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Dongshim

동심 Dongsim Dongsim means a child's heart — the innocence of childhood. The shop writes itself Dongshim, and its sign reads 'house-made udon x tonkatsu'.

Western · Bucheon-si Wonmi-gu, Jung-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Dongshim is an udon and pork-cutlet shop 339m from Exit 3 of Sinjung-dong station in Bucheon, on the ground floor of the Jeil Plaza block behind the Lotte department store. It opens at 11 and closes at 21, closed between 15 and 17 (last orders 14:30 and 20:30). Three posts note its 2026 Blue Ribbon listing. What the place is built on is making its own noodles. A six-panel cartoon on the wall gives the proving times — three hours at 25°C, thirty-six at 13°C — and two writers copy it out. Five say the sauces and stock are made in-house too. So the noodles are boiled to order: up to 15 or 16 minutes, by five accounts. The udon splits three ways: hot, cold and dressed. The cold bowls are the popular ones — six had the version with fried chicken and egg, five the one with kadaif-wrapped prawns, three the plain — while on the hot side six had the fried-chicken bowl. The 'Dongshim udon', limited to ten servings a day, has a thinner noodle; three ate it. For an udon shop, the frying takes up half the file. Eight had the cutlet set, five the cutlet alone, and four say the cutlet or the fritters beat the noodles. Two note the pork is Jeju loin with the collar attached, served with salt and wasabi. Of the side order of fried chicken, one writer all but begs you to add it. One dish per person gets you a free refill of noodles — fourteen posts mention it, four took it, and two were given extra rice as well. It is small, so people wait. Six counted the tables: six or seven. Eleven mention queuing; you can join the queue remotely through Catch Table, and there is a machine by the door. Recorded waits are 5, 10 and 20 minutes, and one hour on a Saturday at one o'clock. Six who avoided the lunch peak walked straight in. You order from a tablet at the table and pay there (eight posts). A Naver receipt review gets you a sweet-potato croquette or a soft drink (six received one). Delivery is busy — eight mention the apps — and one notes a discount for school pupils. There is no lavatory inside the shop; you use one elsewhere in the building, and one writer advises taking tissue with you.

토리텐우동
toriten udon 토리텐우동 6 of 25 ordered itmade from 6 posts · not a photo of this shop

The basics

Address경기도 부천시 원미구 소향로 241, 제일프라자 110호 (중동)
241 Sohyang-ro, Bucheon-si Wonmi-gu, Gyeonggi-do
Typical spend₩2,000 – ₩15,000
Floor area43 m²
StatusIn business

4 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 20 posts: 12 wrote Daily 11:00–21:00, 8 wrote 11:00–21:00.

OpenDaily11:00–21:00 12 of 20 posts last seen 2026-09
Open11:00–21:00 8 of 20 posts last seen 2026-08
Break15:00–17:00 19 of 19 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order14:30 13 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order20:30 13 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09
Closed없음 3 of 3 posts last seen 2026-03

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

  1. The noodles are boiled after you order, so it takes time — five posts give the figure as 15 to 16 minutes, copied from the cartoon on the wall, which frames it as the price of the food being good. One adds that a backed-up kitchen will take longer. So they sometimes take your order before you sit down. One writer, though, was served in eight minutes (March 2026). Nobody complains about the wait for the food — all five treat it as fair.
  2. People queue here — eleven posts mention a wait, six walked straight in — and the dividing line is clear: at the lunch peak you wait; outside it you don't. The recorded waits are 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes (joined remotely beforehand) and an hour on a Saturday at one o'clock, six parties ahead, the writer nearly giving up at the thirty-minute mark. Those who got in name their timing: after 6pm on a weekday, 11:30am, 2pm on a Saturday just before the break, late afternoon. One says she has never once had to wait. There are two ways to join — the Catch Table app (three posts) and the machine or list by the door (four). Four note the tables turn over fast.
  3. It is a small room — ten posts call it compact or cramped, two call it roomier than expected. Six counted the tables and their counts nearly agree: two twos and four fours; three fours and three twos; three fours and four twos; six or seven; about six; roughly six. One notes they will push tables together. Only one post (October 2025) counts as many as eight or nine. Three say it suits eating alone, one because you order and pay at your own table. Six describe it as a clean Japanese room in wood and white.
  4. Eight say the portions are large, and on top of that one refill of noodles is free — the condition being one dish per person, which fourteen posts mention from the cartoon on the wall. Four took the refill, including a party of three who took two rounds and did not know what the limit was. It comes in its own small bowl. Two were also given extra rice. Three never got as far as the refill because the standard bowl was already too much, and one found a two-person order enough for four.
  5. You order from a tablet at the table and pay there — eight posts. The menu carries photographs and descriptions, which several found helpful. Five note the standing menu board outside, so you can decide while you wait. Some dishes let you pick the heat on the tablet. One writer found many items sold out in the evening, and another that the cutlet curry had run out.
  6. Delivery is conspicuous — eight posts. One watched orders come in all through the meal and lists the three big apps plus the provincial one; another names two apps and suggests using them if you dislike queuing. Two ordered in again after eating there, and one post is delivery only — she added the cream prawns to clear the minimum order. Takeaway too (four posts). One notes a discount for secondary-school pupils (March 2026), and one that the local currency voucher is accepted.

What 26 bloggers said

We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (8) and “Returning customer” (6).

What they liked

Large portions8 of 26 posts
Returning customer6 of 26 posts
Clean6 of 26 posts
Friendly staff2 of 26 posts
Spicy1 of 26 posts

What they struggled with

Food comes slowly5 of 26 posts
Heavy / greasy1 of 26 posts
Unremarkable1 of 26 posts
Would not return1 of 26 posts

Where they disagree

Had to waityes 11 · no 6
Roomyyes 2 · no 10

Things you can check on site

Takeout8 of 26 posts
Self-order screen8 of 26 posts
Review event6 of 26 posts
Reachable by transit4 of 26 posts
Beer served3 of 26 posts
Chef credentials3 of 26 posts
Toilet outside2 of 26 posts
Origin labelling posted1 of 26 posts
Discount offered1 of 26 posts
Local currency accepted1 of 26 posts

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

The most ordered dish is gibon banchan (기본 반찬·물) — 10 of 26 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

Parking

6 posts say you can park; 6 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Posts saying you can park6 of 26 posts
Posts saying you cannot6 of 26 posts

Parking is where the accounts diverge most — six say yes, six say it is hard — and read closely the two do not contradict each other. The building has a car park you can rarely use: very cramped, double-parking the norm, all but full at lunch, and in a busy commercial block. Several tell you to come on foot; one January 2026 post says flatly that there is no parking and to take the train. Instead the shop validates an hour at the nearby public car park — six posts say so. One parked on the street and found it free at the weekend. What we do not know is whether an hour is enough. The noodles take 15–16 minutes and the place queues at lunch, and no post says whether that hour covers the wait.

Who came, and with whom

Family visit4 of 26 posts
Date4 of 26 posts
With a friend4 of 26 posts
Solo visit3 of 26 posts
Group visit1 of 26 posts
Came with children1 of 26 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Dongshim is

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

Getting inside

Toilet insideyes 0 · no 2 (of 26 posts read)

On floors, the address is all there is. The shop is on the ground floor of the Jeil Plaza, unit 110, and in twenty-five posts nobody describes an upstairs or basement room. Three name the ground floor; no one counts steps or mentions a lift. The lavatory is elsewhere in the same building — and no post says on which floor.

Nobody writes about the doorway or about wheelchairs and pushchairs. In twenty-five posts there is not one line on a step at the door, the width of the door, or whether a wheelchair or pram can get in. Many post photographs of the front; what they write goes no further than 'clean and white'. What can be inferred is this much: there are only six or seven tables, staff will push them together, and the lavatory means going out of the shop into the building. No post mentions a high chair or a changing table, and the two writers who came with a child say nothing about seating. Anyone who needs to know should ring: 032-321-2558.

The lavatory is not inside the shop — two posts say so. An April 2026 writer found it elsewhere, signposted, and advises taking tissue with you; a March 2026 writer lists it as 'outside the shop, inside the building'. The other twenty-three say nothing about it. A July 2026 post promises 'the queue and lavatory information' and posts a photograph, but writes nothing we can read. The machine-written post that copies the listing page claims separate men's and women's facilities — not something we have from anyone who went.

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 themselves8 of 26 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way17 of 26 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 28 posts we gathered, 2 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

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Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-102
2025-121
2026-032
2026-045
2026-064
2026-077
2026-083
2026-092

What we do not know

  • No post declares a sponsorship, but two were not written by a person. An August 2026 post copies the Naver listing page — its menu block and its review keywords — and a June 2026 post is built out of questions like 'How do I use Dongshim?' and 'What should I check before visiting?'. Neither has a first-person line, an order or a price, so we did not count them as meals — yet two prices appear only in them, so those sit in the menu as mentions rather than as anyone's bill. The second also asserts that 'two young men run it', which none of the other twenty-four says. Eight of the twenty-five state that they paid, one was treated by her employer (April 2026), and the rest do not say. Five posts contain a complaint. The sharpest (March 2026) scored the food 6/10 and return intent 3/10: too much salt, punishing wasabi, a cloying finish on the cream bowl, a slightly salty stock, and no wish to come back. Another called it decent rather than remarkable; a third thought the kimchi bowl the wrong order here; a fourth left smelling of frying oil, which she put down to the small room; and six found the parking bad. The other twenty are positive, and six record having come back.

Sources (26)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 319 candidate posts we opened 81 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.