Ruwon City shabu-shabu with parents, pork neck & plum tea: Shabuway

Where is Shabuway Ruwon City Cheongna Branch and what are its hours?

Shabuway Ruwon City Cheongna Branch is an all-you-can-eat shabu-shabu restaurant on the 2nd floor of Ruwon Top Plaza in Ruwon City. I enjoyed my last visit so much that this time I wanted to bring my parents.

The address is 11 Yeomgok-ro 464beon-gil, Seohae-gu, Incheon, Ruwon Top Plaza 2nd floor, units 201–208. It's open 11:30–21:30, and the break time applies on weekdays only (the original post lists 18:30–17:00). There's no break time on weekends and holidays. If you park at Ruwon Top Plaza, you get free parking support.

Atmosphere and seating at Shabuway Ruwon City Cheongna Branch

The place is spacious and classy, and my mom loved it too, saying it felt elegant and huge. The marble-patterned floor and tables and the interior with its beautiful flowing lines left an impression.

Baby chairs are available, and there's a range of seating, from group tables on up.

Self-bar drinks and desserts: from draft beer to plum tea

The Shabuway self-bar has unlimited draft beer, plus rice paper for making Vietnamese-style wraps and hot water. There are also soda, plum tea (maesil-cha) and juice. After the meal I gave my parents some plum tea and they said it was delicious.

I didn't have time for ice cream, sadly 😢

I skipped the Louis chocolate this time, but when I tried it last time it was a really classy, deep-flavored chocolate.

There's a coffee machine too.

Shabu-shabu sauce combinations and the soup and broth corner

The Shabuway sauce bar has a sauce combination guide. I mixed my sauce in my own style.

The soup is rich and tasty, so do try it. There are also toppings to eat with the soup.

Broth and meat are available too, so just grab what you need!

Shabuway self-bar dishes: sweet-and-sour pork and boneless fried chicken

Shabuway's glutinous sweet-and-sour pork (chapssal tangsuyuk) is honestly better than most Chinese restaurants, and the quality is great. The pork is thick, with a crispy, chewy batter.

The boneless fried chicken comes with several sauces, so dip it however you like. The sauces are handmade too, and every single one is a hit 💕

Shabuway says it makes everything by hand with good ingredients. Here are the four promises Shabuway displays in the restaurant.

• Carefully selected ingredients: only fresh, good ingredients, picked with care
• Handmade with care: dishes made in-house, not factory products
• Honest recipes: fewer unnecessary additives to bring out the natural flavor of the ingredients
• Shabuway's special taste: signature dishes perfected through long research

The restaurant also explains its cooking process as selection → in-store preparation → careful cooking → finishing and serving, saying ingredients are prepared in the store itself to keep things fresh and flavorful.

There's also rich marinated pork ribs and mala xiang guo (Sichuan-style spicy stir-fry).

There's perilla oil pasta, shabu-shabu ingredients, and a porridge corner too. I never have room left for the porridge, haha.

Shabuway Ruwon City Cheongna Branch prices and what we ordered

At Shabuway Ruwon City Cheongna Branch, the Prime Pork Neck Course is ₩18,000, and the Prime all-you-can-eat course is ₩24,900 at lunch and ₩29,900 at dinner and on weekends.

• Adult weekday lunch: ₩24,900
• Adult weekday dinner: ₩29,900
• Adult weekends and holidays: ₩29,900
• Elementary school: ₩16,000
• Preschool: ₩8,900

We ordered the pork neck course (₩18,000 × 3) with half mushroom broth and half mala broth (+₩3,000). The meat in the pork neck course is plenty.

This is what was brought out after we ordered the Prime pork neck.

How was the Prime pork neck shabu-shabu with my parents?

That's my own sauce, haha. It goes so perfectly with the mala broth. I also brought chicken, sweet-and-sour pork and salmon salad from the self-bar.

I diligently grabbed everything I wanted. Prime-grade meat with zero gamey smell, swished in the broth, was heavenly! I also piled up the vegetables I never usually get to eat.

My parents enjoyed it too. They're older now and eat much less, so they left more than half of the pork neck course meat.

I finished up with a good helping of fruit. I was really happy and satisfied again this time. It's such a good season for shabu-shabu that I think I'll come more often.

Everything at Shabuway is cooked by hand, so it's tasty and tidy, and I'm much more satisfied than at places that just have a pointless number of dishes! If you're looking for shabu-shabu, I absolutely recommend Shabuway.