Gilpost · Yeongju-si, Gaheung-dong
Noodle houseChinese
WOKWOK
웍웍 Wokwok Wok wok — the pan the food is cooked in, said twice
Compiled from 19 blog posts read in fullSources →
Wokwok is a Chinese-food drinking house in the Gaheung-dong development in Yeongju, across from the coffee chain on the corner. It does not open in the day: five in the evening until one in the morning, closed Sundays. It is a place where Chinese cooking arrives at a drinking table rather than a lunch table, and in nineteen posts nobody comes alone and nobody comes for a meal in daylight. The kitchen leans on fried chicken dishes and chilli prawns, and on a seafood hotpot with a whole squid in it. Sharing plates run ₩18,000–29,000; the fried dumplings and prawn toast are ₩7,000. You order from a screen at the table. There are eight or nine tables in the room and one doorless side room, and there is no car park — people leave their cars in the lanes. The posts we read run from October 2024 to August 2026.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address경상북도 영주시 대학로262번길 9 (가흥동)9 Daehak-ro 262beon-gil, Yeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do
- Phone054-634-8866
- Typical spend₩18,000 – ₩29,000
- Floor areaFloor area 109 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 7 posts: 4 wrote Mon–Sat 17:00–01:00, 2 wrote Weekdays 17:00–01:00, 2 wrote Saturday 17:00–24:00.
| Mon–Sat | 17:00–01:00 | 4 of 7 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Weekdays | 17:00–01:00 | |
| Saturday | 17:00–24:00 | |
| Last order | 00:00 | 3 of 4 posts |
| Closed | Sunday | 7 of 7 posts |
Rows without a count: 2 of 7 posts.
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.
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
- People do get turned away. Four posts touch on waiting and they do not all point the same way. A January 2025 writer had tried several times and been unable to get in; when she finally did, at half six on a Friday, she reckons another few minutes would have meant queueing or going home. A March 2025 writer arrived at six on a Saturday to find the room almost full, and tells anyone coming here first rather than second to come early. Another March 2025 writer queued on both of her visits. There is a voice the other way: an October 2024 post says that in the opening rush you had to book, but it is no longer full every night. Since six in the evening is already busy and several writers recommend booking, ring ahead if this is your first stop of the night.
- There is one side room and it has no door. Five posts mention a room or a space for groups. An October 2024 writer describes it plainly: it is the only one, it is near the toilet, and with no door on it people glance in as they pass. A March 2025 writer found it "hidden" off a room of about nine tables, with a reserved sign on it. A May 2025 writer arrived at opening time, got the space to herself and says the conversation was easy in it. In November 2025 a wedding party took the whole place over for the evening, and that writer notes the other customers arriving and turning back.
- Nobody calls it expensive. All six posts that discuss price go the other way — one puts the range at ₩18,000–24,000 and calls it easy on the wallet; another wonders whether this many prawns of this size ought to cost ₩18,000. Those six posts span March 2025 to March 2026, so some movement is visible: the kkanpung chicken went from ₩18,000 in July 2025 to ₩19,000 by January 2026, while the three prawn dishes held at ₩18,000 across the whole year. The dearest thing is the braised pork belly at ₩29,000, and that only appeared on the board around May 2025. The fried dumplings and the prawn toast are both ₩7,000.
- Two people cannot order widely here. Three posts say the portions are large, and a January 2025 couple explain why it matters: they wish the kitchen sold a small plate of noodles, because the platter dishes are sized for a table and two people cannot manage two of them. They ordered one hotpot, wrote that they had wanted the fried chicken too, and closed with the obvious conclusion — come with more people. Parties of four, by contrast, order four dishes and finish them. One March 2026 writer simply says the quantities are enormous; another from March 2025 over-ordered and left most of it.
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- Three things come free with the table: pickled radish, peanuts and pickled chilli — five writers list exactly the same three. One warns that the peanuts vanish if you are not watching. A January 2025 writer minds that there is no help-yourself counter: every refill of the radish means catching someone's eye. Ordering itself is done from a screen at the table, which three writers like precisely because it means not catching anyone's eye.
- The fryer is the centre of this kitchen. Five posts talk about crispness, and eight of the twelve priced sharing dishes are fried. What stands out is how often the oil itself comes up: a July 2025 writer could see how clean it was and could taste it, with no smell of old frying on the food, and adds that the batter somehow stayed crisp even soaked in sauce. Two others say the same of the kkanpung chicken, which is finished in its sauce. Nobody calls the food heavy, and four say specifically that it is not. The one exception anyone names is the fried sweet bun, which one writer says is not crisp at all, just sweet and hard to stop eating.
- People come back. Six of the nineteen record a return visit, one of them a regular who drives over from Danyang and has been at least four times — she has worked through the menu across those visits, and watched the room fill up over the years into what she calls a proper local. An October 2024 writer orders the same chicken dish every time. A June 2026 post stitches a first visit and a return into one entry. Three more say they intend to come back — one puts it at a hundred per cent, another says she would be here constantly if she lived closer. Nobody says they would not return.
- Not one writer came alone. All nineteen came with someone: ten with friends, nine for a work dinner or an organised gathering (the two overlap). A wedding afterparty, a health-centre outing, an unofficial office dinner, a birthday, a group back from a fishing trip, a married couple. The prices and portions say the same thing — one couple found they could not order two dishes between them. One writer notes that groups must book, and in November 2025 a party hired the whole place. Some come here first in the evening; more arrive as the second or third stop of the night.
What 19 bloggers said
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Returning customer
We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Returning customer” (6) and “Crispy batter” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Ground floor 6 of 19 posts
- Private room 5 of 19 posts
- Takes reservations 4 of 19 posts
- Complimentary starter 4 of 19 posts
- Self-order screen 3 of 19 posts
- Signed celebrity photos 2 of 19 posts
- Toilet outside 2 of 19 posts
- Local currency accepted 1 of 19 posts
- High ceiling 1 of 19 posts
- Separate restrooms 1 of 19 posts
- Open kitchen 1 of 19 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 3 of 19 posts |
|---|
There is no car park. Three writers say so, from three different months: no parking of its own; leave it in the lane; the lane is where everyone seems to put it. The last adds that the nearest car park belongs to the coffee chain opposite and is probably paid — though she did not use it and does not know. Nobody writes how many cars the lanes take, or whether there is room at night. Worth holding alongside the fact that this place serves until one in the morning.
Who came, and with whom
- With a friend 10 of 19 posts
- Group visit 9 of 19 posts
- Family visit 1 of 19 posts
Where it is
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 6 (of 19 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 2 (of 19 posts read) |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 19 posts |
It is on the ground floor. Six writers put the floor into the address at the head of their own posts, and two mention the conveyor-belt sushi place that opened above it. That "ground floor" comes from an address line, though, and not one post says whether there is a step or a lip at the door. What they do describe of the inside: one open room (one post), eight or nine tables (two posts), a doorless side room off it, and a half-open kitchen (one post).
Nobody has looked at whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. In nineteen posts there is no mention of a step at the door, a ramp, or how wide the entrance is. What can be said: it is on the ground floor — six writers give the address with the floor in it — there are eight or nine tables, and you order from a screen at your own table. None of that amounts to saying you can get in, and two things are worth weighing the other way: there is no car park, so the nearest space is in a lane, and the toilet is outside the restaurant. Reviews of the sushi place upstairs mention a lift, but that is the upstairs restaurant and we have not counted it here. Ring and ask.
The toilet is outside the restaurant. Two writers say so: a June 2026 post calls it a small inconvenience — you have to go out for it — and a March 2025 post gives directions, out past the sign and to the right. That same March writer says the men's and women's are separate; she puts it in her header block but also describes walking there, so we have counted it. An October 2025 writer names the cleanliness of the toilet as the single best thing about the place. How far it is, whether it is on the same floor, whether it locks — nobody writes.
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 themselves5 of 19 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way14 of 19 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 3 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Thirty posts came in and we counted nineteen. The largest block is seven reviews of the conveyor-belt sushi restaurant on the second floor of the same building. They share a street address, and the address alone cannot tell floors apart: Wokwok is downstairs and the sushi place is upstairs. In all seven the hours, the phone number and the flat ₩1,990 plate price belong to the sushi restaurant, and Wokwok appears only as a landmark for finding it. Counted in, the sushi restaurant's twenty-eight-party queue, its lift, its separate toilets and its high chairs would have become numbers on this page. One more post reviews the restaurant a few doors down; three are month-long diaries in which Wokwok is a single passing line with no food and nothing observed. Seven other diaries of the same shape do name what they ate here, and we read and counted those passages only.
- Whether it is loud seems to depend on when you come, and the posts disagree. A March 2026 writer notes the high ceiling and the way sound bounces off it; a May 2025 writer arrived as the doors opened and found it quiet and pleasant. The second was there at five; the first also mentions how full the room was. That reads as a difference of hour rather than a contradiction, but we have not confirmed it. If you want to talk, come early, or ask about the side room.
- Not one post explains how to get here by bus or train. Nobody names a stop or counts the minutes from one. That is not us judging the transport poor — it is that nobody wrote it down. What the posts give: it is inside the Gaheung-dong development, directly across from the coffee chain, and two writers say you will spot it as soon as you are close; one places it at the far end of the development; another calls it tucked away but well known locally. Read that against the fact that there is no car park and nobody mentions transit — this is a bar serving until one in the morning, so settle the journey home first. One regular who comes over from Danyang says that rather than pay a driver she books a room nearby and stays the night.
- The posts disagree about when it closes on a Saturday. All eight that give hours say it opens at five, and seven agree it is shut on Sundays. The disagreement is Saturday's last hour: four posts say one in the morning, Monday to Saturday (October 2024, March and November 2025, March 2026), while two split it — one in the morning on weekdays, midnight on Saturday (January and February 2026). The split version is the more recent pair, which would read as a change, except that the March 2026 post goes back to one in the morning. All four posts that give a last order say midnight. If you are coming late on a Saturday, ring first. Nobody writes about holiday closures.
- Two phone numbers and two map entries are in circulation. Four posts give one 0507 number and a fifth gives it with one digit changed, which looks like a typo. An 0507 number in Korea is a forwarding line, not the shop's own. There are also two Naver place entries: five Wokwok reviews are checked in against an entry other than the one we hold. It looks like the same restaurant listed twice, but we have not confirmed that. We counted those five, since the text, the address and the dishes in them are all this restaurant's.
Sources (19)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 영주 가흥동 중화요리맛집, 웍웍 2026-08-13 · #단양노트
- (영주) 웍웍_탕수육 등 2026-06-04 · 흥나자 인생 · via Daum
- 4월 셋째 주 일상💸✨ - 영주 천수식당 내돈내산 후기/공무원 연금대부 주택자금대출, 행복도약대출 2분기... 2026-05-11 · 은복이 누나 · via Daum
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- [영주 맛집] 택지 술집 중식요리주점 웍웍 다녀온 후기(영주 술집) 2026-02-11 · 옥쥐네 맛집 · via Daum
- 영주 술집 주점 중화요리 웍웍 내돈내산 솔직후기 2026-01-05 · 소소 일상
- 영주에서 즐거운 배스 낚시 2025-12-22 · 낚시하는 한의사 꽝보이 · via Daum
- 경북 영주 택지 웍웍(wokwok) 중화요리 술집 ! 핫플 맛집 인정~ 2025-11-01 · 송블리의 육아일상 이야기 :) · via Daum
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- 영주 술집 맛집추천 중식당 중화요리 ‘웍웍 WOKWOK’ 2025-10-01 · 오리녜
- 주간일기 250825-250831 2025-09-08 · yhazzi_312 · via Daum
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- Wok Wok 웍웍 | 내돈내산 영주 택지 가흥동 중화요리 맛집 2025-07-09 · 디자이너의 패션&뷰티 라이프
- 영주택지맛집,영주중식주점,웍웍,영주에서맛있게먹는중식요리맛집! 2025-05-14 · 소소한 행복을 추구하는 윤아의 평범한 일상 기록들 · via Daum
- 경북 영주 24시간 먹방일기 2025-03-30 · 배징이의 여행탐방 · via Daum
- 경북 영주 택지 중화요리 술집 "웍웍" 2025-03-23 · 딩동댕댕 Wonderland
- [25.02.24-25.03.02]2월 다섯째주 일기 3월 첫째주 일기 2025-03-13 · 김나나의 기록공간 :) · via Daum
- [경북 영주] 가흥동 중화요리 맛집 웍웍 WOKWOK 2025-01-20 · 블링블링 소소하게 !!
- 영주 :: 중국요리 택지 맛집 [웍웍] 2024-10-16 · 히블로그
Of 114 candidate posts we opened 90 and kept 19 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.