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Ilho Junghwa Yori

일호중화요리 A Chinese restaurant in Gochang town whose signature dish puts black-bean noodles and wok-fried jjamppong in the same bowl.

Chinese · Gochang-gun, Gochang-eup

Data as of · Published ·

Ilho Junghwa Yori is a Chinese restaurant on Wolgok-ro in Gochang town, between the courthouse and the Hwang Yun-seok library, on the ground floor of the Domino's building. It began in Haeri-myeon out on the coast, moved into town after the tvN show Three Meals a Day filmed there, and kept the old village in the name of its signature dish — haeri teuk-jjajang. It is not the usual divided bowl: black-bean noodles and a dry wok-fried jjamppong come in one bowl and you stir them together. Seventeen of the posts we read ordered it. Open ten to nine, closed Tuesdays. You order from a tablet at the table; the first round of pickles is brought to you and everything after that comes from the self-serve bar. The posts we read run from November 2024 to September 2026.

The basics

Address전북특별자치도 고창군 고창읍 월곡로 38
38 Wolgok-ro, Gochang-eup, Gochang-gun, Jeonbuk-do
Phone063-562-0888
Typical spend₩7,000 – ₩45,000
Floor area159 m²
StatusIn business

When it opens

Of 17 posts: 16 wrote 10:00–21:00.

Open10:00–21:00 16 of 17 posts last seen 2026-09
Break없음 5 of 5 posts last seen 2026-08
Last order20:10 3 of 12 posts last seen 2026-08
Last order20:20 3 of 12 posts last seen 2026-03
Last order20:30 6 of 12 posts last seen 2025-08
Closed화요일 12 of 13 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. Check the address twice. The restaurant started in Haeri-myeon and moved into Gochang town after the broadcast, and there is another place of the same name out in Sangha-myeon — one writer explicitly calls this one the town branch. Among the posts we discarded, one had checked in at the town address while the text gave directions to Sangha-myeon. This page is about the shop at 38 Wolgok-ro, Gochang-eup.
  2. The pickles come to you once; after that you help yourself. A sign at the self-serve bar asks you to take only a little at a time. Two writers single out the kimchi, which not every Chinese restaurant puts out alongside the pickled radish, onion and chunjang. Aprons, the origin notice and the wifi password are all at the same bar. Ordering is done from a tablet at the table.
  3. The large bowl is genuinely large. Those who ordered the big haeri teuk-jjajang call the quantity startling, and one says the regular size is plenty. A writer who took the gan-jjajang left noodles behind. Even the small tangsuyuk struck two people as a lot, and one table that ordered both admits to being defeated.
  4. The wall on the right as you come in is all photographs — the owner with whoever has been through. Several writers picked out the actor Lee Joo-seung and players from the Jeonbuk football club; one, in March 2025, noticed a portrait of the singer Song Dae-kwan, who had died the month before. More than one post remarks on the mix of people who came because of the television and regulars from the town.

What 26 bloggers said

We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (12) and “Clean” (9).

What they liked

Roomy12 of 26 posts
Clean9 of 26 posts
Large portions6 of 26 posts
Returning customer3 of 26 posts
Would return4 of 26 posts
Spicy2 of 26 posts
No wait2 of 26 posts
Friendly staff1 of 26 posts

Things you can check on site

Free refills11 of 26 posts
Self-order screen10 of 26 posts
Signed celebrity photos8 of 26 posts
Private room6 of 26 posts
Parking capacity5 of 26 posts
Relocated3 of 26 posts
Origin labelling posted3 of 26 posts
Separate restrooms2 of 26 posts
Wi-Fi2 of 26 posts
High chairs2 of 26 posts
Takeout1 of 26 posts
Local currency accepted1 of 26 posts
Takes reservations1 of 26 posts

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

The most ordered dish is Haeri Teuk-jjajang (해리특짜장) — 17 of 26 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

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

Posts saying you can park15 of 26 posts

There is a car park, but it is not the restaurant's alone. Those who parked in front put the capacity at five to seven cars, and one writer explains that it is shared with the neighbouring shops and usually full. Two ended up in the side street or on the main road; another simply parked at the library across the way and walked over. At weekends or at mealtimes, plan on the side street.

Who came, and with whom

Came by car7 of 26 posts
Group visit7 of 26 posts
Family visit3 of 26 posts
Came with children2 of 26 posts
Date1 of 26 posts
Solo visit1 of 26 posts
With a friend1 of 26 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Ilho Junghwa Yori 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 1
Separate restrooms2 of 26 posts

Nobody looked at the doorway. Across all twenty-six posts, no one mentions a step, a ramp, a wheelchair or a pushchair. That is not the same as saying you cannot get in — it means no one wrote it down. Two writers do report, from their own eyes, that the lavatories are not shared between men and women. Whether they are inside the restaurant, how big they are, and whether there is an accessible one, nobody says.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · 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 saying they paid themselves8 of 26 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way18 of 26 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 27 posts we gathered, 1 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

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Month by month
MonthPosts
2024-111
2025-011
2025-031
2025-041
2025-051
2025-082
2026-033
2026-042
2026-053
2026-061
2026-089
2026-091

What we do not know

  • The posts disagree about whether there is a private room. Several describe one off the main hall, good for groups, and one writer moved into it because the hall was warm. But a party that came in late March 2026 says flatly that there was no room, only tables. We cannot tell whether they missed it or it was already taken. If you need one, ring ahead.
  • Nobody wrote about a bus or a train. Across the twenty-six posts there is no station, no terminal, no bus number, and no one who walked. The closest anyone comes is a writer who notes it is walkable from the Hwang Yun-seok library but says they drove because of the heat. Everyone drove, so we do not know whether this is a place you can reach without a car. It sits in the middle of Gochang town, between the courthouse and the library, and one writer puts it two minutes by car from the town fortress.
  • Only one writer says what floor it is on — the ground floor of the Domino's building. A second mentions the same building but not the floor. How many steps there are at the door, or whether there is a lift, nobody says.
  • Two prices don't settle. For the signature dish, four posts from spring 2026 and one from August 2025 give ₩10,000, while a single post from 18 May 2026 gives ₩9,000 — three days after another gave ₩10,000, so we cannot tell whether it is an old figure copied across or what they actually paid. The brisket jjamppong is ₩13,000 in a January 2025 post and on the April 2026 board, but ₩11,000 for someone who ate it in April 2025. Read the board when you get there.
  • Last orders seem to have crept earlier. Posts from November 2024 to August 2025 say 8:30pm; those from March 2026 say 8:20; those from August 2026 say 8:10. The split is clean by date, which reads less like disagreement than like a change — but we have not confirmed which is current. Closing at nine is agreed by all but one of the nineteen posts that give hours. Twelve say the shop is shut on Tuesdays; one post alone says it never closes.
  • Not one post declares a sponsorship. Eight state outright that they paid their own way, two of them with a photograph of the receipt. Two things to note all the same. A group that ordered several dishes was given fried dumplings on the house. And twenty-six posts are not twenty-six people — one blogger came in January and again in March 2025 and wrote both times. One further post comes from a blog run by the Gochang county office; nothing is disclosed, but it is written to promote the area.
  • No one actually queued. Several writers found the place nearly full at lunch, or busy even at three in the afternoon, but not one reports waiting. Two say they only just missed having to — and did not. One guesses that a Chinese restaurant turns tables fast enough that it would not take long, but that is a guess, not an observation. Read it as: we have no post from the peak of a rush.

Sources (26)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 고창맛집 일호중화요리 해리특짜장 짜장 짬뽕 삼시세끼 맛집 내돈.... 2026-09-26 · 나리움
  2. 여름휴가중에 다녀온 전라북도 고창 일호 중화요리 2026-08-31 · 쑥라떼 블로그(여행,맛집,정보) · via Daum
  3. 고창캠핑_구시포 노을캠핑장 2026-08-24 · 여름의 시선 · via Daum
  4. 고창여행을 만족시켜 준 고창 중식당 일호중화요리 해리짜장부터 탕수육까지 2026-08-20 · 어쩌다 커플의 어쩌다 육아 일상 · via Daum
  5. 고창 중국집 일호중화요리 참쌀탕수육 짬짜면 2026-08-14 · 내사랑이랑 행복한
  6. 고창 중식집 “일호중화요리” 간짜장 후기 2026-08-13 · 푸르름한 세상 · via Daum
  7. 고창 일호중화요리, 짜장면 곱빼기 포장해 왔어요. 2026-08-13 · 세 아이 엄마의 고창 큐어팜 · via Daum
  8. 10년 전 삼시 세끼에 나왔던 일호 중화요리에서 해리특짜장 먹어보기/내돈내산 2026-08-08 · 행복한 수영생활 · via Daum
  9. 고창 맛집 삼시세끼에도 나온 일호중화요리 2026-08-06 · 세계유산도시 고창
  10. 고창맛집 삼시세끼 나온 일호중화요리 2026-08-04 · 매일,스며드는이야기
  11. 고창에서 찾은 중식 맛집, 일호중화요리 2026-06-28 · 몽글한 오늘 | 몽글남매와 함께
  12. [고창] 삼시세끼 고창편 출연! 고창 이색 짬짜면 맛집 일호중화요리 2026-05-18 · 홍미롭다.
  13. [고창] 삼시세끼 맛집, '일호 중화요리' 짜장면과 볶음짬뽕의 만남 2026-05-15 · 소소한, 보나비 · via Daum
  14. [고창 여행] 늦봄 가족과 함께한 여유로운 로컬 여행 기록 2026-05-06 · a · via Daum
  15. 고창 청보리밭 맛집 일호중화요리 삼시세끼 식당 해리특짜장 2026-04-13 · 라꾸맛집대잔치
  16. 고창점심맛집 짬짜면 일호중화요리 2026-04-08 · day by day · via Daum
  17. [고창군 중식 맛집] 삼시세끼 고창 편에도 나온 해리특짜장 '일호중.... 2026-03-31 · 농구장 밖 미식일기
  18. 고창 중국집 일호중화요리 고창읍성 짬짜면 현지인 맛집 2026-03-23 · 김열정의 일상맛집 · via Daum
  19. 전북 고창 삼시세끼 중국집 일호중화요리 해리특짜장 우동 군만두 .... 2026-03-06 · 맛집 | 여행 연구소 가볼랩
  20. 고창읍 중국집 맛집 일호중화요리 2025-08-23 · 부리부리의 일상
  21. 고창 일호중화요리 내돈내산 후기 2025-08-06 · 먹짱
  22. 33. 무계획 여행 4일차 고창 일호 중화요리 삼시 세끼 출연 식당 2025-05-03 · 아름다운 날들~~ 기록해야 기억한다 ~
  23. [전북 고창] 간짜장 맛집 일호 중화요리 2025-04-09 · 세상의 모든 것을 리뷰한다.
  24. 나혼자산다 이주승이 방문한 고창 중화요리 맛집 재방문[일호 중화.... 2025-03-25 · 파도의 일상 이야기 ❤️
  25. 삼시세끼 고창편에 나왔던 고창 중화요리 맛집 [일호 중화요리] 방.... 2025-01-16 · 파도의 일상 이야기 ❤️
  26. [고창/고창읍] 짬뽕이 맛있는 집 : 일호 중화요리 2024-11-22 · 지냥이의 하루

Of 286 candidate posts we opened 94 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.