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Bulnabang Agujjim

불나방 아구찜 Monkfish stir-fried dry over high heat, five minutes from Changwon's ballpark

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Bulnabang Agujjim is a monkfish house on the ground floor opposite the police box at the mouth of Sanho market, in Masan, Changwon. It is a five-minute walk from Changwon NC Park, so a good share of its custom is people going to or coming from the baseball, while at lunch the room is mostly neighbourhood regulars. The dish it leads with is agu-bulgogi — monkfish stir-fried dry over high heat, which even in Masan few places sell. There is also the more familiar steamed agu-jjim, a crab version, a seafood version and a poached one. Rice is a separate order: plain, a single-serve stone pot, or fried at the end in what is left of the sauce. Eleven to nine, no afternoon break, closed every other Tuesday. The shop opened in 2025, though the couple who run it had another steamed-fish place in the same neighbourhood before. The posts we read run from September 2025 to August 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 18 posts: 18 wrote Daily 11:00–21:00.

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 agu-bulgogi (아구불고기) — 25 of 28 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

• 아구불고기25 ate it
  agu-bulgogi₩30,000 · ₩40,000 · ₩50,000

  The dish the shop puts at the top of its board, and one few places in Masan sell. **Unlike agu-jjim it comes dry, stir-fried hard** — writers describe a charred, flame-caught smell and edges of fish slightly scorched. It arrives cooked, but you set it on the table burner, fold the bean sprouts through and let it reduce a little further. A few slices of onion, spring onion and rice cake; the rest is almost all fish, under a heap of bean sprouts.

  **₩30,000 small, ₩40,000 medium, ₩50,000 large.** Four couples had the small and left some; one pair of friends added fried rice to a small and could not finish; two groups of three took the medium. Six say the standard heat is about Shin Ramyun level — and one notes that **the mild grade is not available for this dish** (it is for the jjim). Hotter can be made; one writer was also offered milder. **There are bones**: one asks outright whether a boneless version exists, one says it was not boneless but cut to bite size and no trouble at all, and one reports that a husband who avoids fish picked it clean. **Skin and stomach are in there too**, and three writers hunt for those chewy pieces on purpose.

• 아구찜2 ate it
  agu-jjim₩25,000 · ₩30,000 · ₩35,000

  The dish in the shop's name, billed alongside the bulgogi. One writer who has had both says the jjim carries more bean sprouts and chewier flesh. **Four heat grades — mild, medium, hot, very hot** — one more than the bulgogi offers.

  **₩25,000 / ₩30,000 / ₩35,000** — cheaper than the bulgogi. Eleven posts list it; **only two ate it**, both in early February 2026, both the small, and both too full afterwards for fried rice. The one who ordered it hot found it not nearly as hot as expected; the one who ordered it medium reports that her friend struggled a little. One of the two describes a long argument with her friend over which to have, settled as: jjim today, bulgogi next time.

• 꽃게찜named in 8
  kkotgejjim₩30,000 · ₩40,000 · ₩50,000

  One of the four dishes on the board, priced the same as the bulgogi.

  Eight posts list it; **not one ate it.** The prices — ₩30,000 / ₩40,000 / ₩50,000 — come from the single April 2026 post that copied the whole board.

• 아구해물찜named in 8
  agu-haemul-jjim₩30,000 · ₩40,000 · ₩50,000

  Monkfish jjim with other shellfish added. One of the four dishes on the board.

  Eight posts list it; **not one ate it.** The prices come from the single April 2026 post that copied the whole board.

• 아구수육named in 7
  agu-suyuk

  Fresh monkfish poached plain in a long-simmered stock, billed on the pavement sign next to the bulgogi and the jjim. Medium and large only.

  Seven posts list it; **none ate it and none gives a price.** Three write about it the way you write about a plan — one promises to come back for it with a drink, another says how good it is without having had it here. One passes on a companion's memory of eating it on an earlier visit — **which is not the same as a report.**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 셀프볶음밥14 ate it
  self bokkeumbap₩2,000

  The finish: rice, seaweed flakes, chives and sesame oil turned through what is left of the sauce. It is called self-serve, but **five writers had the owner do it** — all five note it was a quiet hour, and one adds a warning not to read her post and go asking for the favour.

  **₩2,000, and it is one of the three things the receipt-review promotion gives away free.** Twenty posts mention it; **fourteen ate it.** The five who missed out were simply too full — one resolves to bring a third person next time — and one had filled up on the ramyeon noodles instead. Four tell you to save room. Three call it the Korean dessert course. One says the texture is wet rather than loose and separate, and that she prefers it loose — but ate it happily anyway.

• 솥밥13 ate it
  sotbap₩2,000

  A single-serving stone pot, started when you order. A bank of rice cookers sits along one side of the room, and four writers mention the hissing. You turn the rice out into a bowl and pour in the hot water the owner brings, and the crust at the bottom becomes nurungji.

  **₩2,000**, against ₩1,000 for plain rice — six writers say to take the pot for the difference. **It takes time**: one clocks it at thirteen minutes, and another, who ordered hers after the fish arrived, had to wait. One reports being asked at the point of ordering to choose between pot rice and fried rice for exactly this reason. Two groups ordered a single pot to share so they would have room for the fried rice. Sixteen posts mention it; **thirteen ate it.**

• 콩나물 추가3 ate it
  kongnamul chuga₩2,000

  More of the bean sprouts that go on top. Six writers say the sprouts blunt the chilli, so this is the hedge if the heat worries you.

  **One post gives ₩2,000**; two others only say there is a charge. Three ordered more, and **two of them were not charged** — one had praised the sprouts and was handed a mountain of them for free, another was simply waved off. One couple added some for a husband who cannot take heat; two more writers wished afterwards that they had.

• 공기밥3 ate it
  gongibap₩1,000

  Plain rice. **No rice comes with the agu-bulgogi**, so you order either this or the pot.

  **₩1,000.** Seven posts mention it, three ordered it — one of them ahead of time for a baby. Two spell out that rice is not included with the bulgogi. One couple shared a single bowl because the sauce was hot.

• 곤이 추가3 ate it
  gonni chuga₩3,000 · ₩6,000

  Monkfish milt added on top — soft and rich, and two writers say it takes the edge off the chilli. Like the roe, **it has to be ordered before they cook.**

  **The price does not agree.** A February 2026 post shows ₩6,000 on the receipt; an August 2026 post says three thousand buys an embarrassing number of large pieces. **We do not know which is current.** Seven posts mention it, three ordered it, and one insists you must.

• 알 추가2 ate it
  al chuga₩6,000

  Monkfish roe added on top. **Ask before they cook** — one writer notes it cannot go in later.

  **₩6,000.** Six posts mention it, two ordered it, and both say to do the same: the roe bursts and grows nuttier as you chew, one writes; the other calls the portion generous for the money and wishes she had ordered two.

• 라면사리1 ate it
  ramyeon sari

  Ramyeon noodles for the sauce. One post also lists udon noodles and kalguksu.

  **No post gives a price.** It is one of the three freebies in the receipt-review promotion, alongside the fried rice and a drink. Six posts mention it; one writer ate it, and regrets that it cost her the fried rice. Another vows to get through rice, noodles and fried rice on her next visit.

• 갑오징어 추가named in 6
  gapojingeo chuga

  Cuttlefish, listed beside the roe and the milt.

  Six posts copy it off the board; **nobody ordered it and nobody records the price.** One suggests a small bulgogi with roe, milt and cuttlefish all added — but she did not order it that way herself.

To drink

• 음료수1 ate it
  eumryosu₩2,000

  Soft drinks — and two writers note that zero-sugar versions are stocked.

  **₩2,000.** One receipt shows a zero cola at that price; another writer notes a free can is one of the receipt-review rewards.

• 소주1 ate it
  soju₩4,000

  Soju. One visitor wondered which local brand Masan drinks, spotted one called White, and ordered the familiar Jinro anyway.

  **₩4,000** — cheap enough that one writer remarks on it. Three posts mention soju; **one actually drank it** (a bottle of Jinro, April 2026). Four say the dish would go well with a drink, and three of those four did not order one.

• 맥주·막걸리named in 2
  maekju · makgeolli₩4,000

  On the board at the same price as the soju.

  One post gives the ₩4,000; another merely lists it. **Nobody writes about drinking either.**

Parking

6 posts say you can park; 5 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Parking comes down to whether you get one of the one or two spaces in front. Six posts say those spaces exist; five say there is no car park at all. They are describing the same thing from different sides — no dedicated lot, room for a car or two outside. Those who did park in front had either arrived at opening or come late. Otherwise it is the Sanho market public car park — two or three of them, between a one-minute walk and 200 metres, and two writers give addresses (6 Sanhobuk 11-gil; 45 Sanhobuk 15-gil). One paid ₩700 for an hour in a light car, another ₩1,300 for the meal. A November 2025 post says she talked the owner into ₩1,000 per table towards the public car park — no later post mentions it, so whether it still stands we do not know. One post lists the hours when the kerbside outside is free to use: weekdays 11am–2pm and after 5pm, all day at weekends.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Nobody has written about floors or stairs. The word "stairs" appears in none of the twenty-eight posts; "second floor" appears twice, both times about a different shop in a different city, inside travel diaries that cover many places at once. The licence gives the address as ground floor, 2 Sanhobuk 15-gil, and six writers place it at street level in the market lane opposite the police box. So the ground floor is what our records say, and no visitor has told us whether the way to the door is flat.

Nobody has written about a step at the door or a ramp. In all twenty-eight posts the words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp and threshold never appear. Whether there is a lip at the entrance, how wide the door is, whether a chair fits between the tables — we do not know. Four writers call the room spacious and one says the tables are not crowded together, but that is comfort once seated, not access on the way in. Two visitors brought babies and both were given high chairs — neither says what happened to the pushchair.

Only two writers describe the toilet from having seen it. Both say the same two things: it is indoors, and it is clean — one likes not having to go outside, the other says exactly that is what she looks for. A third post carries the line "separate men's and women's," but it sits in a block with "groups welcome, takeaway, reservations," copied off the listing page, so we have not counted it. Whether it is in fact separated, how many stalls, whether it is cramped — nobody has confirmed. Nor is there any mention of a baby-changing table, not even from the two who came with infants.

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

• Posts disclosing payment1 / 281 of 28 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves4 / 284 of 28 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way23 / 2823 of 28 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Not one line about getting here on public transport. Across twenty-eight posts there is no bus number, no stop, no train — the only buses are the coaches that brought people down from Seoul and Gwangju. Every distance given is a five-minute walk from Changwon NC Park (six posts); the rest are directions for people who already know the area: opposite the police box, at the mouth of Sanho market. Driving does appear — through the Palyong tunnel from central Changwon, quick enough. So whether a bus runs here from the station, and how long it takes, we do not know. That you can walk it from the ballpark, several people have confirmed.
• They disagree about how big it is. Four call it roomy: "pretty large and clean, not packed in too tightly"; "bigger inside than I expected"; "it looked cosy passing by, but there is real space in there." Two call it small: "six or seven tables at most"; "not big, so if there's a queue you'll wait twenty or thirty minutes." The two who actually counted tables agree — six, and six or seven — so the room has not changed; what they are measuring against has. The four were talking about elbow room and the back room; the two were talking about how many parties fit on a game day. Assume it fills quickly at lunch when there is baseball.
• Nine writers say they will be back; not one of them has come back and written about it. The twenty-eight posts are twenty-eight different people, each writing once, and twelve of them say this was the first time they had ever eaten agu-bulgogi anywhere. For a shop that opened in 2025 that is only to be expected — but it also means nobody has yet told us whether the second visit is as good as the first. One post relays a companion's memory of an earlier visit, of the jjim and the poached version; that is his report, not hers.
• These prices are for a dish, not for a person. A small agu-bulgogi at ₩30,000 feeds two — four couples had one and left some — the medium at ₩40,000 feeds three, the large is ₩50,000. The steamed jjim starts at ₩25,000. Rice is extra on top: ₩1,000 plain, ₩2,000 for the stone pot, ₩2,000 for the fried rice, and none comes with the bulgogi. Two people with a small bulgogi, two pots and a fried rice pay ₩36,000. Only one post copied the whole board (April 2026); everyone else recorded what they themselves ordered, and from September 2025 to August 2026 not one of those figures contradicts another. Nobody calls it expensive; seven use the word value, two of them by comparison with Seoul. No one mentions the regional currency card, and one notes that Zeropay works.
• The posts arrived in two clusters: four over five days in late November 2025, nine over ten days from 24 January 2026. Thirteen of the twenty-eight sit inside those two windows, and within them three sentences recur almost word for word — a young couple with ten years' experience, no MSG in any dish, a sauce the owner developed himself. Eleven posts carry the decade, eight the MSG line. This is copy the shop supplied. Yet only one of the thirteen declares a sponsorship. Four others state they paid their own way; the remaining twenty-three say nothing about money at all, and saying nothing is not the same as saying it was not sponsored. We did not drop the thirteen: what each of them ate, paid, ordered and brought differs post by post — a ₩6,000 milt charge on a receipt, ₩700 for an hour's parking in a light car, an order placed at the hot grade, a party of forty booked that night — and that is not a template. But we have kept those three sentences out of our counts. The MSG and the decade are things the shop says, not things we checked.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 178 candidate posts we opened 75 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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