Gilpost · Geumcheon-gu, Gasan-dong
Tanghwa Kungfu Malatang Gasan
탕화쿵푸마라탕 가산점 Pick-your-own mala soup, weighed at the till and charged by the 100 grams
Chinese · Geumcheon-gu, Gasan-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Tanghwa Kungfu Malatang's Gasan branch is a mala-soup shop on the ground floor of a tower on Beotkkot-ro 36-gil, three to five minutes' walk from Gasan Digital Complex station — two writers place it on the corner by the Starbucks, one beside the burger shop. You take a basket, fill it yourself at the ingredient counter, and it is weighed at the till and charged by the hundred grams: ₩2,290 for the soup, ₩3,390 for the stir-fry and the mixed version, ₩2,500 for a tomato broth with the mala left out. Beef and lamb go in the same basket and are weighed with everything else. Heat runs from zero to three, chosen out loud. Beyond those there is fried pork and fried rice. It opens at eleven; on the closing time the posts do not agree — see below. The district is offices, so it fills at lunch and again after work. The posts we read run from November 2025 to August 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 금천구 벚꽃로36길 30, 가산 KS TOWER 제C119호 (가산동) 30 Beotkkot-ro 36-gil, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul |
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| Typical spend | ₩8,800 – ₩16,900 |
| Floor area | 86 m² |
| Status | In business |
7 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 8 posts: 3 wrote Weekdays 11:00–22:00, 3 wrote Weekends 11:00–21:00, 3 wrote Daily 11:00–22:00.
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–22:00 3 of 8 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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| Open | Weekends | 11:00–21:00 3 of 8 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Open | Daily | 11:00–22:00 3 of 8 posts last seen 2026-05 |
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 sets it apart
- There is no such thing here as the price of a bowl. Weight is the price, so the same soup is recorded at anything from ₩8,800 to ₩16,900 — ₩8,800 for a writer holding back on a diet, ₩12,000 and ₩13,000 at lunch, and ₩16,900 for one who had walked in promising herself she would stay under twelve. Another records filling the basket to nearly twenty thousand. Three write that the basket felt modest and the till did not. What you do get is the meat weighed in with everything else. Nine posts make this point: beef and lamb are picked up like any other ingredient and charged at the same rate per hundred grams. Three of them explain what that is measured against — elsewhere the meat is ₩3,000 per hundred grams on its own, or a four-to-five-thousand-won add-on. That is, as often as not, the reason these writers are in this shop rather than another. Two add that skewers and prawns are weighed the same way. The one exception is coriander, ₩1,000, asked for at the till. Even so, more writers call it dear than cheap — pricier than the shop near home, a bit above the going rate, not exactly a bargain — and most of them are pointing at their own basket rather than at the board.
- Clean is the word these posts share — seven of them use it, and what is striking is that all seven are looking at the ingredient counter rather than at the room: the ingredients laid out tidily, the self-service bar kept up, the vegetables fresh. In a shop where customers handle the food themselves, that is where the eye goes. Two single out the raw prawns as visibly fresh. One notes the light off the full-height window. An April 2026 writer guessed the place must have opened recently, it was so spotless — though we have posts about it from at least November 2025, so the guess looks wrong.
- There is seating laid out for eating alone, and the posts call it half a dozen different things: the solo zone, the bar seats, the one-and-two places, the small tables beside the fours, the counter by the window. One writer eats there by herself every lunchtime; another came alone on a business trip from out of town. Groups are well served too — one saw a party come over from an office, another found the room mostly twos and threes. This is the middle of an office district, and almost everyone in these posts works nearby.
- You pick the heat by number, and the posts cannot even agree how high the numbers go. Four say zero to three — zero being no heat at all, three for enthusiasts — while one writer, in May 2026, reports one to four, with a one-and-a-half available on request. We could not establish which is current. What is steadier is that the broth is milder than it looks. One ordered level two and found it so mild she resolved on three next time; another says two is about right and it is not as hot as expected; a third puts level one at the heat of an ordinary packet ramyeon. One explains why — the broth is built on bone stock and peanut — and adds a warning from experience: she once asked for the peanut left out and the soup came back thin and flat. Unless you have an allergy, leave it in. The stir-fry is the other way: at the same number it burns harder, and one writer proved it by ordering the soup at two and the stir-fry at one.
- Half of these posts are about dodging the lunch rush. Three say the food came quickly — and all three went when the room was empty: late in the evening with no other customer, inside ten minutes, the stir-fry out promptly. The writers who have been at noon say otherwise: one only goes in when it looks thin, because at the peak the food takes a while; another bolts out of the office the moment the hour strikes so as not to queue. Two more found it full on a weekday evening. Only one writer has actually queued, so how long you might wait is not something we can tell you. One explains the system: you are given a number at the till and put your hand up when it is called.
What 12 bloggers said
We read all 12 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (7) and “Expensive” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Seats to sit and eat | 7 of 12 posts |
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| Reachable by transit | 7 of 12 posts |
| Takeout | 2 of 12 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 12 posts |
| Complimentary tea or drink | 1 of 12 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 malatang (마라탕) — 11 of 12 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
Who came, and with whom
| Solo visit | 4 of 12 posts |
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| With a friend | 3 of 12 posts |
| Date | 1 of 12 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 | yes 0 · no 1 |
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Nobody has checked whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Not one post mentions a step at the door, a ramp, a lift, or the width of the doorway. What is certain is that it is on the ground floor of the tower — one writer says so in her own words, and the registered address is unit 119. So there are no stairs; whether there is a lip at the threshold, we cannot say. Bear in mind too that this is a shop where you carry a basket round the counter and take it to the till yourself — and no writer says whether anyone will do that for you.
No one mentioned: 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 of 12 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way8 of 12 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 14 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 3 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
What we do not know
- The opening hour is certain; the closing hour is not. Eight posts give hours and all eight open at eleven. Most close at ten on weekdays — six, counting those that write 'every day' — but one, from February 2026, says midnight. Three put the weekend close at nine, while an April 2026 post has the weekend running to ten like the rest. Two further posts say midnight every day, and we left them out — they are the same promotional text filed under two blogs, and counting it twice would manufacture agreement. If you plan to arrive after ten, ring first. No post mentions a mid-afternoon break, a last order, or a closing day.
- We know nothing about the lavatory. Not one writer describes having used it. One post says the building has them, separated by sex, but the line sits in the same copied tick-list as the parking and the station exit. Whether it is inside the shop or out in the building, and how far you would have to walk, nobody writes. This is not a claim that there is none. It is a count of nothing.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. Four of the fourteen put 'paid for it myself' in the title or the tags; the other ten say nothing about money. Saying nothing is not the same as having paid. Four posts were set aside. Two of them — a sushi lunch and a shabu-shabu chain at the outlet mall — do not contain a single line about this shop, so they are out altogether. The other two are the same 'three good places to eat alone in Gasan' article, posted five months apart under two blogs belonging to a brand that sells 3D pens, ending both times in a link to the pens. The paragraphs about this shop differ by a word or two. Counting one piece of copy twice would inflate the denominator. Of the fourteen that remain, one (August 2026) gives no price, no seat, no location, only the pleasure of choosing ingredients and some praise — it stays in the count but we recorded nothing from it.
- We could not establish a telephone number. Our record has none, and of the fourteen posts exactly one gives a number — a January 2026 post, and it is a mobile number rather than a landline, run together on one line with the address and the hours, so we cannot tell where it was copied from. One source is not enough to enter it. Given that both the prices and the closing time vary, you may well want to ring; we are not able to give you the number to ring.
Sources (12)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [서울 가산 / 탕화쿵푸마라탕 가산점] 가산디지털단지 마라탕 맛집, 혼밥하기 좋은 곳 후기🌶️ 2026-08-27 · syeon_pick · via Daum
- 가산디지털단지 마라탕 맛집 탕화쿵푸마라탕 후기(가디맛집/가디마라탕/탕화쿵푸마라탕/가산디지털단지... 2026-08-13 · 개발자는 오늘도 먹습니다 · via Daum
- [내돈내먹] 가디 마라탕맛집 탕화쿵푸마라탕 가산점 마라샹궈, 마라탕, 꿔바로우 나의 또갈집 2026-08-03 · 행벅한응디니 · via Daum
- [가산디지털단지 탕화쿵푸 마라탕 후기] 내돈내산 가디 마라탕 가디역 마라탕 마라샹궈 2026-05-24 · 불로그 · via Daum
- 가산디지털단지역 맛집 :: 탕화쿵푸에서 점심 마라탕 수혈 완 2026-05-17 · 일기 · via Daum
- 20260513 점심ㅣ 탕화쿵푸 가산점 마라탕 마라수혈 2026-05-13 · 웰니스 by 신디하트 · via Daum
- 마라반 도전 후기 탕화쿵푸마라탕 가산점 2026-04-05 · Don’t stop me · via Daum
- 가산 아울렛 맛집, 쇼핑 후 들른 탕화쿵푸 가산점 솔직 후기 2026-03-02 · 뚜랑이네 · via Daum
- 가산디지털단지역 마라탕 맛집 추천 '탕화쿵푸마라탕' 가산점 2026-02-25 · 길...위에서 길을 묻다 · via Daum
- 가산 마라탕 추천 | 탕화쿵푸마라탕 토마토마라탕, 꿔바로우 후기 2026-02-05 · 박병아리의 3평 옷장 · via Daum
- 가산 마라탕 가산디지털단지 점심 저녁 탕화쿵푸 내돈내산 후기 2026-02-02 · 이상한나라의솜사탕 · via Daum
- 가산디지털단지 마라탕 맛집 탕화쿵푸 가산점 내돈내산 2026-01-29 · 호그와트 · via Daum
Of 226 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 12 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.