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Suyukgap

수육갑 A one-dish drinking house in Daejeon: boiled pork, thinly battered and fried, built into a spoonful with aged kimchi and tomato

Korean · Jung-gu, Daeheung-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Suyuk Gap is a small drinking house on the ground floor of a walk-up in a Daeheung-dong back lane in Daejeon, beside a girls' middle school and the city lifelong-learning centre. It effectively sells one thing — suyuk twigim, boiled pork given a thin batter and deep-fried, which several writers say is not made anywhere else in the city. Five in the evening until one in the morning, closed Sundays. With six or seven tables, Friday and Saturday come with a three-hour limit. The posts we read run from February 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

Address대전광역시 중구 대흥로127번길 29, 1층 (대흥동)
29 Daeheung-ro 127beon-gil, Jung-gu, Daejeon
Phone0507-1405-1216
Typical spend₩3,000 – ₩32,900
Floor area47 m²
StatusIn business

6 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 22 posts: 22 wrote Mon–Sat 17:00–01:00.

OpenMon–Sat17:00–01:00 22 of 22 posts last seen 2026-07
Last order00:00 13 of 13 posts last seen 2026-07
Closed일요일 20 of 20 posts last seen 2026-07

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.

What sets it apart

  1. Here, someone else builds your first bite. Twenty-three posts talk about the service, and what they overlap on is specific: when the fried pork lands, the owner or a server picks up a spoon and assembles one mouthful in front of you. The pork is left to steep in the soy sauce rather than dipped; then aged kimchi, shredded radish, cherry tomato, wasabi and green chilli go on the spoon, and the steeped pork on top. There is a card on every table saying the same thing, and they come and do it anyway. Five writers mention that pulling a piece of kimchi from the middle leaves the rest arranged like a smiling face — each describes it in different words, so it appears to be a thing that actually happens rather than a line copied around. One returning customer notes she can now do it herself.
  2. The popcorn comes first. Twenty-five posts mention it, and it is free. Several describe the bag arriving still swollen, so it is microwave popcorn. It exists to cover a gap — the pork only goes into the fryer once you order, so there is a wait, and a warm bag of popcorn goes into it. One writer stopped halfway for fear of ruining her appetite; another's companion treated it as the main event and finished the bag. One post gives ₩3,000 for more.
  3. The line about never pre-frying comes from the shop itself. A card on every table says the pork is aged, boiled fresh each day, never given a first fry, and battered only once you order — with an apology in advance for the wait. Twelve writers copy it almost word for word. Not one of them saw the kitchen. What we are counting is that they read the card, not that they watched it happen. On the wait itself the posts disagree: four say it was quick or quicker than expected, one says the plate explains the delay.
  4. It is a small room. Fourteen posts say so, and those who counted tables land close together: six, seven, eight, or "fewer than ten." Two note that the wall sofa and tables pushed together will take a group. Nobody writes about the size as a fault — "snug rather than cramped" is the recurring phrase, and three are glad of how quiet it stays. The size comes back as a time limit, though (see below).
  5. On Fridays and Saturdays you have the table for three hours. Five writers read it off a notice on the wall, which gives the reason: the room is small and it fills up. None of them minds — "three hours is more than we needed for dinner," says one; "still plenty," says another. Whether it applies on weekdays, nobody says.
  6. Some of the egg fried rice on these tables was free. Nine posts note the shop's offer — write a photo review on the receipt app and take a canned drink or the egg fried rice — and one writer says outright that is how hers arrived. So not every plate of it was paid for. One other writer was given a slice of cake, and one had the fried rice sent out unasked.
  7. One post gives the shop's lineage: the original is a bar called Rain in Incheon, run by a brother, and the sister took the recipe to Daejeon — with the rest of the menu, that writer adds, being the Daejeon owner's own. Only that one post says it, and we have not verified it. Two others relay the menu's line that the fried-chicken dishes come from a sibling who ran a chicken shop, though who the sibling is does not quite line up.
  8. There are seats outside. Four writers saw a table and chairs in front of the shop, and one watched a couple eating there in the evening air. Another wonders whether they put them out when the weather is good, so we do not know that it is always on. Not one writer says they sat there themselves.

What 29 bloggers said

We read all 29 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (23) and “Crispy batter” (20).

What they liked

Friendly staff23 of 29 posts
Crispy batter20 of 29 posts
Not greasy9 of 29 posts
Would return8 of 29 posts
Large portions7 of 29 posts
Food comes quickly4 of 29 posts
No gamey smell5 of 29 posts
Not expensive4 of 29 posts
Juicy3 of 29 posts
Quiet3 of 29 posts
Clean1 of 29 posts
Spicy1 of 29 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped14 of 29 posts

Where they disagree

Returning customeryes 5 · no 8

Things you can check on site

Complimentary starter25 of 29 posts
Cooked to order12 of 29 posts
Review event9 of 29 posts
Reachable by transit6 of 29 posts
Time limit on the table5 of 29 posts
Complimentary tea or drink4 of 29 posts
TV4 of 29 posts
Outdoor terrace seating4 of 29 posts
Ground floor2 of 29 posts
Free refills2 of 29 posts
Waiting area2 of 29 posts
Phone charging1 of 29 posts
Wi-Fi1 of 29 posts
Independent, not a chain1 of 29 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is suyuk twigim (수육튀김) — 29 of 29 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

Parking

3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.

Posts saying you cannot3 of 29 posts

There is no car park of its own. But only three writers actually parked — one used a lot nearby, one used the free car park at the lifelong-learning centre right in front and warns it is usually full (she checked in there too), and a third listed "parking is tight" as the one drawback of her visit. Nine more posts carry the line "no parking / use the public lot nearby," and we did not count them — it comes in a block with the toilets, the wi-fi and the delivery options, copied off the listing page. One writer says you can pull up in front but the main strip is close and spaces go; other lines in that same post are copied, so we do not lean on it. Where the public lot is, or how far, nobody writes.

Who came, and with whom

Date6 of 29 posts
With a friend4 of 29 posts
Group visit1 of 29 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Suyukgap is

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

Second flooryes 0 · no 2
Toilet insideyes 0 · no 1

Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair. Across all thirty posts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, step, threshold and step-free access do not appear once. Two writers note the ground floor, but whether there is a lip at the door, how wide the door is, whether a chair can pass between the tables — no one looked. This is not a no; it is that we do not know. Fourteen describe a small room of six or seven tables, so the gaps may well be tight — but that too is not something we checked.

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

  • Posts disclosing payment1 of 29 posts
  • Someone else paid1 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves3 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way24 of 29 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 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

02110405060709
Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-021
2025-111
2026-049
2026-056
2026-066
2026-074
2026-092

What we do not know

  • Six writers describe getting here without a car, all of them walking from Jungangno station on the subway. They do not agree on how long — five, six and seven minutes from exit 3, and a fourth just says five minutes from the station. Four place it near the main Sungsimdang bakery, three in the lane beside the girls' middle school and the lifelong-learning centre. Nobody mentions a bus. One post puts it near exits 5 and 6 of Daehwa station, which is in a different city altogether; we did not count that line.
  • It is on the ground floor. Two writers say so outright — "on the ground floor of a walk-up" — and the registered address agrees. No one writes about stairs. But nobody looked at the doorway either, so beyond the floor we know nothing about the way in.
  • The toilet is outside the shop. One writer went and reported back: out the door and right there. A second lists it as "toilet: outside" in an information block, which looks copied. We did not count the two posts saying there are separate men's and women's — they sit in a run with parking, wi-fi and group bookings, lifted wholesale from the listing page. Whether the outside toilet is inside the building or off the lane, whether there are steps or a lip, whether it is locked — not one post says.
  • Not one writer says they queued. People do describe the room filling, though: one arrived at five, was the first customer, and watched it fill within half an hour; another saw a work party come in and take the last of it. Two mention a waiting spot beside or in front of the shop, one noting a stuffed toy sitting in it. A waiting spot implies people wait, but nobody says for how long. No one writes about booking ahead either.
  • Only four writers say who paid. Three state they paid their own way; one tags the post "#sponsored" at the very end — the word appears nowhere in the body, only in the last line. A fourth says her egg fried rice came from the receipt-review offer. The other twenty-four say nothing. Fourteen of these posts went up in the six weeks from late April to early June 2026, and two of them end with the same ten hashtags in the same order. We kept both: their bodies are different and each records what that writer ate and saw — one the outside toilet and the car park opposite, the other the table count and the baseball on the television. What separates a real visit from a placed one is the record of eating, not the hashtags.
  • One price comes in two versions. Ten posts put the two-person suyuk twigim at ₩27,900 and two at ₩27,000, and since both of the latter fall in the same April-to-June 2026 window as the rest, the dates do not explain it. Nine hundred won looks like a dropped digit, but we have not confirmed that. Every other price holds still from 2025 through 2026.

Sources (29)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 대전 대흥동 재방문하는 수육튀김 맛집 수육갑 2026-09-08 · 나의 Jae-발견 ≛
  2. [대전] 한화이글스 대 두산 경기 관람 그리고 처음 맛보는 수육튀김 : 수육갑 2026-09-03 · Outside the Box · via Daum
  3. 저는 이웃님들만 봐도 배가부르고, 그래서 비만이 되었습니다. 2026-07-31 · 민콩일기 · via Daum
  4. [수육갑] 대전 중구 대흥동 맛집 수육튀김 ([Suyuk Gap] Fried Boiled Pork, Da.... 2026-07-29 · 리노타호의 여행기
  5. 대전 대흥동 술집 맛집 추천 수육 튀김이 맛있는 수육갑 2026-07-28 · Kuk's diary
  6. 대전 대흥동 술집 수육갑 내돈내산 수육튀김 물뱅이 후기 2026-07-15 · 시니와 함께, 우리의 공간
  7. 대전 대흥동 맛집 : 수육갑 2026-06-05 · 짠디쓰
  8. [대흥동 맛집] 대전에서 유일하게 맛 볼 수 있는 수육튀김 전문점 수.... 2026-06-05 · MERRY DIARY
  9. 대전 대흥동]특별한 수육한상 맛있는 순살치킨 정성스런 안주 수.... 2026-06-05 · 여행&맛집 좋아❤️
  10. 수육갑 : 대전 유일 수육튀김 | 대흥동 술집 추천 2026-06-04 · ❝ Ju의 Ju접생활 ❞
  11. [대전] 대전 유일 수육 튀김 전문점 수육갑 2026-06-04 · 달송의 알송달송 · via Daum
  12. 대전 대흥동 맛집_감성 술집 [수육갑] 수육튀김 먹고온 솔직 후기 2026-06-03 · Happy 은뭉 Day
  13. [대전 대흥동 맛집] 수육갑 2026-05-30 · 댕글뒹굴의 하루
  14. 대전 대흥동 수육튀김 맛집ㅣ수육갑 2026-05-30 · 히야로그〰️ღ
  15. [대전 중앙로역] 수육갑 : 이색 안주 수육튀김 맛집 | 데이트, 2차 장소 추천 2026-05-26 · 기록도 rock이다 · via Daum
  16. 대전 수육맛집 수육갑 튀김수육 후기 메인간장 조합 미쳤던 튀김수.... 2026-05-21 · 아young's 맛집탐방투어
  17. 대전 대흥동 맛집 수육갑 수육 튀김 후기 2026-05-17 · 매일매일 잔잔하기ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ
  18. 대전 중구 대흥동 수육튀김 술집 안주맛집 수육갑 2026-05-13 · 냥냥솔솔
  19. 대전 대흥동 수육 튀김 미쳤다… 수육갑에서 인생 안주 찾음 2026-04-30 · 맛집UP
  20. 대전 대흥동 술집 수육갑 존맛탱 시그니처 수육튀김 맛집 추천! 2026-04-27 · N:W
  21. 대전 대흥동 술집 수육갑 후기|야구 보면서 먹기 좋은 수육튀김 안.... 2026-04-25 · 하루의 체류기(滯留)
  22. 대흥동 술집 수육갑 성심당 근처 수육튀김 맛집 2026-04-25 · the foam of youth
  23. 대전 대흥동 술집 수육튀김이 있는 안주맛집 수육갑 2026-04-24 · 소댕 도피처 : 일상에 열정 붓기
  24. 대전 대흥동 맛집 수육갑 수육튀김 찐맛집! 후기 2026-04-23 · 대현상사
  25. 대전 대흥동 술집 수육갑 2026-04-22 · 羽化登仙
  26. 대전 대흥동 맛집 수육갑 대전 수육튀김 전문점 수육삼합 2026-04-22 · 찬란2와 백노무사의 맛나는 인생
  27. [대전 대흥동] 겉바속촉의 야들야들 속살의 시그니처 수육튀김 수육.... 2026-04-21 · Today's Moment Briefing
  28. 대전 중구 수육갑 내돈내산 후기, 수육튀김과 묵은지 김치전골, 쏘.... 2025-11-16 · 솔직함 한 스푼, 취향 한 닢
  29. 대전에는 튀긴 수육도 있나요? [수육갑] + 근처 카페 2025-02-17 · 워니의 일상

Of 149 candidate posts we opened 58 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.