Gilpost · Chuncheon-si, Toegye-dong

Ajae Buldakbal

아재불닭발 Ajae is a familiar word for a middle-aged man; bul is fire and dakbal is chicken feet. The full sign reads Ajae Buldakbal & Odolppyeo, Chuncheon branch — odolppyeo being pork cartilage.

정종/대포집/소주방 · Chuncheon-si, Toegye-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Ajae Buldakbal is a chicken-feet drinking house on the ground floor of the eating alley behind the Ilseong apartments in Toegye-dong, Chuncheon, a 5–10 minute walk from Namchuncheon station. It opens at five in the afternoon and closes at two in the morning (last order 1:30), and eight posts say it never takes a day off. It is licensed as a soju house, and twenty-eight of twenty-nine posts either drank or say the food pulls the drink along. The line that recurs most is 'no capsaicin' — ten posts: the heat is built from chilli powder alone. Hence the phrasing that follows it — hot in a way that does not burn the stomach, clean rather than manufactured. There are two grades, middle and hot (one post states it outright), and three asked for something milder still. You choose twice. First grilled or in broth — thirteen took grilled, fourteen the broth, near enough an even split. Then the bone: fifteen boneless, seven 'tulip', three whole. Four explain that a tulip has the toe bones removed and the stem bone left to hold. People order the sets. ₩6,000 adds roe rice balls and steamed egg — seventeen did that — and the two-dish set with the pork cartilage is ₩38,000 (eight). Those two sides draw the most consistent praise in the whole file, and both are used for the same purpose: putting out the chilli. Three things come free: puffed corn, chilled bean-sprout soup, and pickled radish wraps (twenty-two posts). Two say the soup is served cold on purpose, and the corn alone gets nine posts. Eleven mention the house mayonnaise dip. In good weather people eat outside, on a strip of artificial grass — ten posts. Eleven say the delivery orders never stop, two of them having ordered in themselves. The owner has painted cartoon characters by the door, with a line asking someone to buy the narrator some chicken feet; six posts copy it out.

The basics

9 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 23 posts: 12 wrote Daily 17:00–02:00, 10 wrote 17:00–02:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is nalchial jumeokbap (날치알주먹밥) — 25 of 28 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

• 세트 변경(주먹밥+계란찜)17 ate it
  set byeongyeong₩6,000

  **Add ₩6,000 to any dish and the rice balls and steamed egg come with it — seventeen ordered this way, and all twelve who give the price say ₩6,000.** **The urging is unusually emphatic** — do not miss it, order the set, you must have these two.

  **One writer worked out that it is ₩2,000 cheaper than ordering the two separately.** One notes the chicken feet start at two portions.

• 국물닭발14 ate it
  gukmul dakbal₩12,000 · ₩24,000

  **The soup half of the menu; fourteen ate it.** It arrives already cooked, heaped with bean sprouts, over a portable burner, and eight posts list what is in it: rice cake, quail eggs, cabbage, bean sprouts. Three note you can eat it straight away; **six chose to reduce it further** on the flame until the sauce thickened. **One writer compares the broth to tteokbokki sauce** and says anyone who likes that will like this. **Three asked for more bean sprouts** to stir in.

  **₩24,000 for two portions in three posts, ₩12,000 for one in another** — **₩2,000 dearer than the grilled version.** One writer's '₩28,000 set for two' works out as ₩22,000 plus the ₩6,000 set upgrade. **Two mention the broth splashing**, and two that aprons are there for the taking. **One post is disappointed** (November 2025): not bad, she says, but she had wanted something properly, savagely hot — and still ends by saying it tasted good. **It is the only complaint about this place we found.**

• 직화닭발13 ate it
  jikhwa dakbal₩22,000

  **The grilled half; thirteen ate it.** Three note it comes on a hot steel plate and stays hot — one had eaten chicken feet elsewhere that went cold too fast. **What recurs is the smoke — nine posts.** One nearly skipped it and was glad she did not; another smelled it on entering; a third says in the evening the smell fills the alley and you find the place by nose.

  **₩22,000 for two in three posts, unchanged across fifteen months.** **You choose the bone: boneless, 'tulip', or whole.** In the posts we read, **fifteen took boneless, seven tulip, three whole.** Four explain that tulip has the toe bones removed and only the stem bone left — the ease of boneless with the pleasure of gnawing. The writer who chose whole bones said boneless gives you nothing to tear. **Two orders came out wrong.** A January 2025 writer ordered bone-in and got boneless, never worked out why, and ate it happily; an October 2024 writer's whole-bone order was out of stock and was swapped for tulip, which suited her. A January 2026 post notes an added side was left off the order and brought later. **One paid ₩2,000 to swap whole bones for boneless.**

• 오돌뼈8 ate it
  odolppyeo

  **The dish that shares the shop's sign with the chicken feet; eight ate it.** Stir-fried with spring onion and onion, with rice cake in it by two accounts. One says that unlike other branches this one grills it over flame. **One writer rates it above the chicken feet** — she came for the feet and decided the pork cartilage was the real thing. **One notes there is more meat than bone.**

  **No post gives an à la carte price** — all eight had it inside the two-dish set. **You pick its heat separately, and three say even the mild is hot.** One was warned by the owner that the mild still has a base heat, took it, found it like a sweet stir-fry and half-regretted not going up a step; another found the mild quite hot; a third calls it genuinely fierce. **There is a soy-sauce version too** — the writer who took it hot wished she had.

• TWO 메뉴 세트8 ate it
  TWO menu set₩38,000

  **The way to have both the feet and the pork cartilage; eight ordered it.** Six describe the same contents — two portions of chicken feet, the cartilage, rice balls, steamed egg and a soft drink — and three give the price as **₩38,000**. **Five swapped the style of feet inside the set**, from grilled to soup or from bone-in to boneless.

  **Four say it is a lot of food**, two of them putting numbers on it: too much for two, enough for four as a second stop; or enough for three with one extra bowl of rice balls. **Some swaps cost money** — one paid **₩2,000** to change whole bones for boneless. **Seven note the soft drink is included.**

• 간장갈비찜named in 8
  ganjang galbi-jjim

  **Eight posts list it on the menu and nobody ate it.** Two say it is among the shop's own best-sellers, alongside the soup version and a mussel pot. **It is what the posts offer to someone who will not eat chicken feet** — proof, two of them say, that you can bring a friend or a child who won't.

  **No price, no account of eating it.** The same goes for the squid and Nagasaki hot-pots, the skewered fishcake pot, the tteokbokki, the spicy wings and the stir-fried gizzards — names on a menu and nothing more.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 날치알주먹밥25 ate it
  nalchial jumeokbap₩4,000

  **It comes with the set, so twenty-five ate it, and you shape it yourself** with the plastic gloves left on every table (ten posts). Eight list the same three things in it: flying-fish roe, seaweed flakes, pickled radish. **There is a way of eating it** — a piece of chicken foot laid on top and taken in one, or the leftover sauce stirred through the rice (eleven posts).

  **₩4,000 on its own**, by the one writer who ordered a second after finishing the set's — plain rice would not have had the roe popping through it. **Two note plain rice is on the menu.** **The rice is hot from the pot** — one nearly cooked her fingers reaching in with the glove on; another shaped it blowing on her hands.

• 계란찜25 ate it
  gyeran-jjim

  **It comes with the set, so twenty-five ate it, and it draws the most consistent praise here.** Served in an earthenware pot with **sesame oil and seeds on top** (eight posts). Four liken the texture to pudding, two to Japanese chawanmushi, and one notes the egg is strained smooth. **It has a job: it puts out the fire.** Twelve posts use it that way, either before the heat starts or in alternation with it, spoonful for mouthful.

  **No post gives a price** — all twenty-five had it in the set. **Two say to order it even without the set**, one insisting on a pot per person. **Whether it actually cools the heat is disputed.** Twelve say it does; one points out that it is itself hot, so it did not help much — she used the rice balls early and saved the egg for last. **Two writers who normally ignore steamed egg say they ate a lot of this one.**

• 기본 안주(강냉이·콩나물냉국·쌈무)22 ate it
  gibon anju

  **Free, laid out as you sit down, in twenty-two posts** — puffed corn, chilled bean-sprout soup and pickled radish wraps, the same three in sixteen of them. **The soup being cold is the point.** One nearly put it on the burner and was relieved she did not: cold, it is what saves you from the chilli. **Three say the soup alone would do as a drinking snack.**

  **The puffed corn gets an unusual amount of attention — nine posts.** One calls it bewitching; another thought it must have been fried that day and wanted to buy some to take home. **Two asked for refills** (corn in one post, radish in another). **Four use the radish to wrap the chicken feet.**

• 아재마요소스11 ate it
  ajae mayo sauce₩500

  **A mayonnaise dip for the chicken feet, in eleven posts.** One says the first one is free; one gives **₩500** (evidently for extras). It comes in a sachet. **It has one use: taking the edge off the heat.** One who finds even the middle grade hot calls it a lifeline; another tells fellow weak-mouths they need fear nothing with it.

  **Two ordered more**, one of them two extra sachets. **Two had never seen it anywhere else**, one of them a self-described veteran of chicken feet. **One says it comes with deliveries too.** **One poured it over the whole plate** and declared it a success.

• 사리 추가(중국당면·우동사리)6 ate it
  sari chuga₩1,500 · ₩2,000

  **Noodles for the soup; six added them** — three the Chinese sweet-potato noodle, three udon. One post each gives the prices: **₩1,500** and **₩2,000**.

  **All six were glad, and three tell you to add them** — the udon springy, the sauce soaking into the noodle. **There is no rice-cake side order.** One writer loved the rice cake that comes in the soup and says she would have ordered more of it if she could.

• 튀김 사이드4 ate it
  twigim side₩6,000

  **Four ordered something fried and all four ordered something different** — chicken-skin fritters (February 2025), five cheese balls at ₩6,000 (November 2024), cheese chips (November 2024) and fried gizzard (from an account of an earlier visit). **So no one of them has more than a single verdict.**

  **All four ordered it to put out the fire** — two self-declared weak-mouths called the cheese chips lifesaving; another liked the sweet crunch against the heat. The chicken-skin fritters, one says, would be as good with beer. **Only the cheese balls have a price (five for ₩6,000).** A small seafood pancake appears on the menu without anyone ordering it.

• 리뷰 이벤트 서비스(미니오뎅탕·누룽지탕)3 ate it
  review service

  **Post to Instagram or write a receipt review on Naver and a dish comes free — nine posts mention it, three received one.** The choice is a small fishcake soup or scorched-rice soup.

  **All three chose the fishcake soup and all three were surprised by the size** — 'mini' in name only, one says, packed with fishcake and a clean broth that suits the chicken feet. **A January 2026 post mentions the same offer**, so it appears to have run for fifteen months.

• 치즈 추가2 ate it
  cheese chuga₩2,000

  **Cheese over the soup version; two added it**, and one gives the price as **₩2,000**.

  **They will add it mid-meal.** A January 2025 writer only spotted it on the menu after starting, asked, and had her plate taken away and cheese put on it. **That post is a sponsored one.** The other added cheese because someone at the table could not take the heat.

Sweet things

• 파인샤베트1 ate it
  pine sherbet₩7,900

  **One post ordered it** (December 2024, **₩7,900**) — as a palate-cleanser at the end, cold enough to sober her up on the way home.

  **It is the only dessert anybody mentions.** Nothing sweet comes free.

To drink

• 술·음료13 ate it
  sul, eumryo₩2,000 · ₩4,000 · ₩5,000 · ₩8,000

  **Thirteen posts drank** — beer in six (₩5,000 in one, ₩4,000 in another), soju in four (₩5,000), beer-and-soju in three, and one highball (Earl Grey, ₩8,000). For the drivers there is **zero cola at ₩2,000** and the soft drink that comes with the set (seven posts). **One post says the highballs are what the place is known for**; the one who ordered it had never had a highball at a chicken-feet shop and found it good and stronger than expected.

  **Nearly half the posts are partly about the drinking** — the feet pulling the drink along, one table getting through two bottles of each on a first stop. **Four say the 2am closing makes it a good second stop.** **Two stayed dry** — one driving, one with something important the next morning.

Parking

10 posts say you can park; 1 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

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

Getting inside

On floors, the address is all there is. The shop is on the ground floor at 24 Umuk-gil 74beon-gil, and in twenty-nine posts nobody describes an upstairs room or a basement. One writer mentions the ground floor only in passing, while explaining where to park. No one counts steps or mentions a lift. Size, they do give: seven or eight tables (three posts), eight or nine (one), nine or ten seats (one), and a capacity of fifty (one). Four note a mix of round tables and tables for four.

Nobody writes about the doorway or about wheelchairs and pushchairs. In twenty-nine posts there is not one line on whether there is a step at the door, how wide it is, or whether a wheelchair or a pram could get in. The address is a ground floor and the outside tables sit on artificial grass in front of it, but nothing says what lies between that grass and the door. Three posts do say the lavatory is inside, so it means no trip outdoors — and one says it is a single unisex cubicle. Its width, and any step, go unmentioned. No post mentions a high chair or a baby-changing table. Anyone who needs to know should ring: 033-257-9991.

Three posts say the lavatory is inside, so you do not have to go out for it, and one adds that it was kept clean. But it is a single unisex cubicle — and only one post says so. An April 2025 writer thought the room looked rather like a kitchen and found the single shared cubicle inconvenient. Hers is the only complaint about it here; the other twenty-eight say nothing about cubicles or separate facilities.

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 / 281 of 28 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves3 / 283 of 28 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way24 / 2824 of 28 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Nobody writes about queuing. All twenty-nine have to say about seats is this: three found the room empty (first in at opening; an early arrival on a snowy day picking any table; one with no other table occupied), three watched it fill while they ate (one reckoning Friday or Saturday would be full), and one found the outside tables already taken. So when you would have to wait, nobody says. Three mention that you can book — one specifying the Naver booking page — but none of them booked. The place runs from five in the afternoon to two in the morning, and the visits described are mostly early evening or late.
• One post declares a sponsorship: a January 2025 writer opens by saying she came as part of a tasting panel and promises to write honestly anyway. Three things appear only in that post — that the lavatory is indoors, that there is a call bell at the table, and that they will add cheese to your plate mid-meal. Of the other twenty-eight, three state outright that they paid, and twenty-five do not say. That the praise runs one way is worth recording plainly. Only three posts contain a complaint: the broth was not as hot as hoped (November 2025), the single unisex lavatory (April 2025), and a regret about ordering the pork cartilage mild (April 2025). Two more regret ordering the hot grade — their own choice rather than the shop's doing. The posts are unevenly spread in time. Twenty-five of the twenty-nine fall in the six months between October 2024 and April 2025; after that there is one each in September and November 2025 and January 2026. Only four voices speak for anything after spring 2025, so that is what we have to go on for how the place is now.

Sources (28)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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19. 춘천 국물닭발 맛집, 아재불닭발 | 춘천 남춘천역 맛집 | 춘천 매운 .... 2024-11-12 · 먕봉
20. 춘천 퇴계동맛집 아재불닭발&오돌뼈 춘천점에서 2024-11-12 · 운's Pick
21. 춘천맛집 춘천 닭발 맛집 퇴계동 맛집 ‘아재불닭발&오돌뼈 춘천점.... 2024-11-08 · 밍키의 맛집탐구생활
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23. 춘천 불맛재대로 나는 닭발을 찾으신다면 아재불닭발&오돌뼈 2024-10-17 · 톱톱 이모저모 · via Daum
24. 춘천 퇴계동 남춘천역 튤립닭발이 있는 닭발맛집 ”아재불닭발&오.... 2024-10-16 · Better Together
25. [가본집] 춘천 퇴계동 맛집 아재불닭발&오돌뼈 2024-10-14 · 머캥로그☀️
26. 남춘천역 맛집 퇴계동 먹자골목 춘천 닭발맛집 아재불닭발 2024-10-13 · Oh! Always JAEI
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28. 남춘천역 맛집 추천 아재불닭발&오돌뼈 춘천점 2024-10-06 · 행복한 나라씨의 일상 · via Daum

Of 129 candidate posts we opened 68 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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