (September 2026, by an estate agency in the same block) says you can park on the street in front, and adds that if that worries you, two public car parks are a short walk away — which reads as kerbside, not a lot of their own. It is also the only post that names the public car parks. One line we did not count: an April 2026 post carries a parking tick in a header block beside the phone number, delivery and takeaway, flatly contradicting the other seven.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 5 of 22 posts |
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| Family visit | 5 of 22 posts |
| With a friend | 1 of 22 posts |
| Date | 1 of 22 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 22 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 22 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 2 (of 22 posts read) |
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That it is at street level appears only in the check-in address — nobody writes it as an observation. The check-in line carries "1st floor", and one writer, giving directions, places it on the ground floor inside a particular alley. But not one post says whether there are steps, or what the doorway is like. In a building on a residential lane that question stays open: four writers describe it as a small restaurant in among the houses, and the toilet is in a separate structure outside (two posts). What is above it, or how many floors the building has, nobody records.
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Across the twenty-two there is no threshold, no step, no ramp, no wheelchair, no pram. Here the question stays open twice over. Once about the room: four or five tables, and nine writers calling it small — small said nine times and passable never once. And once about the toilet, which is outside the building and has a single stall — how you get to it, and what it is like, nobody records. One party brought children, dividing bowls between them, and nobody mentions a high chair. Four posts place it on a lane of houses and none describes the ground underfoot. If you are coming, ring and ask.
The toilet is not inside — two posts say so, both from 2026 and both from having looked. One describes a small one built on the outside of the building; the other notes a single stall beside the restaurant. Only the second says there is one stall. Both record photographing it, so neither is passing on hearsay. Whether it is separate for men and women, what it is like in winter, what the door is like — nobody says, and with an outside toilet those are exactly the questions that remain. Not one of the twenty-two says the toilet is inside.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.
How to read these posts
- Someone else paid2 of 22 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves6 of 22 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way14 of 22 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 23 posts we gathered, 1 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.
We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 2 |
| 2024-11 | 4 |
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 3 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
What we do not know
- This neighbourhood is up for redevelopment, and we do not know whether the restaurant will stay where it is. A September 2026 post puts it plainly: residents of this block are due to start moving out next year, and the writer wonders where the restaurant that has anchored the area will end up — hoping it reopens nearby. She writes for an estate agency in that same block, five minutes' walk away, so she is in a position to know. A December 2024 post adds context: the talk of rebuilding has been going on for a decade without happening, and meanwhile small restaurants and delivery kitchens have been gathering here. We have checked neither the timetable nor the restaurant's own plans — if you are travelling for it, ring first.
- People say a queue has appeared, and nobody records standing in one. Three report it: as locals have spread the word there are waits now, writes one (September 2026), and chairs have been put outside for them; another saw the same chairs and had heard of weekday waits (April 2026); a third says the lunchtime wait has become sizeable, and she rang ahead and got in on a lucky opening (May 2025). Two of them saw those chairs with their own eyes. Against that, five did not wait, and give the hour: weekday lunch (two), a quiet weekday, right at opening, and — most tellingly — six on a Sunday evening, the peak, when two tables stood free and she sat straight down. One more writer's father told her the weekend queue is real; she went on a weekday and did not meet it. With four or five tables it reads as a room that simply fills, and the posts lean towards avoiding lunch.
- You can walk from the subway, but only two posts give a distance: ten minutes from exit 5 at Jung-dong station (April 2026), and five to ten minutes from Mipo (September 2026, by the estate agency that puts it five minutes from their own office). The rest navigate by landmark instead — between Mipo harbour and the station; at the mouth of the lane village coming down from Dalmaji; past the care hospital and into the alley behind a particular block of flats; off the rodeo street towards the houses, right at the kindergarten, past the credit union, left at the crossroads. Not one post mentions a bus. Two locals say they walk here, one of them describing it as her neighbourhood's best and until recently a delivery-only habit — but that is not directions. And the posts warn that you may not spot it: no sign to speak of, says one, who did not realise it was a restaurant; too plain a frontage to read as Chinese, says another.
- We counted twenty-two of twenty-four. One is not a blog post at all, and one says nothing about this restaurant. The excluded one is a scrape of a business-registration list — "146 newly opened places" across three cities, each with its trade category, floor area and two addresses, 155 distinct street addresses in all, with the template's own markup still in the text. It is also why the name-match rate came out at 22%: take that one post away and all twenty-three remaining carry the restaurant's name. The other, a week-in-the-life diary, checks in here and writes not one line about it. And twenty-two posts are twenty-one people — the same blogger wrote it up twice in her monthly diaries. Those two posts reach opposite verdicts on the same bowl of soup: in April 2025 it was exactly right; in July 2026 it tasted of nothing, and she wondered why. One person, reversing herself over fifteen months — we cannot say which is current, and we have counted both.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship; six declare that they paid. And two record that somebody else did. One says so in the title of her own account: not her money but her father's — he brought her, and she notes that her notoriously hard-to-please father counts this among the only places he will vouch for. The other was taken by her boyfriend's cousin and her husband, who bought a table full of dishes — the only table in the twenty-two with three of the restaurant's cooked dishes on it, and the only one where anything came free from the kitchen. The cousin is described as a regular. We count it as a visit, but that was not the table the other twenty-one were given. One more thing belongs on the record. An April 2026 post declares that she paid and posts the receipt — and inside it sits a link card to another post by the same blogger whose title begins "[sponsored]" and names this restaurant. The same person has written a sponsored post about the place, and that post is not in our set. The receipt stands, so we count this one as her own money — but the parking tick in her header block we have not counted as an observation, because the other seven posts all say there is no car park.
Sources (22)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 해운대 중동5구역 미포 맛집 중식당 칭춘 내돈 내산 후기 2026-09-17 · 신오산마을부동산-해운대 중동5구역 재개발
- [부산 여행] 해운대 미포 중식당 짬뽕 탕수육 맛집 칭춘 내돈내산 후.... 2026-09-05 · 부산 대성설비
- 2512 2026-07-15 · 오늘 점심 뭐 먹지?
- 해운대 미포 중국요리 맛집 칭춘 메뉴 내돈내산 솔직후기 2026-04-09 · 해운대테이블 | 부산맛집 ✨
- 해운대 달맞이길 벚꽃 실시간 & 주변 맛집 추천(칭춘) 2026-04-02 · Yooniverse
- 해운대 맛집 중동 중국집 :: 칭춘 2025-12-11 · 베리구뜨다 이거에요
- [해운대 중동] 맛집 "칭춘" 방문 후기, 미포 근처 중식 맛집, 중동 중.... 2025-11-19 · 밍숭맹숭
- 해운대 칭춘 중식당, 누룽지탕과 탕수육 오향장육이 맛있는 달맞이 .... 2025-10-13 · mis archivos
- [해운대 중동 맛집] 현지인이 추천하는 중식당 칭춘 2025-05-18 · 선후 행정사사무소
- 2504 2025-05-12 · 오늘 점심 뭐 먹지?
- 해운대 달맞이 입구 오산마을 숨은 중식맛집 칭춘 2025-05-09 · 먹방 스위머의 blog.
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- 부산 해운대 칭춘, 스모크 향이 났던 탕수육 무난하게 먹기 좋은 곳 2025-01-12 · 둥실이네
- 짬뽕이 인상적인 해운대 중동 오산마을 캐주얼한 중식당 칭춘 2024-12-10 · 둥이네 맛있는테레비
- 해운대 찐맛집! 칭춘에서 짜장면과 탕수육으로 주말 외식 해결하기 2024-12-02 · 직딩 라이프, 돼지런한 일상
- 해운대 달맞이 근처에서 인생 탕수육을 접하게 된 중식당 칭춘 2024-11-30 · 곙콩쀼의 별별리뷰 · via Daum
- 해운대 달맞이 맛집 맛있는 중식집 칭춘 2024-11-26 · KK
- 부산 맛집 찾아다니는 사람의 일상 2024-11-25 · 방구석쥬씨
- 부모님이 인정한 내돈내산 짜장면 짬뽕 맛집 해운대 달맞이 중식당 .... 2024-11-07 · 앤지콩의 이콩저콩 콩머거콩(●'◡'●)
- 비오는 날 운치 있는 중식당 <칭춘> 2024-10-22 · Be myself . - ▦ · via Daum
- 해운대중국집 여기가 찐맛집 해운대칭춘 주말저녁메뉴 2024-10-08 · 하나를 먹어도 맛있게 호랑이즌키친
Of 246 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 22 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.