Gilpost · Dobong-gu, Chang-dong

Hongdukkae Son-kalguksu

홍두깨손칼국수 A hand-cut noodle and sujebi shop at the mouth of Changdong Golmok Market, as well known locally for its old-style pork cutlet.

Bunsik (snack food) · Dobong-gu, Chang-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-29 · Compiled by Gilpost

Hongdukkae Son-kalguksu sits at the mouth of Changdong Golmok Market, across the road from Sinchang Market, on the ground floor at 3 Deongneung-ro 58-gil. Hand-cut noodles and hand-torn dough go into the same clear anchovy broth, and both cost ₩7,500. It is a noodle shop that ten of our posts talk about for its pork cutlet — an old-style ₩11,000 plate that people order alongside a bowl of noodles and split between two. You order and pay at the counter first, then pick up kimchi and pickled radish from the self-serve station by the door. Five posts give the same hours: ten in the morning to nine at night, closed between 3:30 and 4:30 in the afternoon, last orders at 8:20. The posts we read run from October 2024 to June 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 7 posts: 5 wrote Daily 10:00–21:00.

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.

What people order

The most ordered dish is banchan (김치·단무지·단무지무침 (셀프)) — 10 of 11 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

• 김치·단무지·단무지무침 (셀프)10 ate it
  banchan

  All twelve posts talk about the side dishes. A self-serve counter by the entrance holds cabbage kimchi, pickled radish, and pickled radish dressed with sesame oil and chilli, along with small plates, paper cups and a ladle. The kimchi is the fresh, unfermented kind, and five people singled out the dressed radish for praise — one confessed to eating only that, despite liking kimchi.

  Free and self-served. Two posts note that each table has its own pepper and a pot of minced chilli paste; one describes their own method — stirring it into the broth makes the whole bowl too salty, so they put a little on the noodles only.

• 멸치 손칼국수7 ate it
  myeolchi son-kalguksu₩7,500

  The house basic: hand-cut noodles in a clear anchovy broth, finished with shredded laver and spring onion. All seven people who wrote about the noodles said the same thing — they are chewy and they do not break apart.

  ₩7,500, the same in all four posts that give a price. One post from November 2025 recalls it costing ₩6,000 at some earlier point — that is one person's memory, so we have not counted it as a price. A large bowl is ₩1,000 more.

• 멸치 손수제비7 ate it
  myeolchi son-sujebi₩7,500

  Hand-torn dough in the same anchovy broth, and priced the same as the noodles. Three people described the dough the same way — neither thick nor thin — and one said you can tell it was torn by hand rather than bought in a packet.

  ₩7,500 — the same in a post from October 2024 and one from March 2026. One visitor paid ₩6,000 during a 20% Onnuri gift-voucher rebate event, which is a market-wide promotion and not the shop's own price.

• 돈까스4 ate it
  donkkaseu₩11,000

  It is a noodle shop, but ten of the posts talk about the pork cutlet. It comes old-style — two thin pieces with half a bowl of rice, cabbage salad, macaroni, pickled radish and pickles. Two people said it arrives crisp straight from the fryer; three praised the sauce, one of them noting it tastes faintly of Korean sweet chilli chicken glaze.

  ₩11,000 in all three posts that give a price. People disagree about the size: a March 2026 visitor found it thicker and more filling than expected, while a September 2025 regular wrote that the taste was unchanged but the portion had shrunk. Three posts describe the same sharing pattern — two bowls of noodles and one cutlet between two people.

• 곱빼기3 ate it
  gopppaegi₩1,000

  Noodles or sujebi can be ordered in a large size. A November 2025 regular wrote that the standard bowl runs small and the large is what actually fills you, adding that older customers tend to take the standard and younger ones the large.

  ₩1,000 extra, priced in just that one post. Three people ordered the large size, but accounts of the portion differ: an October 2024 visitor who took a standard sujebi found it larger than expected and thoroughly filling.

• 고기 얼큰라제비2 ate it
  gogi eolkeun rajebi₩10,000

  A spicy bowl that puts instant-noodle and hand-torn dough in together, topped with beef. The name is a portmanteau of the two. One post says it is dine-in only: for delivery, apparently because of the instant noodles, they send the plain sujebi instead.

  ₩10,000 in the one April 2026 post that prices it. Two people describe the broth differently: one calls it closer to yukgaejang than jjamppong — anchovy stock with chilli oil — and says they had hoped for something heavier; the other found it more like rabokki than sujebi, deep and sharp from the beef, and large enough to leave two people full.

• 고기 얼큰수제비1 ate it
  gogi eolkeun sujebi

  The spicy sujebi without the instant-noodle addition. Not one post gives its price.

  Only one person reports eating it, and on an earlier visit rather than the one they were writing about: they said it was genuinely hot. That is the only account of the heat level we have, so we cannot say how hot it is.

• 콩국수named in 2
  kongguksu

  Two posts say it is a summer-only dish. Nobody among the twelve visits has eaten it; one writer notes they missed it this summer and will try next year.

  No post gives a price.

• 열무국수named in 1
  yeolmu guksu

  One post lists it on the menu board. It appears alongside the cold soy-milk noodles, which suggests summer, but no post actually says so.

  No post gives a price or describes the taste.

• 치즈돈까스named in 1
  chijeu donkkaseu

  One post lists it on the menu board. Nobody wrote about eating it.

  No post gives a price.

Parking

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

Nobody says where they parked. Parking comes up in two posts and in both it is a line in the header block — "no parking" in one, "use the public car park nearby" in the other. Neither writer actually parked. One visitor mentions borrowing a parent's car, but never says where they left it. It is a shop inside a market: if you are driving, check first.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

No post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold and step do not appear once across the twelve posts — we checked by machine and again by hand. The address tells us it is on the ground floor; what the doorway is like, we do not know. One winter post mentions a plastic sheet hung around the entrance.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · 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 saying they paid themselves4 / 114 of 11 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way7 / 117 of 11 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 14 posts we gathered, 3 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

What we do not know

• We dropped eight of the twenty candidate posts, which leaves twelve posts written by eleven people. Five were about something else entirely: two were government data dumps (a table of 150 officially designated "fair-price" businesses, and a list of Onnuri voucher merchants due to be delisted), and three were about different shops of the same name — one in Banghak-dong's Dokkaebi Market, one by Dobongsan station, one in Mangwon across the city. The other three were neighbourhood round-up posts listing several restaurants. Of the twelve that remain, two are by the same writer, from October 2024 and March 2026.
• Three shops of this name sit inside Dobong-gu alone — this one in Changdong, another in Banghak-dong, a third by Dobongsan — and the official fair-price register lists all three with different phone numbers. A visitor to the Banghak-dong one wrote that it is not even registered on Naver Map. To find this one: the mouth of Changdong Golmok Market, across the road from Sinchang Market. One post notes it appears on delivery apps under a different name, "Changdong Son-kalguksu".
• People disagree about the size. Five say generous, two say small. A November 2025 regular wrote that the standard bowl runs small and you want the large (₩1,000 more) to feel you have eaten — adding that the older customers take the standard and the younger ones the large. A September 2025 visitor, also a repeat customer, felt the cutlet had shrunk since their last visit, though the taste was unchanged. An October 2024 visitor, eating a standard sujebi, found it larger than expected and thoroughly filling. They were not eating the same dish in the same size, so we cannot merge these into one answer.
• Accounts of the room's size do not agree either. A December 2025 visitor found it roomy — four-tops and single seats with space to spare, warm and larger than you would expect of a market stall. An October 2024 post opens with "the room is small, but". A September 2025 visitor counted: five tables, all of them full. The licensing record puts the floor area at 16.12㎡ — a registry figure, not something anyone wrote in a post.
• Not one of the twelve posts mentions a toilet — whether there is one inside or whether you use the market's. That means nobody wrote it down, not that there is none.
• Not one post says how to get here on public transport. All twelve place the shop against the market instead — the mouth of Changdong Golmok Market, across from Sinchang Market, in through gate 2. Nobody names the nearest station, how long the walk is, or which bus stops nearby. These are people writing about their own neighbourhood, and six of them say they are regulars, so the question of how to get there never came up.
• No post mentions the floor or any stairs. The registered address and the check-in widget both say "ground floor", but that is an address, not something anyone observed. Whether there is a step up from the market lane to the door, and how many, nobody wrote down. A December 2025 post notes that the front is wrapped in clear plastic, which keeps it warm and lets you see inside — that is the winter screen, not the threshold.
• Three posts note small spoons and forks for children, each of them while describing the self-serve station — so these are things people saw. No post mentions a high chair, and only one writer says they came with a child: a parent and their second child, two large bowls between them.
• Only one post talks about queueing: in March 2026, a regular wrote that there is a bit of a wait at lunch but it never lasts, a table comes up quickly. The others mention a full room without saying they waited — one calls it the neighbourhood place that is always busy; another found the room bustling and all five tables taken well after the lunch hour. One account is not enough to say how long you would wait.
• The hours from 2024 do not match the later ones. An October 2024 post gives 10:00–20:30 with Thursdays closed. Six posts from September 2025 through June 2026 all say 21:00 and none of them mentions a closing day. Something changed, but no post falls in between, so we cannot say when. The afternoon break is 15:30–16:30 in five posts and 15:00–16:30 in one, from March 2026. Whether the shop has a regular day off now, we could not establish — the recent posts only say "daily", and not one of them actually states there is no closing day.
• Not one post declares a sponsorship. Five of the twelve state plainly that they paid their own way; seven say nothing. We read the bodies and the trailing hashtags and found no mention of free meals, review programmes or paid copy. One writer volunteers a connection of a different kind: they were at the market as a supporter for a small-business digital programme, stopped in for lunch between meetings, and paid for it themselves.
• One of the three we dropped does not read as something a person wrote. It is an April 2026 round-up of five Dobong-gu restaurants: no prices anywhere, nothing about what was ordered, and at the very end a line addressed to the author that was never deleted — an offer to generate five thumbnail captions and three opening hook lines next. It says the cutlet and the spicy rajebi were the memorable dishes here, but with no record of a meal we left it out of the count.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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We opened all 345 candidate posts and kept 11 as evidence.

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