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Yongyong Seonsaeng Cheongju Jiwell Bokdae

용용선생 청주지웰복대점 A Hong Kong-styled Chinese drinking house on the Jiwell City eating lane, known for a volcano-shaped mala hotpot and sorghum-spirit highballs.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Yongyong Seonsaeng's Jiwell Bokdae branch is a Hong-Kong-styled Chinese drinking house on the ground floor of the eating lane behind Jiwell City in Cheongju, right beside Solbat Middle School. It is a national chain with three branches in Cheongju alone. Doors at five in the evening, closing at two in the morning — three on Fridays and Saturdays — and no lunch. Mala hotpots and fried Chinese dishes to drink sorghum spirit over, which is why most of these posts are somebody's first or second stop of an evening rather than dinner. Ten writers describe the room as red and dark; six of them reach for Hong Kong cinema, one simply says it is properly dark, and one that the lighting left her squinting. There are no tablets on the tables — you order by QR code from your phone. The posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 14 posts: 7 wrote Monday 17:00–02:00, 7 wrote Tuesday 17:00–02:00, 7 wrote Wednesday 17:00–02:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is hwasan mara jeongol (화산마라전골) — 14 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

• 화산마라전골14 ate it
  hwasan mara jeongol₩23,900 · ₩24,900

  The dish the shop puts first, and **fourteen of the twenty-four visits ordered it.** Thin-sliced beef belly is piled into a cone in the middle of the pot with the chilli-and-Sichuan-pepper paste sitting on top; you stir the paste down into the broth and let it boil. Bean sprouts, pak choi, enoki, tofu skin and two kinds of glass noodle, by the accounts we read

  **The price moved once**: ₩23,900 in a January 2025 post, ₩24,900 in four posts from March 2025 to June 2026. As part of the two-person set it costs ₩4,000 extra. Writers disagree about the heat — one finds the Sichuan-pepper numbness almost absent and the dish a good place to start, another warns off anyone who dislikes mala altogether, and **two say they scraped some of the paste off the top and stirred in only half.** Four posts mention adding vegetables, tofu skin, glass noodles, beef or scorched rice. Two say the wait for it to come to the boil feels long. Four wrote only "mala hotpot" and we have counted those here

• 고추바삭 유린기9 ate it
  gochu basak yurinki₩19,900 · ₩21,400

  The second most ordered dish — **nine writers had it.** Fried chicken over shredded lettuce, a sharp sauce poured over, chopped green chilli on top. Two posts describe the chicken as marinated in clove and vanilla in almost identical words, so the phrase probably comes off the menu card

  **The two prices we have disagree**: ₩21,400 in a January 2026 post, ₩19,900 in a June 2026 one. Whether it came down or one writer misread it, we do not know. **They also disagree about the crunch** — one finds the batter crisp and the meat still moist; another says the sauce is ladled on so heavily that the batter goes soft, and advises **lifting some onto a side plate straight away.** One writer was told the portion was large and ordered the sweet-soy fried chicken instead. One found the lettuce cut so big she went at it with scissors

• 돌판 로제 마라샹궈3 ate it
  dolpan roje mara syanggwo₩25,900

  Mala stir-fry in a rosé (cream-and-chilli) sauce, served on a hot stone plate. **It is new within the span of posts we read** — three people ordered it between March and September 2026 and all three call it new

  ₩25,900 in a March 2026 post. Sausage, meat, bean sprouts, pak choi and fried tofu, with **thin glass noodles and broad flat dumpling-dough sheets** — one writer calls the flat sheets the best of it. On heat they disagree: one who calls herself weak with chilli found it fairly hot, another that it stung with Sichuan pepper more than chilli, a third that it was milder than she had braced for. One notes that people often have fried rice made in the leftover sauce on the plate

• 레몬크림새우 (전 이름 레몬칠리새우)3 ate it
  lemon cream saeu₩15,900

  Fried prawns in a sweet cream sauce with lemon. **The name seems to have changed**: a March 2025 post calls it lemon-chilli prawn, two posts from February and March 2026 call it lemon-cream prawn. All three give the same price

  ₩15,900 in all three. Two order it alongside something mala, **to take the heat off.** One notes that chains often use sad little prawns and these were plump. A fourth account complained about the batter, but that writer was at the company's other Cheongju branch, so it is not counted here

• 사천 곱짜장2 ate it
  sacheon gopjjajang₩23,900

  A black-bean dish with tripe, **kept simmering on a burner at the table rather than plated.** The noodles come separately: one writer picked at the sauce as a drinking snack first and mixed the noodles in later

  ₩23,900 in a January 2025 post. One writer expected a black-bean dish and got something she says she has met nowhere else — charred tripe, tendon and crisp spring-roll pastry tossed through the noodles. Another reports the tripe not chewy and generously filled, and the whole table agreeing on it. Leave the noodles too long and they stick, one notes, though the sauce loosens them. A third writer did not get to it and resolved to come back for it

• 불대창 돌짜장2 ate it
  bul daechang doljjajang₩27,900

  A black-bean dish served on a hot stone plate with beef intestine through it. Two people ordered it, in December 2025 and September 2026, and **neither was pleased**

  ₩27,900 in both posts (one rounds it to ₩28,000 later in the same text). **One says it does not look like its photograph**: what arrived was raw-looking intestine rather than the charred version pictured, and a thin sauce rather than the thick one — sweeter, too, than she expected black-bean sauce to be. She counted seventeen pieces of intestine. The other found the retort-pouch smell too strong, the portion small for the money, and would not buy it again. Despite the name, one notes, it barely tastes of mala

• 마라떡찜 (로제마라떡찜)2 ate it
  mara tteokjjim₩24,900

  A braise in the same rosé-mala sauce, **topped with a pumpkin-and-bean-flour rice cake** — both writers single it out. Cheese-filled rice cakes, sweet potato starch noodles, potato, sweet potato, sausage, fried aubergine, prawn and mushroom, between the two accounts

  ₩24,900 in a May 2025 post. Both find it numbing — one enjoyably so, the other reduced to typing gibberish about the state of her mouth before adding that it was genuinely good. A writer who had avoided the restaurant for years because she is weak with mala ordered this and came away wondering whether she had got good at it. Both describe the rice cake stretching as it heats

• 깐풍 닭튀김2 ate it
  kkanpung dak twigim₩11,900

  Fried chicken in a sweet-salty soy glaze with chopped chilli on top. One pair **chose it over the lettuce-and-vinegar version because the portion is smaller**

  ₩11,900 in a March 2025 post, and part of the ₩32,900 two-person set. One writer says it stays crisp under the glaze — worth setting beside the complaint that the other fried chicken goes soggy in its sauce. Eat it with the chilli on top for heat

• 버터 깐풍기1 ate it
  beoteo kkanpunggi

  One person ordered it; another only copied it off the menu board's list of favourites

  The one who ate it wrote a single line inside a month-long diary of many restaurants: the hotpot and this were the best of it. **Nobody records the price or what it looks like**

• 흑후추 우삼겹1 ate it
  heukhuchu usamgyeop

  Beef belly wok-tossed with black pepper and vegetables. One person ordered it; another copied the name off the menu board

  The one who had it liked how the juices met the sauce, and ate all the vegetables herself. **Nobody gives a price**

• 2인 세트1 ate it
  2-in set₩32,900 set

  A set for two, ordered by one writer in January 2025: **a main, the sweet-soy fried chicken, three mala dumplings and a bottle of soju or lemonade.** Swapping the main for the volcano hotpot costs ₩4,000 more

  ₩32,900. One writer reports being told that most people order sets rather than single dishes. She added the fried rice on top, which made **five dishes for two people**, and left a little of each. **Nobody writes how many sets there are or what else they contain**

• 어향가지1 ate it
  eohyang gaji

  One person ordered it in January 2025, and **it is the only dish anyone flatly dislikes**

  Not what she thought the dish was, and the sauce too salty, too hot, too much — she says to skip it if you do not like strong flavours. **This is one person's verdict**; in the same post she praises six other dishes

• 옥수수 깐풍기1 ate it
  oksusu kkanpunggi

  One person ordered it in March 2026 and did not write down the price. It comes dusted in seasoning

  The one writer compares it to the powdered-cheese fried chicken sold by a Korean chain — loud seasoning, made for beer. **One person, one account**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 기본 안주 — 단무지와 땅콩12 ate it
  gibon anju

  What arrives free when you sit down. **Twelve posts record it and all twelve say the same two things: pickled radish and peanuts** — written about more often than any dish on the menu, the signature hotpot included

  Three writers report the peanuts being salty enough to keep reaching for — enough to drink on until the food comes. One notes that **they arrive shelled.** One notes that the water comes in a paper cup

• 간장계란볶음밥8 ate it
  ganjang gyeran bokkeumbap₩5,900 · ₩6,000

  A side of fried rice — **eight writers ordered it and not one has a bad word.** There is **no plain bowl of rice on this menu**, so if you want rice with the hotpot, this is what you order

  ₩6,000 in November 2024, ₩5,900 in four posts from December 2025 to September 2026. Two writers were let down by their main dish and rescued by this one; one calls it the thing people mean by golden fried rice. Two taste garlic and oyster sauce in it, three describe the grains as dry and separate. **If you are mixing it into the black-bean sauce, one writer says, hold some sauce back and taste as you go** — the rice is already seasoned

• 전골 추가 사리 (야채·푸주·중국당면·우삼겹·누룽지)4 ate it
  jeongol chuga sari

  Extras to drop into the hotpot. **Four writers added something and all four were glad they did** — vegetables, tofu skin, Chinese glass noodles, beef belly or scorched rice, between the accounts

  One writer puts the vegetables at around two thousand won; **nobody gives an exact figure.** Two added vegetables, one added tofu skin and glass noodles. Order them as you go, says one, when you see what you want more of

• 마라 왕교자3 ate it
  mara wanggyoja

  A big fried dumpling with mala running through it. **Two of the three did not pay for it**: book through Naver and the shop gives one per head, this or the condensed-milk buns

  One took it for an ordinary fried dumpling until the mala came through; another found it juicy and crisp. Three come with the two-person set. **Nobody gives a price of its own** — all three got it free or inside a set

• 중화 오이무침3 ate it
  junghwa oi muchim₩5,900

  Cucumber dressed in a sweet-sour soy sauce. It gets eaten **the way you would eat a pickle** between the richer dishes, by two accounts

  ₩5,900 in a June 2026 post. One writer orders it every visit and would miss it. Another warns that people who hate cucumber will recoil, and guesses at the dressing: sugar, white vinegar, a little balsamic

• 연유 꽃빵2 ate it
  yeonyu kkotppang

  Steamed flower buns to dip in condensed milk. **Neither person paid**: one got them for booking through Naver, one for writing two receipt reviews

  Pull them apart a layer at a time and swipe them through the milk, says one. One got four for two reviews; another expected two for two people and was given three. **Nobody has bought them, so we do not know what they cost**

• 계란탕1 ate it
  gyerantang

  Chinese-style egg drop soup. One person ordered it, in January 2025

  Everything else on her table was loud, she writes, and this quietly held the balance. **No price recorded**

• 고수무침1 ate it
  gosu muchim

  One person ordered it in November 2024. **Of the three at the table only one would eat it**

  That one line is the entire record of this dish — no description, no price. If you dislike coriander, take the hint

Sweet things

• 코코넛 아이스크림 (코코넛 셔벗)3 ate it
  coconut ice cream₩8,900

  The only dessert written about more than once — **all three ordered it to put out the fire**

  ₩8,900 in a May 2025 post. Grainy and sweet, and it resets a numbed mouth, say two of them. **The third notes that there is not much coconut texture to it and more of milk** — enough that someone who dislikes coconut could eat it

To drink

• 연태고량주 (토닉·맥주에 타서)5 ate it
  yeontae goryangju

  The drink that comes up most often — **five writers had it.** Rarely neat: mixed with tonic as a highball, or dropped into beer

  One writer picked it after reading that a particular bottling tastes of grapes; two report tonic water coming with the set. For a larger table, one says, you order the big bottle and they bring ice and glasses. It goes down sweetly and at length, warns another, which is exactly how this kind of spirit gets you. **Not one of the five wrote down a price**

• 소주 (참이슬)2 ate it
  soju₩5,000

  Two writers drank it; a bottle comes inside the two-person set

  ₩5,000 in a February 2026 post, by a writer who realised afterwards that they had drunk three bottles. One table poured lemonade into the soju glass for the friend who was driving

• 설화맥주1 ate it
  seolhwa maekju₩7,500

  A Chinese beer. One person ordered it, in December 2025

  ₩7,500. She tried it because it was there, found it watery, decided Chinese beer is watery in general and Korean beer better. **One person's view**

• 샤베트 하이볼1 ate it
  syabet highball

  One person ordered it on a hot day in August 2026. **Nobody records the price or what is in it**

  That one line — a cold sherbet highball — is the whole of it

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

The posts do not quite agree about floors. The registered address and the check-in line a dozen writers copied both say ground floor, 95 Jinjae-ro. But one September 2026 post says: "when I photographed the room I only got the ground floor — looking back, there was a first floor up as well." Whether that upper floor belongs to this restaurant or to something else in the building, how you reach it, whether anyone sits up there — that post does not say, and neither does any other. The remaining twenty-three describe the ground floor only. If you are a large group wanting the upstairs, ask first.

Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Across all twenty-four, the words for ramp, threshold, step and wheelchair never appear. What is certain is that the registered address is the ground floor, and that eight writers describe the room as roomy with space between the tables — but that is about the inside, and whether there is a step at the door is a different question. Do not read "ground floor" as an answer. Ring and ask if it matters.

Three posts put the toilet inside the restaurant. One found it inside and very clean; another lists it as the thing women check before a late night out, and was glad not to have to leave the building. In a place that runs to two or three in the morning, that is worth knowing. The third writer, though, got stuck in it — the lock would not open and a member of staff had to let her out; she calls it a failed escape room. One person, one night, and nobody since reports the same. Whether the toilets are separated by sex, how many cubicles there are, whether there is an accessible one — none of the twenty-four says.

No one mentioned: 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 paid1 / 221 of 22 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves4 / 224 of 22 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way17 / 2217 of 22 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 24 posts we gathered, 2 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

What we do not know

• Of the thirty posts that matched, we counted twenty-four. Four are not about this restaurant. One is a sashimi place next door that shares the street address, and says so in the text — it sits right beside Yongyong Seonsaeng. One is a nearby yakiniku restaurant. The other two are the same chain at different branches: a diary carrying a check-in from the Seoul branch, and a review of the other Cheongju branch across town. Two more we did not count as visits. One credits its photographs to the brand's own Naver page, carries no price anywhere, and reports a new dish as being "well received" — which is hearsay, not eating. The other opens by introducing itself as a leak-repair firm, carries one check-in, for its own office in another province, and has neither a price nor a photograph in it. Left in, the pair of them would inflate every figure on this page by a quarter.
• Not one of the twenty-four says how to get here without a car. No bus number, no stop, no walk from a station. What they do give are three ways to find the door: three posts put it right beside Solbat Middle School, several place it on the main run of the Jiwell City eating lane, and the address is 95 Jinjae-ro, ground floor. Cars appear — one writer drove in from Ochang, another's friend took lemonade in a soju glass because she was driving. How you would arrive without one, we do not know.
• Nobody writes about queueing. Three write about the room being full. One arrived to find every table taken and could not photograph the place, so she used the brand's own pictures instead; another simply says it was very busy. The third gives a time: "there was hardly anyone when we arrived, and after eight the floor filled right up." Against that, two writers turned up at five as the doors opened and were the first customers of the night. Whether there is a waiting list, whether waiting works, or whether you simply go elsewhere, nobody says — it reads less like a place with a queue than a place that fills by eight. On booking, see below.
• None of the twenty-four declares a sponsorship. Four say they paid for themselves, one of them photographing the receipt; one says outright that his brother-in-law picked up the bill. The other nineteen say nothing either way. Only ten posts carry a price, though, so while twenty-four tell you what they ate, ten tell you what it cost. And six are week- or month-long diaries in which this restaurant gets a line or two — several places to a post, so we read only what sits around our own check-in. Counted as posts they are real; as accounts of this place they are nearly empty.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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