Sushi buffet in Yaeum-dong, Ulsan with chocolate fondue: Shabre Garden

I went to Shabre Garden, a shabu-shabu spot in Yaeum-dong, Ulsan that's been getting a lot of buzz lately.

Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch hours and parking

Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch is on the 2nd floor of Medical Tower Building 4 on Suam-ro 128beon-gil in Nam-gu, Ulsan, and is open daily from 11:00 to 21:00. Break time is 15:00–17:00, and last order is at 20:20.

• Hours: Daily 11:00–21:00 / Break time 15:00–17:00 / Last order 20:20
• Parking available: 2 hours supported at the parking tower and Suam Hoe Center parking lot
• Separate men's/women's restrooms
• High chairs and kids' tableware provided
• Group use available
• Venue rental available
• Ulsan Pay accepted

On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, you might have to wait if you come without a reservation. Waiting is managed through Tabling.

From the seating to the overall interior, Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch is done up in black and marble, giving it a clean, modern feel, haha.

How much does Shabre Garden's buffet cost?

Here are the prices at Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch.

• Adult weekday lunch ₩24,900
• Adult weekday dinner ₩29,900
• Adult weekend/holiday ₩31,900
• Elementary school students ₩15,900
• Preschoolers (36 months–age 7) ₩8,900

The shabu-shabu corner: broth, beef and vegetables

Shabre Garden offers vegetable broth and hongtang (spicy red) broth, and you can order half-and-half too. For shabu-shabu meat, they have beef neck and beef short rib pieces.

There was a great variety of vegetables to add to the shabu-shabu, like bok choy, water celery, and mung bean sprouts, along with glass noodles, dangmyeon and kalguksu noodles — it was fun just picking what to grab.

There were also vegetables ready for making summer rolls, and all my favorite mushrooms were there too — wood ear, oyster, king oyster, enoki, you name it, haha.

Buffet corner: bunsik, Korean and Chinese dishes with unlimited draft beer

Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch has unlimited draft beer refills 🍻 — and I was so upset I hadn't realized this before driving there 🥹. The buffet corner had such a wide variety it barely felt like a shabu-shabu buffet.

From bunsik (Korean street snacks) to Korean dishes, sushi, and Chinese menu items, there was something for kids and adults alike — it honestly felt more like a full buffet than a shabu-shabu buffet!

They had tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes) and kimchi fried rice too, which the kids definitely loved.

There was smoked duck stew, jjikoba-style chicken, soy sauce bulgogi, and shrimp dakgangjeong (fried chicken), plus sweet and sour pork, buffalo wings, and mala xiang guo!

Braised pork ribs, mushroom cream gnocchi, seafood stir-fried udon, and pyeonbaek-jjim (steamed in cypress wood) — there were so many options it was actually exciting to choose, haha.

At the salad bar, kids' tableware was all set out too, which made it feel like a really family-friendly place to bring a baby.

Dipping sauces, salads and fried dishes

Shabre Garden's own dipping sauce corner has a wide range of sauces you can grab to match your taste, haha. Personally, I think chili sauce and peanut sauce go really well with summer rolls, haha.

On the other side, there were various salads — bocconcini salad, chicken salad, sweet pumpkin salad, and more.

On one side there was a range of fried food that goes so well with bunsik — fried chicken, cheese balls and cheese sticks, kimmari (seaweed-wrapped glass noodle rolls), french fries, and more.

Besides kalguksu noodles, there was even a porridge corner to make your own juk!

What's on the sushi buffet counter

Another strong point of Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch, I think, is the sushi buffet corner!!! It was definitely tastier than Kuu Kuu, haha. There was a wide variety of sushi to choose from!! If you like both sushi and shabu-shabu, this place is even better to visit.

Dessert corner: chocolate fondue and affogato

For dessert, there was fruit, pudding, and even tiramisu, haha.

On one side there was plum tea, green grape juice, orange juice and soft drinks.

There was a coffee machine and an ice cream machine too, so I highly recommend making an affogato 👍🏻

There were also cereal toppings for making your own snow flake bingsu (shaved ice dessert).

The moment I saw this chocolate fondue, I clapped like a seal 👏🏻

There were croissants, coffee buns, soboro bread and waffles, so dipping them straight into the chocolate fondue right next to it — I could just about pass out 🥹

Is Shabre Garden worth it for a couple?

We went with both halves of our broth as vegetable broth, and it was genuinely so tasty 👍🏻

My sushi-loving partner brought back plate after plate of sushi, haha. I'm a bunsik lover, so I made sure to try every kind of bunsik there was.

The summer rolls were even tastier since all the vegetables were fresh, haha. If you're looking for a place where both a sushi fanatic and a shabu-shabu fanatic — like the two of us — can walk away happy, I recommend Shabre Garden Ulsan Nam-gu Branch 🤍