Changwon eel restaurant, lunch with grandma & mom: Daedo Jangeo
In short
Daedo Jangeo (대도장어) is a grilled eel restaurant in Palyong-dong, Uichang-gu, Changwon, about a 5-minute walk from Changwon Station. The writer took grandma and mom for a restorative three-generation lunch and ordered the Daedo Jangeo lunch special for three at ₩18,000 per person, which came with seasoned sea eel served already grilled, a light eel soup and sikhye (sweet rice drink) for dessert. Daedo Jangeo is an easy, comfortable choice for a family eel lunch for three.
Good to know
- Location
- 1F, 12 Uichang-daero 70beon-gil, Uichang-gu, Changwon, Gyeongnam (about a 5-minute walk from Changwon Station)
- Hours
- Tue–Sun 11:30–21:30 (break 14:30–16:00, last order 21:00)
- Parking
- Parking in front of the restaurant; fees at the public lot next door covered for 1 hour at lunch and 2 hours at dinner
- Groups & reservations
- Groups welcome; reservations accepted
- Lunch special
- 11:00–14:30, ₩18,000 per person (sea eel, eel soup, side dishes and rice)
- Sea eel, seasoned or salt-grilled
- Medium (2 people) ₩55,000, large (3 people) ₩65,000 (as of November 2026; prices vary by season)
- Freshwater eel
- Herbal-sauce grilled or seasoned, ₩38,000 per portion each
- Other dishes
- Nakji-bokkeum (spicy stir-fried octopus), eel soup, naengmyeon (cold noodles)
- Review event
- Free bottle of sikhye or one highball for a Naver receipt review
- Price reference
- ₩18,000 ≈ $13.5 · ₩55,000 ≈ $41 · ₩65,000 ≈ $48.5 (2026-11-12)
as written by the visitor on Nov 12, 2026 · not checked with the business
Today I went to Daedo Jangeo (대도장어), an eel restaurant in Changwon, with my grandma and my mom for a little health boost.
Daedo Jangeo location, hours and parking
Daedo Jangeo is at 1F, 12 Uichang-daero 70beon-gil, Uichang-gu, Changwon, and it's open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30–21:30. The break time is 14:30–16:00, and last order is at 21:00.
- 📍 Location: 1F, 12 Uichang-daero 70beon-gil, Uichang-gu, Changwon, Gyeongnam
- ⏰ Hours: Tue–Sun 11:30–21:30 / break 14:30–16:00 / last order 21:00
- 🅿️ Parking in front of the restaurant, or the public lot right next door, with parking covered for 1 hour at lunch and 2 hours at dinner
- ✔️ Groups welcome, reservations possible
Daedo Jangeo is a grilled eel restaurant in Palyong-dong, Changwon, near Changwon Station, about a 5-minute walk away, so it's easy to get to!
You can park in front of the restaurant, and if you use the public lot right next door, they cover 1 hour at lunch and 2 hours at dinner, so no parking worries at all.
Daedo Jangeo has also been designated a Changwon matjip (local favorite restaurant) two years in a row, in 2024 and 2025.
Atmosphere at Daedo Jangeo: good for a family gathering?
Daedo Jangeo brings the eel out already grilled, so there's no smoke or smell in the hall or the rooms. Step inside and it feels clean and tidy, and you don't have to worry about your clothes smelling, either.
With roomy tables and private rooms, it's a great fit for company dinners, family meals and all kinds of gatherings, including times when you need a proper place for an important meal.
There's also a self-serve bar, so if you run short of anything you can just go grab more. I loved that.
Daedo Jangeo menu and lunch special price
The Daedo Jangeo lunch special runs 11:00–14:30 at ₩18,000 per person, and comes with sea eel, eel soup, side dishes and a bowl of rice. We ordered the lunch special for three. The price of the eel can change with the season, and the prices below are as of November 2026.
- Sea eel, seasoned or salt-grilled, medium (2 people): ₩55,000
- Sea eel, seasoned or salt-grilled, large (3 people): ₩65,000
- Freshwater eel with herbal sauce, per portion: ₩38,000
- Freshwater eel, seasoned, per portion: ₩38,000
- Lunch special (11:00–14:30), per person: ₩18,000
They also have stir-fried octopus (nakji-bokkeum), eel soup and cold noodles, and after your eel you can finish with a meal of eel soup.
A Naver receipt review event is running, and if you join you get a free bottle of sikhye or one highball!
Even the water is warm water freshly boiled every morning at Daedo Jangeo.
Daedo Jangeo's side dishes
The basic spread at Daedo Jangeo comes with salad, seasoned broccoli, pickled onions, buchu-jeon (chive pancake), fresh-tossed napa cabbage kimchi (geotjeori), water kimchi, ssamjang (dipping paste), garlic, ginger, wrapping vegetables and chili peppers. It was a pretty generous set, neat and a good match for eel, so I could enjoy every single side dish.
How does the lunch special's seasoned sea eel taste?
Ta-da! The main grilled eel and the eel soup! The whole Daedo Jangeo lunch special came out so carefully prepared that it put me in a good mood.
The eel arrives already grilled in its sauce, so you don't have to grill anything yourself, which made it even better at Daedo Jangeo.
The sauce isn't too sweet or too spicy, so it's tasty even just eaten with the onions laid underneath.
The sea eel has the seasoning soaked in so well! It's good wrapped in a leaf, good with just a bit of ginger on top, and if you mix and match to your taste you really get the eel's flavor and enjoy it.
The eel soup in the lunch special
The eel soup in the Daedo Jangeo lunch special is moderately light rather than thick, which suited the lunch special perfectly! It's easy to slurp down.
It's packed with ingredients like siraegi (dried radish greens), so the texture is great, and eaten with plain white rice it's really filling.
Dessert sikhye and the coffee machine
Around the time you finish eating, the owner brings each of you a glass of sikhye for dessert. Finishing with sweet, cold sikhye is just perfect.
There's also a coffee machine by the entrance of Daedo Jangeo, so it's great for anyone who must have coffee after a meal, too.
Where it is
1F, 12 Uichang-daero 70beon-gil, Uichang-gu, Changwon, Gyeongnam, South Korea경상남도 창원시 의창구 의창대로70번길 12 1층
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