Sinjungdong Station pork belly set with 3-flavor sausages: Mungteong

Thick-cut meat with tasty meljeot (salted anchovy sauce)

Pork belly meeting meljeot is an umami explosion. Gulp~ my appetite is fired up!

Today's meat story is a pork belly spot near Sinjungdong Station in Bucheon with a charming name: Mungteong Bucheon Sinjung-dong Branch (뭉텅). Let's go, opening-hour run! Ugh, haha.

Where is Mungteong Bucheon Sinjung-dong Branch, and what are the hours and parking?

Mungteong is at 36 Jungdong-ro 254beon-gil, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea (1F, Units 104–105). It is open 16:00–23:00 on weekdays and 12:00–23:00 on weekends. Groups and reservations are welcome, and there are high chairs and a waiting area.

For parking, you can use the underground lot of the Hyverath building, and when it's full, the nearby Old Terminal public parking lot. Ask at the counter and you can get 1 hour of free parking.

What is the atmosphere like at Mungteong?

Out front there are outdoor tables and a waiting area. Inside, the chairs are round with lids where you can stash bags or coats, which is adorably cute.

The casual mood seems great for a light drink after work.

"Gaeksa builche": customer, teacher and parent are one.

The meat is aging nicely.

Carrying on the craftsmanship of a father who ran a butcher shop for 30 years and a mother who kept a galbi restaurant for 20, Mungteong never compromises on ingredients.

Mungteong menu and the price of the platter and pork belly set

The signature at this Sinjungdong Station meat spot is the Mungteong jumeok-gui (fist-cut grilled pork)!! There are also pork belly and gabrisal (pork neck-end cut). Sides include Mungteong special rice, tofu cheonggukjang (fermented soybean stew), cold soup bibim jjolmyeon (chewy noodles), and spicy pork cartilage fried rice.

I ordered the platter and pork belly set for ₩73,500 (choice of sausage or cinnamon pork skin, choice of stew) and steamed rice for ₩1,000. The stew can be kimchi stew or cheonggukjang.

Mungteong's basic sauces and sides: meljeot, barley ssamjang, shrimp salt, shiitake wasabi, aged kimchi

The meljeot has landed on the charcoal too. Meljeot is a traditional Jeju salted, fermented anchovy sauce.

Barley ssamjang (seasoned bean paste), shrimp salt and shiitake wasabi are all made in-house. The barley ssamjang is great in lettuce wraps, and the shrimp salt is amazingly not salty at all, with a bold shrimp flavor. The shiitake wasabi has the umami of shiitake and a clean wasabi kick that goes well with fatty meat.

Jeolla-style kimchi aged 3 months!!!! It was deliciously good.

What's in the platter and pork belly set: pork belly, flower neck, plain neck and three-flavor sausages

Here comes the good meat. And it brought sausages along~ so excited!

Pork belly / flower neck / plain neck

Sausages in three flavors: original, cheese and spicy.

How to grill meat well at Mungteong

Learn how to eat it best before you go. They told me to safely wipe the grill with pickled radish (ssammu) partway through, so I did it right away, haha.

Mungteong uses only custom-made tin grills. And the owner's tip: cook whole garlic in the meljeot, and the meljeot flavor soaks into the nutty garlic and turns into a taste you keep craving. The meat comes straight from Andong farms, so it's fresh enough to be good even when cooked through~~ So juicy!

Golden pork belly and sausages~ I roll them over so they cook evenly.

We grill green onions and eggplant too. The sweet green onion is so appealing. The direct-fire eggplant, soaked in meat aroma and smoky flavor, is tender and nutty.

A piece dipped deep in shiitake wasabi~ and meat dipped in barley ssamjang together with eggplant and grilled green onion~

The sausage was so juicy I felt bad cutting it, haha. My mouth is happy because of it.

Enjoy all three flavors.

Is Mungteong's cheonggukjang stew a must-order?

I picked cheonggukjang for the set's stew, and it was so good I was surprised. Bubbling away like crazy, so please, please order it.

It has cubed meat you can chew on, and the cheonggukjang isn't strong, so it's easy for anyone to eat. I scraped the bottom clean. The rice vanished in seconds.

After finishing the meat, head out with a cool slush each~

What is the claw machine event at Mungteong?

Mungteong is running a claw machine event with 2 tries for ₩1,000 (one per table). They say you can win alcohol and big dolls too.

I couldn't miss something this fun, so two tries for 1,000 won, challenge! Beep beep beep, whoosh~

I invested ₩1,000 and got lucky with one success, and got a canned drink~ 😄 So fun 😄

Overall verdict on Mungteong

The owner and staff are kind, you can have a good time with tasty meat, and the claw machine event, where you can even win alcohol and big dolls, adds a small joy. Give it a try 😄 Enjoy tasty pork belly and a great time at Sinjungdong Station.