# IFC Mall solo dining: mild set and vegetable fritters at Hyeonseonine

- By Yerin Gong (https://superchart.com/en/@jungnim-back-table/)
- Written Sep 15, 2026
- Local places › Restaurants › Yeongdeungpo, Seoul
- Sponsored: This review was written after receiving a complimentary meal from the restaurant.
- English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@jungnim-back-table/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/
- Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@jungnim-back-table/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/index.md)

## In short

Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch is a tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) and Korean snack restaurant on basement level 2 of IFC Mall in Yeouido, Yeongdeungpo, Seoul. Eating alone, the writer ordered the Hyeonseoni Set (tteokbokki, fried snacks, sundae and gimbap) for 23,000 won in mild spice, alternating bites of sesame-oil-rich gimbap and gochujang-based tteokbokki and finishing the vegetable fritters too. With classic tteokbokki flavour and plenty of two-person tables, Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch is an easy pick for a solo meal.

## Good to know

- **Location**: Basement level 2, IFC Mall, 10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
- **How to get there**: Go down to IFC Mall 3-3, then straight to the left as soon as you come through the door
- **What was ordered**: Hyeonseoni Set (tteokbokki, fried snacks, sundae, gimbap) 23,000 won, plus a Coke
- **Spice level**: Mild
- **Hours**: Weekdays 11:00–21:00 / Weekends 12:00–22:00
- **Last order**: 20:40
- **Seating**: Many two-person tables, some four-person tables too
- **Price reference**: ₩23,000 ≈ $17 (2026-09-15)

*as written by the visitor on Sep 15, 2026*

![Back view of a visitor walking through an IFC Mall corridor](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-01-1dlib-900.webp)
*Where is this person headed right now?*

Everybody move😤 my blood tteokbokki level just dropped and I'm getting dizzy!

Location: Hyeonseonine Premium, basement level 2, IFC Mall, 10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.

Hours: Weekdays 11:00–21:00 / Weekends 12:00–22:00 / Last order 20:40.

I heard there was a famous tteokbokki spot in Yeouido, so I went to take it on.

## How to find Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch

Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch is on basement level 2 of IFC Mall. If you go down at entrance 3-3 like I did, walk straight to the left as soon as the door opens and you'll find this tteokbokki place. Seriously, there could be someone out there who can't find it like I almost couldn't.

![The path leading to Hyeonseonine inside IFC Mall](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-02-8lys7-900.webp)
*There really could be someone out there who can't find it like me*

![Passage leading down to basement level 2 of IFC Mall](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-03-irf5y-900.webp)
*It's underground. IFC Mall's basement level*

![Storefront entrance of Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-04-muh9y-900.webp)

Before going in, I gave the menu a quick scan. (Oh man, having the prices and menu right outside the store... love it. You get to decide before you even walk in.)

![Menu and price list displayed outside the restaurant](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-05-cpgao-900.webp)

## Solo-friendly seats and picking the mild spice level

Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch has a lot of two-person tables, so it's great for solo dining or coming as a pair. (There are four-person tables too.) I went with the mild spice level — right before eating I looked it up and thought, wait, is this place notorious for spice-fanatic heat? Still think it was the right call.

![Two-person table seating at Hyeonseonine IFC Mall Branch](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-06-x2a54-900.webp)

Before the food arrived I thought I'd just drink some water, and I noticed they had little side plates set up with pickled radish, salt, and soy sauce dishes.

![Side plate with pickled radish, salt, and soy sauce dishes](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-07-1ylxt-900.webp)

## What comes in the 23,000-won Hyeonseoni Set

Here it comes~ here it comes~! My order arrived! I got the Hyeonseoni Set (tteokbokki + fried snacks + sundae + gimbap, ₩23,000) plus... a Coke... (Pepsi, actually...)

Whoa... it's seriously packed. The table's basically groaning under it. First up: the wildly varied fried snack platter.

![Assorted fried snacks plate from the Hyeonseoni Set](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-08-zuzl8-900.webp)

Oh, you look good. Second: the glossy, sesame-topped gimbap (seaweed rice roll) platter.

![A plate of sesame-topped gimbap](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-09-wuqeh-900.webp)

Next up, let's see who this is. Whoa... sundae (Korean blood sausage)? And with liver and lungs too? Case closed, this is what a tteokbokki set is all about. This is snack food done right. And then there's the fish cake broth for when your throat gets tight.

And now, today's main event. Hyeonseonine's tteokbokki. Look at that color — there's no way this could taste bad.

![Hyeonseonine's tteokbokki served in mild spice level](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-10-5azdl-900.webp)

First thing that caught my radar right away... the vegetable fritters. Vegetable fritters are the greatest of all fried snacks. If you can't admit that, you just don't know good food.

## Tteokbokki and gimbap, bite for bite

Let's start with the star of the show, Hyeonseonine's tteokbokki.

![Picking up a piece of rice cake from the tteokbokki](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-11-1mcvi-900.webp)

The flavor is that distinctive sweetish gochujang-based, absolutely classic tteokbokki.

Next up to bat for my mouth — rice means gimbap, right?

![A piece of sesame-oil-coated gimbap](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-12-1i964-900.webp)

Took one bite. Wait... huh?? Whoa... what is this? That's literally what went through my head. And the reason is — see that right there? They just poured on the sesame oil. These people really know what they're doing.

![Cross-section of gimbap glistening with sesame oil](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-13-19p6c-900.webp)

After more rice, straight back to the tteokbokki.

![Picking up tteokbokki right after eating gimbap](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-14-1wik7-900.webp)

After running through this gimbap-tteokbokki-gimbap-tteokbokki back-and-forth, next batter up. Sundae, come on in.

![A plate of sundae served with liver and lungs](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-15-1v5ak-900.webp)

![Picking up a piece of sundae](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-16-zjkdv-900.webp)

## Vegetable fritters and Shorts: solo dining done right

Next up, the vegetable fritters. Wow... just... no words needed. This is the vegetable fritter in its purest form. They could rebrand Hyeonseonine as a vegetable fritter specialist and I'd believe it.

And what does eating alone mean it's time for? Watching Shorts, obviously. Here it comes~ here it comes~ the emotionally unstable hamster is back from leave! Welcome back, hamster.

![Phone screen showing Shorts while eating solo](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-17-1ecv4-900.webp)

Bring in the rest of the fried snacks~ let's keep the Shorts going~

I forgot. Watching this I was thinking, wow, Lee Young-ji can really rap? Then I remembered — I forgot she actually came up as a high school rapper, haha. I thought she was just a comedy character, lol.

![Another Shorts video watched during the meal](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-18-4g0zf-m-900.webp)

Next, chugga chugga, here comes the tteokbokki train. Coming in one by one would take too long, so bring them in two at a time~

![Picking up two rice cakes at a time from the tteokbokki](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-19-wv65x-900.webp)

Next up~ the kimmari (seaweed noodle roll) fritter~ yes, next~ the squid fritter, sir~ yes~ next, the fried mandu (dumpling), sir~

After hammering through three fried snacks in a row and then relentlessly shoveling in tteokbokki after that, I'm about to burst.

After I finished eating and was still sitting there, all I could hear was Big Bang songs playing nonstop in the store. Ah, eating tteokbokki and suddenly it's Big Bang. My nostalgia just exploded. All the old songs came on.

And then, one last Shorts for the road. Someone on a blind date saying they wish their match had a puppy-dog face, lol, and then a literal puppy shows up, lol.

![The last Shorts video watched during the meal](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-20-y1h42-m-900.webp)

![The table near the end of the meal](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-21-nesyc-900.webp)

Ah~ I'm about to burst.

![Nearly empty plates from the Hyeonseoni Set](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-22-tij77-900.webp)

## Is the mild set at Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall worth it?

> Taste verdict: wow... 20 years in business, well earned. This is the classic tteokbokki flavor, through and through. (TMI: the writer worked part-time at an instant tteokbokki place for about 2 years back in college.)

Ah~ seriously. This is so good. I'm just happy I got to eat tteokbokki that actually tastes like real, classic tteokbokki.

![Remaining tteokbokki and fried snacks on the table](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-23-xaw6p-1200.webp)

Ah... you have to finish the Coke to the very end...

![An empty Coke glass finished to the last drop](https://img.superchart.com/images/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set/yeouido-ifc-hyunsunine-solo-tteokbokki-set-24-4dm80-900.webp)

If you're in Yeouido looking for a snack restaurant near The Hyundai Seoul, an IFC Mall restaurant, or somewhere to eat lunch alone at IFC Mall Yeouido, go to Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch right now. Seriously, highly recommend.

## Where it is

- Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch (현선이네 프리미엄 IFC몰점)
- 10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea, Basement level 2, IFC Mall
- 서울특별시 영등포구 국제금융로 10 IFC몰 지하2층 현선이네프리미엄
- 37.5241142, 126.9253224
- Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%ED%98%84%EC%84%A0%EC%9D%B4%EB%84%A4%20%ED%94%84%EB%A6%AC%EB%AF%B8%EC%97%84%20IFC%EB%AA%B0%EC%A0%90/@37.5241142,126.9253224,17z

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