Free rice, self-bar, and red cockle bibimbap for lunch: Kkomak Manse

Kkomak Manse on Manse-ro in Pyeongtaek: location and hours

• 📍 Location: 1728 Manse-ro, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do
• 🕒 Hours: 11:00–22:00 (closes at 21:00 on Sundays)
• ✅ Takeout, reservations, delivery, group bookings available
• 🅿️ Parking: parking space in front of the restaurant

Exterior

I was trying to figure out what to eat for lunch and ended up at Kkomak Manse Pyeongtaek Manse-ro Main Branch, a well-known cockle spot on Manse-ro in Pyeongtaek haha.

The expanded, relocated interior — good for group gatherings?

Interior

The place had expanded and relocated, so the interior was super clean 👍 It's spacious with partitions dividing the seating, so a lot of people were there for group gatherings!

Look — aprons, scissors, sesame oil, and soy sauce were all neatly set out on the table!

The self-bar had perilla leaves, baek-kimchi (white kimchi), muchae (dried radish strips), seasoned seaweed, small plates, broth, choganjang (vinegar-soy sauce) — all sorts of side dishes and sauces ready to go haha.

Rice is free at Kkomak Manse! Free, in an era when a bowl of rice costs ₩2,000,, 🫶🏻

Menu lineup

The menu includes seasoned cockles, cockle bibimbap, cockle pancake, spicy cockle salad, whelk soup, Hanwoo beef sashimi, blanched baby cockles, blanched ark shell cockles, surf clam soup, and cockle dumplings,,! And there's a wide range of set menus too haha.

There's a Naver receipt review event and a KakaoTalk friend-add event running too, so definitely check those out 😊

Basic side dishes and fish cake soup

The side dishes were tofu kimchi, gim (dried seaweed), perilla leaves, baek-kimchi, muchae, and seasoned seaweed! If you need more tofu kimchi or gim — which aren't on the self-bar — just ask a staff member haha.

Kkomak Manse even serves fish cake soup as a basic side dish 👍

There's not much in it, but the broth is refreshing and clean, and it went so well with the cockle bibimbap haha.

The tangy stir-fried kimchi paired with tofu was speechless-good,,,❣️ Whether I refilled it before the food even arrived shall remain a secret,,,ㅎ

The family set we ordered for three

We visited as a group of three, so we ordered the family set! The family set comes with seasoned cockles (medium) + cockle bibimbap + cockle pancake (3 pieces) haha.

Manse seasoned cockles (medium)

This is the Manse seasoned cockles (medium)! It's the medium size, but the portion was genuinely huge 👍

For the seasoned cockles, you wrap them along with the flying fish roe served alongside in gim or perilla leaves haha.

They say Kkomak Manse only uses hand-picked, extra-large cockles shipped fresh from the source every single day!

The cockles were genuinely plump and springy with absolutely zero fishy taste — so delicious 👍

The seasoning wasn't salty either, just the right level, so wrapping it up with rice in a perilla leaf like this was delicious 👍

Red cockle bibimbap

This is the red cockle bibimbap! When ordering the set menu, you can choose the cockle bibimbap in either soy sauce style or red (spicy) style!

The red cockle bibimbap comes with seasoned cockles, flying fish roe, bean sprouts, seaweed flakes, perilla leaves, and pickled radish!

With the springy cockles and flying fish roe mixed in, the texture was great and it had just the right amount of spice — this was the dish I enjoyed most!

It's also delicious wrapped in gim or perilla leaves haha.

Cockle pancake

This is the cockle pancake!

It was genuinely packed with cockles, chewy, and totally crispy outside, tender inside ❣️

It's delicious topped with a bit of the pickled onions served alongside haha.

Final verdict

The staff were so friendly and the cockles were fresh and genuinely delicious! If you're around Manse-ro, Jukbaek-dong in Pyeongtaek, definitely give Kkomak Manse a try 😊