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Dokdo Haemul Aljjim

독도해물알찜 Braised pollock roe, monkfish or mixed seafood in a hot sauce, with a free pot of steamed egg and a small that feeds three

Other · Gwangmyeong-si, Gwangmyeong-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Dokdo Haemul Aljjim is a braised-seafood shop on the ground floor, unit 102, of a new building across from Saemaeul market in Gwangmyeong-dong, Gyeonggi. It opens at noon and closes on Thursdays. It sells along two lines — braised seafood, roe, boneless monkfish and baby octopus on one card, and, for those who do not eat seafood, a second card of aged-kimchi stews. You order by picking the main dish, then the extra seafood, then the heat, and extras can only be added on the first order. Four heat levels, which the menu calibrates against named brands of instant noodle. Five to seven tables, with a great deal going out for delivery and collection. The posts we read run from April 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

Address경기도 광명시 광명로848번길 18, 블로썸광명 제1동 102호 (광명동)
18 Gwangmyeong-ro 848beon-gil, Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do
Phone0507-1462-9040
Typical spend₩1,000 – ₩65,000
Floor area43 m²
StatusIn business

10 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 25 posts: 22 wrote Daily 12:00–22:00.

OpenDaily12:00–22:00 22 of 25 posts last seen 2026-09
OpenDaily12:00–23:00 3 of 25 posts last seen 2026-01
Last order22:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-01
Closed목요일 24 of 24 posts last seen 2026-09

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.

What sets it apart

  1. Twenty-nine of the thirty posts talk about quantity, and they all say one thing: the small is not small. Three different writers record almost the same sentence — "we ordered the small, didn't we?" The arithmetic recurs: eight say that a small ordered by two would feed three, two took leftovers home, one ate them the next day. A couple who call themselves light eaters admit they were surprised to finish it; another pair had planned to move on to a chicken place afterwards and cancelled. The quantity has a cost, though. The way this meal ends is frying rice in what is left of the sauce — and six writers were too full to get there. All six end by resolving to eat half the rice next time. Rice is not included either, at ₩1,000 a bowl, which is part of the same sum: order it and you will not reach the fried rice.
  2. A pot of steamed egg comes free, and it is the single most-discussed thing about this shop. Twenty-eight posts mention it and twenty go out of their way to say it costs nothing. One compares: elsewhere it is a paid extra; here it arrives with the pickles. Its purpose is plain — a spoonful between mouthfuls of hot sauce, to settle the mouth — and twelve writers use it that way. It comes in a small earthenware pot, and one warns that the pot is scalding. One was so taken with her main dish that she never touched it. The side dishes draw the same praise. Six say it feels like a proper Korean home table rather than a restaurant's, and five reckon they could make a meal of the sides alone. Three note the owner makes them herself and changes them by the day or the season, so there is no fixed list — across twenty-eight posts the recurring ones are seaweed, pickled radish wraps, potato or sweetcorn salad, young radish kimchi, stir-fried anchovies and assorted pickles. Four single out the young radish kimchi; three use the potato salad to cool the heat.
  3. Four heat levels, each calibrated on the menu against a named instant noodle — mild; medium, like Shin Ramyun; hot, like Teumsae; very hot, like Buldak. Twelve writers copy the table out, and it is a good piece of guidance — six who describe themselves as poor with heat all used it to choose. But the people who actually ate it place it a notch higher than the table does. Of the six who took medium, four found it hotter than billed: "medium was quite hot," "too hot for us, next time mild," "a bit hotter than Shin Ramyun," "somewhere between Shin Ramyun and Buldak." It slips the other way once — a writer who took the top level found it milder than promised, more like the third step. One who took the second step warns that unless you are genuinely good with heat, the second step is plenty. In short, drop a level. All three who ordered mild describe it as sweet-hot rather than hot, and none of them regretted it.
  4. What people remember about the service here is being sold less. Eleven posts talk about the owner or the staff, and what they overlap on is specific. The clearest is being talked out of an extra. One writer went to add soft roe as she always does, and the owner said it would be too much and would not sell it to her — "she doesn't push, she actually talks you down." Another, who cannot eat soft roe, was given extra prawns instead. A third asked in advance whether roe came with the monkfish and, told it did, paid for no extras. One notes being asked at the point of ordering whether there was anything she would rather leave out. After that come the small labours taken over: one had the whole octopus and squid cut up for her, two had the water dropwort refilled for nothing, and five had the "self-service" fried rice made for them in the kitchen — two of them explaining that the owner stepped in because the rush had passed. One was sent home with the leftovers and instructions for frying rice in them; one was brought a disposable apron. One post says a young couple runs the place.
  5. The menu makes room for eating alone. In a shop where the mains start at ₩33,000, there is a ₩15,000 single pot of roe stew and a ₩24,900 solo set. One writer, observing that braised seafood is thought of as group food, went looking and found them; another thinks the pot would suit a quick lunch; a third, winter. And not one of the thirty posts records eating either. Even the writer who came alone ordered the small monkfish braise. So we know they exist and nothing more. The other twenty-nine came in twos or more and shared a small.
  6. A small room with big tables. Counts of the tables run from five to seven — the most careful gives five fours and one six — and eight writers call the room small: cramped, not large, snug. And the same posts say the tables are well apart. One spells out why: with a braise, the serving dish is enormous, and a tight table makes the meal a nuisance; here everything fits on it. One notes the high ceiling of a new building, one the glass front you can see in through. One mentions a table that seats about ten. So "small" and "roomy" are not in conflict here — the room is small and the tables are not.

What 30 bloggers said

We read all 30 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (29) and “Clean” (18).

What they liked

Large portions29 of 30 posts
Clean18 of 30 posts
Would return13 of 30 posts
Friendly staff11 of 30 posts
Not expensive7 of 30 posts
No gamey smell6 of 30 posts
Returning customer1 of 30 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped8 of 30 posts

Where they disagree

Spicyyes 12 · no 6

Things you can check on site

Complimentary starter28 of 30 posts
Reachable by transit10 of 30 posts
Complimentary tea or drink6 of 30 posts
Ground floor5 of 30 posts
Free refills4 of 30 posts
Local currency accepted3 of 30 posts
Discount offered3 of 30 posts
Lift to the floor2 of 30 posts
Toilet outside2 of 30 posts
Takeout2 of 30 posts
High ceiling1 of 30 posts
Large windows1 of 30 posts

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

The most ordered dish is gyeranjjim (계란찜 (서비스)) — 28 of 30 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

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

Posts saying you can park21 of 30 posts

Parking is the one thing nobody here disagrees about — twenty-one posts say the same. The building has a car park and two hours are free. Four specify that it is underground, and one that both basement levels are open. One writer records what you actually have to do: give the owner your registration on the way out and she validates it. Two parked there themselves. The only disagreement is about its size. One found it roomy and easy; one calls it a bit tight — and immediately adds that in a neighbourhood this hard to park in, a building with a car park at all is a gift. What happens after two hours, and what it costs, no post says.

Who came, and with whom

Date8 of 30 posts
With a friend3 of 30 posts
Came by car2 of 30 posts
Family visit2 of 30 posts
Came with children1 of 30 posts
Solo visit1 of 30 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Dokdo Haemul Aljjim 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

Second flooryes 0 · no 5
Lift to the floor2 of 30 posts
Toilet insideyes 0 · no 2

Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across thirty posts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, step, threshold and step-free access do not appear once. There is more to go on here than at most places, though. Five confirm the ground floor, and two established for themselves that a lift runs from the underground car park to it — one notes the shop door is directly in front of the lift. Not one post mentions stairs. Still, nobody looked at whether there is a lip at the door, or how wide it is. This is not a yes; it is the edge of what we know. Four writers describe large, well-spaced tables, so moving about inside may be easier than elsewhere — though we did not check that either.

No one mentioned: In a basement · 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

  • Posts disclosing payment4 of 30 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves2 of 30 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way24 of 30 posts

When the posts appeared

040507080910010506070809
Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-041
2025-052
2025-072
2025-081
2025-092
2025-101
2026-012
2026-051
2026-063
2026-074
2026-083
2026-098

What we do not know

  • You can get here by subway, but it is not close. Eleven writers describe coming without a car and all of them mean exit 3 of Gwangmyeong Sageori on line 7. The distance splits — 669m in four posts (identical to the metre, so it is a figure being copied), 700m in one, and for time, eight minutes' walk in one and ten in three. The disagreement is two minutes, not a direction. The bus is nearer — one writer gives four minutes' walk from the Saemaeul Market stop, and another says there are stops all around. For landmarks, across the road from Saemaeul market is the clearest, in five posts. Twenty-one posts discuss parking against eleven on public transport, so more of this shop's customers wrote about arriving by car.
  • It is on the ground floor — the registered address is unit 102, and five writers say so. One places it exactly: on the ground floor, right beside the entrance to the car park. No post mentions stairs. Two instead describe coming up in the building's lift from the underground car park, one adding that the shop's door is the first thing you see when it opens.
  • The toilet is not inside the shop. Two writers went and came back with the same answer — out the door and to the right, in the building's arcade beside the shop. The second adds that because there are few other units nearby it is well kept and clean. Two posts saying there are separate men's and women's were not counted — both sit in a run with the takeaway, the delivery, the wi-fi and the group bookings, lifted from the listing page. So whether they are separate, we did not confirm. Whether there is an accessible toilet, and whether there is a step or a stair on the way to it, no post says.
  • Not one writer says they queued. Five describe a full room, though. One arrived at half past eight on a Friday and found every table but one taken; one watched the room fill while she ate; one came late on a weekday and found it already busy; two saw customers arriving steadily through the evening. One, leaving, handed her table to a party coming in. So there is no record of anyone waiting, only of the room filling. With five to seven tables it plainly can, but how long you might wait, whether there is anywhere to wait, and whether you can book, no post says. One does note the turnover is quick — most people come to eat rather than to linger. Another arrived at noon as the doors opened and had the room to herself.
  • Six writers say who paid — four that they were given a meal, two that they paid. The manner varies: one opens with a plain declaration that the business provided a voucher; one closes with "this wasn't out of my own pocket, but I've written it honestly"; and two carry "#sponsored" only on an Instagram post or a video caption, not in the blog text. Read the blog alone and you would not know about those two. The other twenty-four say nothing. One of them writes that she came "thanks to a good opportunity" — the same phrase used by another writer who did declare a voucher at the top. We did not count the phrase as a declaration. And two posts cannot be counted at all. Both from September 2026, they repeat search phrases — "Gwangmyeong Sageori station restaurant," "Gwangmyeong braised seafood," "Gwangmyeong rice place" — more than ten times each and contain no price, no side dishes, no heat level and nothing about the room. Neither mentions the free steamed egg that twenty-eight other posts do. One names her dish with a word that is not on this menu at all — a search term standing where the dish's name should be. They say they ordered and ate, so we left them in the count of posts, but we drew nothing from them.
  • The closing time splits. Twenty-three posts say ten at night; three say eleven, with last orders at ten. The dates do not explain it — the three that say eleven are from October 2025 and January 2026, while posts from April, May and July 2025 already say ten, and every post from June to September 2026 says ten as well. So it cannot be read as a change. The likelier explanation is that last orders and closing got mixed up. All three that say eleven also print "last orders ten" beside it, and one of the posts that says ten gives "12:00–22:00, last orders 22:00" — closing and last orders at the same minute, contradicting itself. We could not settle it, so both are here — if you are thinking of arriving after half past nine, ring. The closing day does not split — twenty-four say Thursday. The wording varies ("every day," "Mon–Sun," "Fri–Wed," "Mon–Wed and Fri–Sun") but it comes to the same thing.

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Of 265 candidate posts we opened 47 and kept 30 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.