After a day on the slopes at Oak Valley, none of us wanted to eat inside the resort again, so one evening the four of us got back in the car and drove down the access road looking for somewhere with a grill on the table. The lit sign of Mannajeong (만나정), at 604 Wolsongseokhwa-ro in Jijeong-myeon, Wonju, was the brightest thing on that stretch, and we pulled in. We ordered two portions of samgyeopsal, a grilled salted mackerel and a plate of steamed dumplings, which came to 69,000 won at menu prices. The meal was ordinary, and the mackerel was dry.
- Name: 만나정 (Mannajeong), Wonju
- Address: 604 Wolsongseokhwa-ro, Jijeong-myeon, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do (강원 원주시 지정면 월송석화로 604) · Google Maps
- Hours: 07:00 to 21:00, as listed on DiningCode
- Parking: free, in front of the building
- Visited: one dinner on our winter 2026 ski trip to Oak Valley, two adults and two kids
- What we ordered: samgyeopsal 2 portions (22,000 won per 200 g), grilled salted mackerel (15,000 won) and steamed dumplings (10,000 won)
- Total at menu prices: 2 × 22,000 won + 15,000 won + 10,000 won = 69,000 won
- How Mannajeong scored with us: 3.6 out of 5 for this Oak Valley dinner
- Info checked: October 21, 2026
Off the resort for one night
By then we had eaten enough resort food, and the kids had asked more than once for meat they could watch cook. Mannajeong is on the road that leads up to the resort, and several other restaurants sit along the same stretch, so we had not picked a place before leaving. We decided from the car.
After dark the building makes that decision easy. The biggest lit letters on it spell 꽃게장 (kkotgejang, blue crab marinated in soy sauce). Below them, a yellow board lists more of the kitchen: lotus leaf rice sets (연잎밥정식), soy sauce crab sets (간장게장정식), tofu hot pot (두부전골), galbitang, dogani-tang, gondeure rice (곤드레밥) and wild vegetable bibimbap (산채비빔밥). A smaller sign on the front reads 한식전문점, a Korean food specialist. The parking area is directly in front, and we left the car a few steps from the door, which mattered with two tired kids who had been in ski boots all day.
I took the photo of the signs so I could read the board properly later. Looking at it again at home, I noticed that pork belly is not on it at all, and crab gets the largest letters. That is a fair hint about what the kitchen thinks it does best. We had grilled pork in our heads after skiing and ordered it anyway.
Grill tables and a wall of signatures
Inside is one long, plain dining room. Rows of wooden tables run from the door toward the back. Each table has a grill set into its middle and an extractor hood hanging over it, so the smoke goes up instead of into your coat. A sign on the wall explains that side dishes are self-service refills: when a small plate is empty, you get up and fill it again yourself rather than waiting for the staff.
The walls are what you notice first. They are covered with signed cards, the autograph boards Korean restaurants collect from well-known visitors, and there are enough of them to fill whole frames. The kids went straight over to look while we sat down, trying to find a name they recognised. They did not find one, and I could not help them, but it kept them busy while my wife and I worked through the menu.
Reading the menu
Each table has a printed menu with photos, and a larger board on the wall splits everything into crab dishes, meat and meals, drinks and hanwoo beef. If you do not read Korean, start with the printed menu, since the photos give you a rough idea of what will arrive. I copied the prices below from the board and the printed menu on the night of our dinner, in winter 2026:
| Dish | Korean | Price (won) |
|---|---|---|
| Soy-marinated crab, female / male (1 crab) | 암꽃게장 / 숫꽃게장 | 18,000 each |
| Spicy marinated crab (1 crab) | 양념게장 | 18,000 |
| Blue crab stew, large / medium | 꽃게탕 | 70,000 / 55,000 |
| Lotus leaf rice set | 연잎정식 | 20,000 |
| Samgyeopsal (pork belly), 200 g | 삼겹살 | 22,000 |
| Beef and mushroom hot pot, large / medium | 소고기버섯전골 | 60,000 / 40,000 |
| Spicy squid and pork (2 people, rice extra) | 오삼불고기 | 35,000 |
| Spicy stir-fried pork (2 people, rice extra) | 제육볶음 | 30,000 |
| Galbitang (beef short rib soup) | 갈비탕 | 18,000 |
| Cheese pork cutlet / pork cutlet | 치즈돈가스 / 돈가스 | 16,000 / 15,000 |
| Grilled salted mackerel | 간고등어구이 | 15,000 |
| Seafood soft tofu stew | 해물순두부 | 15,000 |
| Tofu hot pot (2 or more) | 두부전골 | 12,000 |
| Rice cake and dumpling soup (1 portion) | 왕떡만두국 | 12,000 |
| Steamed dumplings (1 portion) | 왕찐만두 | 10,000 |
| Ttukbaegi bulgogi (simmered in a clay pot) | 뚝배기 불고기 | 15,000 |
| Wild vegetable bibimbap / stone pot bibimbap | 산채비빔밥 / 돌솥비빔밥 | 12,000 / 15,000 |
| Naengmyeon (cold noodles) | 냉면 | 12,000 |
| Cheonggukjang / doenjang stew | 청국장 / 된장찌개 | 10,000 each |
The crab section opens the wall board. 암꽃게장 and 숫꽃게장 are the female and male soy-marinated crab, 18,000 won each for one crab, and 양념게장 in the same section is also 18,000 won. The lotus leaf rice set (연잎정식) is 20,000 won. Those two, crab and lotus leaf rice, are also what the building outside puts first: 꽃게장 in the largest letters, and 연잎밥정식 on the yellow board below it. So these are the dishes the restaurant itself wants you to order. We did not order any of them, and I cannot tell you what comes with the set or how the crab tastes here.
On the meat side, samgyeopsal is priced per 200 g portion at 22,000 won. The spicy squid and pork (오삼불고기, 35,000 won) and the spicy stir-fried pork (제육볶음, 30,000 won) are both priced for two people, and the menu notes that rice costs extra with them. The tofu hot pot is 12,000 won with a minimum order of two, and the beef and mushroom hot pot comes large at 60,000 won or medium at 40,000 won. For children who do not want anything spicy, the pork cutlet (15,000 won) and the cheese pork cutlet (16,000 won) are the obvious picks. Our kids voted for dumplings instead.
For a bigger group, the blue crab stew (꽃게탕) comes large at 70,000 won and medium at 55,000 won. Single-bowl meals sit between 10,000 and 18,000 won: galbitang is 18,000 won, the seafood soft tofu stew and the clay-pot ttukbaegi bulgogi are 15,000 won each, wild vegetable bibimbap is 12,000 won and stone pot bibimbap 15,000 won, naengmyeon is 12,000 won, and cheonggukjang or doenjang stew is 10,000 won. The rice cake and dumpling soup (12,000 won for one portion) has the same 왕, “king”, in its name as the steamed dumplings, if you want dumplings in a hot broth.
Samgyeopsal on the table grill
We asked for two portions of samgyeopsal, 400 g of pork belly for the four of us. It came out as long, uncut strips laid on a plate, and the grilling was up to us on the square grill plate in the table. The side dishes reached the table first: seasoned bean sprouts, spinach, braised bracken and a couple of others, plus a whole piece of cabbage kimchi, still uncut, on its own plate.
My wife took the tongs, which is how it usually goes in our family, and I took the scissors. When the strips had browned on one side we turned them, then cut them into pieces right on the grill plate. The whole kimchi went on as well, in the middle where the pork fat runs, so it softened and picked up some colour. The kids appointed themselves judges of doneness, which mostly meant asking every half minute whether a piece was ready yet.
The pork was fine, but not especially tasty. It cooked evenly and was not tough; it simply did not have much flavour of its own, and after the first few pieces nobody at the table mentioned it again. The side dishes were in the same place, ordinary and easy to top up when the bean sprouts ran out. Four hundred grams also did not stretch very far between four people who had been skiing since the morning, so the other two dishes ended up carrying more of the meal than we had planned.
The grilled kimchi was the part I kept going back to. Kimchi cooked down in pork fat is hard to get wrong, and a sour, slightly charred leaf folded around a piece of pork was the best bite I had that evening.
Mackerel and king dumplings
The other two dishes arrived while the pork was still on the grill. The grilled salted mackerel (간고등어구이, ganggodeungeo-gui, 15,000 won) was a whole fish, butterflied and laid flat on a long plate. The steamed dumplings (왕찐만두, wang-jjinmandu, 10,000 won) were five large dumplings with a small dish of soy sauce; wang means “king” and refers to their size.
The mackerel was the weakest of the three dishes. Salted mackerel is at its best when the skin is crisp and the flesh underneath is still moist. Ours was dry all the way through, and by the last third we were picking at it only because it was there. My wife gave up on it before I did. With a hot grill already in front of us, I would rather have spent that 15,000 won on more pork.
The dumplings were about level with the pork. Five large dumplings for four people meant one had to be split, and the kids sorted that out between themselves with less arguing than I expected. They were not bad, and the wrappers held together on the way from the plate to the soy sauce, but there was nothing about them I would bother describing to a friend.
What the meal came to
Here are the menu prices for our three dishes and what they add up to:
- Samgyeopsal: 2 portions × 22,000 won = 44,000 won
- Grilled salted mackerel: 1 × 15,000 won = 15,000 won
- Steamed dumplings: 1 portion × 10,000 won = 10,000 won
- Total: 2 × 22,000 won + 15,000 won + 10,000 won = 69,000 won
That works out to 17,250 won per person for the four of us (69,000 ÷ 4). The figure covers only the three dishes above, at the prices on the menu that winter, so look at the board again when you sit down. For comparison, four lotus leaf rice sets would come to 4 × 20,000 won = 80,000 won, a little more than we spent, and that is the order I would try if we went again.
Finding it on the Oak Valley road
Mannajeong is at 604 Wolsongseokhwa-ro in Jijeong-myeon, on the road toward Oak Valley. We drove down from the resort, and the free parking in front of the building had space for us without any circling. Other restaurants line the same stretch, so if one is full you can keep driving instead of heading back up the hill.
DiningCode lists the hours as 07:00 to 21:00. The early opening means it could also work for breakfast or lunch if you are staying nearby, though we only went once, for dinner. If you ski late, keep the 21:00 close in mind: a grill dinner with kids takes a while, and nobody wants to rush the last strips of pork.
Tips for a first visit
- Order from the printed menu with photos at your table if the wall board is hard to read.
- Samgyeopsal is sold by the 200 g portion at 22,000 won. Two portions were on the small side for a family of four after a ski day.
- Side dishes are self-service refills, so top them up yourself.
- Rice is extra with the two-person spicy squid and pork and the spicy stir-fried pork.
- The crab and the lotus leaf rice sets are what the signs outside push. We did not try them, so we cannot tell you how they taste.
- Parking in front of the building is free.
Would we stop here again?
Not for barbecue. The mackerel was dry, and neither the pork nor the dumplings gave us a reason to come back for the same order. If we were on this road again with time for a proper meal, I would try what the restaurant puts on its own sign, the soy sauce crab or the lotus leaf rice set. We have not eaten either here, so treat that as a guess from the menu. For the dinner we actually had, I gave Mannajeong 3.6 out of 5.
On the short drive back up to the resort, the kids were already planning the next evening’s dinner. These are the other places we wrote up from those days at Oak Valley:
- Oak Valley Resort breakfast buffet, our mornings at Forest in Tower C before the slopes
- Deulkkot Garden, a different dinner off the resort, with jeyuk bokkeum and galbitang
- Ganhyeon Bakery, the bakery we stumbled on near the resort