Gilpost · Gangseo-gu, Hwagok-dong
Pudam
푸담 A coined name, most likely from pujimhage damda — to pile a plate high.
Japanese · Gangseo-gu, Hwagok-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Pudam is a snack bar in the eating alley of Hwagok Bondong market, on the ground floor at 7 Chorokmaeul-ro. It opened in the summer of 2025, in a unit a sushi restaurant had held for years. It runs from eleven in the morning to eleven at night and closes on Thursdays. Soupy tteokbokki, kimbap, ramyeon and blood sausage are the core, but there is also cold soba, a pork cutlet and omurice — which is probably why it is licensed as a Japanese restaurant. The tteokbokki comes mild or hot. Three tables for four, plus a counter along the window, and you help yourself to kimchi, pickled radish and broth. Unusually for a snack bar it sells soju and beer, and people come in alone for a drink with a light meal. The prices anyone wrote down run from ₩3,000 to ₩8,500. Opinion splits hard, though: three writers kept coming back, and one who came almost daily stopped and wrote a scathing review. We read five posts, from August 2025 to January 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 강서구 초록마을로 7, 1층 (화곡동) 7 Chorokmaeul-ro, Gangseo-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1344-6483 |
| Typical spend | ₩3,000 – ₩8,500 |
| Floor area | 32 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 2 posts: 2 wrote 11:00–23:00.
| Open | 11:00–23:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-01 | |
|---|---|---|
| Closed | 목요일 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-01 |
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
- The money question splits down the middle. Those who call it cheap are specific: ₩3,000 for ramyeon plus ₩3,500 for a vegetable roll makes a ₩6,500 meal that one writer thought a bargain at 2025 prices; cold soba at ₩7,000 struck another as cheap and good; the regular simply says the prices are kind. The one who calls it expensive is arguing about value rather than price — he spent over ₩20,000 alone and was merely full, and points out that an Italian place nearby gives him steak, fried rice, pasta and a salad for ₩30,000. If a cheap snack bar costs almost as much to fill you up, he asks, why come. Both accounts point the same way: the individual plates are cheap, and an order of several is not.
- The heat is a choice — the tteokbokki comes mild or hot. The writer who took mild found it gently sweet with only a little heat at the back, easy going. The writer who took hot, and who says instant buldak noodles do not trouble him, found this hotter than those. Neither is wrong about the same kitchen: you set it at the counter. Some come for the burn: the hangover ramyeon, by the one account that ordered it, sends a sharp heat straight up, exactly as the name promises.
- One writer thinks it is cooked to order. What struck him about the tteokbokki was that it did not seem to come from a batch held warm all day, and the blood sausage arrived so hot he warns that grabbing a piece straight away will scald you. Two writers also praise the ramyeon's water ratio — noodles stopped before they soften, and a flavour one of them cannot reproduce at home from the same packet. The trade-off is presumably waiting, and nobody says how long.
- A snack bar that sells drink — three of the five single it out. One was glad simply to have somewhere near home for a quiet drink with something light; another notes both soju and beer. The one who actually drank came straight off a late shift — too restless to go home, too tired for a heavy late dinner — and had a beer with the kimbap-tteokbokki-sundae tray and a hangover ramyeon, finding the pairing better than expected. The eleven o'clock close makes that possible. Nobody writes down what a drink costs.
- No music plays. One writer found the room so quiet that getting boisterous over drinks felt awkward, and ends his post politely suggesting the owner put something on at a moderate volume. It is the flip side of what two other writers like about the place — quiet suits eating alone and works against a drinking session. The same summer visitor gives credit to the air conditioning: better, he says, than standing in a dusty narrow alley eating market tteokbokki.
What 5 bloggers said
We read all 5 in full. The most common claims are “Returning customer” (3) and “Not expensive” (2).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Seats to sit and eat | 5 of 5 posts |
|---|---|
| Beer served | 2 of 5 posts |
| Discount offered | 1 of 5 posts |
| Free refills | 1 of 5 posts |
| Complimentary starter | 1 of 5 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 5 posts |
| Air conditioned | 1 of 5 posts |
| Cooked to order | 1 of 5 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 gukmul tteokbokki (국물떡볶이 (순한맛 / 매운맛)) — 4 of 5 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 | 2 of 5 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 1 of 5 posts |
Getting there
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for the address instead.
Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.
Getting inside
Not a word about a step at the door, stairs, a ramp, a wheelchair or a pushchair. None of those words appears in any of the five posts. All five writers walked through that door and sat down, and none of them describes it. So whether you can get a pushchair or a wheelchair inside, we do not know — only that it is down a market alley.
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 nothing either way5 of 5 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
What we do not know
- One writer was ill after eating here. Posted in early September 2025, by someone who had been coming almost every evening since the shop opened and ordering two or three things each time. One day he came down with a bad headache and vomiting, threw up twice, went to a doctor and was unwell for several days. The same post, though, is careful: he cannot see the kitchen from outside, so he cannot say the food was the cause — only that a newly opened place might have gaps in its hygiene, and that he hopes they take extra care in summer. We have not counted this as "the place is dirty": he did not see anything dirty, and he himself stops short of a conclusion. None of the other four reports illness or raises hygiene. It was the shop's first summer, and nothing like it appears in any later post. We are passing it on as written — burying it and inflating it would both mislead you.
- One writer set out to become a regular and gave up. It is the same post. He came almost nightly at first, and noticed the place was always empty — which is why he decided someone should be its regular. Beyond the illness he names two more things. One is the off-menu fish-cake soup: told it could be made for ₩5,000, he ordered it and got two pieces of fish cake in a bare broth, which he could not square with the ₩1,500 the menu charges to add fish cake to a dish. The other is quantity: ordering three or four dishes when genuinely hungry left him exactly full and nothing over, and he could not tell whether the portions were trimmed because he was alone or simply standard. He also felt treated as a passing stranger. On quantity another writer says the opposite — the tray and the ramyeon left her comfortably, generously full.
- Everything here describes the shop's first six months. It opened in the summer of 2025, and the five posts we read run from 5 August 2025 to 6 January 2026 — nobody has written about eating here since. The ₩1,000 tteokbokki the earliest writer found was an opening promotion, not a price (the same post gives ₩4,000 as the normal one). New places move their prices and their menus, and one returning writer already thought the tteokbokki tasted different the second time. Ring ahead for what is sold at what price now.
- No post says how to get here. Not one of the five mentions a station or a bus. They locate the place by neighbourhood landmarks instead: the eating alley of Hwagok Bondong market, the unit a long-running sushi restaurant used to have, the sister snack bar one block over. All five read as locals on foot — one on her way home from work, one who lives close by, one who was handed a flyer in the street and noticed a new place had opened nearby. If you are coming from further out we cannot tell you how far it is from a station: nobody measured.
- Not one post mentions the toilet — not whether it is inside, not whether it is shared with the building, not whether it is split by sex. For a place that runs twelve hours a day and serves drink it would be worth knowing, and across five posts there is not a line. That is not a statement that there is no toilet, only that none of the five people we read wrote it down.
- No post discusses the floor or any stairs. The Naver check-in stamp on all five reads "7 Chorokmaeul-ro, 1st floor," but that line is printed by the widget, not written by anyone who looked — we do not count those. Nobody in the five bodies mentions a floor or a step. The one who describes the seating does mention a counter you eat at facing the street, and another read the sign from a distance and then the menu board up close, so it reads as visible straight off the lane.
- One of these five posts may be paid copy. The post of 20 September 2025 divides itself with emoji headers, tidies its verdict into a bullet list, and closes with a shop-information block and eleven search-phrase hashtags. It never records a single price the writer paid, and it declares no sponsorship either. But it does say what was ordered and eaten — mild tteokbokki and a vegetable roll, the chew of the wheat-flour cakes, the fish cake, the cucumber, radish and carrot — so we have not struck it out; what decides that for us is the record of eating, not the hashtags. We have, however, left its parking, opening-hours and telephone lines uncounted. Had we struck it out this page would rest on four accounts, below the number we require before publishing — we are telling you that too.
Sources (5)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 퇴근 후 가볍게 한잔, 분식 맛집 푸담 솔직 후기 2026-01-06 · 나의 일상로그(●'◡'●) · via Daum
- ️ 화곡동 푸담 떡볶이 & 야채김밥 솔직 후기 2025-09-20 · 블로블로블로그
- 우리동네 분식맛집 혼밥하기 좋은 화곡 본동시장 먹자골목 푸담분식 김밥 최고!!! 2025-09-13 · 기록. · via Daum
- 화곡동 식당 푸담 후기. 재방문 의사 없음. 피시방음식 퀄리티 2025-09-05 · 안녕하세요
- 화곡본동 분식집 '푸담' 2025-08-05 · 건강기능식품, 의약품에 대한 모든것! · via Daum
Of 156 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 5 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.