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Nodaji Pocha
노다지포차 Nodaji means a gold strike or bonanza, a rich vein of ore; pocha is short for pojangmacha, the tented street drinking stall.
Compiled from 14 blog posts read in fullSources →
Nodaji Pocha is a street-side drinking stall on the Jongno 3-ga pojangmacha strip, with tarps and plastic tables set out in the lane and a few tables inside. Most dishes, like stir-fried tripe, steamed egg with pollock roe and clam soup, cost about 20,000 won, and soju and beer are 5,000 won. Four posts say you must order at least two dishes to sit. We read 23 posts from October 2024 to October 2026; 14 describe a visit. Eight roundup posts repeating the same copy were not counted, and one lottery article was discarded.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 종로구 돈화문로11길 21, 1층 (돈의동)21 Donhwamun-ro 11-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
- Typical spend₩5,000 – ₩35,000
- From the station5 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 16 m² · Status In business
What sets it apart
- The outdoor tables come with a two-hour limit. Six posts ran into it; the owner tells you when time is up and asks for payment about twenty minutes before. One post says that past two hours you must order another dish each hour, even on a weekday, and another had to order an extra dish to move from an inside table to the street.
- Eight of the visit posts call it expensive and six say portions are small. One group of three ordered three dishes plus drinks and paid close to 90,000 won.
- Waits vary. Four posts waited: 10 minutes, 15 to 20, 20, and over 30. Six sat down right away. One post explains there is no name list; you simply stand in line out front.
What 14 bloggers said
maekju
Spicy
We read all 14 in full. The most common claims are “Expensive” (8) and “Spicy” (7).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 4 · no 6 |
|---|---|
| Friendly staff | yes 2 · no 2 |
Things you can check on site
- Toilet inside 8 of 14 posts
- Time limit on the table 6 of 14 posts
- Reachable by transit 5 of 14 posts
- Hand-wash sink in the dining area saying it is not 3 of 14 posts
- Seats to sit and eat 2 of 14 posts
- Air conditioned 1 of 14 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 1 of 14 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Who came, and with whom
- With a friend 9 of 14 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
5 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 8 of 14 posts |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 1 (of 14 posts read) |
No post describes the floor or any steps; the ground-floor label is from the registered address.
Nobody wrote about a step at the entrance or getting in with a wheelchair or stroller. That means no one mentioned it, not that there is no barrier.
There is a toilet inside, noted by eight posts. Three say it is cramped, three that there is no washbasin, and one that it is unisex. Two say it is a single stall; one writer gave up on the line and went elsewhere.
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. 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 of 14 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way10 of 14 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 22 posts we gathered, 8 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
| 2026-10 | 4 |
What we do not know
- Service splits two to two: two posts found the owners curt, two found them kind, including an extra serving of roe on the house. One said they were neither rude nor friendly.
- Prices have gone up. Posts from October and November 2024 list tripe, clam soup and the roe steamed egg at 18,000 won; 2026 posts list them at 20,000. Two 2026 visits paid 22,000 won for boneless chicken feet, while the 20,000 in roundups is a copied figure.
- Five of the eight roundup posts come from a single blog, and all eight repeat the same lines about steamed skate, free bean-sprout soup and tarps, with the same prices. None of the fourteen visits ordered the skate.
- We do not know the opening hours. Three posts said they could not find them and roundups just say to ask. The street tables went out at 8 p.m. on an October 2024 Thursday and around 5:30 p.m. in a September 2026 post; we cannot tell whether that varies by day or changed.
- Three posts give the phone number 02-762-8873. None says whether reservations are taken.
- Nine posts went with friends. None went alone or with family or children, so we cannot say how it suits them.
Sources (14)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 종로3가 술집 추천｜만석골 전집부터 노다지포차까지 솔직 후기 2026-10-13 · ෆ 일상 블로그ෆ · via Daum
- [서울맛집] 종로3가역 포차거리 야장 술집맛집 "노다지포차" 2026-10-08 · 유난스러운 하루
- 종로 3가 야장 안주 맛집 추천 노다지 포차, 메뉴 가격부터 주말 야.... 2026-10-08 · 게으른 하루 속에서도 정성만큼은 놓치지 않는 리뷰
- [서울 종로구] 서순라길 카페 - 헤리티지클럽, 소림사 / 야장포차 - .... 2026-10-05 · xondness
- 종로 야장 추천 - 웨이팅 싫어 인간의 종로 3가 야장 투어 (2) 2026-09-27 · 한 입으로 기억하는 여행 · via Daum
- [서울 종로구.돈의동] 종로3가 야장 토요일 웨이팅 정보 '노다지 포.... 2026-09-21 · 삐삐곽 다이어리
- 종로 노다지포차 포차거리 안주맛집 2026-09-03 · 순간, · via Daum
- 종로3가 포차거리 내돈내산 위치 및 주말 데이트 포장마차 2026-07-22 · 윤희의 여행 이야기
- 종로 포차 거리, 핫핫핫한 야장 포차 거리 2026-06-05 · Everything I feel and see
- 서울 | 종로핫플 야장 포장마차 [ 노다지포차 ] 솔직후기 2026-05-26 · 영심언니 기록중 / 신혼일기 · via Daum
- [종로3가 야장] 짱포차 노다지포차 꿀팁 내돈내산 불금 웨이팅 2026-04-29 · 오늘도 먹고 잠
- 서울 종로3가 익선동 가볼만한곳 낮부터 밤까지 놀거리 좋은 한옥거.... 2025-04-24 · (Life is now) 여행, 너기다.
- [종로 / 돈의동] 가을야장 포장마차 종로3가 돈의동에서 즐기는 야장.... 2024-11-08 · 서승현아나운서의 일상이야기
- 종로3가역 야장 포장마차 거리 노다지포차 명란계란찜 맛집 2024-10-23 · Cheri + Shin = ♥
Of 331 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 14 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.