Gilpost · Gangdong-gu, Cheonho-dong
Katsu Namba 5 Homeplus Gangdong-jeom
카츠남바5 홈플러스 강동점 A cutlet counter in the third-floor food hall of the Homeplus at Gubeundari, where nearly everything lands at 9,500 won
Japanese · Gangdong-gu, Cheonho-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Katsu Namba 5's Gangdong branch is a cutlet shop in the third-floor food hall of the Homeplus attached to Gubeundari station on Line 5. Models of the dishes stand at the entrance with prices, so you decide before you walk in; inside, a glass partition splits the room in two and either side is fine. The menu works by attaching something to a cutlet — baked cheese spaghetti, cream spaghetti, cold buckwheat on a tray, cold buckwheat in broth, chewy noodles, roe rice, omurice, a kimchi hotpot, fishcake-skewer udon, and a children's plate. Anything with a cutlet is generally 9,500 won, from 6,500 for the children's set up to 9,900 for the aged whole-loin. Three pickles come as standard — kimchi, yellow radish, radish — and you ladle your own soup from a station in the room. A CGV cinema sits on the fourth floor of the same building, and three writers ate here on their way to a film. Two posts note the brand only ever appears inside a Homeplus. The posts we read run from October 2024 to August 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 강동구 양재대로 1571, 천호복합 상업시설 3층 X10,YJ호 (천호동) 1571 Yangjae-daero, Gangdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1350-6419 |
| Typical spend | ₩6,500 – ₩9,900 |
| Floor area | 122 m² |
| Status | In business |
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
What sets it apart
- Nothing here has changed price in twenty months. The baked-cheese spaghetti with cutlet is 9,500 won in a December 2024 post and 9,500 won in an August 2026 one; the cream version is 9,500 in March 2025 and 9,500 in December 2025. Not a single dish shows a disputed price — unusual among the places we have read. The shape of the pricing is simple too: almost anything with a cutlet is 9,500, and the exceptions are the fishcake udon at 7,000, the cold buckwheat at 9,000, the aged whole-loin at 9,900 and the children's set at 6,500. Three writers report two people eating for under 20,000 won. No post gives the price of a set, though — all we have is one writer saying the sets stay under 15,000.
- The praise here always lands on the same word: textbook. Faithful to the basics and well fried. The platonic shape of a cutlet. Dip it in the sauce and you feel you are eating the definition. The taste of years ago. Several posts say crisp outside, moist inside — but nobody says stunningly crisp. One writer marks the scale precisely: crisp, yes, but not maddeningly so, just decently good; and his conclusion is that it is nothing special, which is exactly why you know what you are getting. Nobody here calls the place remarkable. Nobody calls it a letdown either.
- The warmest praise at this place goes to something nobody pays for: the soup you fetch yourself. There is a pot at the side of the room, thick with fried batter crumbs; three seconds of pouring and it comes out floating with them. The one writer who describes it says twice, in different words, that he could hardly believe a freebie tasted like that. Set against his verdict on the cream spaghetti he actually paid for — decently good — the gap is stark. Four posts list the same three standing pickles, kimchi, yellow radish and radish, and a member of staff brings them to your table with water once you order.
- Two writers came back. One says she and her husband have been two more times because she genuinely rates it, and she names her fixed order: the fishcake-skewer udon with the cutlet set, every single visit. The other opens his post with the words "here again." Two more say they will return, one of them a ten-year local who plans to come back the next time her appetite goes. This is a place neighbours return to — not one post here was written by someone who travelled for it.
- You go up to the third floor to get here. Eight posts describe that climb — the third-floor restaurants, the shop coming into view by the escalator, a row of places you walk past before choosing. One writer maps the whole route: from the Gubeundari ticket gates head for exits 1 and 2 and you walk straight into the Homeplus, then take the escalator. The third floor is not just this shop; there is chicken soup, shabu-shabu, pot rice and beef soup up there too, and two writers say they went in because this one had the widest menu. So it is less a destination than a choice you make once you are up there.
- There is no toilet inside the shop. Two posts say so separately: it is outside, you use the building's; the Homeplus toilet. Whether men's and women's are separate, whether it is on the same floor or you go down, how far it is — nobody says. Two writers came with a child and the place has a children's menu, yet not one post mentions a changing table or a feeding room.
- Two writers brought a child, and both rest their case on the children's menu. One says her primary-school son always picks the 6,500-won children's cutlet set because it comes with an ice cream; the other shared a mozzarella cutlet and cold noodles with her child, who pronounced it delicious. There is a children's omurice too. One writer notes that trolleys are not supposed to come into the restaurant, but the owner saw her child asleep in it and waved her through. Still, no post mentions a high chair, a changing table or anything for a child to do — a menu is not the same as facilities.
What 9 bloggers said
We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (5) and “Crispy batter” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Second floor | 8 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Reachable by transit | 3 of 9 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 3 of 9 posts |
| Toilet outside | 2 of 9 posts |
| Free refills | 2 of 9 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 chijeu-obeun spaghetti donkatsu (치즈오븐 스파게티 돈까스) — 3 of 9 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
2 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 2 of 9 posts |
|---|
The parking is the Homeplus's, not the restaurant's. Two posts give the same terms: underground car park, two hours free if you carry a Homeplus receipt. That is a condition rather than a yes, so it is worth quoting exactly — the receipt is the supermarket's, not the restaurant's, and one post notes the free period rises in steps with how much you spend. What it costs if you stay past two hours, or if you only ate and did not shop, appears in none of the posts. One writer came by car.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 3 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Came with children | 2 of 9 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 9 posts |
| With a friend | 1 of 9 posts |
| Date | 1 of 9 posts |
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
| Second floor | 8 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 2 |
Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Eight posts describe going up to the third floor and all eight say escalator; not one mentions a lift. A supermarket of this size very likely has one, but that is our inference, not something anyone wrote, so we are not writing it. Nothing about a step at the shop's entrance, which way the door swings, or whether you can pass between tables. The one hint we have is a writer noting that trolleys are not allowed into the restaurant — and that is a rule, not a width. This is not a no; it is that we do not know.
No one mentioned: 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 saying they paid themselves2 of 9 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way7 of 9 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 10 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Only one of the ten posts gives opening hours as actual times, so we have not published them. That post says nine in the morning to nine at night, last orders at half eight, and explains it: being inside a supermarket food hall, the kitchen stops early. But one person's word is not confirmation — of the other nine, four say only "see the Homeplus opening hours," one says "needs checking," one says "varies," and one adds that it may change so check before you go. There is also a contradiction: a December 2025 writer says she browsed the supermarket and went in at eleven, right as it opened — two hours off the nine o'clock figure. The shop appears not to post hours of its own but to follow the store, and the Homeplus's own hours do not appear in anything we read. If you are going late, check the supermarket first.
- No post says they queued, and no post says there was no queue. There are glimpses of other customers: a few women eating alone; tables filling one by one after she sat down; enough tables that it would suit solo diners, dates, families and small groups; room for thirty or forty. One writer walked in at eleven as it opened, another dropped by while waiting for a film — nobody among the ten went at a busy hour. What a weekend lunch, or the supermarket's own peak, looks like here is not something these posts can answer.
- One post says the place used to go by another name. A January 2025 writer recalls it as "The Donkatsu," well liked back then, and says the room is so unchanged she cannot tell whether only the name moved. That is the single account, and nobody reports the shop itself saying so — whether it is a rename in the same spot or a different operator taking the space, we cannot tell. Two posts also claim the brand only ever sits inside a Homeplus — one calling it almost a supermarket own-label restaurant, the other saying a search turned up branches only in Homeplus buildings — but both are the writers guessing, not anything confirmed.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. Two of the ten say they paid themselves — one posts a July 2026 receipt — and the other eight say nothing about who paid. There is a different thing to watch for, though: one post opens with a block reading "Wi-Fi, car park, toilet: yes / delivery, takeaway, booking, groups: available," lifted straight off the shop's Naver listing. We counted nothing from that line — the post's own text never says the writer used the Wi-Fi, made a booking, or took anything away. So Wi-Fi, booking, takeaway and delivery do not appear on this page at all. Another post credits its photo of the menu board to the Naver listing — meaning that writer never looked at the board.
Sources (9)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 강동구 맛집 강동홈플러스 카츠남바5, 시원한 냉모밀과 바삭한 돈까스 솔직후기 2026-08-11 · 울타리 너머의 일상 이야기 010 9959 1474 · via Daum
- 가성비 돈까스맛집 홈플러스 카츠남바5 내돈내산 방문후기 2026-07-04 · 솔’s 일상로그 · via Daum
- (천호동 홈플러스 맛집) 카츠 남바5 2026-01-17 · 0me____log ˚ෆ*₊
- [영화/맛집] 아바타-불과재 천호CGV IMAX LASER 3D F열 후기 / 카츠남바5 홈플러스 강동점 후기 2026-01-05 · 지상에서 꿈을 꾸다 - 편안하고 지속가능한 일상 추구 · via Daum
- 강동구 천호동 굽은다리역 홈플러스 가성비 돈까스 맛집 카츠남바5 2025-12-04 · 자유 일상을 꿈꾸는 탁유니버스
- [강동 맛집] '카츠남바5 홈플러스 강동점' 굽은다리역 푸드코트 혼밥 2025-03-11 · 해피민 연구소
- 홈플러스 강동 돈가스 맛집 카츠남바5 2025-03-10 · 식신의 맛있는 블로그 · via Daum
- 굽은다리역 맛집 - 홈플러스 가츠남바5 명품돈까스 아이와 가성비외식으로 딱! 2025-01-13 · 으니의 취향 · via Daum
- [서울 강동구/천호동] 가성비 돈까스 잘하는 집 '카츠남바5' 솔직리뷰!! 2024-12-10 · 냠냠노트 · via Daum
Of 166 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 9 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.