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Hyeseongok

혜성옥 A long-standing ox-bone soup house on the main road in Daejeon, where the rice comes in a stone pot for ₩1,000 more.

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

Hyeseongok is an ox-bone soup house on the main road through Jungni-dong in Daejeon. One writer dates it to 2002; among the twenty-three posts are a woman who has been coming since primary school and another on her umpteenth year. Eleven ordered the short-rib soup and ten the seolleongtang, and ten of them paid ₩1,000 to have the rice in a stone pot — tipping it out, pouring in hot water and eating the scorched crust afterwards takes up half of what these people write about. Kimchi comes in a crock on the table that you help yourself from. It uses two floors, the room is large, and there are eight to ten spaces out front plus a second car park nearby. Since 2026 it closes on Saturdays and Sundays. The posts we read run from March 2025 to July 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 14 posts: 8 wrote Daily 06:00–24:00, 3 wrote Weekdays 06:00–24:00.

The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.

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 galbitang (갈비탕) — 11 of 23 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

• 갈비탕11 ate it
  galbitang₩8,000 · ₩9,000 · ₩10,000 · ₩11,000

  **Eleven of the twenty-three ordered this — more than the seolleongtang.** A clear broth with short ribs, glass noodles, enoki and spring onion. **The meat's tenderness comes up again and again:** it falls off the bone; one writer who normally avoids galbitang because the meat is tough says there was none of that here. **Four posts mention the soy-and-wasabi dip** served for the meat, and an empty bowl arrives for the bones. One writer docks a point for the enoki, which gets stuck in her teeth

  **The price has gone up.** March 2025: **₩8,000 with plain rice, ₩9,000 with the stone pot.** May 2025: ₩9,000. July and August 2025: **₩10,000 with plain rice.** May 2025 and July 2026: **₩11,000 with the pot.** Roughly ₩2,000 in a little over a year. One 2026 writer recalls a menu board from four years earlier at ₩9,000, but **that is outside our two-year window and we have not counted it**

• 설렁탕10 ate it
  seolleongtang₩8,000 · ₩9,000 · ₩10,000

  The house dish, **ordered by ten of them.** A milky bone broth **with somyeon noodles in it** — one writer says there was a mountain of them, another that there is plenty of both noodle and meat. **It comes unsalted,** so you season it yourself; one writer finds that with a little salt and pepper it starts to taste faintly of milk. Another, who dislikes noodles in soup, handed hers to her husband

  **Up over the period:** ₩8,000 in March 2025, **₩9,000 with plain rice** in May and August 2025, **₩10,000 with the stone pot** in January 2026

• 왕갈비탕3 ate it
  wang-galbitang

  The larger galbitang. **Three ordered it, and one writer who had the standard size recommends going up.** A woman feeding two small nephews ordered two, cut the meat off the bone and stirred it through their rice

  **No first-hand post gives a price.** The scraped listing says ₩12,000, or ₩13,000 with the stone pot, but nobody who ate it confirms that, so we have left it out

• 도가니탕1 ate it
  doganitang₩14,000 · ₩15,000

  **One post ordered it** and it is the most detailed account here: plenty of knuckle, dipped in the soy-and-wasabi, clean enough not to need seasoning. Another writer remembers an earlier bowl of it fondly while comparing it unfavourably with the oxtail

  **₩14,000** in May 2025 and **₩15,000** with the stone pot in January 2026

• 꼬리곰탕1 ate it
  kkori-gomtang

  **One post ordered it and was disappointed** — the meat is huge, but she prefers the seolleongtang and found a faint meaty smell. It is the only mention of any off-smell anywhere in these posts

  **No first-hand post gives a price**

• 모듬수육전골1 ate it
  modum suyuk jeongol₩50,000 set

  **One post ordered it,** and it is the biggest thing anyone ate here: shank, braised oxtail, short rib and knuckle in a pot with leek, onion, garlic and jujube. The writer calls the white broth medicinal and the leek content off the scale. **She also found the portion a little small for the money** — the only complaint about quantity in twenty-three posts

  **₩50,000 for the medium,** September 2025 — and the same writer warns that **the prices listed online did not match.** A pot for sharing, so it does not feed the per-person band

• 육개장1 ate it
  yukgaejang₩10,000

  **The bowl for people who do not want a white broth.** The one writer who ordered it found it not very spicy but clean and deep, and recommends it to anyone put off by milky soup — it is the only red thing on this menu

  **₩10,000 with plain rice,** May 2025

• 부대찌개전골named in 2
  budae-jjigae jeongol₩11,000 set

  An army-base stew on a seolleongtang menu is an odd thing to find, but **none of the twenty-three ordered it.** One writer says only that she had "the hotpot," and that the broth was refilled, **without saying which one — so we have not counted it here**

  **₩11,000,** May 2025

Sides, and what comes with it

• 돌솥밥으로 바꾸기10 ate it
  stone-pot rice upgrade₩1,000

  **Every soup comes with rice; ₩1,000 more swaps it for a stone pot, and ten of the twenty-three paid it.** It is the thing these writers get most excited about. You tip the rice into an empty bowl, **pour the hot water from the kettle that comes with it into the pot and put the lid back on,** and by the time the rice is gone you have scorched-rice tea. One writer says the rice tastes of butter; another that it is not an option but a requirement; a third chooses restaurants that do it because her nephews love the crust

  **₩1,000,** given by three posts. **One writer dissents:** in July 2026 she found the pot already cool and the scorched rice refusing to form even after a long wait — the only such report among the ten

• 수육 한접시3 ate it
  suyuk (boiled beef plate)

  **Three writers added it to their soup, and all three describe it arriving differently.** One expected a plate of sliced meat and got it moist in bone broth with ginseng, leek and onion. Another had shank, with vegetables, unseasoned. A third describes thin slices arranged on a plate. **Whether all three ate the same dish, we cannot tell**

  **No first-hand post gives a price**

To drink

• 소주1 ate it
  soju₩4,000

  **Soju, beer and makgeolli are all ₩4,000,** according to one writer; another drank two bottles with the hotpot. A third relays her husband's conversion: he had scoffed at the idea of soju with galbitang until the first mouthful

  **₩4,000,** September 2025, given by two posts

Parking

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

Twenty posts talk about parking; six of them actually parked. The other fourteen are repeating the restaurant's own notice about a second car park when the front is full. What the six report: eight to ten spaces out front, full at lunchtime (two accounts), room late at night (two). Two writers give directions to the overflow car park and they do not match — one says carry on past the building, right at the first alley and straight on to a sign; the other says go round the petrol station on the left, a minute's walk. A third places it behind the Jeungsando hall. Three writers say you must collect a validation ticket when you pay if you used it. One notes you can also pull onto the shoulder of the main road.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

There is an upstairs, and it is not always open. Eleven posts mention it and almost none of them went up — never been up there; always eat downstairs; have not made it to the second floor yet. One writer tried and was turned back: there was nobody working upstairs that evening, so she ate on the ground floor. Another guesses it only opens at mealtimes. One post reports a private room up there and thinks it would suit an office party. The ground floor alone has more than twenty tables — one writer counted — laid out either side of a central staircase. One group of four notes that ten is about the limit for a single table.

Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across twenty-three posts the words wheelchair, pushchair, threshold and ramp never appear. What we know is that you can eat on the ground floor — two writers always do, and two say the upstairs opens only at mealtimes — and that the room is wide with generous gaps between tables (twelve posts say so). On children we know a little more: one writer found a high chair, and asked to use the microwave for her baby's food, which was granted without fuss. Several came with elderly parents, and none of them mentions the stairs.

Four of the twenty-three mention the toilets. They are inside, and one writer places them on the ground floor and separated by sex. Another lists the same in a fact box; a third only points to the door in a photograph. How many cubicles, and whether there are more upstairs, nobody says. On cleanliness there is one sharper observation: a writer who makes a habit of opening the salt and pepper pots reports that at badly kept places the rims cake up, and that here they did not.

No one mentioned: 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 saying they paid themselves4 / 234 of 23 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way19 / 2319 of 23 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 28 posts we gathered, 5 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

• Go at the weekend and you will find it shut — this is the one line that matters here. Eight posts written between March and December 2025 give the hours as 6am to midnight every day, and one from August 2025 says flatly that it is open twenty-four hours, all year. All four posts written in 2026 say it now closes every Saturday and Sunday. One April 2026 writer sets out the change herself: it used to be somewhere you could go at any hour, and now it takes the weekend off — which she calls a high price of admission. The two periods do not overlap, so this is a change, not a disagreement. The opening hour is also disputed — 6am to midnight in eight posts, 7am to 11pm in two — and a July 2025 writer explains why: the online listing says 6 to 12, but the times posted in the restaurant say 7 to 11, and she thinks the restaurant is right. A May 2025 writer flags the same mismatch. If you are going early or late, phone first.
• Nobody writes about getting here without a car. In twenty-three posts there is not one bus number, station name or stop. People locate it by what it is next to: the sundae place (four posts), the Jeungsando hall, the back gate of Hannam University, the rival soup house next door (two). One writer walked — she was staying a week nearby. Another, leaving, noticed the forecourt full of taxis and their drivers, which says something about the clientele but nothing about how you would arrive without wheels.
• Not one writer reports queuing. Three say it is busy at lunch — full even at midday, packed without any advertising, thick with office workers — but all three sat down, and none says how long they waited. Evening and late-night visitors describe the opposite: the upstairs not yet open, a parking space going spare. A writer who came at breakfast found a handful of tables occupied. The wide room (twelve posts) and the second floor (eleven) are the obvious reason no queue forms, but that is our inference, not anything anyone counted.
• One writer says the place has been overtaken by its neighbour. From July 2026: Daejeon once had three great ox-bone soup houses, and this was one of them, but the rival up the road has pulled ahead and quality tells — even an old restaurant has to keep moving. He makes three specific charges: the stone pot arrived cold and never produced any scorched rice; the only side dishes are the two kimchis, where the rival gives you pickled radish; and the ribs, once mostly knuckle ends, are now three small whole bones. His is the only negative post among twenty-three — the other twenty-two converge on cheap (seven), generous (five) and tender. Four more posts compare the two houses without picking a winner. They stand almost opposite each other on the same road, at numbers 1147 and 1161.

Sources (23)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 대전 중리동 "혜성옥" 2026-07-13 · 장어는머리다 "먹는낙이 절반"
2. [일상]곰탕으로 원기보충하고 청주 단비한의원가서 침 맞고 왔어요. 2026-07-11 · 하루를 글로 작성합니다. · via Daum
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5. 중리동 혜성옥 도가니탕｜잡내 없는 국물에 돌솥밥·누룽지까지 완.... 2026-01-11 · 오월로그의 찐리뷰 공간
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11. [선샤인캔들]2박3일 대전여행 혜성옥 롯데백화점퍼플라운지 한밭수목원 대전곤충생태관 천연기념물센터... 2025-08-23 · Sunshine☆ 캔들 · via Daum
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13. 대전 갈비탕맛집 혜성옥 2025-08-05 · 찐빵이네 알콩달콩 이야기
14. [대전맛집:중리동]혜성옥 2025-07-29 · 안녕하세요 반가워요 잘 있어요
15. 대전 중리동 설렁탕 맛집 혜성옥, 내돈내산 또간집 추천 2025-07-21 · 리뷰하는 히누나
16. 중리동 해장으로 갈비탕 맛집 ‘혜성옥 본점’ 다녀왔습니다. 2025-07-18 · 과거, 현재, 미래
17. 대전 일주일살기 혜성옥 한식뷔페 가온누리작은도서관 2025-07-07 · 디지털노마드 책먹는여자 여행작가
18. 대전 중리동 | 혜성옥설렁탕 돌솥밥까지 2025-05-25 · 아무거나 신나는걸로
19. 대전 중리동 혜성옥 갈비탕 돌솥밥 맛집 2025-05-09 · 소소한 행복, '소복'
20. 대전 중리동 맛집 혜성옥 돌솥설렁탕 2025-05-01 · 뭐라도 하는 하루
21. 대전 중리동 설렁탕 맛집 혜성옥 메뉴와 가격까지 2025-03-22 · 경제정보창고
22. 혜성옥 대전 중리동 설렁탕 갈비탕 가성비 최고 맛집 2025-03-19 · 꼼질꼼질 핸드메이드
23. 대전 갈비탕 맛집 혜성옥 2025-03-18 · 먹는게 좋은 주인장

Of 189 candidate posts we opened 55 and kept 23 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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