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Jeongwon Jjukkumi
정원쭈꾸미 Bongdam's one-dish octopus house, open four hours a day for lunch
Compiled from 26 blog posts read in fullSources →
Jeongwon Jjukkumi is a stir-fried-baby-octopus house on the ground floor of a stand-alone building in Bongdam, Hwaseong, tucked into a lane between the new district office and a stretch of small factories. You cannot see it from the road; you have to turn into the lane. It opens four hours a day, for lunch only — Monday to Saturday, 11am to 3pm, closed Sundays — and because the day's quantity is fixed, it can shut before three when the octopus runs out. There is one main dish and one side: the octopus, and king prawns in batter. The only choice is heat: mild, medium, hot. Rice, a pot of steamed egg and seaweed soup come with it, and the vegetable side dishes are refilled at a self-service bar. The posts we read run from May 2025 to September 2026.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address경기도 화성시 효행구 봉담읍 최루백로 253-7, 다동 1층253-7 Choerubaek-ro, Bongdam-eup, Hwaseong-si Hyohaeng-gu, Gyeonggi-do
- Phone031-227-5760
- Typical spend₩11,000 – ₩12,000 only 1 of 8 dishes carries a price
- From the station0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 150 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 23 posts: 22 wrote Mon–Sat 11:00–15:00.
| Mon–Sat | 11:00–15:00 | 22 of 23 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Closed | Sunday | 21 of 21 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
- All the day's customers arrive inside four hours, so a line forms. Reported waits run 10 minutes, 15–20, 20, 30 — and three posts over an hour: one on a public holiday with fourteen groups ahead, forty minutes for a table and thirty more for the food; one who put her name down at one o'clock and sat at two; one who arrived at noon on a weekday and waited an hour. Everyone who avoided the line went at opening. Those who arrived between 10.30 and 11 sat straight down; four posts say the room is already full by 11.30. There is no ticket machine and no app: you tell the counter how many you are, they say a number out loud, and you have to remember it yourself — one writer found that a weak point, while another says she has never once seen the order go wrong. There are waiting seats inside and out, and two people mention how soft the indoor sofa is.
- Heat is the only choice you make, and the writers do not agree about it. Most who ate the middle step compare it to Shin Ramyun; two say it is a notch hotter than that, two say it was less fierce than they expected, and one found it hot enough that the steamed egg was essential. All three who ordered mild say it was not hot at all, and one thought it so mild she would move up next time. Nobody has written about the hot version — one person merely saw fresh green chilli go on it. Even the name wobbles: some call the middle step botong, others junggan, and one post lists four steps where every other lists three. Asked to describe the heat, the owner reportedly told one customer that everyone's palate differs — try it, and order milder next time if it burns.
- You are given rice and left to build the bowl yourself. A wide bowl of black-rice arrives first with bean sprouts, radish salad, young-radish kimchi, seaweed flakes and lettuce; you load on as much as you want and wait, then tip the octopus over the top and mix. A bottle of sesame oil sits on every table — thirteen posts mention pouring it. One writer copied the table next to hers, tearing lettuce into the bowl, and says it was much better that way. Staff set the first tray; after that the refills are yours to fetch — eleven posts say so, seaweed soup included. Water, paper cups and wet wipes are collected from the same bar as you sit down; three writers note that at lunch the staff only point rather than carry. One says the owner makes the young-radish kimchi fresh each morning, and adds that hers was still crisp and undrooping.
- Nothing is cooked until you order it. Three posts say so outright, and three report a slow kitchen: two waited half an hour, and one waited another thirty minutes after being seated. "People in a hurry will have to leave without eating," one writes. Yet three others were asked for their order while still queuing and had food the moment they sat down — when there is a line, the counter takes orders as it calls numbers, so a long queue does not always mean a long wait for the food. Which way it goes seems to depend on how busy the day is.
2 more
- What the phone gets you is a number, not a time. Four posts mention calling, and one spells out what that means: you cannot book a slot, only put your name in the queue. Locals ring ten or twenty minutes before they set off and arrive to a shorter wait; if your number has already been called, saying so gets you the next one. But one writer notes that empty tables are filled from whoever is standing there, not from the phone list — a call holds your place in line, not a seat. One woman phoned at 1.30pm, arrived to a sold-out notice on the door, and got fed anyway because she had called.
- The price rose by ₩1,000 on 1 February 2026. Every post written between May 2025 and early February 2026 gives ₩11,000 a portion; a March 2026 post dates the rise and quotes ₩12,000, and every post after that agrees. Two writers still call it cheap — kinder than the other octopus places nearby, one says; hard to eat octopus this good for the money, says the other. Nobody complains about the price. Three note that the Hwaseong and Gyeonggi local-currency cards are accepted.
What 26 bloggers said
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Returning customer
We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Returning customer” (10) and “Roomy” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 18 · no 2 |
|---|---|
| Spicy | yes 13 · no 5 |
Things you can check on site
- Free refills 11 of 26 posts
- Waiting area 9 of 26 posts
- Takes reservations 4 of 26 posts
- Takeout 3 of 26 posts
- Local currency accepted 3 of 26 posts
- Cooked to order 3 of 26 posts
- Air conditioned 2 of 26 posts
- Parking capacity 2 of 26 posts
- Origin labelling posted 2 of 26 posts
- Beer served 1 of 26 posts
- Complimentary tea or drink 1 of 26 posts
- Toilet inside 1 of 26 posts
- Prepped daily 1 of 26 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
15 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 15 of 26 posts |
|---|
There is a car park, but it is small and fills fast. The two posts that count spaces say six or seven, and six to ten. Three call it tight; one calls it the place's worst feature and says people end up on the street. Two saw cars lined along the lane. Three describe the whole front yard as parking that goes full at peak, and two arrived to find it already full. An overflow area has been added — two writers describe a rough dirt lot at the entrance to use when the front is full, and one says even that fills. One person, arriving right at opening, simply parked wherever she liked.
Who came, and with whom
- Family visit 2 of 26 posts
- Came by car 2 of 26 posts
- With a friend 2 of 26 posts
- Group visit 1 of 26 posts
Where it is
From the station
0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 1 of 26 posts |
|---|
Nobody has written about floors or stairs. The word "stairs" appears in none of the twenty-eight posts, and "second floor" appears once — in a listicle, about a different restaurant. The licence gives the address as 253-7 Choerubaek-ro, unit Da, ground floor; two writers describe a stand-alone building, and two say it is set back in a lane out of sight of the road. So the ground floor is something our records tell us, not something a visitor confirmed, and no one has counted the steps between the car park and the door.
Nobody has written about the step at the door or a ramp. Across all twenty-eight posts the words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp and threshold never appear once. We do not know whether there is a lip at the entrance, how wide the door is, or whether a wheelchair can get between the tables. Six writers call the room roomy and the tables well spaced, but that is an impression of comfort, not a measurement of access. This is not a no — it is a gap we have not filled.
Only one writer describes the toilet, and only in passing — listing the waiting seats, she mentions a sofa "in front of the toilet," which tells us it is inside. One other post carries the line "indoor toilet available," but it sits in a block with "takeaway available" and a fuel-subsidy note, so we cannot tell whether she saw it or copied it, and we have not counted it. Nobody says whether it is shared or separate, how many stalls there are, whether it is clean or cramped. There is no mention of a baby-changing table at all.
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 · 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
- Someone else paid1 of 26 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves6 of 26 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way19 of 26 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 27 posts we gathered, 1 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 3 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 3 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 5 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Almost nobody writes about getting here without a car. Not one of the twenty-seven posts mentions a bus, a train or a stop. The closest anyone comes is a single line: "the shame is that it's hard to get to without a car, so I can't go often." Every set of directions is a driving one — the lane opposite the Kia service centre, the turn the navigation app tells you to take, the address typed into a sat-nav. So whether you can reach it by bus is something we do not know. No one has written down the nearest stop or how far the walk is.
- The writers contradict each other about the air conditioning. A post from 23 July 2025 says there is not even a fan and the room got very hot; one from 1 July 2025, three weeks earlier, says the air conditioning was fierce and she was perfectly cool, and a June 2026 post agrees. Three summer visits, and one of them disagrees. We cannot tell whether that has since changed, whether it depends where you sit, or whether it only happens when the room is packed. The other twenty-four never mention the temperature.
- They also disagree about the service. Two write warmly: one simply says the staff were kind; another, a frequent visitor, marvels that the spoken queue order has never once gone wrong. Against that, one writer records "no staff when they're busy, the staff are scary, don't expect friendliness." A fourth noticed that at an eleven o'clock opening the staff were still eating their own lunch inside at five to. In a place that takes its whole day's custom in four hours this may simply vary by the hour, but with only three of twenty-seven posts describing the service we cannot say.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. Six say they paid their own way, two of them posting the receipt, and one says a friend picked up the bill. The other twenty say nothing about money at all — and saying nothing is not the same as saying it was not sponsored. We kept one post (October 2025) that reads like machine output: it closes by admitting the shop details were taken from Naver Maps and the signs on the wall, and it carries sentences no diner writes, such as a note that ingredient storage temperatures are managed to hygiene-grading standards. It records a meal and a price, so it stays in the count — but the ₩10,000 takeaway price that appears only there should not be trusted until something else confirms it.
- One writer decided the queue was not worth it. In August 2025 she arrived at noon on a weekday, waited an hour, and concluded: good octopus, but not hour-of-your-life good. It is good, she adds. That is one voice out of twenty-seven, against ten who had already come back and three who say they will. But being outnumbered does not make her wrong — the hour she waited is a real feature of this place, and what it is worth is a personal sum. Portion size splits too: two call it generous, one says it is not actually all that much, and one passes on a rumour that the portions used to be bigger.
Sources (26)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [화성 봉담] 정원쭈꾸미 후기 / 통통하고 신선한 쭈꾸미 볶음 맛집 2026-09-03 · 달콤쌉싸름한 일상
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- 화성 봉담 정원쭈꾸미 가격 쭈꾸미볶음 맛집 추천/봉담 식당 후기 2026-03-04 · Youth Blossom
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- 화성 봉담 숨겨진 로컬 맛집, 4시간만 운영하는 정원쭈꾸미 2025-08-04 · 엄마의 소소한 일상
- 하루 4시간 영업, 봉담 맛집 "정원쭈꾸미" 방문기 2025-08-01 · 쑥쑥이네집♡
- 화성봉담맛집 정원쭈꾸미 점심 오픈런 후기 하루 4시간 영업 ㅎ ( 핏.... 2025-07-23 · 이렇게 평생
- 화성 내돈내산 맛집 하루 4시간만 영업하는 쭈꾸미 맛집 정원쭈꾸미 2025-07-01 · 몽글말랑
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Of 153 candidate posts we opened 52 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.