• Name: 신선미 미사리우동 하남감일점 (Misari Udon, Hanam Gamil branch)
• Address: 1F, 61 Sinusil-ro, Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do (경기 하남시 신우실로 61, 1층 107호) · Google Maps (building address; the shop itself is not listed) · Naver Map
• Visited: September 23, 2026, lunch, with my younger daughter (9)
• What we ordered: Handmade udon (수제우동) 7,500 won · Tteok-ramyeon (떡라면) 5,500 won · Vegetable kimbap (야채김밥) 4,000 won · Chilsung Cider 2,000 won · Total 19,000 won
• Hours (door sign): 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., last order 8:30 p.m.
• My rating: 4.2 / 5
• Info checked: September 25, 2026

Ordering at a kiosk and returning your bowls

You order at a kiosk. The receipt prints a pickup number (교환번호, gyohwan beonho), and when the food is ready you pick it up at the counter yourself. When you finish, you carry the empty bowls back to the kitchen. Small signs along the wall say the same thing in Korean: 다 드신 후 빈그릇은 앞으로 가져다주세요, “please bring your empty bowls to the front when you finish.” A self-service apron hangs on the wall for anyone who wants one.

Busy at lunchtime

We came in the middle of the lunch hour and the place was full. We got the last free table, so we did not have to wait, but people who came in after us had to wait for a seat, and some took their food to go instead. Orders had piled up, and our food took about 15 minutes to come out. The receipt shows our order went in at 12:39, and my first photo of the food on the table is from 12:53. Seating is a long counter with stools along one wall plus regular tables, and we ate at a table.

Yellow pickled radish (danmuji) and radish kimchi came with the meal, and I added a can of Chilsung Cider for 2,000 won.

Handmade udon for my daughter

My daughter’s 수제우동 (suje udon, handmade udon, 7,500 won) came in a steel bowl: thick noodles in a clear broth, with shredded seaweed and green onion on top. The shop’s wall boards say the udon is cooked to order using aged fresh noodles (숙성생면, sukseong saengmyeon), and the window says the broth is made with two kinds of anchovies. To me the udon tasted ordinary, but the noodles were chewy and nothing in the bowl was spicy, which made it a good choice for my daughter.

Tteok-ramyeon, my pick

떡라면 (tteok-ramyeon, 5,500 won) is instant ramyeon cooked with sliced rice cakes. Mine had egg stirred through an orange broth, oval slices of rice cake, and two kinds of noodles, one wavy and one spiral. There were plenty of rice cakes and egg in it, which made it a satisfying bowl.

Vegetable kimbap to share

야채김밥 (yachae gimbap, vegetable kimbap, 4,000 won) is the cheapest kimbap on the menu. The sliced roll came on a long plate, glossy and topped with sesame seeds. Inside were rice, a thick strip of egg, diced carrot, spinach and danmuji. We split it between us and it was very good. A wall board lists what the shop says goes into its kimbap: sesame oil pressed at a mill, vegetables seasoned with natural seasonings, laver from the south coast and rice from Gunsan.

A long menu with kimbap from 4,000 won

The menu on the front window is long, and I liked having that much choice. Kimbap runs from 4,000 to 5,000 won, ramyeon from 5,000 to 5,500 won, udon from 7,500 to 9,000 won and noodle soups (guksu) from 8,500 to 9,500 won. There are rice dishes such as bibimbap and kimchi jjigae (8,000 to 9,500 won), rice bowls at 9,500 won, pork cutlet from 9,000 to 12,000 won, side dishes like tteokbokki and dumplings, and set meals such as udon plus kimbap for 9,000 won. A summer menu adds cold noodles such as naengmyeon.

Here are the main menu items printed on the window on the day of our visit, in thousands of won. Korean names come first, since that is what you will see on the kiosk.

• Udon (우동): 수제우동 handmade udon 7.5 · 어묵우동 fish cake udon 9.0 · 얼큰우동 spicy udon 8.0 · 새우튀김우동 shrimp tempura udon 9.0
• Noodles (국수): 잔치국수 janchi guksu 8.5 · 비빔국수 bibim guksu 9.0 · 열무국수 yeolmu guksu (young radish kimchi noodles) 9.5 · 우동쫄면 udon jjolmyeon (chewy noodles) 9.0
• Kimbap (김밥): 야채김밥 vegetable 4.0 · 스팸김밥 Spam 5.0 · 참치김밥 tuna 5.0 · 소고기김밥 beef 5.0 · 매운소고기김밥 spicy beef 5.0 · 치즈김밥 cheese 5.0
• Ramyeon (라면): 라면 ramyeon 5.0 · 치즈라면 cheese ramyeon 5.5 · 떡라면 tteok-ramyeon 5.5 · 해장라면 haejang ramyeon 5.5
• Pork cutlet and dumpling soup (돈까스&만두국): 수제왕돈까스 king-size cutlet 12.0 · 수제돈까스 cutlet 9.0 · 치즈돈까스 cheese cutlet 10.0 · 만두국/떡만두국 dumpling soup or rice cake and dumpling soup 9.0
• Rice bowls (덮밥): 제육덮밥 spicy pork 9.5 · 오징어덮밥 squid 9.5 · 스팸김치덮밥 9.5 · 제육김치덮밥 9.5 · 참치김치덮밥 9.5
• Rice and soup (밥): 비빔밥 bibimbap 9.0 · 김치찌개 kimchi jjigae 9.5 · 콩나물국밥 bean sprout rice soup 8.0 · 육개장탕면 yukgaejang noodles 9.5
• Sides (곁다리메뉴): 국물떡볶이 tteokbokki 5.5 · 라볶이 rabokki 7.5 · 새우만두 shrimp dumplings 5.0 · 갈비만두 galbi dumplings 5.0
• Sets (세트메뉴): udon + one kimbap roll 9.0 · king-size cutlet + udon 14.0 · cutlet + udon 12.0 · tteokbokki + mixed fried snacks 12.0

For our table of two, three dishes and a can of soda came to 19,000 won. The window lists a 9,000-won set with udon and one kimbap roll.

What the shop says on its window

Next to the door, a board titled “고객님과의 약속” (a promise to our customers) lists four points. These are the shop’s own claims, and I am passing them on as written, not as something I checked:

• The udon uses only aged fresh noodles (숙성생면).
• The broth is made each morning from two kinds of Korean anchovies and is used up the same day.
• The carrots and spinach for the kimbap are stir-fried each morning with natural seasoning and used up the same day.
• The pork cutlet uses Korean pork loin (국내산 생돈등심) delivered that day.

A large red sign on the other window says every item on the menu can be packed for takeaway, which matched what we saw at lunchtime, when some people took their food out instead of waiting for a seat.

Finding it in Gamil

The shop is on the ground floor of 61 Sinusil-ro; the receipt names the building as 감일푸리마타워. Miss Saigon, a Vietnamese noodle shop, is next door. Puradak Chicken, which I have written about, is on the same street at 65 Sinusil-ro. The shop does not show up on Google Maps under its own name, so the Google link in the box above goes to the building address, and the Naver Map link searches for the shop by name.

More places we eat in Gamil

• Where We Eat in Hanam: Gamil, Misa, Starfield and Sinjang Market
• Puradak Chicken Gamil, Hanam: Black Alio, Chicken Feet and More
• Pocha Cheonguk Gamil Review: Gopdori-tang and Pastry Pizza in Hanam

I would come back for the tteok-ramyeon and kimbap, especially on a day when we need a quick lunch close to home.

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Jump to an area: Gamil · Misa · Starfield Hanam · Sinjang Market

Gamil and Misa are two separate neighborhoods in Hanam, Starfield Hanam is a large mall at 750 Misa-daero, and Sinjang Market is in the older part of the city, so the places are grouped by where they are. Check a map app for the ones near you.

Gamil: our own neighborhood

Most of these places are on Gamilbaekje-ro, Gamiljungang-ro and Sinusil-ro, and three of them, Hyojadong Sottukkeong, Choice and YONEZ, are in the same building complex at 80 Gamiljungang-ro.

Korean BBQ in Gamil

Four of the Gamil places are barbecue, and they are quite different. At Hyojadong Sottukkeong, black pork belly is grilled on a heavy cast-iron pot lid; the 500 g set (35,900 won) comes with steamed egg and doenjang stew, and the pork came off crisp outside and juicy inside. Jjokgalbi Gamil serves small pork back ribs finished on a charcoal grill and eaten by hand; both kids ate more than usual, and the spicy ribs were addictive. Damga Hwaro-gui is a spacious charcoal grill place where the kids enjoyed the meal, but for me it was not as good as I expected for the price. Geobugi Dongne is not our top pick for pure taste, but it is good value for a family dinner with a lot of food.

Everything else in Gamil

YONEZ is where we had our wedding anniversary dinner with the kids: everything was good, the oden hot pot was the family favorite, and the room was calm and tidy. Pocha Cheonguk was an evening out for my wife and me, and the gopdori-tang (spicy chicken stew with intestine) was the best thing we ate. Puradak Chicken was just okay for us apart from the Mamachi garlic chicken, though the room was spacious and quiet. ChaCha Bakery is a small local bakery with warm, well-filled bread, closed on Sundays. Choice was just okay for us: the belt and tablet made it easy to feed everyone, but the food was ordinary.

Misa

At Chamnamu Jangjak Nurungji Tongdak-gui, we waited about 30 minutes even arriving around 5 p.m.; the cheese corn chicken was the best thing we ate, there was a lot of nurungji under both chickens, and our kids loved it. Four of us paid 62,500 won. Park Seung-gwang Haemul Kalguksu was a late Sunday lunch: three bowls of clam kalguksu, extra clams and a cheese pork cutlet for the kids came to 53,000 won, and the broth and hand-cut noodles are the reasons to go. Chaesundang near Misa Regatta Park is a comfortable place for a family shabu-shabu dinner with free parking and a kids’ price, though the basic meat portion was small for us, and the hanwoo we added was the best part.

Starfield Hanam

Starfield Hanam is the big shopping mall at 750 Misa-daero. My son and I went there on a Sunday in March 2026 to buy a Nintendo game, and ate at two places on the same trip.

• Pildong Hambak (필동함박), 4.5 / 5: a hamburger steak restaurant in the Eatopia food hall on the third floor. A Classic Hambak and a Shrimp Rose Pasta came to 29,400 won, and my son loved the hambak and kept saying he wants it again.
• Okuku Bakery (오쿠쿠 베이커리), 4.3 / 5: a salt bread bakery. Five breads came to 25,700 won, and the one I would go back for is the milk cream salt bread.

Sinjang Market

Dukkeobi Tojong Sundaeguk (두꺼비토종순대국), 4.4 / 5, is a sundae soup restaurant at the edge of Sinjang Market with a cartoon toad on its sign. We stopped there as a family on the way into the market in spring 2026: two bowls of sundaeguk and one with meat only, 10,000 won each. The milky white broth was much better than we expected, and it is a good place to start or finish a market visit.

Practical notes from our visits

• Go early for Hyojadong Sottukkeong: we got a table easily at 5:30 on a weekday, but the room was full soon after six. It was closed on Tuesdays when we went.
• Nurungji chicken in Misa: the restaurant faces the park side of the building and can’t be seen from the road, according to DiningCode.
• Park Seung-gwang Kalguksu: there is a break time from 15:00 to 17:00, and the underground car park is free for 3 hours.
• Free parking: Chaesundang and Geobugi Dongne both use their building’s underground car park.
• ChaCha Bakery: closed on Sundays, and seating is limited to a bar table and two round tables.

Picking one for your meal

• Family BBQ: Hyojadong Sottukkeong or Jjokgalbi Gamil.
• A special dinner: YONEZ.
• Chicken: the nurungji chicken in Misa.
• A hot bowl of soup: clam kalguksu in Misa or sundaeguk at Sinjang Market.
• At the mall with a child: Pildong Hambak.

Prices and ratings on this page are the ones in each review, from receipts, menu boards or tablets at the time of each visit, and some will have changed. I will add new Hanam places here as I review them. For a day out with the kids rather than a meal, our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea, covers the places we visit.

Two places we go back to with the kids are Misari Park and Choihu Camping, both written up on our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea.

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The five places at a glance

First night: Dongmun Market in Jeju City

Dongmun Market (동문시장) is the big traditional market in Jeju City, and in the evening part of it becomes a night market full of food stalls. We went on Sunday, July 5, our first night in Jeju. It was packed, and we could not find anywhere to sit, so we ate standing up. We had egg-wrapped gimbap, a steak and stir-fried kimchi box and fresh tangerine juice, bought Jeju snacks such as Udo peanut sweets, and took a tray of Geobukibap rice balls back for the next morning.

Three things made it easier: most stalls show prices on signs or chalkboards, some food is packed to take away, and the stall numbers make it easy to find a stall again. For a first night on the island, it was a good choice with a lot to look at and try. Just go ready to stand.

Full review with the stalls we ate at: Jeju Dongmun Night Market.

Galchi two ways in Aewol: Jeju Gwanghae

Galchi (갈치) is hairtail, a long silver fish that Jeju is known for. On our second day, Monday, July 6, we had lunch at the Aewol branch of Jeju Gwanghae, on the second floor at 867 Aewolhaean-ro on the coast road. There was no wait, and we got the last window table, looking out on the sea.

We ordered the small Gwanghae modeum set (108,000 won), which comes with the fish both braised and grilled, plus two extra bowls of rice and two drinks, for 114,000 won in total. I mostly ate the braised galchi, my wife mostly ate the grilled fish, and our two kids were very happy with the meal. For a family of four, the small set with extra rice was plenty.

Full review with the menu and receipt: Jeju Gwanghae in Aewol.

Black pork with a view: Jeonmang Heukdwaeji in Seongsan

Jeonmang Heukdwaeji is a Jeju black pork restaurant at 248 Ilchul-ro in Seongsan-eup, on the coast road with Seongsan Ilchulbong across the water. It shares a building and a map listing with a raw fish restaurant, 전망좋은횟집, so search for that name. We had lunch there on Wednesday, July 8, just after noon.

We ordered the Jeonmang Heuk Ilchulbong set for two, 550 g of four black pork cuts for 62,000 won. The kids loved the chewy pork, the four-cut set was a good way to try different parts of the pig, and the open space by the sea meant the kids could get up and move around between bites.

Full review with the black pork menu: Jeonmang Heukdwaeji in Seongsan.

Pork soup in Pyoseon: Gaseureum Sikdang

Gaseureum Sikdang is a small pork restaurant at 19 Gasi-ro 565beon-gil in Gasi-ri, Pyoseon-myeon, in the southeast of Jeju, away from the main tourist streets. It serves blood sausage soup, boiled pork and spicy stir-fried pork made with Jeju pork. We had dinner there one evening during the trip.

This was the meal that did not work for us. The blood sausage soup with momjaban seaweed was not to our taste, and the kids hardly ate it, so we added duruchigi (spicy stir-fried pork) and boiled pork. Overall it was a so-so meal, and I gave it 3.5 out of 5. If you already like these dishes, the review lists what is on the wall menu.

Full review with the wall menu: Gaseureum Sikdang in Pyoseon.

Kimbap for the road: Dajeongine Gimbap in Seogwipo

Dajeongine Gimbap is a kimbap shop from Seogwipo. We went to its Seogwipo New Town branch at 796 Ieodo-ro around noon on Thursday, July 9, a bright café-style shop with a garden and a kiosk for ordering. We bought two Dajeongine rolls (4,500 won each) and two tuna rolls (5,500 won each) to take away, 20,000 won by the kiosk prices, and ate them in the car.

They were very good. The house Dajeongine roll was the better of the two: the thick layer of egg was very sweet, and the egg was most of why we liked it. If we go back to Jeju, we will stop here again. We wished we had bought one more.

Full review with the kiosk prices: Dajeongine Gimbap in Seogwipo.

Addresses and hours

Hours below are from DiningCode, checked in September 2026, except where noted. Check Naver Map or Kakao Map before you go.

What worked for us with kids

• Easiest family meals: the galchi set at Gwanghae and the black pork set at Jeonmang Heukdwaeji. Our kids were happy with both meals.
• Food on the move: Dajeongine kimbap in the car, and the take-away trays at Dongmun Market.
• Skip if your kids are picky: the blood sausage soup at Gaseureum Sikdang. Ours hardly touched it.

Words that help on Jeju menus

• 갈치 (galchi): hairtail. 조림 (jorim) is braised, 구이 (gui) is grilled.
• 흑돼지 (heukdwaeji): black pork.
• 두루치기 (duruchigi): spicy stir-fried pork.
• 김밥 (gimbap): rice and fillings rolled in seaweed.
• 모둠 (modeum): an assortment or mixed set.

Prices on this page are the ones in each review, from the receipt, menu boards or kiosks when we went in July 2026. I will add more Jeju places here as I review them.

Between meals we took the kids to Seongsan Ilchulbong, Aqua Planet Jeju, Soesokkak and Segial Beach. Those visits are on our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea.

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The five places at a glance

Korean BBQ near Seongsu Station

Both BBQ places are on the Exit 1 side of Seongsu Station on Line 2, and both were after-work dinners with three coworkers in March 2026. At both, we grilled the meat ourselves at the table. The difference is in how the meal is built.

Seokam Saengsogeum-gui: pork on a stone, Chapagetti to finish

Seokam is at 97 Achasan-ro, about 45 m from Exit 1. The grill is a heavy black stone plate. Before the pork arrives, the stone already has kimchi, whole garlic cloves and a small bowl of sauce on it, and everything cooks together. When you finish the meat, you order stone-plate Chapagetti (돌판짜파게티, 6,500 won on DiningCode) on the table tablet, and a staff member spreads the cooked noodles across the same stone.

We went on a Tuesday evening and waited about 20 minutes in line. The pork was fantastic: moist, and good with the kimchi grilled next to it. The meal took about an hour from the first photo to the last plate of noodles. On DiningCode’s menu, the pork cuts are 16,000 to 17,000 won a serving, and a mixed platter is 38,000 won. Seokam is a chain with other branches in Seoul, including one at Konkuk University on the same road, so check that your map shows 성수점 (Seongsu branch).

Full review with photos and the menu in English: Seokam Saengsogeum-gui in Seongsu.

Mongttang Saenggogi: a grill full of samgyeopsal

Mongttang Saenggogi is at 8 Achasan-ro 7-gil, about 150 m from the station on the Exit 1 side. The name means roughly “all the fresh meat”, and the branch calls itself the main branch (본점). Four of us ordered seven servings of fresh samgyeopsal, which at 170 g a serving covered the whole round grill plate. The samgyeopsal was very good, and it is the reason I would go back. The yukhoe (seasoned raw beef, 28,000 won) was average. We walked in on a Wednesday evening without a wait and stayed about two hours.

The menu boards are in Korean only. Samgyeopsal was 17,000 won a serving in March 2026, and the board also lists neck, skin-on belly, jowl and loin cap, plus two platters named “half the pig” and “the whole pig”. The full review has the menu in English.

Full review with the menu boards: Mongttang Saenggogi in Seongsu.

Which BBQ to pick

• Seokam if you want the stone-plate experience with kimchi and garlic on the grill and noodles at the end, and do not mind a line.
• Mongttang Saenggogi if you want a plain, pork-focused dinner with a lot of samgyeopsal for a group.

Gukbap at any hour: Dammion

Dammion is in Seongsu Academy Tower at 118 Seongsui-ro, right in front of Seongsu Station, and it is open 24 hours. Gukbap (국밥) is soup with rice, and Dammion’s menu is built around it. I have been twice with the same coworker: a weekday lunch in March and a late dinner at about 8 p.m. in April after we stayed late at the office.

The first time, we both had budae suyuk gukbap: boiled pork in a red broth with sausage and about half a pack of ramyeon on top. It was very good, and it felt like two dishes in one. The second time, I had the eolkun gukbap (얼큰국밥, spicy gukbap, 11,000 won), which had pork in every spoonful, and we shared a large plate of pyeonyuk (pressed sliced pork, 14,000 won). You order on a tablet at the table, which has photos and a language button. Both times it was busy, with a lot of foreign visitors along with Korean customers.

Full review of both visits: Dammion in Seongsu.

A tuna course for a group: Jeong Chamchi

Jeong Chamchi is on the second floor at 289-14 Seongsu-dong 2-ga. At a Korean tuna restaurant like this, you choose a course priced per person, and the course sets how many times the tuna board is refilled. Four of us from work had the Gold course, which includes two refills, and they brought us a third. It was the first time I have found it hard to finish a tuna dinner.

The boards held fatty belly, lean tuna in cubes and other cuts, with inari sushi, seared slices, ginkgo nuts, white kimchi and miso soup around them. We ate in a private room, which made it a good fit for a team dinner. I did not note the price per person, so ask before you order. The full review has a table of the tuna cuts with their Korean and Japanese names.

Full review with the tuna cuts explained: Jeong Chamchi in Seongsu.

A weekday lunch: Dalnimine

Dalnimine is a small home-style lunch restaurant at 31 Achasan-ro 13-gil, with a handwritten whiteboard menu of set meals, stir-fries, fried rice and snack foods. A coworker and I went at the start of lunch hour in May 2026 and waited about five minutes, because the room is small.

We shared the Spam and fried eggs (스팸&후라이, 15,000 won) and jeyuk bokkeum (spicy stir-fried pork, 11,000 won). The Spam plate was very good and huge for two people, but it is the most expensive item on the board. The jeyuk was good, on the sweet side. For a cheaper lunch, the set meal (백반) is 8,000 won and the fried rice dishes are 9,000 won.

Full review with the whole menu board: Dalnimine in Seongsu.

Matching the place to the meal

• After-work BBQ with a group: Seokam or Mongttang Saenggogi.
• Late at night, or a quick hot meal by the station: Dammion, open 24 hours.
• A team dinner in a private room: Jeong Chamchi.
• A weekday lunch for two: Dalnimine.

Words that help on Seongsu menus

• 삼겹살 (samgyeopsal): pork belly.
• 생고기 (saenggogi): fresh meat that has not been frozen.
• 국밥 (gukbap): soup served with rice.
• 참치 (chamchi): tuna. 뱃살 (baetsal) is the fatty belly.
• 백반 (baekban): a set meal of rice, soup and side dishes.
• 성수점 (Seongsu-jeom): Seongsu branch, useful when a restaurant is a chain.

Prices on this page are the ones in each review, from menu boards, tablets or DiningCode at the dates given there, and some have changed since. I will add new Seongsu restaurants to this page as I review them.

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After dinner at Outback in Jamsil, our family went over to Lotte World Mall for dessert and ended up at Hermoso Beauty Cafe on the 6th floor. We sat down with three drinks and a plate of cake for the table: a tall slice of rainbow layer cake, a chocolate cake slice with a strawberry on top, and two choux. The cakes were the best part: sweeter than I expected, and very good. This post covers where the cafe is, what we ordered, what the menu looks like and how to find it inside the mall.

A note on this post: an earlier version on this page was written as a review of Royce’, the Japanese chocolate brand, because of a mix-up with a sign in one of my photos. That was wrong. The photos were always from Hermoso Beauty Cafe, and this is the corrected post.

Finding Hermoso Beauty Cafe in Lotte World Mall

Hermoso Beauty Cafe (에르모소뷰티카페) is on the 6th floor of Lotte World Mall, the mall at the base of Lotte World Tower, at 300 Olympic-ro. Lotte World Mall is a different building from Lotte Department Store Jamsil, where the Outback we ate at is, although the area around Jamsil Station connects them. Searching 에르모소뷰티카페 롯데월드몰점 in Naver Map or Kakao Map takes you to the right floor.

The cake case and the room

The cake case at the front had strawberry cream cakes, a rainbow layer cake and other slices on two shelves, each with a small label. The counter behind it had two screens with the drink and dessert menu.

Inside, one wall is covered in patterned wallpaper with a pink neon sign that reads “#Like a Celeb”, with flowers in the corner. DiningCode lists the cafe with a terrace and describes it as a beauty cafe.

What we ordered

For the four of us we ordered three drinks and one plate of desserts to share. Two of the drinks were an iced Americano and an iced vanilla latte; I don’t remember the third. They came in pink-and-white Hermoso cups. On the plate were a slice of rainbow cake with six colored layers and cream frosting, a chocolate cake slice topped with a strawberry and a sprig of rosemary, and two round choux coated in chocolate.

I don’t have the receipt, so I can’t list what we paid.

How the cakes were

The cakes were very good. They looked pretty on the plate, especially the rainbow slice with its six colored layers. Of the two cakes, the rainbow cake was the one we liked best. The four of us shared one plate of two cake slices and the choux after dinner.

Hermoso Beauty Cafe menu and prices

These are the menu items and prices on DiningCode when I checked on September 23, 2026, translated with the Korean names so you can find them on the menu screens. Apart from the iced Americano and vanilla latte, they are not what we had.

Coffee

The only vanilla latte on the current list is the cream vanilla latte, which the menu describes as a vanilla-bean base with sweet vanilla cream on top. I didn’t note the exact name when we ordered ours.

Ades, lattes and tea

The three “signature” ades with the duck, the bear and the color-changing apple are the ones I’d look at if you are there with kids; I didn’t order them, so I can’t tell you how they taste.

Cakes and sweets

The listing notes that whole cakes should be reserved one or two days ahead and that they don’t write lettering on cakes. The rainbow cake and chocolate cake we had were in the case on the day but aren’t in the DiningCode menu list, so I can’t give their prices.

Is it worth a stop?

If you are already in Jamsil for Lotte World, the tower or dinner nearby, it is an easy dessert stop inside the mall. For us the cakes made it worth it. If you don’t like very sweet desserts, share a slice rather than ordering one each, and pair it with an iced Americano like we did.

Getting there

• Address: 300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Lotte World Mall 6F (서울 송파구 올림픽로 300, 롯데월드몰 6층)
• Subway: Jamsil Station, Lines 2 and 8
• Hours: 10:30 to 22:00 on DiningCode; check Naver Map before you go

Before dessert

• Outback Steakhouse Jamsil Lotte, where we had dinner first, on the 2nd floor of Lotte Department Store Jamsil

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• Name: 다정이네김밥 서귀포신시가지점 (Dajeongine Gimbap, Seogwipo New Town branch)
• Address: 796 Ieodo-ro, Seogwipo-si, Jeju (제주 서귀포시 이어도로 796) · Google Maps
• Hours: 07:30 to 20:00, open every day (DiningCode, checked September 2026)
• Visited: Thursday, July 9, 2026, around noon, my wife, our two kids and me
• What we bought: Dajeongine gimbap × 2 (4,500 won each) and tuna gimbap × 2 (5,500 won each), to take away. 20,000 won by the kiosk prices
• My rating: 4.5 / 5
• Info checked: September 24, 2026

A kimbap stop in Seogwipo

Kimbap (김밥) is rice and fillings rolled in seaweed, and it is the most common quick meal or road-trip snack in Korea. We were on our way to Soesokkak during our July trip and wanted something quick to eat on the move, so we stopped at the Seogwipo New Town branch on Ieodo-ro, which is a low building with a big “다정이네 김밥” sign and parking in front.

The shop is bigger and brighter than we expected for a kimbap place. There are wooden tables by large windows looking out on a lawn with parasols, a display of a tangerine tree with fruit around its base, and a painted kimbap on the wall. Along one side is a small shop area with snacks, and drinks in a glass fridge.

Ordering at the kiosk

You order at a kiosk, with tabs for kimbap, half-and-half kimbap and mini rolls, sets (two kimbap with ramyeon and tteokbokki), ramyeon, tteokbokki and fish cake soup, and drinks. These were the kimbap prices on the kiosk when we went:

The half-and-half tab lets you get two kinds in one order, half a roll of each: for example Dajeongine and seasoned squid (6,000 won), Dajeongine and anchovy chili (5,500 won), cheese and tuna (6,000 won), anchovy chili and squid (6,500 won), pork cutlet and fried shrimp (6,500 won), or bulgogi and spicy pork (6,500 won). It is a good way to try more flavors if you are only buying a couple of rolls.

Reading the kiosk

The kiosk is in Korean only, but each item has a photo of the cut roll, which helps. A few words that come up again and again:

• 김밥 (gimbap): kimbap. Every roll on the first tab ends in this word.
• 멸치 (myeolchi): small dried anchovies, stir-fried and rolled in; 고추 (gochu) means chili.
• 진미채 (jinmichae): shredded dried squid in a sweet and spicy seasoning.
• 흑 (heuk): “black”, used here for Jeju black pork, as in 흑돈까스 (black pork cutlet) and 흑오겹 (black pork belly with the skin on).
• 반반 (banban): half and half. The half-and-half rolls have short names made from the two halves, such as 다진 (Dajeongine + jinmichae) or 치참 (cheese + tuna).
• 꼬마김밥 (kkoma gimbap): mini rolls, shown on the same tab as the half-and-half rolls.
• 세트 (set): the set tab combines two kimbap with ramyeon and tteokbokki, which suits a group eating in.
• SOLD OUT: items that have run out are marked on the kiosk. When we went, the fried tofu roll was sold out.

Eating it in the car

We took the rolls to go, since we wanted to keep driving rather than sit down. Each came wrapped in foil, uncut, which makes them easy to eat by hand in the car: you peel back the foil and eat from the end.

The Dajeongine roll is mostly egg. Cut open, it shows a thick bundle of shredded yellow egg with pickled radish, ham and a few other fillings, in a thin layer of rice. The tuna roll has the same base with a large portion of tuna.

Both were very good, and after eating them we understood why this shop is popular. Of the two, the Dajeongine roll was better: the thick layer of egg was very sweet, and I would say the egg was about 80 percent of why we liked it, and at 4,500 won it is also the cheapest roll on the kiosk. We wished we had bought one more.

Tips

• What to order: the Dajeongine roll, and more of them than you think you need.
• Takeaway: the rolls come wrapped in foil and uncut, which is handy for eating in the car.
• Hours: DiningCode lists 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., every day, so it works for breakfast before a day out.
• Parking: there is parking in front of the building, and DiningCode lists it as free.

Would we go back?

Yes. If we go back to Jeju, we will stop here again for certain, and next time we would buy more. For 20,000 won, four rolls fed us on the road, and the Dajeongine roll was the one we would go back for. I am giving it 4.5 out of 5.

For every place we ate at on the same trip, see our Jeju food guide for families.

More from our July 2026 Jeju trip:

• Jeonmang Heukdwaeji, black pork with a view of Seongsan Ilchulbong
• Gaseureum Sikdang, pork dishes in Pyoseon
• Jeju Dongmun Market, the night market in Jeju City

After lunch we drove on to Soesokkak for the boat ride. That visit is on our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea.

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• Name: 전망흑돼지 (Jeonmang Heukdwaeji), in the same building as 전망좋은횟집
• Address: 248 Ilchul-ro, Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo-si, Jeju (제주 서귀포시 성산읍 일출로 248) · Google Maps
• Hours: not confirmed for the black pork restaurant. DiningCode lists daily 12:00 to 22:00 (last order 21:20) for 전망좋은횟집, the raw fish restaurant in the same building.
• Visited: Wednesday, July 8, 2026, lunch just after 12:00, my wife, our two kids and me
• What we ordered: Jeonmang Heuk Ilchulbong set for two, 550 g, 62,000 won
• My rating: 4.5 / 5
• Info checked: September 23, 2026

Lunch by Seongsan Ilchulbong

We were on a family trip to Jeju in July, and this was our lunch stop on the east side of the island. It was a gray, cloudy day, but Seongsan Ilchulbong, the big volcanic crater that rises out of the sea at the eastern tip of Jeju, was still right there in front of us. The restaurant sits on the road along the water, with a low stone wall and a walking path between the tables and the sea.

There is seating inside, and there are also tables outside on the open ground in front, facing the sea. We arrived just after noon. Because there is so much space around the tables, our kids could get up, walk along the wall, look at the view and come back to eat, which made it a relaxed lunch for us too.

The black pork menu

The black pork menu describes the restaurant as a charcoal-grilled geungogi specialist (참숯근고기전문점) serving “100% Jeju black pork”. Geungogi (근고기) means thick-cut pork, sold by weight, and it is the usual way to eat black pork in Jeju. These were the prices on the menu in July 2026:

Side dishes on the same menu: seafood doenjang stew 8,000 won, black pork kimchi stew 7,000 won, cold naengmyeon (in broth or spicy) 8,000 won and a puffed steamed egg 4,000 won. Soju and beer are 5,000 won, makgeolli 6,000 won, Jeju beer 9,000 won and soft drinks 2,000 won.

The Ilchulbong set

We ordered the Jeonmang Heuk Ilchulbong set, named after the peak we were looking at. It is the only set with four cuts: ogyeopsal (오겹살, pork belly with the skin on), moksal (목살, neck), hangjeong-sal (항정살, jowl) and gabeuri-sal (가브리살, a small special cut). The menu marks it as limited to 17 sets a day, so if it is the one you want, it helps to go early. We got it at noon without any problem.

The table came set with lettuce, kimchi, pickles, a few small sauces and a dab of wasabi, around a round grill in the middle. The pork arrived in thick pieces with a king oyster mushroom, and we grilled it on the table, cutting it into bite-size pieces once the outside had browned.

The pork was chewy in a good way, with a firm bite rather than soft, and the kids ate it very happily.

The raw fish restaurant next door

The other restaurant in the building, Jeonmang Joeun Hoetjip, has its own menu of raw fish and Jeju seafood, from mixed sashimi courses to braised and grilled hairtail (galchi). We did not order from it, and I did not check whether you can order from both menus at the same table.

Getting there

The address is 248 Ilchul-ro in Seongsan-eup, on the road that runs along the water facing Seongsan Ilchulbong. Search for 전망좋은횟집 on a map app, since the black pork restaurant shares that building and listing. The DiningCode listing for the raw fish restaurant notes free parking, an outdoor terrace and high chairs for small children; I did not confirm these separately for the black pork side. We sat down just after noon, which suited a lunch stop. The path by the stone wall is right outside if you want a short walk with the peak in front of you.

What we thought

The kids loved this meal. The pork was chewy and satisfying, the four-cut set was a good way to try different parts of the pig, and the setting, with Seongsan Ilchulbong across the water and room for children to move around, made it easy for the whole family. That is why it gets 4.5 out of 5.

For every place we ate at on the same trip, see our Jeju food guide for families.

More from our July 2026 Jeju trip:

• Dajeongine Gimbap, egg-packed gimbap in Seogwipo
• Gaseureum Sikdang, pork dishes near Seongeup Folk Village
• Jeju Dongmun Market, the night market in Jeju City

Before lunch we climbed Seongsan Ilchulbong with the kids, and afterwards we went on to Aqua Planet Jeju. Both are on our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea.

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• Name: 가스름식당 (Gaseureum Sikdang)
• Address: 19 Gasi-ro 565beon-gil, Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju (제주 서귀포시 표선면 가시로565번길 19, from the address plate on the building) · Google Maps
• Visited: an evening in July 2026, during a family trip to Jeju, my wife, our two kids and me
• What we ordered: blood sausage soup with momjaban seaweed, then duruchigi and boiled pork. I did not keep the receipt, so I have not given a total
• My rating: 3.5 / 5
• Info checked: September 24, 2026

A village pork restaurant in Pyoseon

Gaseureum Sikdang is in a two-story dark brick building on a narrow lane in Gasi-ri, a village in Pyoseon-myeon, with a pig logo on the sign and a wooden bench outside. Inside, it is simple: wooden tables and benches, and an open kitchen at the back. We went for dinner during our July trip to Jeju.

The menu

The menu is a row of wooden boards on the wall, with prices in thousands of won. A sign next to it says the pork and the momjaban seaweed are from Jeju, and the rice, chili powder and kimchi are Korean. These were the prices when we went:

Mom (몸) is the Jeju word for momjaban (모자반), a brown seaweed that is cooked into Jeju’s pork broth dishes, such as momguk. Here it goes into the sundae soup. The sundae is Jeju-style blood sausage, made with pig’s blood, so it is darker than the glass-noodle sundae common in Seoul.

The sundae soup

We started with the momsundae-guk, the sundae soup. It came in an earthenware bowl, a dark, thick broth topped with chopped green onion, with a bowl of purple rice on the side. The taste reminded us of seonji haejangguk, the ox blood hangover soup, because of the blood sausage in it.

It was not to our taste. We are not used to blood sausage in a soup like this, and our kids hardly ate it. If you like seonji haejangguk or Jeju-style sundae, you may enjoy it more than we did, but for us it was the weakest dish of the night.

Duruchigi and boiled pork

Because the soup did not work for us, we added two more dishes. The duruchigi (두루치기) came on a flat, round iron pan: sliced pork in a thick red sauce with onion and green onion, cooked on the burner at the table, with lettuce for wraps. There was also a plate of seasoned bean sprouts and spicy radish salad, which we mixed into the pan.

We also ordered the boiled pork head meat (머리고기수육), which came as a plate of thick slices of boiled pork. The kids ate more of the duruchigi and boiled pork than of the soup.

Side dishes

The table was set with kimchi, radish kimchi, green chilies, garlic, a red dipping sauce and a small dish of pickled greens.

Reading the menu boards

• 두루치기 (duruchigi): pork stir-fried in a red chili sauce, cooked at the table.
• 수육 (suyuk): boiled, sliced pork. 머리고기 means head meat.
• 순대 (sundae): sausage; here, Jeju-style blood sausage. 한접시 means one plate, and 백반 means a set meal with rice and side dishes.
• 몸 (mom): momjaban seaweed, in 몸순대국, the sundae soup.
• 생고기 / 목살 (saenggogi / moksal): fresh pork and pork neck for grilling.

What we thought

For us this was a so-so meal. Nothing was badly made, but the blood sausage soup was not something our family enjoyed, and the kids did not eat much of it. The duruchigi and boiled pork filled the gap. If you already like blood sausage and Jeju-style soups, this is the kind of place to try them; if you are traveling with children who are picky, order the duruchigi or grilled pork first. I am giving it 3.5 out of 5.

Getting there

The restaurant is at 19 Gasi-ro 565beon-gil in Gasi-ri, Pyoseon-myeon, in the southeast of Jeju, away from the main tourist streets.

Gasi-ri seems to be a small cluster for this kind of food. DiningCode files Gaseureum Sikdang under Pyoseon duruchigi and momguk, tags it as a restaurant where local people eat, and notes that it has high chairs for small children. Its listing also shows pork belly and grilled black pork at 15,000 won, which were not on the wall boards we photographed. Within about 100 m, DiningCode lists three more restaurants in the same category, Gasi Sikdang, Namokdo Sikdang and Myeongmun Sageori Sikdang, all serving duruchigi and momguk. We have not been to those, so I cannot compare them, but if you are in the area for these dishes, there are several places on the same few streets.

For every place we ate at on the same trip, see our Jeju food guide for families.

More from our July 2026 Jeju trip:

• Jeonmang Heukdwaeji, black pork with a view of Seongsan Ilchulbong
• Dajeongine Gimbap, egg-packed gimbap in Seogwipo
• Jeju Dongmun Market, the night market in Jeju City

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Jeju Gwanghae (제주광해) is a galchi restaurant on the coast road in Aewol, on the northwest side of Jeju. Galchi (갈치) is hairtail, a long silver fish that Jeju is known for. We went for lunch on our second day in Jeju, the day after our night at Dongmun Market. There was no wait, and we got the last window table. We ordered the Gwanghae modeum set, which comes with the fish both braised and grilled. I mostly ate the braised galchi, my wife mostly ate the grilled fish, and our two kids were very happy with the meal.

The Gwanghae modeum set

Modeum (모둠) means “assorted”. It is a set that puts several of the restaurant’s dishes on one table. The small size is listed for two to three people and cost 108,000 won. On the DiningCode listing, the small set is braised galchi, grilled mackerel, a seafood hot pot, soy-marinated crab and spicy marinated crab, plus a choice of grilled galchi or grilled abalone. On our table there was grilled galchi and also grilled abalone, along with fish that was easy to give to the kids. I found the set generous. I don’t know why we got both that day, so if you are counting on a particular item, ask what the set includes when you order. The large set (177,000 won, three to five people) has all of those plus both grilled galchi and grilled abalone and two seafood hot pots.

The menu says two bowls of rice come with the small set and four with the large set. For four of us we added two more at 1,000 won each, plus two drinks at 2,000 won each.

Braised galchi, my side of the table

Galchi jorim (갈치조림) is hairtail braised in a red, spicy sauce with radish. Ours came in a long pan, covered in chopped green onion and sesame seeds. This is what I mostly ate. The sauce was thick, a little sticky and sweet, and I liked it a lot. I finished with the sauce spooned over rice.

Grilled fish, my wife’s side

The grilled fish came on a separate board: long pieces of grilled galchi and a grilled mackerel. My wife mostly ate from this side. The galchi came with the bones already taken out, which made it easy to eat, for us and for the kids.

Crab and prawn

The set also had soy-marinated crab (ganjang gejang, 간장게장), spicy marinated crab (yangnyeom gejang, 양념게장) and a large prawn.

What our receipt says

Our receipt was printed at 1:28 p.m. for table 8. The set is printed as “광해모둠소(갈치)”, the small Gwanghae modeum. Below it are 공기밥 (extra rice) x 2 at 1,000 won and 음료 (drinks) x 2 at 2,000 won, for 114,000 won in total.

The full menu

From the menu at our table in July 2026, with what comes in each set from the DiningCode listing. The English names are my translations.

The braise sets come with grilled mackerel and both kinds of marinated crab, according to the listing. For a family, the small modeum was a way to get galchi both braised and grilled without ordering two sets.

Downstairs: Shop Jeju and the free drinks

The restaurant is on the second floor, and the first floor is a gift shop called Shop Jeju. According to the DiningCode listing, if you bring your Gwanghae receipt to Shop Jeju, you get two free drinks per table. There is also a wall of photos and autographs in the restaurant.

Getting there

Gwanghae is at 867 Aewolhaean-ro, the coast road in Aewol. The restaurant is on the second floor, and our window table looked out on the sea. DiningCode lists free parking.

More from our Jeju trip

• Jeju Dongmun night market, our first night in Jeju

For a family of four, the small set with two extra bowls of rice was plenty, and it was a good way to try galchi both braised and grilled in one meal.

For every place we ate at on the same trip, see our Jeju food guide for families.

After lunch we spent the afternoon at Segial Beach with the kids. That visit is on our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea.

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Dongmun Market (동문시장) is the big traditional market in Jeju City, and in the evening part of it turns into a night market full of food stalls. We went on Sunday, July 5, 2026, our first night in Jeju, as a family of four. It was packed. We couldn’t find anywhere to sit, so we ate standing up. We had gimbap, a steak box and tangerine juice at the market, and left with a bag of Jeju snacks and a tray of rice balls for the next morning.

Where the night market is

The market’s address is 20 Gwandeok-ro 14-gil in Jeju City. According to Visit Jeju, Jeju’s official tourism site, the night market is held near Gate 8 every day, from 19:00 to midnight between May and October and from 18:00 to midnight between November and April, and stalls close early if they sell out. Our July visit fell in the summer hours. The daytime market is listed as open from about 07:00 to 21:00, depending on the shop, and the same page lists a public car park with 30 minutes free.

The night market is a long covered hall with stalls down both sides. Each stall has a number on its sign, which is useful if you want to find one again: the abalone gimbap stall we passed was number 31, for example.

Egg-wrapped gimbap

Gimbap (김밥) is a Korean rice roll. The one we bought was wrapped in a thin layer of egg and cut into thick slices, and it came in a paper box. It is easy to eat while standing, which mattered here.

Some stalls sell gimbap with abalone, a Jeju specialty. Stall 31, under a row of light bulbs, was one of them.

Steak and stir-fried kimchi

Our other main dish was a box of steak pieces topped with mayonnaise and a dark sauce, with stir-fried kimchi on the side. It is the kind of thing you hold in one hand and eat with the other.

Tangerine juice

Jeju is known for its tangerines, and several stalls press the juice fresh. We finished with a round of tangerine juice.

Geobukibap, for the next morning

Geobukibap (거북기밥) is a rice ball stall. Its sign shows a turtle holding a rice ball, with the line “Put Jeju island on a rice ball”. The rice balls are topped with things like abalone. We didn’t eat them at the market: we bought a tray to take away and had them the next morning.

Other stalls we walked past

There was a lot more than we could eat in one night. Near Geobukibap there were stalls with signs for charcoal-grilled chicken skewers (숯불닭꼬치), black pork rolls (흑돼지오겹말이) and squid cooked on a huge iron lid (진격의 솔뚜껑). There were tteokbokki and fritter stalls, black pork on the grill, grilled squid, and a stall grilling makchang (pork intestines) with prices on a chalkboard: 15,000 won for salted makchang, and 16,000 won for the spicy or half-and-half versions.

Raw fish to go

There are raw fish counters in the market too. At one of them, Urisusan (우리수산), the sashimi was packed on plates ready to take away. We didn’t buy any, but the prices were on the packs:

A sign next to it listed extras from the stall’s restaurant: vegetables for wrapping 3,000 won, dipping sauces and pickles 2,000 won each, and two small packs of seaweed for 1,000 won. The pack names are made of the first syllables of each fish name, which is why they look like codes.

Eating on our feet

The market was packed that night. We couldn’t find a seating area, so we bought one thing at a time and ate it standing, near the stall or off to the side.

Souvenirs and snacks

Part of the market is shops selling Jeju souvenirs and snacks: tangerine-themed goods, candles and boxed sweets. We mostly bought snacks, such as the peanut sweets from Udo, the small island off Jeju’s east coast. The shelves were stacked with boxed sweets, and below them were gift boxes of fruit teas such as hallabong, cheonhyehyang, yuja and omija tea. Prices were on the shelves. Some examples from the shop we went into:

What helped us

Looking back, three things made the evening easier. Most stalls show their prices on signs or chalkboards, so you know what you will pay before you order. Some food is packed to take away, like the Geobukibap trays and the sashimi plates, which is handy when you can’t find a seat. And the stall numbers on the signs make it easy to find a stall again later in the evening.

More from our Jeju trip

• Jeju Gwanghae in Aewol, our galchi lunch the next day

For a first night in Jeju, the night market was a good choice, with a lot to look at and a lot to try. Just go ready to stand.

For every place we ate at on the same trip, see our Jeju food guide for families.

That night we stayed near the airport at Hotel Air City Jeju, reviewed on our family travel site, Kid-friendly Korea.

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