Cheonan pork jowl grill with a self-serve banchan bar: Motsaenggin

Today I'm introducing a restaurant where the pork jowl is absolutely amazing — Motsaenggin Ttungdwaeji Cheongdang Branch. I've been to the original Motsaenggin location so many times because I love it so much, and when I heard a new Cheongdang branch opened close to my house, I had to check it out. I already love pork jowl in general, but theirs is genuinely delicious, so I went in with high expectations again. Let me introduce this Cheongdang-dong favorite right away!

Where is Motsaenggin Ttungdwaeji Cheongdang Branch? Hours and parking

• Address: 충남 천안시 동남구 청수9로 39 1층 (39 Cheongsu 9-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea)
• Hours: Daily 11:30–24:00 (last order 23:00)
• Parking: Free parking available; Cheonan public parking lot entrance/exit in Cheongdang-dong, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan can also be used

Right next to the entrance there's a machine with two kinds of slushies plus a coffee machine. After enjoying delicious grilled meat, you can grab a cool slushie or coffee too — perfect for wrapping up dessert in one stop.

Also, Motsaenggin Ttungdwaeji Cheongdang was selected as an outstanding business in the pork BBQ category in the 2026 Korea Consumer Industry Evaluation, and received an award related to the restaurant industry! I guess a good restaurant is good for a reason. Knowing they have this kind of award history makes it even easier to trust and visit.

What is the seating like? Group rooms and terrace tables

Motsaenggin Ttungdwaeji Cheongdang has round tables and group-seating tables. The group seating area has partitions so you can enjoy your meal privately. And if you sit at a terrace table, you can open the doors, which felt like a lovely outdoor-dining vibe on a nice day.

What side dishes come with the meal at Motsaenggin Ttungdwaeji?

Let me introduce Motsaenggin's basic banchan (side dishes).

Shredded green onion, a secret soy sauce, and salt.

Seaweed, baek-kimchi (white kimchi), pickled perilla leaves, pickled radish, kelp, salted pollack roe, ginger shreds, salted shrimp, and ssamjang (dipping paste) all came out.

First off, the sheer number of side dishes was a pass! I thought it was just banchan, but they even brought corn cheese and a fried egg. On top of that, doenjang-jjigae (soybean paste stew) came out at the end too, so it ended up being a really hearty meal.

You can grab any side dishes you're missing from the self-serve bar without any hesitation. I was so happy to find my favorite salted pollack roe there.. 💖 BBQ spots that serve salted pollack roe are rare, really rare~

Motsaenggin Ttungdwaeji Cheongdang has a receipt review event~ When you write a review, you can choose one of mul-naengmyeon (cold noodles in broth), bibim-naengmyeon (spicy cold noodles), soy-sauce egg rice, ramyeon, or doenjang-jjigae, so make sure to participate!

Menu prices and what we ordered

Please take a look at the menu board~

There's a tablet at each table, so you order yourself.

• Pork jowl x 2 servings — ₩38,000
• Kimchi stew — ₩13,000
• Steamed rice — ₩1,000
• Pepsi Zero — ₩2,000

This is what the two of us ordered~

The owner's top 5 ssam wrap combinations

• Meat → seaweed + (soy sauce, green onion sauce)
• Meat → pickled radish + kelp (soy sauce, green onion sauce)
• Meat → aged kimchi + (soy sauce, green onion sauce)
• Meat (dipped in galchi-jeot/hairtail sauce) → perilla leaf + (green onion sauce)
• Meat (dipped in soy sauce) → mustard leaf kimchi

Try these out and enjoy your meal haha.

Two servings of pork jowl, grilled with mel-jeot anchovy sauce

First, the pork jowl for two came out. The pink color and overall look of the raw jowl were seriously gorgeous 🤤 It looked fresh just from the sight of it.

Once the grill plate was hot enough, the staff member put the mel-jeot (fermented anchovy sauce) and pork jowl on the grill together.

What's so great is that the staff cuts the meat themselves and grills it for you too.

They cut it into perfect one-bite pieces and grilled it to just the right doneness, so it was delicious to eat. Really kind service.

Dipping a piece of seaweed lightly in sesame oil, then topping it with salted pollack roe and pickled green onion, is such a golden combo.. This is my favorite way to eat it.

Whatever combo I tried, it was all delicious. The side dishes were excellent too, and the pork jowl here has that texture where the juice bursts the moment it hits your mouth, haha.

Even just dipped in mel-jeot alone, it's so good~ I really love BBQ spots that serve mel-jeot, haha.

Kimchi stew big enough to share between two

The kimchi stew took a little over 20 minutes, but wow.. the portion was pretty big. It's too much for two — three people seems just right!

It was packed with pork and full of ingredients, so the portion felt generous.

I had it with steamed rice, and the kimchi stew was rich while the pork inside was really tender. We scraped the bowl clean with rice, hehe. If you visit Motsaenggin in Cheongdang-dong, I definitely recommend the pork jowl! Out of all the pork jowl I've had, this might be the best.