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DUCKLE

덕클 Deokkeul Duckle plays on the Chinese character for virtue, deok, flipped into a duck — the shop's motto is that giving generously makes you great.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Duckle is a small Asian-fusion Chinese restaurant in a Taehwa-dong side street, five to ten minutes' walk from Taehwagang National Garden. Instead of the usual black-bean and spicy noodle standards it sells fried aubergine in ganpung sauce, egg fried rice served beside crab soup, thin egg noodles griddled crisp and flooded with Sichuan sauce, and a cream-softened jjamppong. There are five tables, they fill the moment the door opens at 11:15, and most people book a slot on a waiting app before setting off. It has been on the Blue Ribbon list since 2024, and it is the original branch — the name has since spread to two more Ulsan shops and to Busan, Daegu, Seoul, Gumi and Gimhae. The posts we read are from August and September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 9 posts: 5 wrote 11:15–21:00, 3 wrote Daily 11:15–21:00.

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.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What people order

The most ordered dish is Ganpung Gaji-twigim (깐풍가지튀김) — 12 of 16 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

What to order

• 깐풍가지튀김12 ate it
  Ganpung Gaji-twigim₩9,000

  The signature: aubergine cut in big pieces, deep-fried, tossed in ganpung sauce and topped with green chilli.

  9,000 won. **All sixteen posts talk about it and twelve ordered it.** Five say it converted them to aubergine. **But it is not unanimous** — one writer found it ordinary for the reputation: not a must, don't build it up. It arrives scalding, and one diner who asked for scissors was told it tastes better uncut. Four took leftovers home and report it survives going cold.

• 원앙볶음밥7 ate it
  Wonang Bokkeumbap₩13,000

  Dry-fried egg rice with crab-meat soup poured alongside, to be eaten in alternation.

  13,000 won. **The most divisive dish here.** Some call it the thing that resets your palate between the chilli dishes, or the gentlest way to fill an empty stomach; another writes that it is egg fried rice with crab soup next to it and nothing more. They also disagree about whether to stir the soup in or keep it separate.

• 사천 마파두부 덮밥7 ate it
  Sacheon Mapo Dubu Deopbap₩12,000 · ₩14,000

  Soft tofu and minced pork in a hot, numbing sauce, with the rice served separately.

  **Two prices appear**: 12,000 won in two September posts, 14,000 in one from August — and the names differ slightly, so they may be two different dishes. On heat, one wanted it hotter and one thought it underseasoned, while another calls it a rice-thief. One writer reheated the leftovers the next day and found the sauce had soaked into the tofu, better than in the room.

• 사천 크리스피 에그누들5 ate it
  Sacheon Crispy Egg Noodle₩14,000

  Thin egg noodles griddled until crisp, then drowned in a Sichuan-style sauce and tossed at the table, with squid, mussels and prawn through it.

  14,000 won. **How long the crunch lasts is what they argue about**: one preferred the first bites before the sauce soaked in, one says stirring turns it into a different dish entirely, and one was let down because it was never really crisp. Ask and they bring more sauce — almost a bowl of it, one writer says. Two note that despite the name it is not very hot.

• 탕수육5 ate it
  Tangsuyuk₩12,000

  Glutinous-rice-battered sweet and sour pork, in a plain or a Sichuan version.

  12,000 won; ask for the Sichuan version and it comes with whole dried chillies. One writer offers it as **the order for people who don't want the aubergine**. Another's mother picked it as the best thing on the table.

• 크림짬뽕4 ate it
  Cream Jjamppong₩12,000

  A rose-coloured cream jjamppong with seafood and hand-torn dough flakes; you choose whether to add mala.

  12,000 won, plain or with mala. **One diner nearly bounced off the first mouthful** — a chewy bit of meat and a whiff of something gamey — then could not put the spoon down. If you expect a thick cream sauce, one writer warns it is closer to a rich meat stock; two single out the dough flakes.

• 탄탄멘2 ate it
  Tantanmen₩10,000

  Egg noodles in a sesame-rich, chilli-warm broth, heavy with beef.

  10,000 won, and milder than a packet of Shin ramyun, one writer says. Another found the noodles not just firm but undercooked — then took the leftovers home, reheated them the next day, and liked them far better once the broth had soaked in.

• 야끼짜장2 ate it
  Yaki Jjajang₩9,000

  Black-bean noodles closer to a stir-fry than to the usual saucy jjajangmyeon.

  9,000 won. One writer ordered it expecting ordinary jjajangmyeon and got something closer to a stir-fried noodle; another asked for it milder and still found it warm.

• 량멘1 ate it
  Liangmian₩10,000

  A cold noodle dish tossed in house peanut sauce, with cucumber.

  10,000 won; say in advance if you don't want the cucumber. The one buyer liked the sauce enough to stir it through her fried rice as well.

• 지쓰량멘1 ate it
  Jisi Liangmian₩12,000

  A summer-only cold noodle: shredded chicken, prawn, cucumber and carrot under peanut sauce.

  12,000 won. **A summer special, not a fixture** — it appears in a single post, from July 2026. The writer decided it was not for her and left it to her friend, who enjoyed it.

• 깨보샤1 ate it
  Kkaebosha

  Prawn paste on toast, sesame-crusted and fried.

  One writer found it nutty with sesame and packed enough with prawn that a single piece did her. Nobody recorded the price.

• 게살볶음밥1 ate it
  Gesal Bokkeumbap

  The fried rice parents order for the child at the table.

  One parent says that with so much chilli on the menu **this is what you order for a child** — it was her five-year-old's pick of the meal. The same post notes that apart from this one, the dishes tasted of much the same sauce. No price recorded.

• 소고기 차오미엔1 ate it
  Sogogi Chaomien₩14,000

  Soy-based beef chow mein.

  14,000 won. The one writer who ordered it made it her pick of the table — sweet enough, salty enough, and the only dish she said she would come back for.

• 마라탄탄멘1 ate it
  Mala Tantanmen

  The tantanmen with mala's numbing heat added.

  The one writer who ordered it describes it as sesame-rich first and numbing second, rather than simply hot. Nobody recorded the price.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 덮밥 밥 → 면·볶음밥 변경2 ate it
  Bap Byeongyeong₩2,000 · ₩6,000

  The surcharge for swapping the plain rice under the mapo tofu for noodles or fried rice.

  2,000 won for noodles, 6,000 for fried rice. One writer notes the swap comes on a wider plate; both who mention it chose the fried rice and would again.

• 오이무침1 ate it
  Oi-muchim

  Sharp dressed cucumber, eaten between the oily dishes.

  One writer calls it the thing that cuts through everything else. No price appears in any post about this branch.

To drink

• 빙홍차1 ate it
  Binghongcha

  Iced black tea, for washing the chilli down.

  One writer notes it arrives with a cup of ice, and that a mouthful resets the palate after the heavier plates. No price recorded.

Parking

7 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.

There is no car park. Seven posts say so, one of them adding that even the kerb outside is not really an option. Only two describe actually leaving a car: one used the national garden's metered lot — 500 won per half hour — and walked five to ten minutes, and one sat out the queue inside her car because it was too hot to wait on the street. A third suggests the back lanes, but did not try it herself.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Nobody wrote about floors. The registered address puts the room at street level, and across sixteen posts no one climbs or descends anything. An independent bookshop occupies the right-hand unit of the same building; the people who visited that shop do not mention floors either.

Nobody wrote about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across sixteen posts the words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp and threshold never appear. What we know: the shop is at street level in an old brick building, has five tables, and one writer says the gaps between them are not generous. Whether there is a step at the door, or how wide it is, we do not know.

Not one person wrote about the toilets — whether they are inside the room or out in the building, whether they are separated by sex. Nothing. For what it is worth, someone who visited the Busan branch of the same name describes a unisex toilet in the back corner, but that is a different shop and does not tell us anything about this one.

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 themselves4 / 164 of 16 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way12 / 1612 of 16 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 17 posts we gathered, 1 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

What we do not know

• Do not read another Duckle's reviews as if they were this one's. The name started here in Taehwa-dong and has since reached two more Ulsan branches and Busan, Daegu, Seoul, Gumi and Gimhae. Of the thirty posts we were handed, thirteen were not about this shop — seven about the Samsan branch that opened in summer 2026, two about the Busan one, four about neighbours. The Samsan branch runs differently: open until ten, a paper list by the door instead of a waiting app, and soju, which this shop does not sell.
• The posts disagree on the closing day. Two say the shop never closes, one says every Tuesday, and a curation post we excluded says Monday. All three are copied, and nobody writes about arriving to a locked door, so we cannot settle it. Opening time is given as 11:15 in eight posts and 11:30 in one. Worth checking before you set out.
• Not one writer explains how to get here by bus or train. All sixteen locate the shop as "near the national garden" or "a Taehwa-dong side street", and those who drove parked at the garden and walked. No stop is named, no route number appears. How you reach it without a car, we do not know.
• No post declares a sponsorship. Five say plainly that they paid; the other eleven say nothing either way. Sixteen posts, sixteen different people. One of them, though, contains almost nothing seen first-hand: three dishes and how they tasted, but no price, no wait, and a line that repeats what other people say about the place. We kept it in the count because there is an eating record, but there was little in it to count.
• With this much chilli, a child's options narrow. Two posts come from parents. One writes that since nearly everything leans hot, you order the crab fried rice for the child — and it was her five-year-old's favourite of the meal. The same writer adds that apart from that dish, everything tasted of much the same sauce; she is the only one who says so. The other family's child happily ate the egg fried rice. Whether there are high chairs, no post about this branch says.

Sources (16)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 日常, 반신욕과 보이차 2026-09-27 · 개인적 日記文学 · via Daum
2. 울산 l 태화강 국가정원 근처 퓨전 중식 식당 덕클 2026-09-22 · 언제나, 매 순간 · via Daum
3. 웨이팅 내돈내산 메뉴추천 리얼리뷰 있음. 2026-09-21 · 라라의 스타일기ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ
4. 울산 태화강 국가정원 맛집 '덕클' | 가지튀김·마파두부·크림짬뽕 .... 2026-09-21 · ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ
5. 울산 중구 덕클｜태화강 국가정원 맛집, 웨이팅도 아깝지 않았던 아.... 2026-09-19 · 차니맘의 맛집, 인테리어 공유
6. 울산 중구 / 태화동 맛집 | 덕클 본점 | 퓨전 중식 S티어 2026-09-18 · ye:ppy
7. 울산 태화강 맛집 덕클｜웨이팅해서 먹어본 퓨전 중식당 후기 2026-09-15 · ” 아이 인생 1열 직관 중 “ · via Daum
8. 울산 태화동 맛집 덕클 : 퓨전 중식 원앙볶음밥·크림짬뽕·가지튀김.... 2026-09-14 · 오늘,
9. 울산 태화동 국가정원 맛집 덕클 본점 가지튀김 원앙볶음밥 조합 엽.... 2026-09-11 · 우정이네
10. 울산 태화동 맛집 덕클｜마파두부덮밥·마라탄탄멘·가지튀김 조합 .... 2026-09-06 · 세상에서 소소한 행복찾기
11. 울산 태화강 국가정원 맛집 아시안 퓨전 음식점 ‘덕클’ 본점 솔직후기 웨이팅 필수 2026-09-04 · ᵀᵁᴸᴼᴳ ◡̈ · via Daum
12. 울산 태화동 맛집 덕클 Ⅰ분위기 좋은 퓨전식당에서 맛있는 한 끼 2026-09-02 · 일상 그리고 여행
13. 울산 태화동 식당 [ 덕클 ] 2026-09-01 · &La vie est belle
14. 울산▶태화동 맛집 덕클｜태화강 국가정원 근처 퓨전 아시안 맛집 .... 2026-09-01 · 이달미 Happy moment
15. [울산 태화동 국가정원 맛집] 덕클 : 20분 웨이팅 내돈내산! 어머니 .... 2026-08-29 · 커피와 레이나님의 블로그
16. 울산 태화강 국가정원 맛집 퓨전중식이 매력있는 덕클 2026-08-18 · 꼬부기의 맛있는 일상

Of 328 candidate posts we opened 67 and kept 16 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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