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Donkkaseu Ondo — Uijeongbu
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Tonkatsu, pasta and pizza · Gosan-dong, Uijeongbu
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Donkkaseu Ondo is a Korean-style cutlet house in Gosan-dong, Uijeongbu. Of 141 posts tied to it by address, 83 call the coating crisp, 59 say it gets rich.
The basics
| Hours | 11:00 – 21:30 · Last order 20:30 No afternoon break |
|---|---|
| Queue | About 10 min on a weekday lunch, 30–50 min at weekend peak |
| Typical spend | ₩12,900 – ₩20,900 |
| Parking | Standalone building, own lot, 24+ spaces |
| Floor area | 189 m² |
| Phone | 0507-1419-1434 |
| Address | 24 Gosan-ro 125beon-gil, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do |
| Transit | Uijeongbu Gosan district. Bus from Uijeongbu Station; about 30–40 min by bus from Nowon. |
Eight posts state the hours independently and they agree. One post from June 2025 mentions a 15:00–17:00 break, but later posts say there is none — we went with the more recent ones.
Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.
What this place actually is
- Almost everyone here eats the cutlet. 139 of the 141 posts say they did. But 70 also ate pasta and 38 ate pizza, so the menu reaches well beyond the fryer on purpose. If your group cannot agree on one thing, that matters — and it is why so many of these posts are about family meals.
- You order from a tablet at the table (59 posts). You can eat here without speaking any Korean. Nobody has written whether the tablet has an English mode, so we do not know yet.
- There is a nursing room (44 posts), and 74 posts mention high chairs. One blogger wrote it was the first restaurant they had seen with a nursing room. Travelling with a baby, that is unusual.
- Rice, cabbage salad and side dishes are refilled free. You ask a staff member rather than going to a counter.
What 141 bloggers said
Of the 141 posts, 94 call the dining room clean and roomy and 91 say it is easy with children. On the food itself, 83 mention the crisp coating and 59 say it gets rich before they finish. The most common complaint is the queue — 66 posts.
Mentioned as good
Mentioned as a drawback
What people order
Prices are what bloggers wrote down. Press play to hear the Korean name.
Parking
A standalone building with its own lot. 46 posts put the capacity at 24 cars or more and 71 describe it as roomy. Six mention it filling up at peak times. If you are driving, this is one of the easier places in the area.
| Posts stating 24+ spaces | 46 / 141 |
|---|---|
| Posts noting a standalone building | 51 / 141 |
| Posts noting it fills at peak | 6 / 141 |
Weather
Rain
| Standalone building with its own lot | 51 / 141 |
|---|---|
| Posts mentioning an indoor waiting area | 19 / 141 |
| Posts mentioning waiting outside | 1 / 141 |
- Waited in the car while it rained1
- Free draft beer on rainy days — 2025 post, unconfirmed1
Summer heat
| Posts tying the cold noodle set to summer | 9 / 141 |
|---|---|
| Posts mentioning air conditioning or ceiling fans | 2 / 141 |
The cold buckwheat set looks seasonal — the posts mentioning it cluster between June and August.
Winter cold
| Posts mentioning windows or daylight | 25 / 141 |
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Only one post speaks to winter directly: tall windows let in enough sun that the heating was not needed on a cold day.
Who comes, and how
| With family | 87 / 141 |
|---|---|
| Groups and work dinners | 63 / 141 |
| A drive out of town | 40 / 141 |
| A date | 32 / 141 |
| Eating alone | 8 / 141 |
It sits on the edge of town, so 40 posts describe coming here as a drive rather than a walk. Bloggers name the areas they came from — Tapseok, Yonghyeon-dong, Millak 2-district, Cheonghak-ri, Byeollae. Almost nobody writes about pairing it with another place nearby.
On television
31 posts call this a place "an actor from Dongsangimong visited". It was not filmed here and no show has featured it — two actors who appear on that programme came shortly after it opened, and bloggers compressed that into a line that reads like a TV tie-in.
- Cha Ji-yeon 차지연6
- Yoon Tae-on 윤태온3
If you are visiting from abroad
What the posts tell us
- Chairs, not floor seating86
- High chairs, and a nursing room74
- Order from a tablet at the table59
- Takeaway containers provided35
- Queue through a kiosk or the CatchTable app22
Still unanswered
- Is there an English menu?
- Does the ordering tablet have English?
- Do foreign cards work?
- Does anyone there speak English?
Korean bloggers have no reason to write about any of this, so the second list stays empty no matter how many posts we read. We checked all 141 — none mention an English menu, and none mention a foreign visitor.
Where else it comes up
Beyond blogs, this place comes up in 10 Naver cafe (forum) threads across 5 communities. We can only read the titles and snippets there, not the bodies, so these are not part of the count above. What they do show is who bothers to mention it — and one of the ten is the shop advertising itself.
- A wedding-planning community5 posts다이렉트 결혼준비
- A restaurant club in Gimpo — the far side of Seoul, about 50 km away2 posts김포맛집동호회
- A community for setting up blind dates1 post오늘의 소개팅
- A church in the same neighbourhood — a youth group came here after Sunday service1 post의정부 고산교회
- The residents' board of a nearby apartment complex — this one is the shop itself, posting a beer promotion1 post의정부 고산센트레빌 커뮤니티카페
How to read these posts
- Say they were paid3 / 141
- Say they paid themselves34 / 141
- Say nothing either way104 / 141
141 posts, and only 3 of them say they were paid for. 34 go out of their way to say the writer paid — an unusually high number. The posts are spread across 17 months rather than piled into one campaign month. Taken together this reads like ordinary word of mouth, not a push. The caveat is real though: Korean disclosure usually sits at the very bottom of a post as a hashtag, and undisclosed paid posts would look exactly like the 104 that say nothing either way.
The posts start in May 2025, jump to 30 in 2025-06 just after the shop opened, and then settle down. 2026 has averaged about 3.4 posts a month. There is no second spike, which is what a campaign month usually looks like.
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 30 |
| 2025-07 | 12 |
| 2025-08 | 7 |
| 2025-09 | 25 |
| 2025-10 | 11 |
| 2025-11 | 7 |
| 2025-12 | 17 |
| 2026-01 | 5 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 6 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 7 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- This page is put together from 141 Korean blog posts that name this branch by street address or phone number. We have not eaten here ourselves.
- We read 188 posts and set aside 47 of them because they did not name this branch — most were about a different shop with a similar name.
- Menu prices come from posts that transcribed the menu board, cross-checked against the shop's own Naver listing. Treat them as a guide.
141 posts read in full · 2025-05-27 – 2026-09-22 · Checked on 2026-09-22
What changed on this page
| 2026-09-23 | 188 → 141 Matched by street address and phone, not by name. 47 posts were about a different branch. |
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| 2026-09-23 | 15 → 13 Removed two items that were on another branch's menu. |
| 2026-09-23 | 19,900 → 19,500 Posts split 2:2, so we checked the shop's own Naver listing. |
| 2026-09-23 | 4/35/101 → 3/34/104 Recounted against the 141 confirmed posts. |
| 2026-09-23 | ₩10,000–₩20,900 → ₩12,900–₩20,900 The lower bound came from a deleted item that belonged to another branch. |
| 2026-09-23 | 189.09㎡ Was in the licence data all along; we had not used it. |