Gilpost · Hwasun-gun, Hwasun-eup
Yennal Dubu
옛날두부 A tofu house by the Goindol market in Hwasun, pressing its own beancurd every morning since 1987
Korean · Hwasun-gun, Hwasun-eup
Data as of · Published ·
Yennal Dubu is a tofu house beside Hwasun's Goindol market, in the lane between the market and the farmers' co-op supermarket. It has stood on the same spot since 1987, pressing its own tofu each morning from Korean soybeans and natural brine; one writer says the family is on its third generation. The core of it is a single earthen pot — soft-curd stew, fermented-bean stew, braised tofu — with cold soy noodles in summer and an oyster tofu soup in winter. Eight in the morning to five in the afternoon, and several writers say it never closes. It does not serve dinner; this is a daytime eating house. The room fills with locals rather than travellers, and two writers note how many of them are elderly. Eight posts mention the crowd of dog and cat statues out front, which people keep mistaking for the real thing. The posts we read run from September 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 전남광주통합특별시 화순군 화순읍 시장길 33 33 Sijang-gil, Hwasun-eup, Hwasun-gun, Jeonnam-Gwangju |
|---|---|
| Phone | 061-375-4240 |
| Typical spend | ₩7,000 – ₩8,800 |
| Floor area | 60 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 14 posts: 14 wrote Daily 08:00–17:00.
| Open | Daily | 08:00–17:00 14 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 없음 3 of 3 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 16:30 7 of 8 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | None 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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 sets it apart
- The thing everyone writes about is that taking it away costs roughly half. Post after post stops to be astonished at the takeaway column of the menu. Buying a second meal on your way out is simply what people do here — one writer watched the room empty with bottles of soy milk in hand. Not everything halves, though: two writers point out that the plain tofu, small plate or whole block, costs the same either way. Several describe reheating the haul at home, and one is glad of it — the fermented-bean stew smells up a kitchen when you cook it, but not when you only warm it. Another arrived with a camping cooler and ice packs.
- Nobody calls it expensive. "Are these 2010s prices?", "the price makes no sense", "seven thousand won and the rice is in it" — it goes on like that. One writer, though, connects the price to what is in the pot: soft curd, mushroom, spring onion and not much else, which she suspects is exactly why it costs what it costs. Another lands in the same place from the other side: she would not quite call it delicious, but at that price she will keep coming back.
- Nothing here is loud, and the posts treat that as both the point and the problem. Five people ordered the "spicy" stew and found it not spicy; even the mapo tofu is described as gentle enough for grandparents. Clean, easy on the stomach, like eating at home — that is the vocabulary, and it is why writers bring parents and children. Those used to a fierce sundubu say the first spoonful tastes of nothing; two of them came round by the end, one to the broth, one to the smell of the tofu itself. This is not the place you come to for heat.
- The "100% Korean soybean" line belongs to the tofu, not to everything on the menu. One writer went and read the origin board at the back of the room, and found that the fermented bean for the cheonggukjang is American, Canadian and Australian. She looked because something in the chew of it tasted manufactured to her. Plenty of posts repeat the shop's Korean-bean-and-natural-brine claim, and the tofu itself is praised everywhere — but she is the only person who checked. Do not read the tofu, the soy broth and the fermented-bean stew as one promise.
- People come back, and they say what they are coming back for. One drops in whenever she is in Hwasun; another has written the place up so often that this time she covers only the new dish; one post carries two visits, May and September of the same year. Someone returns after years away. More still write about a next time and name it — bringing a mother, bringing a cool bag and taking one of everything home.
- When the room is full the food takes a while. Two lunchtime visitors say so; one ordered a glass of warm soy milk to fill the wait. The same writer went up to the counter to order, because nobody came to the table. There is a self-serve stand in the middle of the room — water, cups, side plates, ladles, scissors — so fetching what you need beats waiting to be offered it.
- One writer found the rice small — big eaters, she says, should order two bowls. The pots go the other way: one describes a stew that would not go down however much she ate, and another left half a bowl of the oyster soup because it arrived in something the size of a basin. Generous with the broth and the tofu, modest with the rice.
- The tofu hotpot starts at two portions. One writer says you cannot order it alone, and the price given is for two. It is the dearest thing here, so it is worth knowing before you sit down by yourself. The one solo diner among these posts had the oyster tofu soup.
What 25 bloggers said
We read all 25 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (7) and “Returning customer” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Spicy | yes 2 · no 5 |
|---|---|
| Had to wait | yes 3 · no 3 |
Things you can check on site
| Takeout | 9 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 1 of 25 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 25 posts |
| A minimum number of portions on the first order | 1 of 25 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is sundubu-jjigae (순두부찌개 (매콤 / 하얀)) — 12 of 25 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
Sides, and what comes with it
To drink
Parking
4 posts say you can park; 1 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.
| Posts saying you can park | 4 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 25 posts |
There is no car park of its own. Many posts state this, but most are copying an information block, so we counted only the people who wrote about actually parking. They left the car on the street outside (one adds that nobody tickets it) and point across the road to the market's public car park. One qualifies it: the street works if you are not there at a busy hour, and several warn that the whole market area clogs up on market days. Nobody records paying, or what it costs.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 6 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 3 of 25 posts |
| Came by car | 3 of 25 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 25 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 25 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 1 of 25 posts |
|---|
No one mentions a floor either — not a stair, not a ground floor, nothing about going up or down on the way in. Several describe an old low building in a market lane, but we are not going to infer it from photographs. We count what someone looked at and wrote down.
Nobody writes about the step at the door. In twenty-six posts the words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp and threshold do not appear once. Writers bring children and bring elderly parents, and still none of them describes the entrance. Several call it an old building that has stood since 1987 — but we will not turn that into a guess about whether you can get in. "No" and "we don't know" are different answers. If you are coming with a wheelchair or a pushchair, ring the shop first.
Exactly one person looked at the toilet and wrote it down — noting, while describing the self-serve stand, that it is at the back of the room. One other post has a line reading "toilet: yes", but it sits in a block with the address, the hours and the parking, so it is copied information and we did not count it. Whether it is divided by sex, what it is like inside, whether there is an accessible one: nobody says.
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 of 25 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves5 of 25 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way19 of 25 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 27 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 3 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 6 |
What we do not know
- Not one writer describes getting here without a car. In twenty-six posts there is no bus, no train, no walk from Hwasun station. It is plainly in the middle of town — the Goindol market is next door and the co-op supermarket backs onto it — but how you would arrive is something we cannot tell you. That is not a claim that transit is poor. It is that nobody wrote it down.
- Whether you queue looks like a question of when you come. Those who waited came at weekend lunch or around noon; one stood thirty minutes. Those who walked straight in had all come well after the lunch hour — two in the afternoon, just before last orders, a late lunch. One arrived to a quiet room and left past a long line; another watched the queue form the moment she sat down. The local reputation runs hotter than any of this: one writer calls it a place where you wait thirty minutes to an hour even in a town with nobody in it — on the day she wrote about, she came late and waited for nothing. Nobody says whether there is anywhere to wait.
- The menu splits by season. The cold soy noodles run April to October by the wall menu; the oyster tofu soup is January to March. Going for the noodles in winter is a wasted trip. Someone arriving in early May found they had only just started; someone in late December wrote the noodles down for next summer. One writer met the oyster soup as a new dish in January 2026, alongside a mapo-tofu rice bowl.
- Five o'clock on the sign does not guarantee five o'clock. One writer notes that it sometimes shuts just after lunch, when the day's tofu runs out. Thirteen other posts give the hours identically — eight to five, last orders at half past four, with one saying four — but only she mentions running out. Since the tofu is made each dawn in the quantity they expect to sell, a phone call is worth it if you are going late.
- One post declares sponsorship — not by the shop but by the county, with "this post was written with support from Hwasun-gun" at the top. The shop appears as one of six stops alongside a water park, a café and a temple, and the writer ordered broadly here: fermented-bean stew, cold soy noodles, braised tofu, a small plate of tofu and a glass of soy milk, for ₩25,500. Nothing was chosen for her by the restaurant, which made her bill the most useful price record of the lot. Five other writers say outright that they paid for themselves; the rest say nothing either way.
- The dogs outside are statues. Eight posts mention them and four confess to being startled — there is a whole crowd of dogs and cats at the entrance, some of them large. One writer reassures readers who are frightened of dogs that they may walk in unafraid. Several conclude that the owner must love them, but nobody reports an actual animal living at the shop. Nor does anyone say whether you may bring your own: the one writer who arrived with a dog left it in the car and took her food away.
Sources (25)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 318 candidate posts we opened 65 and kept 25 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.