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Daewangdaege Jikpanjang

대왕대게직판장 영덕본점 Named like a market stall: king-sized snow crab, sold direct.

횟집 · Yeongdeok-gun, Ganggu-myeon

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

Daewang Daege Jikpanjang sits on the crab street by Ganggu harbour in Yeongdeok, across from the public car park. You pick a live crab out of the tank, it is steamed on the spot, and it comes back already cut open and trimmed. Ordering crab brings a free spread — clam soup, raw-fish salad, fritters — and the meal ends with fried rice in the crab shell and a crab soup with instant noodles. Most of what is in the tank is Russian: one writer records the owner telling her plainly that the local Bakdal crab the town is famous for is only caught between winter and spring. Nine in the morning until half past nine at night, ten on Saturdays. The posts we read run from February 2025 to August 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 3 posts: 2 wrote Tuesday 09:00–21:30, 2 wrote Wednesday 09:00–21:30, 2 wrote Thursday 09:00–21:30.

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 gettakji bokkeumbap (crab-shell fried rice) (게딱지 볶음밥) — 9 of 9 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

• 대게찜 (러시아산)8 ate it
  daege-jjim (steamed snow crab)₩80,000 · ₩150,000

  You pick the crab out of the tank and it goes straight into the steamer — two writers time it at fifteen to twenty minutes, filled by the free side dishes arriving in order. Six say it comes back already cut open and trimmed, so there is no wrestling with scissors

  A March 2026 post gives ₩80,000 for a medium Russian crab and ₩150,000 for a large one. A May 2025 post says ₩150,000 a crab and that this shop only sells the big ones. Two posts put a table for two at ₩150,000 — two mediums in March 2026, and a booked two-person set in August 2025. The March writer warns that two crabs is not as much food as it sounds: one each. Three posts are explicit that this is Russian crab, not the local Bakdal

• 홍게1 ate it
  honggae (red snow crab)₩100,000

  Cheaper than the snow crab and cleaner-tasting, says the one writer who ordered it. Same routine: picked live from the tank and steamed

  Three for ₩100,000 in a March 2026 post, which adds that the ten-for-₩50,000 signs along the street are frozen crab. Another March 2026 writer ordered it and found the leg meat full, but gives no price

• 박달대게 (국내산)1 ate it
  bakdal-daege (local snow crab)

  The local Yeongdeok crab the town is famous for — and both posts that mention it say the same thing: not now, or not at this price

  No post gives a price. In August 2026 the owner told one writer straight that local Bakdal is caught only between winter and spring, so she ordered Russian instead; that same post later shows a Bakdal crab, and the text does not settle whether she ate it or was shown it. In March 2026 another writer found none in the tank at all — only Russian crab and red crab — and passes on what he was told: warmer water, and seventy to eighty per cent of the crab on this street is Russian

• 킹크랩 · 랍스터named in 2
  king crab and lobster

  One writer saw king crab in the tank; one says she has ordered lobster here on an earlier visit

  Nobody writes about eating either on the visit they describe, and nobody gives a price. Both are on the card with the price left as market rate

Sides, and what comes with it

• 게딱지 볶음밥9 ate it
  gettakji bokkeumbap (crab-shell fried rice)

  **Every one of the nine who ate here ate this.** The crab's innards stirred through rice and served back in the shell. One party of four got four shells; one writer notes the shell is bigger than a rice bowl

  No post prices it separately; it reads as part of the crab. Two call it as good as the crab itself. One found it bland and fixed it with a spoonful of broth from the crab soup. It arrives after the crab, but one writer says you can ask for it alongside instead

• 대게탕 (라면사리)8 ate it
  daege-tang with ramyeon

  The hot crab soup that closes the meal, with instant noodles added. **Every writer calls it something different** — crab soup, crab ramyeon, spicy stew, crab-paste stew

  Nobody prices it separately. A March 2026 writer draws the line: with red-crab ramyeon the noodles are the point, here the soup is and the noodles are the extra. A September 2025 writer wanted crab ramyeon, found no such item on the card, and was given the soup with a noodle nest dropped in. One says it is mild rather than salty

• 기본 상차림 (스끼다시)8 ate it
  gibon sangcharim (the free spread)

  **It comes free with the crab**, laid out course by course while the steamer works: clam soup, raw-fish salad, seasoned squid, prawn and potato fritters, quail eggs, salads, beans — the list differs a little in every post

  One writer says the spread changes with the season. One found every clam plump; another finished the raw-fish salad and says so. One reports that whatever ran out was simply brought again. Two compare it to the free spread at a sashimi house

• 대게회·치즈버터구이 추가1 ate it
  crab sashimi and cheese-butter grill (add-on)₩10,000

  One writer reports that ₩10,000 a head on top of the crab brings both the raw crab and the cheese-butter grill

  Only one post — September 2025 — records eating it. The writer was pregnant and skipped the raw crab; her companion tried two pieces and said the grilled one was better. The eighteen sponsored posts we set aside repeat the cheese-butter grill as if it were the signature dish, but not one of them says what it costs or how to order it

Parking

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

Five posts mention parking and only one counts the spaces: a February 2025 writer says it is small but takes five cars or more, and adds that along this harbour many restaurants have nowhere to put a car at all. One notes that when it is full you can use the public car park right in front, free. One parked inside the building in the rain; one had the owner take the car and put it in the shade. That last writer is the only person who describes anything like valet parking — fourteen of the eighteen posts we set aside advertise it, all of them copying the same listing.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

No post says which floor you eat on. One writer parks inside the building, so we know the car park and the restaurant share it, but whether you then climb stairs, take a lift, or simply walk through, nobody says. Nor does anyone say whether the seating is on chairs or on the floor.

Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Whether there is a step at the door, how wide it is, whether you could pass between the tables — none of the nine posts says. Four call the room wide and the tables well spaced, but that is about sitting down, not about getting in. The closest thing we have is a mother writing that being able to park inside the building made moving with children easy.

Not one person describes the toilet from their own visit. The phrase about separate men's and women's rooms appears twelve times — all twelve in the January 2025 batch, all twelve copied from the same map listing. None of the nine people who actually ate here mentions using one. Whether it is inside, how many stalls, whether there is a changing table: we do not know. Written down somewhere is not the same as seen.

No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 disclosing payment1 / 91 of 9 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves3 / 93 of 9 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way5 / 95 of 9 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 28 posts we gathered, 19 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

• We read twenty-nine posts about this place and built the page on nine of them. Eighteen went up in the seven days between 5 and 11 January 2025. All eighteen open with the same line declaring a sponsorship, and thirteen follow it with the shop's map listing copied word for word. They carry the same encoding damage from the same template — the first characters of paragraphs broken in the same way — and posts published in January talk about *this summer*. Two supposedly different bloggers use the same odd private joke about being a dumpling connoisseur. Not one of the eighteen mentions a price. So we did not count them as visits. Counting them would treble this shop's numbers, and what the inflated numbers would say is that there is valet parking, delivery and wifi — none of which anyone describes actually using. The other two we set aside copy the map listing's ratings, and list ten crab restaurants without eating at any.
• Only four posts give a price. The card lists Bakdal crab, snow crab, red crab, lobster and king crab, and every price on it says market rate — one writer concludes the menu is beside the point. Another says she shopped around afraid of being fleeced and chose this shop precisely because its price was published online. One reports the crab being weighed in front of them before the bill. The figures we carry are for a crab or for a table of two, not per person. And the eighteen sponsored posts we set aside contain no price at all: the advertising does not tell you what this costs.
• Nobody writes about getting here without a car. All nine who ate here drove; the most anyone offers is that the shop is to the left of the crab street's public car park. No bus, no walking time from the terminal or the harbour. One of the eighteen posts we set aside does claim it is easy to reach without a car — but that post also has the season and the menu wrong, so we are not resting anything on it.
• Nobody describes waiting for a table. Two describe the opposite: one September 2025 writer had the room to herself and blamed the grey weather; an August 2026 writer liked that the place was not famous enough to be crowded. But only three of the nine visits fall in crab season, roughly November to March, so we have not seen what the season does. One writer was told by the owner to come back in November. Two say booking secures a table.
• Only three posts give opening hours, and all three copy them off the map listing — nobody reports reading the sign on the door. The two that break it down by day disagree about Sunday: one says half past eight, the other nine. They agree that Saturday runs an hour later, to ten at night with last orders at nine. No post mentions a closing day at all. Meanwhile twelve of the eighteen we set aside all say nine in the morning to ten at night, which does not match what the people who went actually wrote down.

Sources (9)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [영덕 대게 맛집] 대왕대게직판장 강구항 대게 맛집 내돈내산 후기 2026-08-07 · 신혼일기
2. [영덕] 영덕대게거리에서 유명한 대게 맛집 '대왕대게직판장 영덕본.... 2026-03-27 · 해운대뚜벅이
3. 내돈내산 강구 대게 맛집 [대왕] 방문 후기 │ 대게·홍게 제대로 즐긴 강구맛집 2026-03-05 · 맛집|여행|골프| 8년차 부부일상 · via Daum
4. 영덕맛집 영덕대게맛집 대왕대게직판장 2025-10-10 · 리아랑 놀자
5. 늦은 여행 휴가의 시작 2025-09-16 · 블랙무쓰 · via Daum
6. 강원도도 여름휴가 [영덕/강릉] 2025-09-11 · ʙᴀʟʟ._.s ᴅɪᴀʀʏ · via Daum
7. 영덕 강구항 대게 내돈내산 후기 :: 대왕대게직판장 2025-08-23 · 읽고 쓰는 일상 · via Daum
8. 영덕 맛집 대왕대게직판장 술집 2025-05-16 · ♥씽씽님 일상 블로그♥ · via Daum
9. 영덕대게맛집 사람들로 북적이는 대왕대게직판장 2025-02-17 · 일인

Of 364 candidate posts we opened 77 and kept 9 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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