Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
GOMA
고마 Goma Goma is the Japanese word for sesame, and sesame is what the tantanmen here is built on — the shop makes the point itself, and eight of the writers repeat it.
Japanese · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Goma is a tantanmen specialist on the first floor above the street, up half a flight, in a brick building down a lane off the Seoul Forest café strip. *Goma* is Japanese for sesame, and sesame is what the Sichuan-style tantanmen here is built on. The only seating is a single counter wrapped around the open kitchen — there are no tables to sit across. You order at a kiosk by the door and sit where you like. Half eleven to eight on weekdays, last orders quarter to eight; half twelve at weekends. About three hundred metres from exit 5 at Seoul Forest station. Everything we read was written between 25 June and 21 September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 서울숲2길 46-12, 1층 (성수동1가) 46-12 Seoulsup 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-2205-1777 |
| Typical spend | ₩1,500 – ₩14,000 |
| Floor area | 81 m² |
| Status | In business |
13 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekdays | 11:30–20:00 9 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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| Open | Weekends | 12:30–20:00 9 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Last order | 19:45 7 of 7 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 없음 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-07 |
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 one counter and nothing else. Fourteen posts say so: a long bar wrapped around the open kitchen in a U, and no tables to sit across. Not one writer complains about it. Nine call it easy to eat alone at — no one watching you — and three of those add that it works for two as well: one expected a solo-diners-only place and found that sitting shoulder to shoulder suited a date better than facing each other would. One remarks that the stools are exactly the right height. Only two posts describe coming with a group of three or more, and none says whether a larger party can be seated.
- There is a sink for washing your hands, separate from the toilet. Ten posts mention it, several going out of their way to: one confesses that a hand-washing sink is her private test of a restaurant, one prefers it to a wet wipe, one reads it as care on the owner's part given that nothing here is eaten with the fingers, and one likes the soap. Two note that it sits near the door so you can wash before you sit down. Nobody eats noodles with their hands — and yet ten people chose to write this down, which makes it one of the most repeated facts about the place.
- The kitchen is open, and fifteen posts tie that directly to hygiene. The same sentence keeps reappearing in different hands: you can see everything, so you trust it; the stainless steel says you need not worry. Seventeen call the place clean and not one says otherwise — a rare thing among the places we have read. One writer could not find a speck of dust. Another noticed that the seasoned vinegar on the counter was cold, took it as evidence it lives in a fridge, and was reassured. Four simply enjoy watching the cooking.
- You order at a kiosk by the door — thirteen posts say so, and one notes there is only one machine. Two add that you then sit wherever you like. One writer records that everyone at the table must order a dish of their own, which is worth knowing before you do the arithmetic. A single post mentions that bookings can be made by phone or in person, and nobody in our set booked. Two say the food came quickly; one clocks it at ten minutes.
- You come from Seoul Forest station. Thirteen posts put it near a station and nine of those name exit 5 — three hundred metres (three posts), 312 metres (one), three minutes (two), five minutes (three). Three use the Seongsu 2-dong community centre a hundred metres away as a landmark, and three tell you to turn down the lane by the bakery. On Ttukseom they disagree: five minutes, says one; eight, says another; and a third writes *two minutes from exit 1 at Ttukseom* and then corrects herself in the same post — Seoul Forest is much closer, come that way instead. Two warn that it is far enough down the lane to walk past.
- The walls are glass and what is outside is the green around Seoul Forest. Ten posts say so in nearly the same words — the park comes straight in, the light is the best thing about the room, the trees make you cheerful before the food arrives. Being visible from the street is part of how the place works: two writers stopped because they could see the room through the glass, one adding that it makes you curious even if you walk on. All of this was written in summer, though. Two guess it must be lovely in spring or autumn; we have nobody's word for it.
What 22 bloggers said
We read all 22 in full. The most common claims are “Clean and spacious” (17) and “No wait” (0).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Open kitchen | 15 of 22 posts |
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| Counter seating only | 14 of 22 posts |
| Self-order screen | 13 of 22 posts |
| Second floor | 13 of 22 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 13 of 22 posts |
| Hand-wash sink in the dining area | 10 of 22 posts |
| Large windows | 10 of 22 posts |
| Toilet inside | 7 of 22 posts |
| Bag storage | 6 of 22 posts |
| Air conditioned | 3 of 22 posts |
| Shared restroom | 2 of 22 posts |
| Waiting area | 2 of 22 posts |
| Review event | 1 of 22 posts |
| One dish per person | 1 of 22 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 22 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
Parking
11 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 11 of 22 posts |
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There is no car park, and no two posts send you to the same place. Eleven say you cannot park, and seven of those name somewhere else to go: five the municipal car park at the district sports centre, one to three minutes away; two the Ttukseom reservoir car park, eight minutes off and described as the cheapest; one the two big buildings up the road. One post gives the rates — ₩2,100 for half an hour at the sports centre, ₩4,200 an hour; ₩900 and ₩1,800 at the reservoir. Exactly one writer actually drove, parked at the sports centre and walked, and found it close enough and a decent car park. The rest tell you to take the train. Whether you can stop outside for a moment, nobody says.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 2 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 2 of 22 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 22 posts |
| Family visit | 1 of 22 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 | 13 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 7 of 22 posts |
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 2 |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get into this place. Nobody mentions a step at the door, a ramp or a lift. What is certain is the stairs: thirteen posts put the shop one floor up and two describe half a flight to the door. How many steps, and whether there is a handrail, nobody writes. The toilet is at the back of the room and shared. This is an absence of reports, not a statement that you cannot get in — but no post describes a way round the stairs either.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet. 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 disclosing payment2 of 22 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way20 of 22 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | 6 |
| 2026-07 | 11 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- We only have three months of writing. All twenty-two posts fall between 25 June and 21 September 2026 — a narrower window than for any other place we have read. So this is a summer picture: the tsukemen that nine posts describe is stated to be a summer dish, ten posts admire the green through the windows, and two say it must be prettier in spring or autumn. What this place is like in winter, what replaces the cold noodles, whether the prices hold — we do not know. One writer asked about a menu that did not match what she had seen online, and was told the menu gets changed.
- Two posts declare that they were given something. They went up three days apart at the end of June 2026: one carries a single hashtag at the top, the other a line at both top and bottom saying the writer received product but wrote honestly. Both are from the shop's first weeks. A third says she took part in a review promotion. The other nineteen say nothing either way, and none claims to have paid. Thirty posts matched this shop, but seven of them matched the word rather than the name — *goma* also means thanks in casual Korean, and turned up as a sesame soba at another Seongsu restaurant, a mackerel dish in Jeju, and an arts centre in Gongju. One more is about the duck-soup place next door, whose writer explicitly put Goma off to another day. That leaves twenty-two posts — though, as noted below, two of them may be by the same person, which would make twenty-one.
- Nobody queued. Five posts describe a quiet room — and all five deliberately came off-peak: after the lunch rush, at two in the afternoon, at half past two, or as the day's first customer. One writer repeats what she had heard, that the place gets queues, and then notes that avoiding the meal hour spared her one. So this is not "there is no wait" but "we have no post by anyone who came at the lunch peak." Two report things sold out by mid-afternoon: the sides in one case, the rice dishes in the other.
- The toilet is inside, right at the back — seven posts say so, and one had to hunt for it behind a curtain at the far left. It is not split by sex: two say so and both add that it was clean. Two mention the air conditioning reaching it, one recommending it as somewhere to cool off after the chilli. Two enjoyed what is on the wall — a view outside the door, a joke of a painting facing the toilet. How many cubicles, and whether there is an accessible one, nobody writes.
- It is up a flight. Thirteen posts place it on the first floor above the street, two of them describing half a flight of stairs to the door. No post mentions a lift, and none says how many steps there are, whether there is a handrail, or whether there is a step at the entrance. One writer advises first-timers to look for the sign before climbing. One more thing: our licence record puts this shop on the ground floor, while sixteen posts put it one floor up. There is a tonkatsu restaurant in the basement of the same building — one writer recognised it as the place she had eaten in before, directly below — and another business on the third floor, so it is worth checking the floor on the way in.
- Two of these posts may be by the same person. One is from 30 June 2026 and one from 8 August; their blog addresses differ by a single letter, and the pieces are built the same way — the garden fair at Seoul Forest, a walk through the park, two bowls of tantanmen and the chilli prawns at Goma — down to the same verbal tic. We could not confirm it. If it is one person, twenty-two posts are twenty-one people. The other twenty are certainly different writers.
- Sixteen posts give opening hours, and two of them disagree about closing. Nine spell the week out, and all nine agree: half eleven to eight on weekdays, half twelve to eight on Saturday and Sunday, with seven of them adding last orders at quarter to eight. Five more simply write half eleven to eight, some of them adding "daily" — they appear to be leaving out the later weekend opening, and one gives Saturday only. Against that, one post says half eleven to nine every day with last orders at half eight, and another puts weekday closing at half eight. Both are from 2026 and the first is the most recent post we read, from 21 September, so we cannot tell whether the hours were extended or the line was copied wrong — one writer each, so neither goes in the table. If you are coming in the evening, plan on eight. Two posts say the kitchen never takes a day off. Four give the phone number as 02-2205-1777; one gives an 0507 number, which in Korea is a forwarding line, so both can be right.
Sources (22)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 319 candidate posts we opened 66 and kept 22 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.