Gilpost · Gangbuk-gu, Suyu-dong
Gundakbal
군닭발 The name means grilled chicken feet — gun for roasted or flame-cooked, dakbal for the feet themselves.
Korean · Gangbuk-gu, Suyu-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Gundakbal is a chicken-feet place on the ground floor of a lane inside the Gwangsan crossroads in Suyu-dong, just short of the Ui stream. It opens at four in the afternoon and closes at midnight. The feet come two ways — swimming in broth, or whole in a dry sauce — and you pick a heat level; more than one writer found the middle setting plenty hot. The house move is to order a steamed egg against the heat, and a cabbage salad and bean-sprout soup arrive without being asked for. Seating mixes floor mats and chairs, and there is not much of it. It is not a walk from the station, which is why so much of the trade is delivery. We read five posts, from November 2024 to April 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 강북구 노해로 119 (수유동,(쌍문동길 121)) 119 Nohae-ro, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 02-905-8664 |
| Typical spend | ₩16,000 – ₩25,000 |
| Floor area | 29 m² |
| Status | In business |
0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 3 posts: 3 wrote 16:00–24:00.
| Open | 16:00–24:00 3 of 3 posts last seen 2025-05 |
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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
- You choose the heat by number. One writer ordered level two, two others took the middle setting, and nobody records how high the scale goes — but both of the middle-setting writers found it quite hot enough. One treats that as the point of the place, somewhere to go on a day that has made you angry; another calls it the fastest cure for a bad mood. The antidotes are just as fixed: the steamed egg to cool it, a slice of pickled radish held in the mouth between bites, the bean-sprout soup alongside. One writer says the radish is what makes a second mouthful possible. How hot it actually lands is personal, though — of three people sharing one order, two were suffering and the third thought it mild.
- Something free arrives before you have ordered: a mayonnaise-dressed cabbage salad and a bowl of bean-sprout soup, which one writer explicitly calls a freebie. The pickled radish is not charged for either. Bean sprouts also come heaped on the feet themselves — one writer fell for the owner's generosity with them, and described the soup as more sprout than liquid. The takeaway order came with the salad and the soup too, so they seem to travel.
- This is not a place you reach by subway. One writer puts it at fifteen to twenty minutes on foot from Suyu station, heading toward the Gwangsan crossroads; another says flatly that it is no high street and nowhere near a station, just a neighbourhood joint. Those who give directions use local landmarks rather than stations — cross the Ssangmun bridge, turn in at the first CU on the right, and it is immediately on your left; or, from the crossroads, on the left before the stream; or the back lane by Gangbuk Middle School. One writer simply walked five or six minutes from a Ssangmun-dong office. It does not announce itself: two writers independently assumed from the shabby frontage that it had closed down.
- Floor mats and chairs side by side, and not many of either. Only one writer counted: three low tables and two ordinary ones. Another describes a room where you can cross your legs on a cushion or flop straight down on the floor. Order the soupy version and it comes to the table on a burner to simmer as you eat. The writer who counted the tables also noticed how much of the traffic was delivery, and a long-time delivery customer eating in for the first time put it plainly: some things only taste right in the shop. The seats read as an annexe to a delivery kitchen rather than the other way round.
What 5 bloggers said
We read all 5 in full. The most common claims are “Spicy” (4) and “Large portions” (3).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Complimentary starter | 4 of 5 posts |
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| Seats to sit and eat | 4 of 5 posts |
| Hard to reach by transit | 2 of 5 posts |
| Floor seating | 2 of 5 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 5 posts |
| Relocated | 1 of 5 posts |
| Takeout | 1 of 5 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 soju (소주) — 4 of 5 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 | 1 of 5 posts |
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| Family visit | 1 of 5 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
Not a word about a step at the door, a ramp, or getting a wheelchair in. Across all five posts there is no mention of a threshold, stairs, a slope, a wheelchair or a pushchair — four of these writers walked through that door and none of them describes it. So whether you can get a pushchair or a wheelchair inside, we do not know, and we are not going to guess either way.
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 5 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way4 of 5 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
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| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Not one post mentions the toilet — not whether it is inside, not whether it is shared, not where it is. That is not a statement that there is no toilet, only that none of the five people we read wrote it down. For a place that pours soju from four in the afternoon until midnight it is worth knowing, and nobody says.
- No post discusses the floor or any stairs. The Naver check-in stamp appended to three of these posts reads "119 Nohae-ro, 1st floor," but that line is printed by the widget, not written by anyone who looked — we do not count those. Nobody in the five bodies mentions a floor or a step. The writers who give directions do describe a street-level turn-in off the lane.
- Nobody mentions queueing, and nobody mentions booking. No one reports waiting, which is tempting to write up as a place you can always get into — but we will not: five people saying nothing is not five people saying there was no queue. The one writer who counted found three low tables and two ordinary ones, so there is not much room, and another noticed how busy the delivery orders were. For a Saturday evening, a phone call is the safer move.
- Only two posts put down a price: ₩25,000 for the large soupy order in February 2025, and ₩16,000 for a medium dry order with a ₩5,000 steamed egg in November 2024. What the other sizes and the sets cost, we do not know — two writers mention sets and neither gives a figure, and nobody prices a bottle of soju. Whether either figure has since risen we cannot say. Both were written up as good value for the quantity, and no one calls the place expensive.
- One writer says the shop moved here, but not when. An April 2026 post has it relocating to Suyu from somewhere between Ssangmun and Chang-dong — hedged even in the original, and no post dates the move. The earliest post we read that ate in at the present address is from November 2024. Because the sign carries the word for "head branch" in its corner, one writer concluded it must be a chain; that was a guess from the signboard, and not one post we read had been to another branch. Whether other branches exist at all, we do not know.
- One of the five never sat down. She ordered for collection through a delivery app, picked it up at the shop and reheated it in a pot at her parents' place. Her figures on price, distance and parking are first-hand and we counted them, but we did not count her on seating, burners or the free sides. None of the five declares a sponsorship, and one goes out of her way to say she only writes up places she paid to visit herself, in explicit contrast to review-campaign posts. The other four say nothing either way about who paid.
Sources (5)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [수유] 수유 닭발 존맛집 군닭발 2026-04-24 · across the universe · via Daum
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