Gilpost · Taebaek-si, Hwangji-dong

Matna Bunsik

Name: Matna Bunsik
Address: 강원특별자치도 태백시 번영로 340 (황지동), 태백시, 강원특별자치도, 26015, KR
Telephone: 033-552-2806

맛나분식 A forty-year-old snack shop in Taebaek where you take your shoes off at the door and almost everyone orders the thick house jjolmyeon with fried dumplings.

Bunsik (snack food) · Taebaek-si, Hwangji-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-29 · Compiled by Gilpost

Matna Bunsik is a ground-floor snack shop on the main road through Hwangji-dong in Taebaek. You take your shoes off at the door — even though it is tables, not floor mats — and three posts note that the underfloor heating makes it warm in winter. There are five or six four-seater tables, and the water and pickled radish are self-service. Ten in the morning to eight at night, closed between two and half past, shut on Wednesdays. Almost everyone orders the same thing: of the twenty-seven visits we read, twenty-three had the house jjolmyeon and twenty-two the fried dumplings, eighteen of them together. The noodle is nothing like a usual jjolmyeon — thick, closer to kalguksu — and the dumplings come with a red house sauce instead of soy. The shop has been here since 1985, and the owner was named a 'master' of jjolmyeon on national television. The posts we read run from February 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

Address	강원특별자치도 태백시 번영로 340 (황지동) 340 Beonyeong-ro, Taebaek-si, Gangwon-do
Phone	033-552-2806
Typical spend	₩5,000 – ₩12,000
Floor area	43 m²
Status	In business

2 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 18 posts: 14 wrote 10:00–20:00, 4 wrote Daily 10:00–20:00.

Open		10:00–20:00 14 of 18 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Daily	10:00–20:00 4 of 18 posts last seen 2026-08
Break		14:00–14:30 13 of 13 posts last seen 2026-09
Closed		수요일 19 of 19 posts last seen 2026-09

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

Whether you queue depends on when you come — and the posts split almost evenly. Five waited: thirty to forty minutes at weekend lunch (two of them), ten minutes on a public holiday, forty minutes on a Sunday, and one who arrived before noon on a weekday to find people already ahead. Six did not: a weekday half past eleven with the room nearly empty; just before noon, with two groups forming behind them; right after the afternoon break, straight to a table; and half past six on a weekend evening. The system is fixed: you write the last digits of your phone number and your party size on a list inside, and they call you — three people describe it the same way. One notes that the waiting is done outside, with no shade to speak of.
The queue is a consequence of the size. Nobody calls the room big; ten call it small or snug. Four counted the tables: six four-seaters (two of them), five (one), six or seven (one). One writer explains that with so few tables one party has to leave before the next can sit, so it does not turn over quickly; another says the opposite, that it turns over fast. One finds the aisles tight and awkward with luggage; one says it is too small to air out, so the cooking smell stays. Three call it clean all the same — 'an old shop, but tidy', 'genuinely cramped, but someone has refitted it'.
Shoes come off even though the seating is tables. Nine posts mention it — one calls it a thing you rarely see in a city centre now, and another spells it out: tables, but you still take your shoes off. One writer, who did not know, discovered a hole in her sock, so wear socks you would not mind showing. Three note the underfloor heating and how good the warm floor felt in winter; at nine hundred metres up, in a long Taebaek winter, that is not a throwaway remark. You are not sitting on the floor: the shoes come off, and then you sit at an ordinary table.
Prices went up once, between spring and summer 2025. Three posts from February and March 2025 give the noodles at ₩9,000, the dumplings ₩5,000, the gimbap ₩3,000, the rabokki ₩6,000, the bibim-mandu ₩6,000 and the cutlet ₩10,000. From July 2025 through to September 2026, twelve posts all give ₩9,500, ₩5,500, ₩3,500, ₩6,500, ₩6,500 and ₩11,000 — five hundred to a thousand won each. The July 2025 visitor wrote that the prices made her jump. Five say it is expensive and two say it is not: one reckons ₩9,500 the dearest bowl of jjolmyeon in the country, dearer than in central Seoul; another finds it unremarkable for a tourist town. Three say the portions have shrunk and three say they are generous — that splits too.
Television is how this shop got known. Five writers saw the broadcaster's plaque or framed certificate on the wall and said so; one gives the episode number and the date in April 2018. Two note a restaurant-guide certificate from 2021 hanging beside it. The sign outside says thirty years, but the menu says the shop opened in 1985, and two writers do the arithmetic and call it forty — nobody has repainted the sign. Two others mention, approvingly, the line on the menu declaring the chilli powder to be half Korean and half Chinese.

What 27 bloggers said

We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Not spicy” (12) and “Crispy batter” (10).

What they liked

Not spicy12 of 27 posts

Crispy batter10 of 27 posts

Friendly staff3 of 27 posts

Returning customer3 of 27 posts

Clean2 of 27 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped10 of 27 posts

Unremarkable6 of 27 posts

Heavy / greasy1 of 27 posts

Would not return1 of 27 posts

Where they disagree

Had to wait	yes 5 · no 6
Expensive	yes 5 · no 2
Large portions	yes 3 · no 3

Things you can check on site

Shoes off at the door	9 of 27 posts
Takeout	6 of 27 posts
Chef credentials	5 of 27 posts
Ground floor	4 of 27 posts
Reachable by transit	2 of 27 posts
Origin labelling posted	2 of 27 posts
Toilet outside	2 of 27 posts

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

The most ordered dish is myeongpum jjolmyeon (명품쫄면) — 23 of 27 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

명품쫄면23 ate it
myeongpum jjolmyeon₩9,000 · ₩9,500 · ₩12,000
**This is what the shop is.** Twenty-three of the twenty-seven people we read ate it. It is the dish that put the owner on a national TV programme as a 'master' of jjolmyeon. **The noodle is not a jjolmyeon noodle** — fourteen posts say so: not the thin, rubbery strand you expect but something closer to kalguksu or udon, and two note that it is flat in section rather than round. Half a boiled egg and a heap of cabbage, carrot and red cabbage go on top, with the sauce hidden underneath for you to mix in.
**Opinion splits on the sauce.** Twelve call it mild or unaggressive — and the same word cuts both ways: one writer's husband called it the best jjolmyeon of his life, while another found it bland for her taste. Five say there is spring onion in it; two say it leans on chilli flakes rather than chilli paste. **The price rose**: ₩9,000 through March 2025, ₩9,500 from July. One post gives the large size at ₩12,000.
군만두22 ate it
gun-mandu₩3,000 · ₩5,000 · ₩5,500
The thing you order with the jjolmyeon — twenty-two ate it, eighteen of them alongside the noodles. **It comes not with soy sauce but with a red house sauce** to dip or spoon on; eleven posts mention it, several guessing it is the same sauce as on the noodles. A **half plate at ₩3,000** exists, and two writers say the owner offered it to them unprompted.
**The count varies**: one post on 6 March 2025 says six pieces for ₩5,000, another four days later says eight for the same price, and one in September 2025 says seven for ₩5,500. Nine call them crisp. **Two do not**: one says they simply were not, and one who took them away half an hour before closing got a batch fried long before, smelling of old oil with an off note in the filling. Four think the dumplings are bought in rather than made on site; two think they are made there.
기본으로 나오는 것 (장국과 셀프 단무지)11 ate it
broth and pickled radish
A cup of warm broth comes with the food, and the pickled radish sits in a crock on each table for you to help yourself. Water too: seven posts mention the self-service water and side dishes, six the radish crock. One mentions self-serve coffee, one an apron for diners.
One finds the broth barely seasoned, another calls it frankly savoury in an old-fashioned way. They are describing the same cup.
돈까스 · 치즈돈까스9 ate it
donkkaseu₩10,000 · ₩11,000 · ₩12,000
Old-style Western-café pork cutlet, plated with rice, salad and pickles. Nine ate it, five of them the cheese version. It comes under a thick brown sauce; one post notes two little hash browns alongside.
**Opinion is split.** One calls it the best cutlet they have eaten; others call it the cutlet any snack bar would serve, and doubt it is worth ordering here. One family says the children loved it. **The price rose**: the plain cutlet from ₩10,000 to ₩11,000, the cheese one from ₩11,000 to ₩12,000, between March and July 2025.
김밥8 ate it
gimbap₩3,000 · ₩3,500
One kind only, the plain vegetable roll, and most order it to cool the mouth between bites of the noodles. Eight ate it; four liken it to the kind made at home.
**Three were disappointed** — too much rice, or rice that had gone hard and rolls not fully cut through, so the seaweed came away. Two say they put the dumpling sauce on it. ₩3,000 through March 2025, ₩3,500 from July.
비빔만두6 ate it
bibim-mandu₩6,000 · ₩6,500
The fried dumplings under a mound of dressed cabbage. Six ate it. Two say the dressing is the same as on the noodles, and that the dumplings work wrapped into the jjolmyeon.
One writer ate it two hours after taking it away and found that **the cabbage had let out no water at all** — the same writer who panned the dumplings called this dressing the one thing you can only get here. **The price rose**: ₩6,000 in February 2025, ₩6,500 from May 2026.
라볶이2 ate it
rabokki₩6,000 · ₩6,500
Rice cakes, fish cake, half an egg and a nest of ramyeon. Two ate it; one found it punchier than the noodles, with a sauce reduced enough to cling to the rice cakes.
₩6,000 in March 2025, ₩6,500 from July.
쌀떡볶이2 ate it
ssal tteokbokki₩5,000
Made with rice-flour cakes; one writer notes several kinds of fish cake in it. Two ate it.
**One post calls it properly hot** and advises ordering less of it if a child who cannot take heat is at the table. It is the only thing here anyone calls spicy.
만두국 (고기·김치)1 ate it
mandu-guk₩9,500
One ordered the meat-and-rice-cake version. The menu also runs to tteokguk, kalguksu, janchi-guksu, bibim-guksu, naengmyeon and ramyeon.
우동1 ate it
udong₩7,000
One person ordered it and found the broth too faint to remember.
명품쫄면장 (사 가는 양념장)named in 5
jjolmyeon sauce jar₩10,000
**Not something you eat here — a jar you take home.** The noodle sauce, bottled, at ₩10,000; one post says it will dress six bowls. Five mention it and **none of them bought one** — one meant to and ran out of time on her last day.
Both the March and the December 2025 posts give ₩10,000. One writer notes it is sold as a sauce for noodles, dumplings and meat alike.

Parking

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

Posts saying you cannot	10 of 27 posts

There is no car park, and ten people each solved it differently. There is paid kerbside parking in front if a space is free — one writer paid about ₩600 an hour. Otherwise you walk: two used the Hwangji-dong public car park, one the first market car park (free at weekends, she notes), one an open lot nearby, and one circled until she found that the car park at the new viewing tower is free. Another went so far as to mark the free kerbside spots on a map. Against that: one circled at weekend lunchtime and ended up parking well away and walking, one hit a festival and found it near impossible, and one simply says it is harder than you would expect. If you drive, allow time for the parking.

Who came, and with whom

Solo visit	4 of 27 posts
Date	3 of 27 posts
Family visit	2 of 27 posts
Group visit	2 of 27 posts
Came with children	2 of 27 posts

Getting there

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Getting inside

Second floor	yes 0 · no 4
Toilet inside	yes 0 · no 2

Nobody checked whether a wheelchair can get in. Not one of the twenty-seven posts mentions a threshold, a ramp or a wheelchair. What we know is that it is at street level, that shoes come off at the door, that the room holds five or six four-seaters, that ten people called it cramped, and that one found the aisles tight with luggage. Places where shoes come off usually have a step at the door, but nobody looked at whether this one does. A pushchair meets the same doorway. If it matters, the shop's number is 033-552-2806.

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 saying they paid themselves8 of 27 posts
Posts saying nothing either way19 of 27 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 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

0203070809111201020305070809

Month by month

Month	Posts
2025-02	1
2025-03	2
2025-07	2
2025-08	2
2025-09	1
2025-11	1
2025-12	1
2026-01	2
2026-02	2
2026-03	1
2026-05	1
2026-07	1
2026-08	4
2026-09	6

What we do not know

Thirty posts came in; we count twenty-seven. One is a survey of places in Taebaek where you can eat alone — nine check-ins, and our shop gets a single passing line; the writer did not eat there. One is a 'ten best in Taebaek' listicle that, in September 2026, gives our prices as they stood eighteen months earlier, which shows where the numbers came from. The third opens with 'I went' and then never says what was ordered or what the writer thought — only what the reader should do — and places the shop on the first floor when it is at street level. That leaves twenty-seven. Those twenty-seven are twenty-six people: one blogger went twice, in March and July 2025, and wrote both up.
The toilet is not inside. Two people looked: one says it is out the door and to the right, the other that there is no toilet in the shop and you use the shared one in the building. How many cubicles, whether it is separated by sex, whether there are steps on the way — nobody says. There is no high chair: one writer states it flatly. Two visits brought children; both ordered something separate for them, and one warns that the rice-cake tteokbokki is properly hot and to order less of it if the child cannot take heat.
Not one post declares a sponsorship. Eight state that they paid their own way, one of them with a payment verification attached to her check-in; the other nineteen say nothing either way. There is no cluster of same-day posts and no repeated phrasing — the twenty-seven are spread evenly across nineteen months, the noodles are called both the best of someone's life and bland, and one writer says outright that she would not go back. One thing in the opening hours does not agree, though: a single post gives Sunday as one in the afternoon to seven, while eighteen others give ten to eight with no distinction by day. If you are going on a Sunday, it is worth a phone call.

Sources (27)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

[태백 맛집] SBS 생활의 달인 출연! 30년 전통 ‘맛나분식’ 비빔만두 & 김밥 솔직 후기 2026-09-20 · 오늘도 달린다 · via Daum
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태백 황지동 맛집 맛나분식, 쫄면보다 군만두가 더 기억에 남았던 .... 2026-08-15 · 40대 워킹맘 라이프 노트
[태백] 황지동 맛집 ‘맛나분식’ : 쫄면 달인이 계신다구요 (+태백.... 2026-08-05 · 넴모와 동글이의 먹일기
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태백 분식 맛집 생활의 달인 쫄면 맛나분식 2026-03-24 · 혀니앙의 맛나는 하루
태백 맛나분식에서 쫄면에 반하고 온 날｜강원도 여행 마지막 코스 .... 2026-02-26 · 하하호호아줌마의 세상만사 이야기
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태백시에서 명품 쫄면을 먹었어요 맛나분식 2025-08-09 · 리뷰 올제
[태백] 맛나분식_쫄면의 달인표 명품쫄면과 군만두 맛보러 2025-07-22 · 소주맛집 애정러의 기록 모음
[강원태백맛집] SBS생활의달인 쫄면달인 "맛나분식" 2025-07-13 · 쪼기요기, 한씨네아재의 로컬 식도락 기행
[강원태백맛집] 쫄면과 군만두가 맛있는 TV방송 생활의달인 맛집 "맛.... 2025-03-10 · 쪼기요기, 한씨네아재의 로컬 식도락 기행
강원도 태백 여행 현지인 추천 황지동 맛집 맛나분식 2025-03-06 · 또 일본이야?
태백 황지동 내돈내산, 생활의 달인 [맛나분식] 2025-02-11 · 잘 먹는 사람

Of 263 candidate posts we opened 48 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.