Korean
Jungang Galchi Sikdang
중앙갈치식당 Jungang means 'central', and galchi is hairtail (cutlassfish), the fish this house braises and grills in Namdaemun Market's hairtail alley.
Compiled from 2 blog posts read in fullSources →
A braised-hairtail and grilled-fish house inside the hairtail alley of Namdaemun Market; every post calls it Jungang Galchi Sikdang. You order the braise and the grilled fish platter by the single portion and eat them with rice; the two visits put a portion at 12,000 and 14,000 won. We read 6 posts dated 16 September to 15 October 2026. One was about another restaurant and was set aside, and only 2 describe an actual visit; the other three are compilations of tourist-board information and market route lists.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 중구 남대문시장길 22-10, 1층, 2층 (남창동)22-10 Namdaemunsijang-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-2296-0213
- Typical spend₩3,000 – ₩14,000
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 33 m² · Status In business
What sets it apart
- You can order for one. One visit noted that every dish can be ordered as a single portion; two people ordered one braise and one grilled platter.
- Food comes out at once. One visit described fish piled up and grilled in advance outside the shop, so the order arrived the instant they sat down — though the grilled hairtail served with the braise was dry for the same reason.
- One visit says the shop takes Onnuri market vouchers and Seoul Pay; the other says paying with digital Onnuri gets you a discount here.
What 2 bloggers said
galchi-jorim
Sweet
We read all 2 in full. The most common claims are “Sweet” (1) and “Roomy” (1).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Reachable by transit 1 of 2 posts
- Second floor 1 of 2 posts
- Local currency accepted 1 of 2 posts
- Discount offered 1 of 2 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
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
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Second floor | 1 of 2 posts |
|---|
One visit says the restaurant has a main building and an annex, and they were seated on the annex's second floor. Nobody described the ground floor or the main building. The registered address (22-10) differs by one number from the one the posts give (22-12).
We don't know whether there is a step at the door or whether a wheelchair or stroller can get in — not because there isn't, but because nobody wrote about it. No post says whether the second floor is reached by stairs or a lift.
Nobody mentioned the toilets, so we don't know whether they are inside or separated by sex.
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 themselves2 of 2 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 5 posts we gathered, 3 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-09 | 1 |
| 2026-10 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Prices disagree. A September visit paid 12,000 won each for the braise and the grilled platter; a visit on 9 October says 14,000 won per person, as do two posts copying tourist-board listings. We cannot tell whether the price went up or one post is wrong.
- Only one visit mentions waiting: about 10 minutes at 3:20 on a Saturday afternoon, well past lunch. Nobody recorded the wait on weekdays or at lunchtime.
- One visit came by Line 4 from Seoul Station to Hoehyeon Station exit 5 and walked in, noting that exit 5 has no lift, only stairs. No post came by bus.
- Both visits only say 'we', so we don't know who people came with; nobody wrote about coming alone or in a large group.
- Only one visit lists opening hours — 10:00 to 21:00, closed every other Sunday and on holidays — and that is copied listing data. With no two posts agreeing, we have not confirmed the hours.
- Only one compiled post gives a phone number, 02-752-2892, copied from listings. Nobody confirmed whether the restaurant takes reservations.
Sources (2)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 코끼리타올부터 사우나템까지! 초보자동선 및 쇼핑팁 대방출. 동대문 네일몰 · 명동 가방 쇼핑후기는 덤! 2026-10-13 · 트래블녕, 엄마의 여행 일기
- 남대문 갈치골목 중앙갈치식당 내돈내산 솔직 후기 (토요일 웨이팅, 주차) 2026-09-16 · 써니데이✈️ · via Daum
Of 396 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 2 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.