Weekday lunch buffet hot pot in Songdo Triple Street: Sangsangcheom

Today I want to tell you about a day off I took with my sister in Songdo. When you get a random weekday off, you almost want to enjoy it more leisurely than a weekend, right? This time my sister and I decided to spend the day browsing clothes and eating well at Songdo Triple Street.

While figuring out what to have for lunch, we decided to go for hot pot at Triple Street, a spot known for good food in Songdo, after not having been in a while! The place I visited was Sangsangcheom Songdo Triple Street Branch.

Where is Sangsangcheom Songdo Triple Street Branch, and what are its hours?

Sangsangcheom Songdo Triple Street Branch is located at 33-4 Songdogwahak-ro 16beon-gil, D-dong 1F 122-1, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, inside Triple Street. Hours are 11:00 to 23:00.

Inside the Songdo Triple Street hot pot restaurant

We wanted to eat at a relaxed pace, so we came around 2pm on a weekday.

How much is all-you-can-eat hot pot at Sangsangcheom?

Sangsangcheom is an all-you-can-eat hot pot place, which suited my sister and me perfectly since we love picking and choosing lots of little things. Weekday lunch runs ₩25,900 per person until 3pm, and ₩29,900 per person on weekday afternoons after 3pm.

What's on the self-bar at Sangsangcheom?

The self-bar at Sangsangcheom is stocked with everything from vegetables to mushrooms, seafood, noodles, and skewers you can grab yourself. As you'd expect from an all-you-can-eat hot pot restaurant, the variety of ingredients was impressive.

On top of that, there were fried snacks, desserts, and drinks, so it wasn't just endless hot pot — you could mix in other food along the way. I especially loved that there were so many kinds of skewers to pick one by one.

Yuanyang pot: beef bone broth and tomato broth

We ordered a yuanyang pot so we could enjoy two flavors at once. The broth choices were mala, beef bone, tomato, mushroom, and cheongyang chili, and after some deliberation we went with beef bone and tomato.

The meat is also all-you-can-eat. You can choose from lamb shoulder, beef brisket, and beef shank, and we picked lamb shoulder and beef brisket. The meat comes thinly sliced, so you just drop it in once the broth starts boiling and cook it briefly.

We grabbed whatever vegetables and skewers we felt like eating. The great thing about all-you-can-eat is being able to bring back small amounts of lots of different things, haha.

Peanut sauce vs. a DIY spicy sauce at Sangsangcheom

Sauce matters so much when eating hot pot, right? At Sangsangcheom, if you ask a staff member, they'll make you a peanut-based sauce, and it was so tasty — nutty and smooth.

But I also really wanted to make my own sauce. So from the self-bar ingredients I threw in sesame oil, garlic, ma-yu (chili oil with roasted garlic), oyster sauce, cheongyang chili, and chili oil — with no exact ratio, just eyeballing it. And guess what... it was seriously delicious, haha.

If the staff-made peanut sauce was nutty and smooth, mine turned out spicier and punchier. Both were great, and dipping in each alternately made the same ingredients taste completely different.

Tomato broth, chuanchuan skewers and soy-milk wraps

Once the broth started boiling hard, it was time to really dig in! Vegetables, mushrooms, skewers, seafood, and meat all went into the pot to simmer away.

The tomato broth definitely had more character than the beef bone one. You could taste the tomato's tangy, subtly sweet flavor, and as more meat and vegetables went in, the broth got richer and richer — much tastier than at the start. We tried the skewers in it too, and they had a light Chinese-food edge that wasn't overpowering at all, so anyone could enjoy them. Dipping them in that amazing peanut sauce was the best...

I also remembered seeing somewhere that wrapping ingredients in soy milk skin is delicious, so I decided to try making a soy-milk wrap myself.

Wrapping meat and vegetables in the soy milk skin, rolling it up, and dipping it in my homemade sauce doubled the savory flavor. If I had to describe my sauce: spicy, salty, garlicky, and nutty all at once — genuinely delicious. (Past me, why didn't you write down the ratio!)

What does the beef bone broth taste like?

As for the beef bone broth, it wasn't intense at all — clean and savory, the kind of broth you could drink straight and feel like it'd cure a hangover. Even after adding more meat and vegetables, the broth stayed clean-tasting. Honestly, it's the kind of flavor anyone would like.

Round two, go! In particular, cooking the fattier beef brisket in the tomato broth worked really well — the tomato's tang cut through the richness nicely.

Eating our way through it all, the pot slowly emptied out. If you're at Songdo Triple Street looking for good food and you usually enjoy picking your own ingredients like shabu-shabu or hot pot, I think this style of all-you-can-eat spot would be right up your alley.

Finishing with knife-cut noodles in peanut sauce, like tantanmen

We were pretty full by this point, but there was no way we were stopping there — isn't it basically an unwritten rule that you have to add noodles after hot pot?

At the end, we put knife-cut noodles into the leftover peanut sauce and made something like tantanmen. The wide, chewy noodles paired with the nutty peanut sauce made for another great bite. After eating meat and vegetables from start to finish, finishing with noodles felt about as perfect as it gets.

The fun of Sangsangcheom isn't just endlessly eating meat and vegetables — it's how you combine the self-bar ingredients that makes the experience varied.

Most of all, sitting with my sister on a weekday afternoon, chatting away and eating slowly, made it feel like a proper weekday outing for once.

Who should visit Sangsangcheom Songdo Triple Street Branch?

When you're stuck deciding what to eat among the many good restaurants at Songdo Triple Street and want to pick a bunch of ingredients to suit your taste, all-you-can-eat hot pot is a solid choice. You could pick two broths and enjoy different flavors like we did, or mix and match self-bar ingredients to make your own sauce — I'd recommend both.

I especially loved alternating between the clean, savory beef bone broth and the tangy-sweet tomato broth. And after polishing off the knife-cut noodles at the end, I was seriously, comfortably full.

If you want to shop and eat well in Songdo, Sangsangcheom at Songdo Triple Street is a solid, filling hot pot option. Next time I visit, I'd like to try the broths I missed this time and experiment with new sauce combinations at the self-bar. Isn't the fun of all-you-can-eat going back again and again to conquer one thing at a time, haha?

If you're craving a hearty hot pot in Songdo, I recommend Sangsangcheom Songdo Triple Street Branch :)