Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Ddukboong
떡붕 Tteokbung tteok (rice cake) plus bung, short for bungeoppang, the fish-shaped cake — the shop spells it Ddukboong itself
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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A bungeoppang shop in a lane at the far end of Ttukdo market — and two different shops, by day and by night. By day it is a takeaway stall: past red bean and custard it griddles corn-cheese with fried-chicken seasoning, pizza, chocolate, pistachio cream and sweet potato, each made after you order, with the tail and the crisp overflow left on. By night the same room seats eight people who booked ahead at one table for "boongmakase", a bungeoppang omakase — salad and potato soup, three or four cakes, a plate of spicy noodles, a dessert cake, three hours of social dining, hosted by the owner himself. Ten of the posts we read are about that table. The shop is one eight-seat table and a kitchen. It opened on 24 September 2024, and while there are branches in Sadang, Sinchon and Sindang, the omakase runs only here. Ten minutes' walk from Seoul Forest station exit 2; a long way from Seongsu.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 성덕정3길 3, 1층 (성수동1가) 3 Seongdeokjeong 3-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1427-1060 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩35,000 |
| Floor area | 21 m² |
| Status | In business |
4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
What sets it apart
- Coming at night is entirely a matter of booking — there are no walk-ins. Reservations go through Instagram DM only (@ddukboong_c3); the owner announces the day bookings open, once a month. The deposit is the whole price, paid up front — ₩70,000 for two. Full refunds stop three days out; after that you may only hand your seat to someone else. Eight seats, but your own party may be at most three — strangers filling the rest is the point of the evening. To bring more you pay for the whole table, which also allows corkage. In September 2024 there was an age limit, born between 1980 and 2005, with the advice that anyone older or younger should book the room. One writer came first with colleagues who had taken the room, then again as a pair. There is also "boonggaeting" — a rotating blind-dating night the owner recruits for on Instagram: ₩50,000, with the omakase and unlimited wine and highballs. After a magazine picked it up, a four-on-four evening grew to sixteen on sixteen, and by November 2025 it was held in a nearby café rather than the shop. If it falls on the day you come, no other customers are seated during it.
- The owner is part of what you are buying — ten writers record his manner. Because the omakase is social dining, eight strangers share one table, and he is the one who takes the awkwardness out of it. Writers describe him steering the room, sitting in partway through and handing out subjects to talk about. There are conversation cards on the table and a board on the wall grading the drinks by how strong they are. He mixes the cocktails himself. A card in the shop tells the story of how he started, and four writers stop to read it. He was twenty-three in 2021 — a very young proprietor, and more than one writer says so admiringly. It holds by day too. He photographed a customer who arrived near closing, telling her the shop was empty so it was no trouble; he asks whether you want the seasoning on top, and checks whether anyone dislikes truffle before pouring it. Three writers note local primary-school children in and out of the place, and one says he is already friends with them.
- The room is tiny — one eight-seat table and a kitchen. Which means there is nowhere to sit by day. Writers put it plainly: takeaway only, the table and the kitchen being the whole of it. At night that table belongs to whoever booked it. What it lacks in size it makes up in handiwork. The owner painted the walls himself; there are soft toys, a fish windbell, a fridge with bungeoppang drawn on it, fish-shaped headbands, keyrings and clickers for sale, and a mirror to take photographs in. The decoration changes with the season — Santa and Christmas in December, and one November day the place was dressed like a K-pop birthday café. The window seat looks out onto the street. At the omakase there are hooks for coats and storage under the chairs — one writer records that, and only one.
- How they griddle is the point of this place. They start after you order — five writers say so, and they say it alongside the waiting: the machine in plain view, the owner working the moulds while you stand there. At the omakase each cake comes off the iron behind him and straight to you. They do not trim off the tail or the crisp overflow at the edge — three writers single this out. One calls it love: everywhere else cuts the edge away to make the fish neat, and here it arrives thick and whole. The bag is punched with holes, which one writer had never seen at a bungeoppang stall; thanks to it she walked all the way to the riverside and hers was still crisp. Several remark that the filling is not rationed — one watched two bags of mozzarella go into a single cake. Six writers call the portions large, two of them full after a pair of cakes. The one exception is the Dubai-style cake, handed over already cooked: the owner told the writer it tastes better cool.
- Do not aim for Seongsu station — aim for Seoul Forest. One writer warns that the name misleads people into going to Seongsu when exit 2 of Seoul Forest is the nearest door, about ten minutes on foot; another gives it as 600 metres, off the main Seongsu drag but on a road anyone can find. A third says either Seoul Forest or Ttukseom will do and places it right by the Trimage towers. From Ttukseom it is thirteen minutes from exit 5. From the Seongsu side it is simply far — one writer's advice is to take a Ttareungi public bicycle. This is a neighbourhood, not a sight. Writers describe a lane at the end of Ttukdo market where residents rather than visitors pass, easy to walk by unless you meant to come, and pleasant for being between the crowded street and the park. One places it opposite Gyeongil primary school.
What 17 bloggers said
We read all 17 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (10) and “Large portions” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Takes reservations | 7 of 17 posts |
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| Takeout | 6 of 17 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 4 of 17 posts |
| Cooked to order | 5 of 17 posts |
| Open kitchen | 3 of 17 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 3 of 17 posts |
| Outside food allowed | 2 of 17 posts |
| No seats — takeaway only | 2 of 17 posts |
| Bag storage | 1 of 17 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 17 posts |
| Self-order screen | 1 of 17 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
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
| Group visit | 3 of 17 posts |
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| Family visit | 1 of 17 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 17 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
Nobody writes about wheelchair or pushchair access. In eighteen posts the words ramp, threshold and step never appear. It is on the ground floor and appears to be entered straight from the lane — the griddle works behind a glass door onto the street — but whether there is a step up, we do not know. Two things are clear, though. First, by day there is barely any reason to go inside: it is takeaway, ordered and collected at the door, and one writer notes a bin outside for eating on the spot. Second, the evening room is very small, one eight-seat table filling most of it, so there will not be much space to move — that is our inference, not a record. Since booking is by DM anyway, ask.
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 they paid themselves2 of 17 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 17 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 22 posts we gathered, 5 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | 3 |
| 2024-11 | 5 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 2 |
| 2025-02 | 2 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Twelve of the thirty posts we read were not customers of this shop. Ddukboong has branches in Sadang (the original), Seongsu, Sinchon, Sindang and Isu, and it runs department-store pop-ups on top of that — Ilsan, Suwon, Dongtan, Yangjae. So seven posts had the right name, the right brand and a writer who really did buy and eat a bungeoppang, somewhere else. In two of them the body is about Ilsan or Dongjak while the check-in widget carries our Seongsu address, so an address check does not separate them. We also set aside a diary by a friend of the owner, a write-up of the shop's blind-dating night that was held in a nearby café so the writer never entered the shop, a curation listing built from the shop's own photograph and blurb, a machine-written piece with no eating in it, and a post that never says which branch it bought from. We counted the remaining eighteen. We put no opening hours in the table, because only one person recorded the hours as they are now. Posts from September 2024 to February 2025 give 12:00–18:00 by day (13:00 at weekends) and 19:00–22:00 for the omakase, and ten of them agree on that evening figure. But a single January 2026 post gives 13:00–19:00, Tuesday to Sunday, with the omakase at 20:00–23:00 — everything an hour later. The old figures have the witnesses but are not current; the new one is current but stands alone, so neither could be published. We could not give a closing day either: one post says it opens daily with emergency closures announced on Instagram, and one writer arrived to find it shut and came back days later — but nobody writes down which day. "Tuesday to Sunday" in 2026 would make it Monday; we have not confirmed it. Check Instagram (@ddukboong_c3) before you go — it is the only place this shop posts its hours. The prices are as of November 2024: ₩2,000–3,000 for a cake, ₩35,000 a head for the omakase. By January 2026 red bean was "two for ₩3,000" and a Dubai-style cake was ₩6,000. There are two phone numbers. Posts from December 2024 and January 2025 give 0507-1427-1060; a January 2026 post gives 010-7379-2869. We published the one two writers share, but the later record is the other. We did not count celebrity visits. One writer mentions the shop having been on television, which is the shop's own claim repeated, and no writer reports a signature left by a guest.
- Nobody writes about floors. The address is the ground floor and all eighteen posts leave it there; not one mentions an upstairs or a separate room. What is recorded of the interior: one eight-seat table and the kitchen, the griddle, the counter and the menu board all visible at once, a wall with the blind-dating notice and the highball list on it, and a window seat that looks onto the street. No basement, no roof.
- Nobody writes about the toilet. Not one of the eighteen posts mentions it — whether it is inside, shared with the building, or separated by sex, we do not know. By day, being takeaway, there would have been no call for it; but the evening sitting runs three hours with drinks, and still nobody says. Worth asking when you book.
- Nobody reports queueing. By day the only waiting is for your own cake to cook — several writers count watching it as part of the pleasure — and not one post describes a line ahead of them. At night it is by reservation, so no queue can form. One post we set aside, though, says this: she passes through Seongsu often and gave up each time because it was too busy — and ended up buying from the Suwon pop-up instead. It is not a post about this shop, so we did not count it, but it can be read as meaning there are busy hours. Against it: one writer found the place empty near closing, and another, who had wondered whether such a location could pay, concluded she needn't have worried. They close early when the batter runs out — two writers say closing time is elastic, and one only just made it after hearing they would shut at 19:30.
Sources (17)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 성수동 떡붕 두바이 쫀득 붕어빵 후기 | 유행이라 먹어본 내돈내산 .... 2026-01-26 · MEENY 미니의 맛난 하루
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- 서울숲 와인바 추천 ‘성수 브와르’ 소개팅 핫플 2025-10-17 · 한국국밥지도 · via Daum
- [서울 성수] 떡붕 붕마카세 || 성수에서 즐기는 이색데이트, 이색붕어빵 코스요리 2025-04-11 · 흐르는 강물처럼 · via Daum
- 붕어빵 오마카세? 소셜 다이닝 떡붕 붕마카세 후기 2025-02-06 · Check-in STORY · via Daum
- 성수 이색 붕어빵 데이트 떡붕 붕마카세 서울 카페 추천 내돈내산 2025-02-01 · 떠나고 먹고 즐기고 · via Daum
- 서울숲디저트맛집, 이색 성수동붕어빵 챱챱하기 2025-01-21 · ❁
- 성수 붕어빵 맛집 ㅣ 떡붕 2025-01-09 · 나의 사랑
- 성수역 놀거리 추천 붕마카세 떡붕 이색데이트 2024-12-23 · 결혼한다 박진구 · via Daum
- 독특한 붕어빵을 파는 떡붕 성수점 2024-11-27 · 사딸라네 잡다한 이야기
- 떡붕 붕마카세 솔직후기 붕어빵 맛집 추천 2024-11-16 · 모든 맛집과 여행을 소개하는 역맛살의 일상 블로그
- 성수 붕어빵 맛집 떡붕 빵순이 재방문 고구마붕어빵 2024-11-12 · 버미zip.•.ఇ
- 천상계 붕어빵 7종류 등장! 골라 먹는 재미가 있는 성수 떡붕, 서울.... 2024-11-12 · ttunalrae
- 붕어빵 오마카세 떡붕 성수점! 2024-11-11 · 지수의 일상 기록
- 성수동핫플 맛집 붕어빵 오마카세? 떡붕 성수점 붕마카세 코스요리 2024-09-20 · * 콩슈니의 뷰티&홈쇼핑 *
- 성수동 핫플 필수코스 붕마카세 '떡붕' 소셜다이닝 붕어빵맛집 2024-09-17 · 외국계 교육기업 마케터의 마케팅 유랑기
- [서울 성수] 성수동 붕어빵 오마카세 ‘떡붕’ 존맛 추천 2024-09-16 · 양말의 꿀정보 모음집 (국내 해외 여행)
Of 155 candidate posts we opened 84 and kept 17 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.