Uijeongbu pork cutlet with homemade sweet-and-sour sauce: Yangchonri

Here's my review of Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch, a Millak 2-jigu favorite in Uijeongbu: a 40-year-tradition old-style pork cutlet (donkaseu) place, now run by the third generation.

Location and opening hours of Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch

Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch is at 196 Omok-ro, Unit 2-020, 2nd floor, Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi, South Korea. It's open daily 11:00–21:00, with a break from 15:00 to 17:00 and last order at 20:25.

• Group seating available, kids' chairs provided
• Separate men's and women's restrooms
• Reservations, delivery and takeout available
• Wheelchair accessible, parking available
• High-oil-price relief fund accepted

How does parking work at Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch?

You can use the basement garage of the Starbucks building, with 1 hour free. You need to register at the restaurant counter beforehand, and after that it's ₩1,000 per 30 minutes.

Enter basement level 1 of the Starbucks building and drive into the shopping-mall parking lot, turn right and go to the end, turn right again, and park nearby when you see the end. Then take the elevator at the MALL (shop entrance) up to the 2nd floor.

Exterior: easy to find on the 2nd floor of the Starbucks building

Yangchonri Donkaseu is on the 2nd floor of the Starbucks building, and it stands out right from the road, so I found it easily.

How to get to Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch

The restaurant is on the 2nd floor, right above Starbucks Millaktown in the Jeil Punggyeongchae Centum building. Go in on the left side of Starbucks and you'll find the GAT.B MALL entrance to the left of Saemaeul Restaurant (새마을식당). Go in, take the elevator up to the 2nd floor, and you're there!

I went another way: there's an escalator on the left side of Starbucks, so I took it up and went straight to the right, and there was Yangchonri Donkaseu!! It wasn't hard to find at all, so I got there quickly.

Inside Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch

The first impression of the interior was super clean, and the deep wood tones matched with green made it pretty too. The tables are spaced widely apart, so it felt comfortable and airy.

What's at the self-serve bar?

The self-serve bar has kids' spoons and forks, and the side dishes are neatly laid out. On the left side there's broth (jangguk) and aprons.

Menu and how to order at Yangchonri Donkaseu

At Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch, I ordered the 2-person set (cutlet + fire-grilled octopus rice bowl + 2 fried shrimp) for ₩27,800, and with extra cheese on the cutlet it came to ₩29,800. You order with the QR code on each table.

Here's the menu, and there are so many different dishes! But when there's a set menu, ordering the set is only human nature!!! haha And I can't give up the cheese!! +_+

They say they use fresh domestic pork and natural homemade sauce, so it's tasty and healthy! Natural homemade sauce, I'm excited ><

What is Yangchonri Donkaseu? The 40-year story

Yangchonri Donkaseu is a 40-year-tradition old-style cutlet restaurant that a grandmother started in Miryang, Gyeongnam in 1986. Her youngest son carried it on, and now her granddaughter has taken over, making it the third generation. Forty years of nothing but cutlets, it must be so good!! That made me even more excited ><

2-person set ₩27,800 (+ extra cheese ₩2,000)

The 2-person set came with the cutlet, fire-grilled octopus rice bowl and fried shrimp all at once. Bloggers, make some noise!!!! Perfect for photos, right? ><

The moment it arrived, the smoky fire aroma of the octopus hit and my mouth started watering. But I'm a blogger!! I hold back for the photos..!

Fire-grilled octopus rice bowl: smoky flavor and spicy seasoning

The fire-grilled octopus rice bowl comes with smoky octopus plus acorn jelly soup (muk-sabal), bean sprouts, seasoned radish and young radish kimchi (yeolmu kimchi). Only the essentials, so it felt clean and neat.

The octopus is plump with a great texture, and the seasoning is spicy so I kept going back for more. There was quite a lot of octopus too, which made me even happier!

Yangchonri cutlet + extra cheese: the cheese goes on top

The extra cheese comes on top of the cutlet, not inside it. I thought the cheese would go inside, but even better!! It looks great and you get the nutty richness of the cheese first.

And the sauce is seriously crazy good!!!! It's in my top 3 of all the cutlets I've eaten. The pork is a good thickness, the batter isn't greasy at all, and with the sweet-and-sour sauce it was so delicious. All through the meal I kept telling my partner this cutlet is totally my taste and so good haha Maybe it tasted even better because the sauce is natural and homemade!

2 fried shrimp: crispy, whole, head and all

The 2 fried shrimp in the set were fried whole, heads included. The coating was super crispy and the shrimp inside were packed full, so they were really good.

Every single dish was satisfying, and I left well fed!

Overall verdict on Yangchonri Donkaseu Millak Branch

• I got to taste 40-year-tradition old-style cutlet
• The sweet-and-sour cutlet sauce was especially impressive
• The smoky fire-grilled octopus rice bowl was satisfying too
• The set meal made it good value
• Recommended if you're looking for a Millak 2-jigu, Uijeongbu restaurant or a cutlet spot!

Yangchonri Donkaseu in Millak 2-jigu, Uijeongbu let me really feel the charm of traditional old-style cutlets. The cutlet sauce was especially memorable, and being able to enjoy the octopus rice bowl alongside made it an even more satisfying meal!