Gilpost · Daedeok-gu, Jungni-dong
Korean
Ttotto Pocha
또또포차 A seafood pocha in Daejeon's Jungni-dong where the scallops, octopus and prawns are shelled and grilled for you at the table
Data as of · Published ·
Ttotto Pocha sits at the mouth of the eating alley in Jungni-dong, in the Daedeok district of Daejeon. The food is shellfish and seafood cooked at the table — scallops steamed in a red broth, baby octopus in a hotpot, prawns grilled on salt — and what is on changes with the season: octopus in spring, prawn and gizzard shad in autumn, oysters in winter. Twice a writer mentions the banner that goes up out front to announce a season has opened. It opens in the afternoon and closes at midnight, though the autumn 2025 posts say four o'clock and the 2026 ones say two, so the opening seems to have moved earlier in between. There is an inside room and a handful of tables out front. The address gives a first and second floor, but nobody reports the upstairs being open. The posts we read run from October 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 대전광역시 대덕구 중리로 11, 2층 (중리동) 11 Jungni-ro, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon |
|---|---|
| Phone | 042-631-8285 |
| Typical spend | ₩30,000 – ₩60,000 |
| Floor area | 173 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 12 posts: 6 wrote Daily 14:00–24:00.
| Open | Daily | 14:00–24:00 6 of 12 posts last seen 2026-05 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Daily | 16:00–24:00 3 of 12 posts last seen 2025-12 |
| Closed | None 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-04 |
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 sets it apart
- Somebody comes to your table and does the work. When the pot comes to the boil a member of staff appears to shell the scallops and free the meat; with the octopus hotpot the owner brings the live octopus himself, drops it in and explains how to eat it; with the prawns he lays them on the salt and comes back to lift them off. One writer describes squid being cut for them, and crown daisy laid on top once the shelling is done. It means ordering something in its shell costs you no trouble — as one writer put it, the clams were plump and hard to get at alone, and someone came and did it for her.
- There are tables out front, but only three or four of them. Several writers came precisely because they had seen people eating outside, and the two who counted put it at four tables, or "three? four? that was all, as I remember." So there are as many accounts of not getting one as of getting one: they were all taken and we had to go inside; we came too late and the outside was full; they fill fast, be warned. If eating outside is the point, come early or say so when you book.
- What arrives free with the table takes up half of what people write about this place. Thirteen posts describe it, and the line-up shifts a little each time: silkworm pupae, river snails, periwinkles, tofu with kimchi, creamed corn, salad, a fried egg, bean sprouts, seaweed soup. Several are pleased to find pupae and snails, which are getting rare, and two single out the seaweed soup as properly seasoned. The kimchi comes up in six posts — five note that it is sold by the box, and one writer asked for a refill at the table. Against that, one writer found the spread respectable in number but short on care, dish by dish.
What 16 bloggers said
We read all 16 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (9) and “Roomy” (7).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Complimentary starter | 13 of 16 posts |
|---|---|
| Staff cook it at your table | 9 of 16 posts |
| Outdoor terrace seating | 7 of 16 posts |
| Takes reservations | 4 of 16 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 1 of 16 posts |
| Free refills | 1 of 16 posts |
| Signed celebrity photos | 1 of 16 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 soju · maekju · cheongha (소주 · 맥주 · 청하) — 7 of 16 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
Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 4 of 16 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 2 of 16 posts |
| Group visit | 2 of 16 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 1 (of 16 posts read) |
|---|
Whether there is an upstairs is an open question. The registered address and most of the posts say "11 Jungni-ro, 1st/2nd floor," but not one writer describes eating upstairs. Only one pressed on it, on a Friday evening in February 2026: online it says first and second floor, she writes, and she could not tell whether the upstairs had closed or simply was not open that night — but open it was not. The same writer found the ground floor large and easy to spot. Seven posts call the room spacious, and all seven are describing the ground floor. Nobody says whether there are stairs, or what is up them.
Nobody has looked at the step at the door. In all sixteen posts there is no threshold, no stair, no ramp, no wheelchair, no pushchair. One post does carry the words "wheelchair accessible" — but it carries them as part of a block lifted whole from the shop's map listing ("wi-fi / wheelchair accessible / separate men's and women's toilets"), in a post whose writer never even names what they ordered, which is why we left it out of our count. Copying is not seeing. What we know is that you go in on the ground floor and that there are tables outside. Whether you can get in we do not know — ring and ask if it matters.
Not one post mentions the toilets. Whether they are inside or out, whether men's and women's are separate, how many there are — in sixteen posts, nothing. One post does say "separate men's and women's," but that line is part of a block copied from the shop's map listing, so we have not counted it. This is not "there are none" — it is "nobody wrote about it." In a place where people drink until midnight it is the sort of thing you would want to know, and our posts do not answer it.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · 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 saying they paid themselves3 of 16 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way13 of 16 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 19 posts we gathered, 3 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 4 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- It is easy to end up at the wrong Ttotto. The same owner runs a second place, Ttotto-ne, in the Jungang Market by Daejeon station, about five kilometres away, and a search will hand you both. That one opens at ten in the morning and closes at ten at night, and is closer to a pork restaurant — water-aged belly with live octopus alongside. Prices you may see quoted, like ₩59,000 for the pork set or ₩8,000 for the clam kalguksu, belong to that shop and not to this one. Of the thirty posts we collected under this shop's name, eight turned out to be visits to the other one, and we removed them all. One writer did persuade the market branch to serve this shop's seafood spread, so the menus do travel. If it is the Jungni-dong place you want, check the address: 11 Jungni-ro.
- Accounts of the freshness do not all agree. Fourteen of the sixteen describe it in the same terms — alive, sweet, no brine at all. One writer, who came twice, is the exception: the first visit the prawns were as fresh as she could ask, and the second many of them were dead, and the live octopus that night taught her that live octopus could taste fishy, and she left most of it. That is one person's second visit — whether it was only that night we do not know. What we can say is that this is a place that serves what came in alive that day, and such places have days.
- It fills at some hours and not others, and booking seems to be the difference. One writer describes queueing, on a day off with her husband. Another walked in at seven on a Friday and found the room a little over half full, adding that it packs out later. Three more found the place full at seven or eight and none of them waited — two of them had booked. One writer's advice is simply to reserve, because there are a great many people; four posts mention that groups can book (one noticed a claim online of up to seventy and was frankly sceptical). Nobody writes about a waiting area or a queue list.
- Not one post explains how to get here without a car. In all sixteen there is no station, no bus stop, no exit number, no walking time. What they give instead are the directions you would give a neighbour: at the mouth of the Jungni-dong eating alley; behind the culture centre, near the sundae-gukbap place; by the community centre; across from the farmers' co-op. Enough if you know the neighbourhood, not enough if you do not. Two writers do say the place is easy to spot once you are on the street — it is not tucked down a side lane, and the string lights and the yellow banner carry.
- None of the posts we counted declares a sponsorship — but read that with one eye open. Of the sixteen we kept, none says the meal was provided, and three state plainly that they paid. That said, of the thirty we first collected, two did declare sponsorship, and both were visits to the owner's other shop, so neither reached this shop's count. Four more we set aside: two are round-ups of ten places where this one gets two lines (one of them lifted straight from the map listing, review counts and all); one is ten lines of promotional copy around a price; and one is a bad review that never names a single dish or price, so we cannot tell what was eaten.
Sources (16)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 341 candidate posts we opened 116 and kept 16 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.