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Ageru

아게루 Japanese shabu-shabu that finishes with a bowl of curry udon, down a Euljiro lane

Data as of 2026-09-30 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Ageru is a Japanese-style shabu-shabu and sukiyaki house in a lane off exit 9 at Euljiro 3-ga, one to five minutes' walk, on the ground floor at 18 Euljiro 14-gil. There is no proper sign — just a small one on the wall beside the door, and seven writers admit to walking past it. Each table has a burner and you cook for yourself; what marks the place out is that at the end a member of staff turns the leftover broth into a bowl of curry udon. You choose between a clear broth, sukiyaki and tom yam, or take two of them in a divided pot. At lunch, 11.30 to 2.30, rice replaces the noodles and it costs less. The posts we read run from January to September 2026.

The basics

8 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 15 posts: 8 wrote Weekends 16:00–22:00, 7 wrote Weekdays 11:30–22:00, 4 wrote Daily 10:00–22:00.

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.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What people order

The most ordered dish is sogogi shabu + curry udon (소고기 샤브샤브 + 카레우동) — 11 of 22 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

• 소고기 샤브샤브 + 카레우동11 ate it
  sogogi shabu + curry udon₩12,000 · ₩13,000 · ₩14,000

  **The house default**, and the thing most people order. Vegetables and thin beef through a clear dashi broth — then, when you are done, a member of staff drops a block of curry roux into what is left, adds udon and makes you a bowl of curry noodles. Six writers say they had never seen a shabu-shabu house finish with curry instead of rice porridge

  **Nine writers call the final bowl of curry udon the point of the whole meal** — one cannot stop eating it despite being full, another thinks it should be sold on its own. **One found it too salty**, the broth having reduced all evening, and advises topping it up or cutting it with water. At lunch you can take curry over rice instead, and two writers prefer it that way. Prices given: ₩12,000 and ₩14,000 in January 2026, ₩14,000 in March, ₩13,000 in July

• 소고기 스키야키 + 간장우동 / 간장밥8 ate it
  sogogi sukiyaki

  The soy-and-sugar broth. **A raw egg comes with it, to beat and use as a dipping sauce** — six writers describe it, and one adds that staff will refill the egg if you ask. It finishes with soy-sauce udon, or soy-sauce rice at lunch

  **Two writers name the soy rice as their favourite thing here.** **Not one post gives its price.** Two find it saltier than the clear broth, and one of them asked for the finishing noodles to be made in the clear side instead. One calls the style Kantō.

• 소고기 똠얌샤브4 ate it
  sogogi tom yam shabu

  A tom yam broth. **Everyone who had it took it as one half of a split pot** — four of four. Two writers remark on finding tom yam at a shabu-shabu house at all. A mala broth turns up in two posts from July 2026 and in none before, so **it looks to be a later addition**

  **They differ on the aroma** — one finds it mild but warns it is still there, one finds it sour-hot and to her taste, one recommends it outright. **The mala broth is another matter**: one writer coughed on it, and could only manage it mixed into the clear half

• 저녁 세트 (반반 육수 + 우동 + 사이드)4 ate it
  dinner set₩16,000

  The evening bundle. One writer lists a set for three as split broth, a choice of udon, karaage, three fried rice cakes and three highballs; another puts it at ₩16,000 a head. A set for two includes one drink, by one account, and one writer notes the bundle saves about a thousand won over ordering apart

  One writer sums it up as a full course for about twenty thousand won a head. Another says the highball glasses in the set are generous enough to make the bundle worth taking in the evening

Sides, and what comes with it

• 가라아게4 ate it
  karaage

  The fried-chicken side. **It comes inside the evening set** and can also be ordered on its own. No post gives a price

  One finds it crisp outside, soft inside and gone in a moment; one finds it ordinary. **Three write about the dipping sauce**, and disagree — one likes the mustardy bite that cuts the oil, one wants chilli in it. One party reports that after a member of staff spilled a raw egg on a friend's clothes, the karaage arrived on the house

• 모찌(떡) 튀김3 ate it
  mochi twigim

  Rice cake fried thin and glossed with a sweet sauce. **Part of the evening set.** No post gives a price

  One writer would have ordered a second plate had she not been watching what she ate; another liked how thin the batter was against the chew underneath. **One who skipped it says plainly that she was dieting**

• 소고기 추가3 ate it
  sogogi chuga

  More beef. **One writer added a portion, found it still not enough, and added another.** No post gives the price

  **Two writers describe the beef arriving frozen solid and hard to prise apart** — and both add that there was no off smell at all. A third says the opposite: that the slices came away one at a time, which they had not found elsewhere. Two note the lunch portion is smaller, and give the evening one as 120g or 240g a head

• 콘크림 고로케1 ate it
  corn cream croquette

  One writer got it **for taking part in the shop's Naver review promotion.** No post gives a price

  That writer found it impossible to dislike straight out of the fryer, **but warns the corn cream inside is heavy enough to catch in the throat**, and says to take a spoonful of broth between bites. A chilli sauce comes with it. **One person's word**

• 문어튀김1 ate it
  muneo twigim

  **It appears in a single post, and that writer comes for it** — she says so outright, in a parenthesis. She has been coming since the place opened

  **None of the other twenty-three posts mentions it at all**, and no price is given

• 샤브샤브 야채named in 14
  shabu yachae

  It comes with the set at no charge. **Six writers list what is in the basket** and the lists barely differ: napa cabbage, bok choy, bean sprouts, enoki and king oyster mushrooms, kabocha — with shiitake and oyster mushrooms in two of them

  **They disagree on how much.** Five call it plentiful; **one, used to places with free refills, found it a little thin.** One party of four got two people's worth and were told to say when it ran out. Two writers note how fresh it was, and put that down to how fast the place turns over

• 기본 반찬named in 6
  gibon chan

  It comes with the meal. Six writers list it: **all six name a cabbage salad**, and after that they diverge — pickled radish in four, white kimchi in three, pickled cabbage in one

  One finds the salad sharp and quite peppery; another tastes mustard in it. The dipping sauce is **peanut in one account, sesame in another, and "chilli plus peanut-soy" in a third** — **we cannot tell which of these is what arrives today**

To drink

• 하이볼1 ate it
  highball₩7,000

  **"Highball 1+1" is posted all over the room** — nine writers mention the sign. **Only one of them actually ordered a highball, and that one writer reports the price coming out differently** (below)

  **This is the heaviest thing we read here.** A January 2026 post says there is a ₩7,000 highball on the menu, but that ordering the 1+1 produced a ₩12,000 one instead. **The other eight simply copied the sign and never paid for one** — not drinking, at lunch, having an alcohol-free day, on a diet. One writer says the highballs inside the set are generously poured. **Which glass the 1+1 actually applies to, we could not establish**

Parking

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

Not one of these writers parked a car. More than ten posts mention parking, but most are the one-line "no parking" copied from the listing. Five put it in their own words and tell you what to do instead — take the subway because Euljiro 3-ga is next to impossible for cars; it is down a lane, use a lot nearby; no space, come by public transport; walk; parking is hard. None of those five drove either. They looked it up; they did not do it, and not one names a nearby car park. If you mean to drive, our posts cannot answer you.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

It is on the ground floor — the registry says so, and eight posts copy the "1층" when they write the address out. It sits back in a lane, and two writers say that from outside it could pass for a café. But not one describes the entrance itself, whether there are steps, what the door is like; seven only say they walked past it for want of a sign.

Nobody wrote about the step at the door. Across all twenty-four posts there is nothing about a threshold, about whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in, about the width of the doorway. Seven describe the lane and the small sign, but not one of them looked at whether the lane is level or whether there are steps at the entrance. We can write neither yes nor no.

One writer says there is no lavatory inside. In a January 2026 post she calls the room clean and the seating ample, and then adds it as the one drawback: the lavatory is not in the premises. Hers is the only post of twenty-four to mention a lavatory at all. Where it is instead, whether it is shared with the building, whether you need a key — nobody says. Beyond one person's word that there is not one inside, we know nothing.

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

• Someone else paid1 / 221 of 22 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves13 / 2213 of 22 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way8 / 228 of 22 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• There is nowhere much to wait. The writer who waited twenty-five minutes explains why it mattered: the restaurant opens straight onto the road, so she stood across the street for the duration. Hers is the only post that mentions waiting space at all, and nobody says what it is like in rain or in deep winter.
• This is where the posts split hardest. Two writers had a poor time. One titles her post "the day I had the worst experience at a place I love": she raised a hand to order the rice course, a member of staff brought udon instead without a word, dropped it into the pot so that hot broth splashed her and drew only a mumbled apology, and when called back asked, pointedly, whether she had ordered it. She is a regular of some four visits, writes that this had never happened before, and ends by saying she will keep coming. The second is shorter and harder: the staff were grossly unfriendly, and she will not return. A third describes the closing noodles being made by silently ladling out her tom yam broth, and wishes she had been told, or given a bowl for it. There is another side. One writer had karaage sent over after a member of staff spilled a raw egg on her friend; one was told the egg sauce is refilled on request; one asked which broth combination was most popular and got an answer. Six of twenty-four posts talk about the staff at all, and those six divide down the middle.
• Nine posts copy down the "highball 1+1" signs; exactly one writer ordered a highball. That writer reports being quoted ₩12,000 for the two-for-one when a ₩7,000 highball was on the menu. The other eight all skipped it — not much of a drinker, only at lunch, an alcohol-free day, watching what she ate. This is one person's account and we have not verified it. What we can count is that no other post says which glass the offer applies to, or what it costs. One writer does say the highballs inside the evening set are generously poured.
• It is a small room. Five say so: not for a group, four people at most; not wide but clean; better for two or three; simply not large. Two say otherwise — eight tables of four, enough for a crowd; plenty of seats. Two more single out the tables rather than the room: with the pot, the vegetables and the meat set down, four people ran out of surface — and for one of them that was why the vegetables came two portions at a time. One writer notes that when a large party is in, the queue gets longer.
• Coming by subway is simply assumed here. Eight writers give their own walk, but they do not agree on the exit — four say exit 9, two say 10, one says 11, one says either 9 or 11 — nor on the time: one minute, two, two again, five. One adds seven minutes from Chungmuro. The trouble is less the distance than finding it: seven posts say there is no sign. The one that exists is small and on the wall beside the door rather than above it, easy to walk past; one writer was not sure it was a restaurant at all; another admits to getting lost every time. Two say to look for the drawing of a cooking pot on the door.
• We cannot tell you when it opens. Of the fifteen posts that give hours, seven say weekdays 11.30 to 22.00 and weekends 16.00 to 22.00; six say simply every day, 10.00 to 22.00; one says 11.20 on weekdays. The six who say 10.00 all give no days at all; the seven who say 11.30 all separate the weekend out. Against that: a January 2026 writer arrived at half past eleven and nearly hit a queue, and a July writer who went "at opening" to beat the queue ate off the lunch menu. One post also closes the weekend earlier — 16.00 to 20.00 on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, against 22.00 in six others. A break from 15.00 to 17.00 appears in seven posts with no disagreement, and one adds that there is no break at weekends. Last orders are 13.30 and 20.30. If you are planning a late weekend dinner, ring first.
• At lunch your choices narrow. A July 2026 writer notes two things: in the evening you can have the pot split between two broths, but at lunch — too busy, she guesses — you cannot, and a table has to order all the same dish. No other post says whether they ordered separately at lunch, and hers is the only account of this rule. That the lunch menu differs, though, four writers confirm: less beef, rice instead of noodles, and a lower price.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 243 candidate posts we opened 68 and kept 22 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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