Gilpost · Yongin-si Giheung-gu, Gugal-dong

Chinese

Mimi Maratang

미미마라탕 Maratang is the Sichuan soup of numbing pepper and chilli that you build yourself from a bar of ingredients; Mimi is just the shop's name.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Mimi Maratang is a mala soup shop on the ground floor of the Gugal Sports Centre, across from the Giheung district office. You fill your own bowl from the ingredient bar and it is weighed at the till: 1,800 won per 100g for the soup, 2,800 for the dry stir-fry, with heat from level one (no chilli) to level four. Rice is free if you eat in. Eleven in the morning until ten at night, closed Mondays. One writer takes it to be run by a couple, and the kitchen is open to the room. The posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 6 posts: 6 wrote 11:00–22:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is maratang (마라탕) — 7 of 8 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

• 마라탕7 ate it
  maratang₩7,000 · ₩8,100 · ₩8,300 · ₩10,300 · ₩12,600

  You fill your own bowl and it is weighed at the till. Seven of the eight writers ate this. What they say about the broth overlaps rather than conflicts: a roasted-peanut aroma that arrives first, then the numbing mala behind it; peanut sauce threaded through the mala; the savour of a bone stock under the nuttiness. Four of them name peanut and bone stock specifically. One writer, who holds that mala soup is not a dish you put rice in, put rice in it here and finished the bowl.

  1,800 won per 100g, with a 7,000-won minimum according to one writer. What people actually paid: 8,100, 8,300, 10,300 and 12,600 won — the first three with meat added, the last without. One post itemises "level 3, 5,200 won, plus 2,000 for meat"; the 5,200 is not listed as a price here because it does not buy a bowl on its own, the minimum being 7,000. One writer notes that her bowl elsewhere always runs past twelve thousand, and that the same amount of food costs less here.

• 마라샹궈2 ate it
  marasanggwo₩15,000 · ₩17,000

  The dry, stir-fried version. Two writers ate it and both liked it: the spice aroma restrained and clean; the numbing edge intact and the vegetables fresh. One prefers it to the soup and says the catch is that it costs more. One took hers home and ate it with a beer.

  2,800 won per 100g, with a 15,000-won minimum according to one writer. The one who took it away added beef and puts the total at about 17,000.

• 꿔바로우named in 2
  guobaorou₩15,000

  It is on the board, and one writer names it as the third of the three mains. Nobody among the eight says they ate it, so we have nothing to report about how it tastes.

  15,000 won, from an October 2024 post. The neighbour in the same building listed theirs at 11,000 — a different shop's price, noted only so the two are not confused.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 소고기·양고기 추가4 ate it
  gogi chuga₩2,000 · ₩3,000

  The most recommended thing here. Four writers added it, and those who did say the broth changes. One compared a bowl with meat against a bowl without at the same table and kept stealing from her friend's; another says the beef deepens the broth. One notes the beef had no off smell. One writer deliberately went without.

  It came down to 2,000. An August 2025 post records the drop from 3,000; an October 2024 post already calls 2,000 a promotion. A scraped listing from April 2025 still showed 3,000, but that post is not a visit and is excluded. No post says how long the promotion runs.

• 공기밥3 ate it
  gongibap₩1,000

  Free if you eat in. Six posts say so, and two add that you take as much as you want from the self-serve station. Three writers describe finishing the broth with rice in it.

  One writer (September 2026) records 1,000 won if you take it away — free in the room, charged in the box. There is no charge for eating in.

• 꼬치1 ate it
  kkochi₩1,000

  One of the self-serve items, priced on its own. One writer itemises a single skewer in her total; another lists skewers among the fishcake balls, eggs, glass noodles and sausage on the bar; a third copies the board price. Nobody describes the taste.

  1,000 won, from the board as copied in October 2024.

Parking

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

Four posts mention parking; one person parked. Three are bullet lines — a P with a tick, "parking available", or the Naver listing's options row copied whole. The fourth records doing it: you park on the third or fourth floor of the Gugal Sports Centre building, and on a Sunday evening there was plenty of room (February 2026). That is the only post that names a floor, and no post at all says whether it is charged or for how long. Two others came by car — one was picked up from work by a friend — without saying where they left it.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

No post says anything about the floor beyond the address. Our ledger puts the shop at unit 131 on the ground floor of the Gugal Sports Centre, and five writers copy "ground floor" into an address line, but not one mentions steps or a threshold at the door. One notes the open kitchen; another that it is tucked away in a lane. Three mala shops trade on that same floor, so from the posts alone you could not tell which door is ours.

Nobody wrote about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold, step and stairs appear nowhere in the eight posts — we searched by machine and checked by hand. Several describe a small room seating about twenty, but small is not an answer to whether you can get through the door.

Not one writer describes a toilet they saw. The phrase "separate men's and women's" does appear twice — but in the two posts that copy Naver's amenities row wholesale, the same blogger writing the same line twice, and those are not visits and are excluded. Whether it is inside the shop or out in the building's corridor, we do not know. That something is written down is not the same as somebody having seen it.

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 saying they paid themselves6 / 86 of 8 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way2 / 82 of 8 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 11 posts we gathered, 3 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

• Eight posts, not twenty-six. Sixteen were not about this shop, and three were about it but were not visits. There are three mala shops on this one ground floor. A September 2026 writer remarks on it herself — three of the same trade in one building. One of them, a branch of Radori Maratang at unit 101, shares our street address, and three of its posts came in with ours. Two more belong to similarly named shops in other cities: a Mimi Maratang in Gwangju that a writer ordered delivery from, and a Mimi Sichuan Maratang in Gangnam, Seoul. The remaining eleven caught on "mimi" used as something other than a shop name — a noodle chain, a tuna restaurant, a macaron shop, a Hello Kitty edition, somebody's nickname, and, in one case, the Korean phrase for "negligible". One was written by a blogger who calls herself Kim Mimi. The three we set aside as non-visits: two are the same blogger transcribing the Naver listing, their whole body reading like "293 visitors said the food is good", with no record of eating anything. The third is a template round-up with "source: Unsplash" under every image slot and an un-deleted "SEO keywords and clickbait titles" section at the foot.
• Roomy and cramped both appear — two posts say roomy, four say small. The cramped side is more concrete: five or six tables (January 2025); about seven four-seaters and not large (February 2026); a snug size (August 2025); not very big, though the turnover makes it feel adequate (September 2026). The two who call it roomy are talking about the gaps between tables rather than the room itself — comfortable spacing, easy to sit down at lunchtime. Read together, it is a small room with generous spacing: seating for about twenty.
• Nobody records queuing. Two saw a full room: one arrived at noon on a weekday to pick up a takeaway and found every seat taken; another met a large party on a weekday evening. A third guesses there would be a wait at peak, but that is a guess and is not counted. The bar itself can run low, though: the January 2025 visitor at noon found little left and was put out to find neither the prawn balls nor the tofu skin she wanted. In a shop where you pick your own ingredients, arriving late means choosing from less — and only that one post says so.
• Nobody wrote about getting here without a car in their own footsteps. In eight posts not one describes the walk from a subway or a bus. One says it is easy to reach because the district office is nearby; another gives the only real direction we have — tucked in a back lane, round the corner from the GS mart — without saying which station that lane runs from. This is not a claim that the trip is hard, only a record that nobody wrote it.
• No post declares a sponsorship. Five state plainly that they paid their own way, two of them posting the receipt; the other three are diary entries that say nothing either way. What is worth recording instead are the three we moved out of the count: two are keyword pages transcribing the Naver listing — one is titled "Yongin Giheung Gugal-dong Chinese Mimi Maratang recommended menu price hours review parking" — and one is a template round-up. Counting those three would take eight to eleven and inflate every figure on this page by nearly half.

Sources (8)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [용인 구갈] 미미마라탕 2026-09-02 · 미미하우스 · via Daum
2. 미미마라탕 ㅣ 땅콩향 고소한 기흥구청 마라탕 맛집 내돈내산 솔직 후기 2026-03-28 · 인생도 연어처럼 날로먹고싶다 · via Daum
3. 용인 구갈동[미미마라탕] 구갈동 맛집, 국물 맛 미쳤다… ✨ 2026-02-20 · 써니쁘니
4. 기흥 구갈동 마라탕 맛집 미미마라탕 | 가성비 위생 좋은 마라샹궈 .... 2026-02-10 · 진돌이의 하루 .•♥
5. 그런 스트레스도 필요해~ 2026-01-28 · ( °̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥◡͐°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥) · via Daum
6. 용인 기흥구청 미미 마라탕 마라샹궈 먹어봄 2025-08-01 · 뷰로그✨ · via Daum
7. 구갈동 마라탕 맛집 <미미 마라탕> 내돈내산 2025-01-08 · 먹지런한 고고미 라이프
8. [용인 기흥구청 맛집] 미미마라탕 내돈내산 또간집 2024-10-27 · 먹고 또 먹고 냠냠 ღ

Of 362 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 8 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.

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• Naver blog search
• Daum blog search