Gilpost · Yesan-gun, Yesan-eup
Mujinjangjip
무진장집 A restorative-cookery house in Yesan, where a whole duck or native chicken simmers in a broth of neungi mushroom and ten herbs.
Korean · Yesan-gun, Yesan-eup
Data as of · Published ·
Mujinjangjip is a restorative-cookery house in Yesan, about ten minutes on foot from the town's bus terminal. Its backbone is baeksuk: a whole native chicken or duck simmered in a broth of neungi mushroom and ten medicinal herbs. Marinated duck, a native-bird stew, black goat hotpot and a mushroom shabu-shabu share the same board. It is not a place to eat alone — the prices are per bird, not per person, and the many private rooms fill with families and work parties. A national television programme filmed here, and there is a photograph of a well-known singer on the wall. Half past ten in the morning until ten at night, every day. The posts we read run from March 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 충청남도 예산군 예산읍 산성공원2길 16 16 Sanseonggongwon 2-gil, Yesan-eup, Yesan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 041-332-8112 |
| Typical spend | ₩33,000 – ₩80,000 |
| Floor area | 109 m² |
| Status | In business |
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 18 posts: 17 wrote Daily 10:30–22:00.
| Open | Daily | 10:30–22:00 17 of 18 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–16:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | None 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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
- A jug of pumpkin sikhye arrives free as the meal winds down, and it is the single most consistent thing about this place — sixteen of the twenty-one posts mention it, fifteen drank it. It is made from sweet pumpkin; one describes ice crystals in it, two say it is made here. The reports line up: too full and drank it anyway, three people emptied a bottle, they brought more than two glasses each. Two say it is not oversweet, two had never tasted anything like it. You can buy it by the bottle — three note it for sale and one took two home. And leaving a receipt review earns you another, or a canned drink instead; six writers mention the offer, one pointing out that this is separate from what comes to the table.
- There are many private rooms, and they will put two people in one. Eighteen posts mention them. Four describe a central hall with rooms ranged along the walls; one counts five separate rooms, one reports a large room that takes up to seventy, one counts about six tables in the hall. Two give their room number. One writer is struck that a party of two was shown into a room at all, which usually takes a crowd; another found the curtain to the next room opened for them once it emptied. One notes air conditioning in each. Two describe parties of dozens behind the doors; two found every other room full.
- This is a place you ring first. Thirteen posts mention booking; ten ordered the food in advance too. Two reasons come through: the birds take a long time to cook, and the rooms fill. Order ahead and the table is laid when you walk in — seven writers describe exactly that, one arriving at half past twelve to a packed hall and sitting straight down to a finished spread. One found the car park full at half six on a weekday. Not one writer says they queued — they had all booked, or were seated.
- Someone comes to the table and jointes the bird for you. Six writers describe it and the details overlap: an older woman working through the duck's joints so deftly that one watched instead of eating; a member of staff arriving as the pot came to the boil; another finding the meat so soft it fell apart at the first touch of the scissors. One arrived braced for a big tough bird and found even the breast tender once it was cut. Four describe staff frying the rice at the table at the end. Requests get met too: one asked for soy sauce with green chilli in it and had it made on the spot; another had the chives and onion refilled.
- Nine or ten side dishes come with the meal, and they are refilled. Nine posts mention the refills and three say how many they had — kimchi three times in one case, and the vegetable fritters more than once in three. Between them they name seasoned greens, fresh kimchi, two kinds of water kimchi, cucumber, potato, courgette, aubergine, sweet potato stems, Jerusalem artichoke salad, cabbage salad, silkworm pupae, a fruit-and-mayonnaise salad, bamboo shoot, mulberry leaf, wild chive fritters, and a mountain green most Koreans would not recognise. Two say the line-up changes by two or three dishes each day; two say the vegetables are grown or foraged by the house — one adding that the wild chives and the mountain green had clearly been dug that week and the spring onion picked not long before. Four note being asked mid-meal whether anything was running short. One checked the label on the kimchi cabbage and was relieved to find it domestic.
What 20 bloggers said
We read all 20 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (12) and “Friendly staff” (12).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Private room | 18 of 20 posts |
|---|---|
| Complimentary tea or drink | 15 of 20 posts |
| Takes reservations | 13 of 20 posts |
| Free refills | 9 of 20 posts |
| Review event | 6 of 20 posts |
| Signed celebrity photos | 5 of 20 posts |
| Takeout | 4 of 20 posts |
| Staff cook it at your table | 4 of 20 posts |
| Toilet inside | 3 of 20 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 2 of 20 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 1 of 20 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 1 of 20 posts |
| Air conditioned | 1 of 20 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 20 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 hobak-sikhye (호박식혜 (단호박식혜)) — 15 of 20 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
Sweet things
Parking
17 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 17 of 20 posts |
|---|
There is parking, but not much of it, and a public car park sits right alongside. Seventeen posts say you can park; the four who actually counted all say four or five cars. Four others call it wide or open, which does not square with the counts — there is a yard, but it is not a large one. Six point you to the public car park next door, one noting it is free. Two write from experience: one parked there and moved across when a space opened; another left the car on the verge, judging that once the yard filled there would be no getting out of it, and warns that by evening it is full. One found it already full at half six on a weekday. A claim that coaches can park here comes from a post we dropped, so we have not counted it.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 8 of 20 posts |
|---|---|
| Came with children | 3 of 20 posts |
| Date | 1 of 20 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 20 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 3 of 20 posts |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | 2 of 20 posts |
No one writes about the floors. Two describe a free-standing brick building on the main road, and all twenty-one read as though everything is on one level — but not one says so outright, and none mentions an upstairs. The registered address gives no floor either. One post describes rooms ringing a central hall and a further room that seats seventy, without saying whether they are all on the same level.
Nobody looked at the step. Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in, or whether there is a lip at the door. One writer does mention climbing steps to get in — without saying how many, whether there is a rail, or whether there is another way round. Since the posts also disagree about whether shoes come off (see above), we cannot tell you how you get into a room here. Three writers came with children and none mentions a pushchair; one notes only that her parents, whose teeth are poor, managed the food easily.
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. 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
- Posts disclosing payment1 of 20 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves2 of 20 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way17 of 20 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 29 posts we gathered, 9 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.
| 2025-03-09 | 3 posts in one day |
|---|---|
| 2025-03-05 | 2 posts in one day |
| 2025-03-04 | 2 posts in one day |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 7 |
| 2026-08 | 6 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- We counted twenty-one posts, not thirty. None of the thirty was about a different restaurant — all of them are about this one. But nine that went up in the nine days from 1 to 9 March 2025 we treat as commissioned copy and leave out of the count. Four things mark them. First, four of the blogs share a number in their addresses, which is how one operator's accounts usually look. Second, not one of the nine gives a price — while the twenty-one we kept carry figures, room numbers, a count of the side dishes, the receipt offer and the afternoon break. Third, one of them has the street number wrong. Fourth, the pumpkin sikhye that every single one of the twenty-one mentions appears in only one of the nine. Conversely, we kept seven 2026 posts that share an identical block of thirty hashtags — their bodies differ, they order different things, quote different prices and room numbers, and contradict each other about parking, shoes and how clean the place is. What separates a post is the record of eating, not the hashtags. One post declares a sponsorship; two declare they paid. The other eighteen say nothing.
- Prices here are per bird, not per person, so two people pay badly. Baeksuk, duck or chicken, is ₩80,000 (₩70,000 without the neungi); the marinated duck and the native-bird stew are ₩65,000 each; the three-course duck is ₩75,000. Four writers say one bird feeds three comfortably and could do four; two came as a pair and took the rest home. Only the stew has a smaller ₩33,000 size on the board. The one dish priced by the person is the set lunch of stir-fried pork, ₩10,000 a head, which the writer who had it thought absurdly cheap. Two mention a lunch menu without saying what is on it. The prices are also narrow in time — every figure we have comes from between April and September 2026, and the nine March 2025 posts we dropped carry none at all, so we cannot say how prices have moved. One writer notes the regional gift certificate is accepted.
- Writers disagree about how clean it is, and we leave the disagreement standing. Two call it clean, one of them specifically: an old room with real character, but no stickiness anywhere on the tables or chairs. Against that, one writer who paid her own way says plainly that the fittings did not look clean to her and this would not be her choice of restaurant, adding that the pork belly is a bad idea because the extraction is poor. She still enjoyed the baeksuk and closes by calling the place countrified rather than polished. Two others land in between: worn but tidy. The shoes are disputed too — a July 2026 post says flatly that you keep them on, while three of the March 2025 posts we dropped say you take them off. We could not settle which is right, or whether the rooms differ from the hall.
- One writer describes getting here without a car: ten minutes on foot from the town's intercity bus terminal. Nobody gives a walk from the railway station — the phrase "by Yesan station" appears in more than ten posts, but as a search term, not as a journey anyone made. Those who give directions put it opposite the county courthouse, on a lane of restaurants, near the market, behind a yellow sign on the main road. Six were passing between the local reservoir, a temple and the market, and all six were driving.
- Not one writer says they queued — but that is not because the place is quiet. Thirteen of them had booked. The room being full comes up again and again: a car park already full at half six on a weekday with every room taken by a party; a hall so busy at half twelve that one writer could only photograph it on the way out; parties of dozens behind the doors. All of them had rung ahead and none of them waited. Nobody records turning up without a booking, so what happens if you do is something we cannot tell you.
Sources (20)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 월드스타 싸이가 인정한 예산시장 맛집! 예당호 출렁다리 맛집 무진장집 ~~ 2026-09-06 · 더퍼스트스텝 · via Daum
- 예산 맛집 찾다가 발견한 오리주물럭 찐맛집| 예당호 출렁다리·예산시장 근처 맛집 2026-09-03 · 몽실아 밥묵자 ˙ ᴗ˙ · via Daum
- [예산맛집] 무진장집 (ft. 능이오리백숙, 샤브샤브) 2026-09-02 · 개미는 뚠뚠 :)
- [예산] 예산 맛집 | 신선한 오리주물럭, 무진장집 2026-08-27 · 하루 한 그릇 · via Daum
- 예산 맛집 무진장집 능이한방오리백숙 먹고 몸보신 2026-08-26 · 꽃당근님의 블로그
- 예산 무진장집 능이오리백숙 후기 ㅣ 예산 맛집 무진장집 2026-08-19 · 하루한켠 · via Daum
- [예산] 한국인의 밥상에 나온 예산역 맛집 ‘무진장집’ 2026-08-12 · 응비까비 · via Daum
- [예산]예산 수덕사 맛집, 예산역 맛집, 충남 맛집 예산오리백숙 무진장집 2026-08-12 · 토토토 · via Daum
- 예산역 맛집"무진장집"한국인의 밥상 TV 출연 보양식 잘하는 집 능이.... 2026-08-06 · 언제나 푸른 마음
- 충남 맛집 예산 무진장집 오리주물럭과 볶음밥 후기 2026-07-31 · 먹고 즐기는 주디의 주토피아 · via Daum
- 예산 오리주물럭 무진장집 예산역 맛집 2026-07-24 · 영리한토끼 · via Daum
- [예산 수덕사 맛집]오리로스, 오리훈제, 오리주물럭 코스요리 오리.... 2026-07-23 · 양이양이 먹로그
- 예산역맛집:) 싸이가 인정한 맛집 무진장집 오리주물럭 보양식추천 2026-07-16 · 채채남매랑 놀자 · via Daum
- 무진장집 예산 수덕사 맛집, 가수 싸이도 다녀간 예산역 맛집🦆🍲 2026-07-16 · 엱딩 라이프 · via Daum
- 무진장집 예산 수덕사 맛집 아빠랑 무진장집 다녀온 솔직후기 흑염소전골맛집 2026-07-13 · 오늘도 히꼬지 · via Daum
- 예산 맛집)) 여름철 몸보신을 위해 꼭 가야 할 예산 맛집 '무진장집' .... 2026-07-02 · 잘.먹.잘.살 삼자매♡
- 여름 몸보신 메뉴로 딱인 능이닭백숙 추천 예산역 맛집 무진장집 2026-06-05 · 쑥이 좋아하는 것만 쏙쏙
- [충남 예산역 맛집, 무진장집] 부모님과 능이닭백숙 먹고 온 후기 2026-05-22 · 뭐든, 좋아✨
- 풍미 깊은 백숙맛을 자랑하는 충남 맛집 예산 무진장집 2026-05-11 · 베일리의 미식노트
- [예산] 예산 맛집, 예산백숙, 예산역 맛집 "무진장집" 2026-04-22 · 돼지 오륀이 일상
Of 198 candidate posts we opened 52 and kept 20 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.