Pildong Hambak Starfield Hanam Review: Hamburger Steak with My Son

  • Name: 필동함박 (Pildong Hambak), Starfield Hanam
  • Where: Eatopia food hall, 3F, Starfield Hanam, 750 Misa-daero, Hanam, Gyeonggi-do (경기 하남시 미사대로 750, 스타필드 하남) · Google Maps
  • Visited: Sunday, March 8, 2026, lunch. My son and me
  • What we ordered: Classic Hambak 15,500 won, Shrimp Rose Pasta 13,900 won
  • Total: 29,400 won
  • Wait: none; we got the last free table
  • Hours: restaurant 10:00 to 20:45, last order 20:15 (DiningCode listing); mall 10:00 to 22:00 (Starfield Hanam’s website)
  • My rating: 4.5 / 5
  • Info checked: September 23, 2026

Pildong Hambak (필동함박) is a hamburger steak restaurant in the Eatopia food hall at Starfield Hanam, the big shopping mall in Hanam just east of Seoul. My son and I went to Starfield on a Sunday in March because he had been asking for a Nintendo game, and we had lunch here. We got the last free table, ordered a Classic Hambak and a Shrimp Rose Pasta, and paid 29,400 won. My son loved the hambak and kept saying he wants it again next time.

The Pildong Hambak sign in Eatopia
The Pildong Hambak sign in Eatopia

What hambak is

Hambak (함박) is the Korean name for hamburger steak: a thick patty, not in a bun, served with a brown sauce. The restaurant’s signs call it a “Hambak Steak House” and the menu screen says “Family Restaurant”. At Pildong Hambak the Classic Hambak comes on a plate with a sausage and rice, and there are other versions with cream, curry or cheese sauces.

How ordering works

Pildong Hambak is a counter in the food hall rather than a sit-down restaurant. You look at the menu on a large screen next to the counter, order and pay at the counter, and get a pager from Eatopia. When the pager lights up, you go back and pick up your tray. Payment goes through Starfield: our receipt is printed on a Starfield receipt, with the store listed as 필동함박, and it records the order at 12:55 p.m. The tables are shared seating in the food hall, and we got the last free one. A note at the top of the menu screen asks you to say in advance if you want the sauce on the side, and extra sauce costs 3,000 won.

The counter with the menu screen and a BBQ rib set sign
The counter with the menu screen and a BBQ rib set sign
The Eatopia pager
The Eatopia pager

Classic Hambak

My son had the Classic Hambak (클래식 함박, 15,500 won). The plate had the hamburger steak cut into thick pieces, covered in a dark demi-glace sauce with mushrooms, a large sausage on the side, and rice. The menu describes it as a hamburger steak with the house demi-glace sauce, and it is marked as a best seller.

He said it was really good and kept saying he wants to have it again next time. That is the best review I can give for a lunch with a kid.

Classic Hambak with demi-glace sauce and a sausage
Classic Hambak with demi-glace sauce and a sausage
The Classic Hambak from the side
The Classic Hambak from the side

Shrimp Rose Pasta

I had the Shrimp Rose Pasta (새우 로제 파스타, 13,900 won). Rose sauce is a tomato and cream sauce that is popular in Korea. The menu describes it as the house rose sauce with shrimp. The pasta came with shrimp and a fried egg on top, and the fried egg made it even better.

Shrimp Rose Pasta with a fried egg on top
Shrimp Rose Pasta with a fried egg on top
The pasta, close up
The pasta, close up

What the other dishes are

For all our Hanam reviews grouped by area, see our Hanam restaurant guide.

The menu screen has a short description under each dish. Translated, these are the ones we didn’t order:

  • Classic Cheese Hambak: the classic hamburger steak with mozzarella and an old-style Korean diner hambak sauce
  • Toowoomba Hambak: hamburger steak in a Korean-style cream sauce that is a little spicy
  • Chungyang Truffle Cream Hambak: a cream sauce with Cheongyang green chili, which is a hot Korean pepper
  • Cream Curry Hambak: a creamy curry with the hambak, topped with garlic and onion chips
  • Carbonara Gnocchi Hambak: hambak with gnocchi in a cream sauce with Grana Padano cheese and bacon
  • Pildong Omurice: rice topped with chopped hambak, vegetables, egg and demi-glace; the menu tip says to mix the egg and rice well
  • Chicken Cream Curry: a boneless chicken thigh steak with creamy chicken curry
  • Cheese Buldak Napolitan: bacon Napolitan pasta with buldak (fire chicken) sauce, marked as very spicy
  • Truffle Cream Gnocchi: gnocchi in cream sauce with truffle oil

Only the Toowoomba, the Chungyang cream and the Buldak Napolitan are described as spicy, which is worth knowing if you are ordering for a child. My son went for the Classic Hambak.

Menu and prices

These are the prices on the menu screen in March 2026. The English names are the ones printed on the screen.

DishKoreanPrice (won)
Classic Hambak클래식 함박15,500
Classic Cheese Hambak (new)클래식 치즈 함박14,900
Toowoomba Hambak투움바 함박14,500
Chungyang Truffle Cream Hambak청양 트러플 크림 함박15,500
Cream Curry Hambak함박크림커리14,500
Carbonara Gnocchi Hambak까르보 뇨끼 함박15,500
Pildong Omurice (sold out that day)필동 오므라이스14,500
Chicken Cream Curry치킨 크림커리14,500
Shrimp Rose Pasta (new)새우 로제 파스타13,900
Carbonara Mushroom Pasta까르보 머쉬룸 파스타13,900
Cheese Buldak Napolitan (new)치즈 불닭 나폴리탄13,900
Truffle Cream Gnocchi트러플 크림 뇨끼13,900
BBQ pork ribsBBQ폭립23,900
Add-onsKoreanPrice (won)
Set upgrade: salad and soup정식 세트+2,000
Cheddar cheese체다치즈1,000
Chicken steak치킨 스테이크3,500
Extra fried egg계란후라이 추가1,000
Extra rice밥 추가500
Extra noodles면 추가500
Extra sausage소시지 추가3,000
Extra gnocchi뇨끼 추가2,000
Extra sauce소스 추가3,000
Soft drink음료2,500
Water물1,200

A sign on the counter also advertised a BBQ rib set for 42,900 won, with pork ribs, a hambak and two drinks.

The menu screen at the counter
The menu screen at the counter

Finding it

Pildong Hambak is inside Eatopia, the food hall on the third floor of Starfield Hanam (750 Misa-daero, Hanam), according to DiningCode. Look for the blue sign with “필동함박” and “PILDONG HAMBAK”. According to Starfield Hanam’s website, the mall is open from 10:00 to 22:00 every day, but the restaurant closes earlier: DiningCode lists Pildong Hambak as open from 10:00 to 20:45, with last orders at 20:15.

Tables in the Eatopia food hall
Tables in the Eatopia food hall

More family meals in Hanam

For a quick lunch at Starfield Hanam with a kid, this worked well for us.

Written by

Jun Kim

Dad of two in Hanam, just east of Seoul. I write about restaurants my family, my coworkers and I have eaten at and paid for ourselves: what we ordered, what it cost, and what we thought. Every photo on this blog is ours.

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