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Deunggalbi Dalin Moran Bonjeom

등갈비달인 모란 본점 The original branch of a Seongnam rib house, where pork back ribs come either stewed with ripened kimchi or glazed dry under a pour of melted cheese.

Korean · Seongnam-si Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Deunggalbi Dalin is a pork-rib specialist tucked into the eating alley behind exit 2 at Moran station, across from the Jungwon senior centre. The menu forks two ways: kimchi-stewed ribs, simmered on an iron plate with ripened kimchi and bean sprouts, and barbecue ribs, glazed dry and laid over melted cheese or loaded fries. You pick the heat from five levels, and the cheese is poured at your table. Four in the afternoon on weekdays, noon at weekends, closing at midnight with last orders at half past eleven. Several writers say the shop has held this spot for more than twelve years, and several repeat a line about a patented cooking method and television appearances — but those lines are copied off the wall and the menu card, not observed. The posts we read run from February to September 2026.

The basics

Address경기도 성남시 중원구 제일로35번길 52, 1층 (성남동)
52 Jeil-ro 35beon-gil, Seongnam-si Jungwon-gu, Gyeonggi-do
Phone031-753-4781
Typical spend₩4,000 – ₩54,000
Floor area38 m²
StatusIn business

2 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 21 posts: 19 wrote Weekdays 16:00–24:00, 19 wrote Weekends 12:00–24:00.

OpenWeekdays16:00–24:00 19 of 21 posts last seen 2026-09
OpenWeekends12:00–24:00 19 of 21 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order23:30 13 of 15 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order23:00 2 of 15 posts last seen 2026-09

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. What is free here keeps coming. Twenty writers ate the corn-and-cheese that arrives unasked, and seven of them asked for more — one confesses to three or four rounds, one goes out of their way to say nobody made them feel awkward about it, one notes you can simply reorder from the tablet. Four say the kimchi and bean sprouts under the stewed ribs refill too: one is quoting the sign on the wall ("press the bell, don't hold back"), the other three actually got more. Two extend the same to the cucumber soup, the slaw and the pickled perilla.
  2. Because you order the heat by number, "spicy" means something different in every post. Two writers record that there are five levels; eight record which one they picked — three took level 1, three level 1.5, two level 2. Both writers who called level 1 milder than a packet of Shin Ramyun said they would go up to 1.5 next time. One found 1.5 genuinely hot; one put level 2 at about the heat of a green chilli. The barbecue side offers only mild or hot instead of numbers: one writer placed the mild just under fire-noodle heat, another called it pleasantly rather than painfully hot. Five parties ordered half sweet and half hot because someone at the table could not take chilli.
  3. Nine writers single out the service, and they are describing different things. Someone asked whether there was a blanket because the air conditioning was cold, and got one. Someone's toddler wanted a slush, and it arrived on the house. Someone watched a server walk over to an older group struggling with the ordering screen and tap it for them. Someone had the owner come out of the kitchen to say goodbye on a busy night. Not one post complains. Some of this is built into how you eat here — one writer notes the open kitchen, and several note that you roll your own rice balls and melt your own cheese, which keeps staff moving between tables.
  4. Reviews here are paid in food, which colours everything we read. Seven posts describe the same set of offers: a Naver receipt review earns fried rice cake or a seaweed roll, a second review adds two slushes, an Instagram post with the right hashtag earns a drink, and opting into notifications earns a bottle of the sweet peach soda. One party spun a prize wheel while waiting; another threw yut sticks over the Lunar New Year holiday and won a pork-belly topping. Only one writer discloses a sponsorship — but the whole corpus sits inside an arrangement where writing about the meal gets you something back, and should be read that way.
  5. Eight writers say this was not their first visit, and five of them count — since their early twenties, a regular for over ten years, more than ten times, more than twenty, back within a week of the last meal. Four say they live in Seongnam; one used to come for work dinners. One writer says they will not return: they queued more than an hour behind four groups in the rain, and concluded that the ribs were tender and good but not worth the wait.
  6. There is a small supply table by the door. Four writers list roughly the same things: a battery pack to borrow, a wired charger, sweets, toothpicks and mouthwash. One noticed the fabric spray put out for the smell that gets into your clothes; another was handed a sweet and a toothpick on the way out. Three describe paper cups, soju glasses and cutlery stacked along the wall by each table for you to take as you need them.

What 23 bloggers said

We read all 23 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (9) and “Roomy” (8).

What they liked

Friendly staff9 of 23 posts
Roomy8 of 23 posts
Returning customer8 of 23 posts
Would return5 of 23 posts
Clean4 of 23 posts
No gamey smell2 of 23 posts
Thick cut1 of 23 posts

Where they disagree

Had to waityes 4 · no 6
Spicyyes 6 · no 3

Things you can check on site

Free refills10 of 23 posts
Self-order screen8 of 23 posts
Waiting area7 of 23 posts
Review event7 of 23 posts
Takes reservations6 of 23 posts
Phone charging4 of 23 posts
Takeout4 of 23 posts
Toilet outside3 of 23 posts
Discount offered3 of 23 posts
Reachable by transit2 of 23 posts
Coupon2 of 23 posts
Local currency accepted2 of 23 posts
Open kitchen1 of 23 posts
High chairs1 of 23 posts
Beer served1 of 23 posts
Wi-Fi1 of 23 posts
TV1 of 23 posts

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

The most ordered dish is kon-chijeu (콘치즈) — 20 of 23 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

1 posts say you can park; 3 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Posts saying you can park1 of 23 posts
Posts saying you cannot3 of 23 posts

Do not drive here — and be aware that almost every parking line in these posts was copied, not lived. Eleven writers mention parking; exactly one actually parked (the public lot at the senior centre opposite, 600 won an hour, "looked full most of the time when I came out"). One more arrived at six in the evening and found it full. The other nine are reproducing a single line from a header block. Nobody disputes that the shop has no lot of its own, and one writer says the alley is narrow enough that walking is simply better. The alternatives named are the multiplex basement garage at 3,000 won an hour, the Moran municipal lot, and the sports-complex lot. Two posts quote the public lot's rates in identical wording — 400 won for the first thirty minutes, 200 won per ten minutes after, capped at 6,000 — so treat that as one source, not two.

Who came, and with whom

With a friend5 of 23 posts
Date5 of 23 posts
Family visit3 of 23 posts
Group visit2 of 23 posts
Came by car1 of 23 posts
Came with children1 of 23 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Deunggalbi Dalin Moran Bonjeom 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 3
Separate restroomsyes 0 · no 1

Not one post mentions a step, a ramp, or getting in with a wheelchair. Across twenty-four posts the words for threshold, level difference, ramp, wheelchair and pram never appear. Whether there is a lip at the door is simply something we do not know. The single clue is one line from a March 2026 post — "they've got one of those fancy automatic doors" — which tells us the door opens by itself and nothing at all about what is under it. One writer noted a high chair and another brought a baby and was given child cutlery; neither mentions a pram. The outside toilet matters twice over here: nobody described how you get to it, either.

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. 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 payment1 of 23 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves5 of 23 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way17 of 23 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 25 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

0203040506070809
Month by month
MonthPosts
2026-021
2026-035
2026-044
2026-051
2026-061
2026-071
2026-083
2026-097

What we do not know

  • The queue reports disagree, and the disagreement is the useful part — it maps onto when people went. Four waited, six did not. Those who waited: seven on a weekday evening (five groups ahead, thirty minutes), a rainy night (four groups, over an hour), a weekend evening, and Lunar New Year's Day itself. Those who did not: six on a Thursday evening, half past six on a weekday, late on a Sunday, and simply early — but all four add that the room was nearly full anyway. Seven writers describe the Catchtable waiting system and the chairs set out front. One says you can book up to four people through Naver, and that same-day or parties of five and over must phone.
  • The toilet is outside the restaurant. Three writers say so, one calling it "the one thing I'd change about this place." On whether it is split by sex, the posts contradict each other — the one writer who actually went says it is shared and was mildly disappointed, while another post's header line lists separate men's and women's rooms. That header is a verbatim lift of the Naver Place amenity list (takeaway, delivery, booking, groups, wi-fi, waiting area, men's/women's toilet), so we did not count it. Going by the person who used it, it is shared. A fourth writer photographed the signage but said nothing about what was behind the door.
  • No one recorded the floor or the stairs from their own eyes. The street address ends in "1st floor" and seventeen writers copied that address wholesale — but a floor number inside a copied address is not something the writer saw. Not one post describes going up or down a step, or a flat threshold at the door. About the inside they do speak: four describe a wall dividing the room into two halves, and one says the shop began with nine tables and now has seventeen — but both are about the same level, and nobody says whether anything sits above or below it.
  • We dropped six of the thirty, which is why the denominator is twenty-four. Four were not about this shop at all. Three belong to the seafood place next door at 52-2: the check-in widget names that shop, the text is about steamed crab and squid, and Deunggalbi Dalin appears only as a landmark in the walking directions. One belongs to a new grill house at the same street number, opened by this owner — the name overlaps, but every price, hour and parking note in it is the other shop's. The remaining two are not visits: one is a promotional "date course" round-up whose entire coverage of this place is two lines of hearsay; the other is machine-written and still carries its own word count instruction at the foot of the text ("[character check] roughly 2,640 including spaces"), with three unrelated links to a celebrity swimwear piece, a raw-fish restaurant in Suwon and a brunch garden in Goyang spliced into the middle, and a claim of eating three different mains with exactly one price recorded. The twenty-four are twenty-four different people — no blog appears twice.
  • One writer discloses a sponsorship, five state they paid their own way, and the remaining eighteen say nothing. The disclosure is a bare `#sponsored` tag at the foot of the post, with no mention in the body — it is the one where three people took the large cheese-poured ribs with loaded fries and cheese fried rice, and it records all three prices. Among the silent eighteen, four open with a table of menu, hours, parking and promotions plus a numbered table of contents, which reads like commissioned copy — but all four also carry something only a customer would have: the count of tables going from nine to seventeen, three or four refills of the corn cheese, being able to hear the next table's whole conversation, the car park already full at six. What separates them is not the hashtags; it is whether there is a record of eating.
  • One post has the hours the wrong way round. Twenty-one writers record opening times; nineteen agree on four in the afternoon on weekdays and noon at weekends. A single post reverses them. It looks like a transcription slip, but it is not ours to correct, so we loaded it as written. Last orders split thirteen to two between 11:30 and 11:00 at night. Only one writer addresses closing days, saying there are none; another ate here on Lunar New Year's Day and found the room full, so the shop does seem to open over the holidays — though that was the 2026 holiday specifically. Nobody mentions a mid-afternoon break.
  • We only have eight months of writing, so the seasons have not come round once. The oldest post is February 2026, the newest September. Winter and early spring are missing: one writer found the air conditioning cold, but how the place is in January we do not know. The mala version of the stewed ribs, introduced as new in May 2026, never appears again in the four months that follow — whether it is still sold, we cannot say. The same gap shows in the prices: the small kimchi ribs appear at both 34,000 and 35,000 won, and the lower figure was copied off a booking app rather than the menu card on the wall, so we cannot tell when the change happened.

Sources (23)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 성남 모란 등갈비 맛집 [등갈비달인 모란 본점] 웨이팅, 치즈김치등갈비찜 솔직 후기 2026-09-18 · 광수복의 여행학개론 · via Daum
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  3. [성남]모란역맛집 등갈비달인 모란본점에서 달인 찾은 후기 2026-09-06 · 구와비의 일상 로그 · via Daum
  4. 모란역맛집 데이트 뒤풀이 핫플, 등갈비달인 치즈폭포 등갈비 스트레스 순삭 2026-09-06 · 새우별장의 여행로그 · via Daum
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  6. 모란맛집 등갈비달인 모란본점 | 모란역맛집 등갈비 맛집 솔직후기 2026-09-06 · 오늘의 하루 | Today’s Log
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  9. 성남 모란 치즈김치등갈비 맛집 <등갈비달인 모란 본점> 회식 데이.... 2026-08-25 · on cloud nine
  10. 성남 모란 맛집ㅣ매콤한 김치등갈비찜 등갈비달인 본점 후기 2026-08-15 · dae.zzip
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  13. 성남동맛집 모란맛집 :) 모란역 등갈비달인, 마라등갈비 솔직후기 2026-05-14 · 찍고 돌아다니는 찍돌이
  14. 모란역맛집 등갈비달인 모란 본점 반반치즈철판 먹고 온 후기 2026-04-19 · 눈누난나앙나
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  17. 모란맛집 성남동맛집 모임장소로도 손색없는 등갈비달인 모란 본점 2026-04-08 · 단짝친구와 작전일지
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  19. 등갈비달인 모란 본점, 등갈비 맛집 추천(메뉴 추천, 모란역 맛집, .... 2026-03-15 · 몽글몽글 뭉게뭉게
  20. 모란역맛집 최고 맛있는 등갈비달인 모란본점 2026-03-10 · 행복한 도락,도락
  21. 모란 웨이팅 맛집 [등갈비의 달인 모란본점] 철판치즈바베큐 솔직후.... 2026-03-04 · 라니.zip
  22. 성남 모란역 성남동 웨이팅 맛집 추천 등갈비달인 모란 본점 2026-03-02 · 쑤라트래블
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Of 319 candidate posts we opened 47 and kept 23 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.