Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Let's Eat Chicken
레츠잇치킨 Recheuit Chikin Seongsu Chicken sandwich and fried-chicken platter shop; the owners write their name in Latin letters as LET'S EAT CHICKEN on the wall and shorten it to LEC, which is why dishes are called LEC Chicken and LEC Chicken Platter.
Beer and fried chicken · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Let's Eat Chicken Seongsu — LEC on the sign — is an American-style fried chicken and chicken-sandwich shop on the ground floor of a white building in a residential lane, three to five minutes from exit 7 at Ttukseom. It became known after appearing on a YouTube food show. There are three things to order: the chicken platter (₩11,900–12,900 for one, a drumstick and tenders with chips, sauces and a slice of bread), the chicken sandwiches (Nashville or Korean, ₩9,900 each, a whole fried thigh in a bun) and poke at ₩14,900 (chicken over cheese rice). Several writers remark on a chicken shop selling poke, and at lunchtime the local office crowd comes for it. The sandwiches let you choose heat from 1 to 3, and two writers say the "Shin Ramyun hot" label on level 2 understates it — start at 1 on a first visit. It opens at 11:30, closes at 22:00 and shuts from three to five (last order 21:00, no closing day). You order at a kiosk or by QR code at the table, and pour your own drink — one drink per person, with a refill. The ground floor is small: eleven writers say so, and it holds about four seats at the counter and three tables for two. Upstairs is a terrace, and the stairs are steep. There is no toilet inside the shop — it is in the building outside, and the door code is posted in the shop. There is no parking. We read posts from September 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 왕십리로4길 12, 1층 (성수동1가) 12 Wangsimni-ro 4-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 070-4106-8088 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩23,000 |
| Floor area | 33 m² |
| Status | In business |
4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Daily | 11:30–22:00 11 of 11 posts last seen 2026-08 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–17:00 11 of 11 posts last seen 2026-08 | |
| Last order | 21:00 9 of 9 posts last seen 2026-08 | |
| Closed | 없음 2 of 2 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
- Everything from ordering to drinks to clearing up is self-service — twelve writers describe it. You order at a kiosk inside and pay up front; leave your phone number and a message tells you when it is ready. Dishes go back to a return station yourself, and forks, knives, side plates, plastic gloves, wet wipes and aprons are on a help-yourself bar — four writers mention the gloves, this being food you eat with your hands. You collect a cup and pour your own drink, with one refill per person (three posts). There is only one kiosk: in May 2026 a writer advises that when it is busy you are better off using the QR code, and in June 2026 another found order codes dotted around and recommends taking a seat first and ordering from there. But in a room this small, all that self-service can work against it: in September 2024 a writer found it genuinely awkward — drinks self-service, cutlery self-service, clearing self-service, in a space with no room to move.
- Two writers record foreign customers, and one of those lines is the clearest in this whole list. In November 2024, a woman eating alone writes: "while I sat there by myself, every other table was 100% foreign customers" — which she takes as proof the food travels. In May 2025 another notes foreign guests in the room and puts it down to the place being, as she tags it, a multinational burger shop. The reason is in the menu: the chicken is named by country — Nashville, Japan, Korean, Thai, India — and in November 2024 a writer relays what the owner told her, that a multinational chicken line-up was the plan, with Indian and Thai versions among them. Whether there is an English menu, or whether English is spoken, nobody writes down — though you order at a kiosk or by QR code and most dish names are transliterated English, so it reads as a place where you need not say much. This is as far as we can go: you would not be the first.
What 24 bloggers said
We read all 24 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (0) and “Returning customer” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Friendly staff | yes 2 · no 4 |
|---|---|
| Large portions | yes 2 · no 2 |
Things you can check on site
| Self-order screen | 12 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| Second floor | 10 of 24 posts |
| Takeout | 4 of 24 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 4 of 24 posts |
| Open kitchen | 3 of 24 posts |
| Outdoor terrace seating | 3 of 24 posts |
| Foreign customers in the room | 2 of 24 posts |
| Air conditioned | 2 of 24 posts |
| Toilet outside | 2 of 24 posts |
| Review event | 1 of 24 posts |
| Beer served | 1 of 24 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
3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 3 of 24 posts |
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There is no parking. "No parking" appears in the copied information blocks of several posts, which we did not count; we counted the three that name a car park — the district sports centre and the culture centre, both five minutes' walk, and one that says only "a public car park two minutes away". One of the three did drive, parked nearby and walked in (October 2025). Walking is the answer: four writers put it at 178 metres, three to five minutes, from exit 7 at Ttukseom, and you can also walk from Seoul Forest station. One notes that once you turn into the lane you go straight ahead and the big painted chicken on the white wall makes it easy to find — two writers say people wander in after seeing it. Four writers took food away or had it delivered: one to a picnic in Seoul Forest, one home to eat with beer, one delivered and eaten in the park, and one who watched delivery riders coming and going throughout her meal. Seoul Forest is ten minutes' walk, and this is a shop people use for picnic takeaway.
Who came, and with whom
| Solo visit | 4 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| Group visit | 1 of 24 posts |
| Date | 1 of 24 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 24 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 | 10 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 2 |
Not one of the twenty-six says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in — but three things can be read out of the posts. None of the words appear. Still: (1) the good seats are upstairs and the stairs are steep — two writers warn about them, and one with a bad knee did not go up at all. (2) There is no toilet inside — it is the building's, outside, behind a keypad, and nobody describes it. (3) The ground floor is small and everything is self-service — ordering, drinks and clearing, which one writer found genuinely awkward in the space available. The shop itself is at street level on a lane, with a bench outside for people waiting. This is "nobody wrote it down" rather than "you cannot get in" — but here, both a seat and a toilet mean changing levels.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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 24 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way20 of 24 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 27 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-11 | 2 |
| 2025-02 | 2 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 4 |
| 2026-06 | 4 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Do not take the heat scale at its word — this is the single most useful thing we can tell you. The sandwiches come at levels 1 to 3, and level 2 is labelled "Shin Ramyun hot". In August 2026 a writer trusted that and took level 2: clearly hotter than Shin Ramyun, she reports, one bite and she was reaching for water, and she is not someone who avoids spice — finishing it was hard. She went back the following week and dropped to level 1, which she found exactly right: still hot, but she could taste the food. In June 2026 another ordered level 1, chilli oil only, and still found it hot enough that she could not have finished it without a drink. There is a dissenting voice: in April 2026 a writer took the Shin Ramyun level and found it pleasantly warm. Two of the three say the label understates it. The chicken is the same — the tenders also have a heat setting, and the shop's own blurb calls the evening menu chicken "as hot as hellfire". On a first visit, start at level 1 and order a drink with it.
- The ground floor is small — eleven writers say so and none calls it roomy. Three count the seats and broadly agree: four at the counter and three tables for two; about eight people; a small counter and three tables. One finds it very tight, another blames the kitchen taking up the room. Which is why solo diners come: four of our writers ate alone, and two note that the tightness suits parties of one or two rather than groups. There is an upstairs — ten writers mention it, a terrace with three or four tables of four, or one long counter. But the stairs are steep: "a bit steep, mind yourself — and take care coming down" (May 2026); "quite steep and narrow, you have to go carefully" (June 2026). In November 2024 a writer with a bad knee simply did not go up. Half of the upstairs is behind glass and heated and cooled — two writers note this, one saying the open half is fine until summer and the glassed part works in deep winter or high summer; another found the heater on in November. At peak times the ground floor turns over slowly, one warns.
- Accounts of the service split, and the unhappy ones outnumber the rest — two good, four not. We pass the bad ones on as they stand. March 2026, in a post titled "I do not want to go back": a member of staff gave her food to another customer, who carried it to another floor and touched it; the staff went up, retrieved it, removed part of it, topped it up with something new, and handed it back to her — food a stranger had had his hands on. On a working lunch break she could not wait for a fresh one, so she ate it and swore never to return: this place, she concludes, has no concept of food safety (they did apologise). June 2026: told the break began at three, she arrived at 2.20 and ordered at 2.30, with no warning about last orders and nothing said as she came in — and her order was cancelled on her. She had read other reviews praising the staff just before a break, and wonders whether it depends on the day. May 2026: the food was good, but the man who seemed to be the owner was unfriendly — he could have asked her to move, and instead pushed past her. November 2024: writing about the open kitchen, a customer describes eating to the sound of swearing after what seemed to be a delivery mix-up. The two good accounts are from February 2025 (the staff were kind) and November 2025 (a member of staff recommended the dish, and she was glad of it). All four complaints are from November 2024 or later, and three are from 2026.
- There is no toilet inside the shop. Two writers say so: it is outside, one notes in September 2024; and in February 2025, the shop has no toilet of its own — there is one outside, to the right of the entrance, and the door code is posted inside, so check it. A third, listing the amenities, writes "no toilet in the shop (shared)", meaning the building's shared facility. What it is like, whether it is separated by sex, which floor it is on — nobody says. There is no mention of an accessible one. Know that you may have to ask for a code — though nobody has raised it since February 2025, so we cannot say whether the lock is still there.
- Things sell out — go late and the menu shrinks. May 2026: arriving a little late on a weekend, she found every wing dish gone and had to choose something else. June 2026: seven sandwiches on the menu, four of them orderable; the sets were off because the chips had run out, and the ordering system had not been closed off, so she only discovered it when she tried to add something — the Nashville sandwich she got was the last of the day. In June 2025 a writer's only regret was that the boneless fried chicken is not sold on its own (not a sell-out, simply not offered). Every sell-out report is from an evening or a late weekend hour; nobody who arrived at opening mentions one. And opening is the busiest moment: one writer got there at 11.10 to an almost empty room and watched it fill just before the doors opened, advising you to arrive early and wait rather than turn up on the hour; another came at 11.30 exactly and the room filled the moment it opened. Come around 11.20, or before two, or at five when the break ends — but note that after two you risk being refused because of the break (see the service note above).
- Four of the thirty matched posts were not about this shop. One is about a pop-up in Bundang — a two-week stand at a department-store food hall in April 2026, where all the eating and a thirty-eight-minute queue happened. Our shop appears only as where the pop-up came from. In November 2024 a writer had checked and reported that there was still only the one shop, in Seongsu — so it began travelling during the two years we read. The other three copy the Naver listing (October 2025 and May 2026): the shop's own blurb pasted in whole, one of them twice, at the start and the end; review statistics (2,368 reviews, 1,823 with photographs, average rating zero — the data error carried over intact); and other people's dated reviews quoted. One records the opening hours as "not confirmed", and one ends by stating that its information comes from Naver's registration data. None of the three says what the writer ate. All three list prices and we used none of them — a price copied from a listing cannot serve as a menu price either. That leaves twenty-six in the count, and they are twenty-six different people. No post declares a sponsorship; six state they paid their own way.
- The prices went up, and the person who says so is a regular. In June 2026 a writer records that she had eaten the avocado poke constantly while working nearby, then stopped for a while after a sudden price rise — and ordered it delivered to Seoul Forest one last time before leaving the area. The prices we have seen bear it out: the one-person chicken platter went ₩11,500 (February 2025) → ₩11,900 (October 2025) → ₩12,900 (May 2026, the sweet-chilli version). One writer calls it dear for what you get: her first thought on seeing it was that the portions did not justify the price, the set looked sparse, the chips were pitiful, and while the food was good she would not call it good value (May 2026). Two others found the portions generous — one could not finish the poke, one was full from a single sandwich — so it depends what you order. At today's prices a meal runs ₩9,900 for a sandwich alone, ₩13,900 as a set, ₩11,900–12,900 for a one-person platter and ₩14,900 for poke, with a free drink refill.
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Of 253 candidate posts we opened 59 and kept 24 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.