Gilpost · Jung-gu, Sindang-dong
Kkwadaeri Oksusu Kkwabaegi
꽈대리옥수수꽈배기 A corn-flour twist and croquette shop in Sindang's tteokbokki alley, fried only after you order.
Bunsik (snack food) · Jung-gu, Sindang-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Kkwadaeri is a corn-twist and croquette shop inside Sindang's tteokbokki alley, seventeen square metres at street level between the famous braised-chicken-feet and tteokbokki houses. It is where people go for something sweet after something fiery — nine of the thirteen posts we read arrive straight from a hot pot a few doors away. The dough is corn flour and frying begins only after you order. Sugar is optional. It opens late and stays late: one writer bought at half past midnight, another found the shutters down in the early afternoon. It does a great deal of delivery, and two writers first found it through a delivery app's ratings. The posts we read run from October 2024 to June 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 중구 퇴계로76길 62, 1층 (신당동) 62 Toegye-ro 76-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Floor area | 17 m² |
| Status | In business |
What sets it apart
- Because the dough is mixed to order, what you get is straight out of the oil — and that is the whole point of this shop. Five writers describe the frying starting after the order, and the language they reach for is unusually hot: the best twist of their life, a mouthful that erases suffering, an instant resolution to become a regular, something that dissolves in the mouth, a vow to return five hundred times. Two writers who do not know each other both summon the same comparison, a well-known twist shop in Yeosu — one calls it similar, the other agrees with those who put this one ahead. One explains why fresh matters: fried things smell of old oil by the next day, which is why she went out for these at midnight rather than waiting.
- You wait — not in a queue, but for the fryer. Two writers report the shop quoting about fifteen minutes; a third was quoted fifteen to twenty and waited thirty, on an evening when delivery orders were pouring in. All three give the same reason: there are not enough hands. One offers it as the shop's only flaw, that the owner is alone and therefore slow; another simply advises allowing plenty of time for the same reason. If you arrive with your mouth on fire wanting sugar immediately, that wait will feel long — one writer's note to herself reads like exactly that.
- There is one way past the wait: order ahead and turn up at the appointed time. One writer did exactly that, and met her twists coming out of the oil. Only that one post mentions it, and nobody says whether the order goes by phone or through an app, or how far ahead to place it. In a shop where others stand around for half an hour, that single line is worth a lot — and it is the one thing we cannot confirm for you.
- What divides people here is not the food but the service. One writer came for dessert after her tteokbokki and left because the person behind the counter, busy, looked straight past her; she walked out to the main road, bought from a competitor, and ended her post saying that although the alley shop was a little cheaper she would go back to the other one. Another wrote that the woman at the counter is kind and the man is not — 'so even courtesy is random here' — and closed by saying the twists are good but she will not return. The other side exists too: one writer offers the slowness as the shop's single flaw and forgives it in the same breath, and another reads pride in the owner's face. Not one post rates the food poorly, yet two say they will not come back because of how they were treated. That is the shape of this place.
- Not one writer ate what they bought inside the shop. Nine took it away: three carried it home, one confessing that the point was for her husband to taste it; one finished the bag on the walk home without meaning to; and one carried hers to the outdoor table of the frozen-yoghurt shop next door, describing it herself as cheating. Coming from a hot pot down the alley and leaving with a paper bag in hand is simply how this shop is used.
- One writer says the shop is clean — a fryer that she found spotless, an owner she reads as tidy, twists she had no hygiene worries about. In a shop working with hot oil that is worth noting, though nobody else records the same thing, so it cannot be counted as confirmed. One remark from another direction points the same way: a twist bought in the nearby market smelled of raw flour, while these smelled of no stale oil at all.
What 12 bloggers said
We read all 12 in full. The most common claims are “Food comes slowly” (3) and “Would return” (2).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Takeout | 9 of 12 posts |
|---|---|
| Cooked to order | 5 of 12 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 12 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 oksusu kkwabaegi (옥수수꽈배기) — 12 of 12 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
| With a friend | 7 of 12 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 1 of 12 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 12 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
We do not know whether you can reach it with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across thirteen posts there is nothing about a threshold, a ramp, the width of the door, or a wheelchair, and not even the copied 'wheelchair accessible' line from the listing appears. There is a further difficulty: the shop sits inside the Sindang tteokbokki alley, a narrow lane with pots on both sides and customers moving through it, and nobody describes what the approach itself is like either. No changing table or high chair is mentioned. This is not a statement that they are absent; it is that nobody looked.
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 themselves1 of 12 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way11 of 12 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 14 posts we gathered, 2 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 2 |
| 2025-04 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Of fifteen candidate posts we counted thirteen. No other shop's posts came along — the name is distinctive enough that all fifteen check in here. The problem was a different one. Eight of the fifteen are diaries that string many places together, one with more than twenty check-ins. In those we read and judged only what stands around our name and address; the tteokbokki and chicken-feet houses further down the alley, with their two-hour queues and cramped tables and ₩17,000 pots, contributed nothing at all to our counts. Two posts we set aside. One is the same writer cross-posting the same visit to two platforms — identical sentences about the fifteen-minute wait, the owner working alone, the spotless counter, the cheese ball — differing only in the last line, where one says she will be back often and the other that she will not. Counting one person's one visit twice inflates the denominator, so we kept one. The other only ordered delivery. Conversely, the writer who walked to the counter, was not served, and went elsewhere stays in — that too is something that happened at this shop.
- Even the number of owners is disputed. Two posts describe one person running the shop alone, and thus the slowness. A third from the same period names two, a woman who is kind and a man who is not. It may be that only one is there at some hours, or that this changed; we could not settle it. That may be why accounts of the service diverge, but that too is only a guess.
- We do not know whether there is anywhere to sit. None of the thirteen writers ate inside, and not one of them says either that there are seats or that there are none. The registered floor area is seventeen square metres, every account describes picking up a bag, and one writer went next door to find a table — which reads like little or no seating. But that is our inference, not anybody's observation, and it is not something to plan an evening around.
- No post gives a price, so we do not know what anything costs. Two figures appear across thirteen posts: a ₩3,000 minimum order, and ₩4,500 for two corn twists and one crab croquette in August 2025. There is no way to split that into per-item prices, so those fields are empty. Two writers put it on the cheap side — one delighted that ₩4,500 could fix her night, another noting that the alley shop undercut the competitor on the main road. Nobody calls it dear. Only one post mentions how you pay, and it says bank transfer or cash only — one person's account from August 2025, and we could not confirm whether cards are taken. Bring cash to be safe.
- Not one post gives a phone number, so neither can we. One writer placed an order ahead and collected it at a set time, so there is some channel for that — but she does not say whether it was a telephone or a delivery app. Two writers found the shop through delivery apps, so the apps at least are certain. For now, a delivery app's shop page is the quickest way to find out how to order ahead.
- We cannot confirm the opening hours. A single post gives them, as 17:00 to 01:00, and one voice is not confirmation. Two other traces do not contradict it: one writer went out at half past midnight because, she says, they close at one; another found the shutters down in the afternoon and open again after her meal down the alley. It reads as a shop that opens late and runs into the small hours. No post mentions a break, a last order, or a weekly closing day — which does not mean there is none, only that nobody wrote it. If you come in the daytime you may find it shut.
- Nobody queued. Not one of the thirteen posts describes people waiting ahead of them. The wait here is the fryer, not a line, and it happens whether or not anyone is in front of you. One distinction matters — the same posts contain two-hour waits, a Monday evening spent seventeenth in line, and peak-hour queues, and all of those belong to the tteokbokki and chicken-feet houses down the alley, not to this shop. Blurring them would make the numbers simply false.
- Not one post says how long it takes from a station. They place it inside the tteokbokki alley — 'tteokbokki town' — and one tags both Sindang and Cheonggu stations. So it sits between the two, but which station, which exit and how many minutes appears nowhere in the thirteen posts we read. Nobody calls it hard to find either; the alley itself is a sixty-year-old landmark, so finding the alley seems to be enough.
- Not one post mentions a lavatory — inside or outside, separate or shared, usable at all. In a seventeen-square-metre shop that mostly hands bags over a counter, customers probably have no occasion to use one, which is why no account exists — but that is our reading, not a fact we checked. If you plan to linger in the alley, ask at one of the restaurants instead.
- Not one post mentions floors or stairs. The registered address is the ground floor, and none of the thirteen writers describes going up or down. It reads as a shop opening onto the alley at street level, but nobody records whether there is even a single step at the door. Whether the floor is level with the alley we do not know.
- It is not a shop that needs company. Nine posts let us see who came: seven with friends, one with a sister and her fiancé — mostly the same party that had just eaten down the alley. Only one came alone, and she is the one who went out at half past midnight for a single croquette. Since almost everything leaves in a bag, numbers seem not to matter here — though no post says how much longer the frying takes when a group orders at once.
- No post here declares a sponsorship. We read the bodies and the hashtag blocks and found no line about anything being provided. Only one writer states outright that she paid; the other twelve say nothing, so we do not conclude there was none. The mix is unusual, though: eight of the thirteen are not reviews of this shop at all but diaries covering many places, where our shop passes in a line or two. Commissioned posts do not read like that. The flip side is that the things we most want to know — seats, lavatory, the step at the door — are almost entirely absent. The writing about the food runs hot; the writing about the shop is thin.
Sources (12)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [서울/신당] 떡볶이 맛집 추천, 허리케인박떡볶이 약속떡볶이 2025-11-05 · 여행과 일상의 틈 · via Daum
- 5K 러닝 성공 🏃🏻♀️ 2025-09-12 · 계란후랑이의 삶 · via Daum
- 라라일상 : 💛💚💙 콧바람쐬기, 라라스베게 졸업, 엄마랑 노는게 젤루조아 #4개월아기🤍 2025-09-04 · 기무라블로그 · via Daum
- 세븐틴 티켓팅 하다 PC방 서버 폭파(feat. 내돈내산 신당 꽈대리옥수.... 2025-08-12 · 스물아홉
- July 2025 2025-08-02 · 1-4-3 · via Daum
- [서울 신당/260628] 성시경 먹을텐데 맛집으로 유명한 신당 옥경이네 .... 2025-06-29 · HONG’S TASTE
- 신당동디저트 친절과 불친절 그 사이 꽈대리옥수수꽈배기 2025-06-12 · ❣️ 맛찾아 떠나는 여행 ✨️
- 어떤 오타쿠 군인 남성의 첫 휴가에 대하여 2025-05-06 · すきだったら♡。♪ · via Daum
- 4월의 지분을 기다리고 있는 언니와 오빠를 위한 헌정 게시글 2025-04-30 · 지구는둥글다 · via Daum
- 주 5일.. 7산타기...~ 2025-04-14 · ~^ㅁ^~ · via Daum
- 여름빵학 🍞 2024-10-07 · soobiduba · via Daum
- 신당동 삼대할먼네 후기(우정, 미니네 비교) & 꽈대리 후기 2024-10-03 · 랭랭과 맛집 여행 다니기 · via Daum
We opened all 81 candidate posts and kept 12 as evidence.