Kid-friendly beef BBQ in Dadaepo, Busan after mudflat foraging: Hwarou

This is Hwarou Dadaepo, a great-value ocean-view charcoal beef BBQ restaurant.

Summer means water play ⛱️⛱️ This weekend we burned off all our energy foraging on the Dadaepo mudflats again... haha 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️ And after water play, refueling with meat is the golden rule‼️ Here's the full story of our good-value beef meal at Hwarou Dadaepo, an ocean-view charcoal BBQ place in Dadaepo :)

Where is Hwarou Dadaepo, and how is the parking?

Hwarou Dadaepo is on the 7th floor of the building next to Twosome Place Dadaepo, at 58 Dasong-ro 84beon-gil, Saha-gu, Busan‼️ There looks to be room for about 10 cars in front of the building, and if it's full you can use the vacant-lot car park right next door.

• Mon–Fri 16:00–23:00
• Sat–Sun 12:00–23:00
• Has its own car park; if full, use the vacant-lot car park beside the building

The vacant-lot car park costs ₩1,000, but they refund it if you tell the counter after your meal.

Window seats with an ocean view: easy with a kid?

On the 7th floor, the window looks out over the whole of Dadaepo beach‼️‼️ Eeek>< A rare ocean-view BBQ place! The restaurant is also very spacious, so it works well for group gatherings, and the tables are spaced generously, so you can eat in a relaxed atmosphere ✨️✨️

We came for a late lunch around 3 PM after foraging on the Dadaepo mudflats 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️ so we could take our time at a window seat. 🌈No break time is great too🌈

I love this seat even looking back at the photos ><😍 My son can tell nice places from not-so-nice ones now, too. He said, "Mom, I think this place is expensive." Hahaha 😅

What are the menu, prices and table setting fee at Hwarou Dadaepo?

Hwarou Dadaepo specializes in charcoal-grilled beef, but they sell both beef and pork ✨️✨️ There's a separate table setting fee of ₩3,500 per table. In exchange, the meat prices are on the low side. It has a butcher-shop-restaurant feel~‼️

A set that lets you eat rib meat, skirt steak and chuck flap in one go looked good, so we ordered "Hwarou Set A." It's 500g for ₩44,500.

You order at a kiosk. The menu is varied, so you can order individual cuts or a set.

Side dishes and self-serve bar at Hwarou Dadaepo

The side dishes feel like a raw fish restaurant rather than a BBQ place 😮😮 It feels quite upscale~👍 They're dishes that go nicely with the meat.

Everyone gets their own small plate, and the sauces come individually too, which I love ❣️❣️ Who came up with this plate idea⁉️ Perfect for a BBQ place ✨️✨️

Since we came with a child, they even brought us seaweed snacks. The staff were all really kind and attentive 💯💯

If you run out of side dishes, grab more from the self-serve bar. It has pickled radish slices, aged kimchi, dried radish strips, lettuce wraps, sauces, pickles and more.

Hwarou Set A 500g: how are the portion and the meat?

Overwhelming looks, a hearty portion, premium aged beef

Our 500g Hwarou Set A arrived‼️‼️ Wow 👏👏👏 The cuts were laid out by type on a wooden board, and the fresh red color and tightly packed marbling were a work of art ✨️✨️

Each cut was labeled so you can tell at a glance what it is. You should know what you're eating, right? 500g is quite a lot‼️ I think it's plenty for two people.

Super hot charcoal arrived too 😮😮 The charcoal looks really good~~~

Skirt steak, flower rib meat, snowflake chuck flap: how does each cut taste?

Shall we start the mukbang (eating show)‼️‼️‼️ Being in front of meat is always exciting 🎶 We put on the skirt steak, flower rib meat and snowflake chuck flap in turn. Look how thick the skirt steak is⁉️ Isn't this steak level, haha?

The heat is sooo strong 🔥🔥🔥 It was even hard to take photos, haha. With such strong heat, the outside cooks quickly with no chance for the juices to escape‼️ The savory smell was amazing 😮😮

Skirt steak: steak-like thickness

Look at the thickness of the skirt steak, wow 🫢🫢 This is a cut cross-section and it's totally a steak. Cooked medium-rare, the juices burst out in your mouth and it melts softly. Dipped in teriyaki sauce, my son ate it so well 👍👍👍

Flower rib meat: chewy and rich

Flower rib meat has that satisfying chew 🎶🎶 It has some fat, so it's richer and the texture really comes through. Deliciooooous 👍

Snowflake chuck flap: more tender thanks to the scoring

Tender chuck flap ✨️✨️ The scoring makes it especially soft. You can tell just by looking that the meat is tender, right⁉️ Being aged beef, it's even softer, richer and juicier.

One more round on the grill‼️ Isn't it a lot, haha? The chunks of meat are really big 👏👏👏 You can eat it with all sorts of things like myeongi namul (wild garlic-chive pickles), cheese, pickles, pickled radish slices and aged kimchi, which is nice.

Finishing with doenjang-jjigae at Hwarou Dadaepo

To finish, we ordered doenjang-jjigae (soybean paste stew)~~ It was clean and savory and so good>< I polished off a bowl of rice 👍👍👍

If you go mudflat foraging in Dadaepo, come eat meat at Hwarou Dadaepo. For parents worn out from childcare, the way to recover your strength is in front of the meat ❣️