Date-night Korean BBQ in Dongtan with radish fried rice: Gogigaondang

There are so many BBQ restaurants these days, right? So even if a place is pretty good, I usually just think "tasty~" and move on. But here, the second we started eating, my boyfriend and I kept saying "wow, this meat is really good" — I lost count of how many times haha.

Gogigaondang, the pork belly spot in Bansong-dong, Dongtan, that we visited for a weekend dinner date!

Out of all the pork I've eaten recently, this ranks among the best I've had... 🤍

There were two of us, and we ordered: ✔️two servings of pork belly ✔️cha-dol doenjang jjigae ✔️radish salad fried rice — and left comfortably full!

Where is Gogigaondang Dongtan Branch, and what are its hours?

Gogigaondang Dongtan Branch is near Gaenari Park in Bansong-dong, Dongtan. The address is 46-13 Dongtanbansong 3-gil, Dongtan-gu, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, first floor.

It's not far from Dongtan Central Park either, so it worked well for a weekend dinner date like ours.

Hours are 16:00–22:00 on weekdays and 12:00–22:00 on weekends, with a break time on weekends from 15:00 to 17:00.

The seats were spacious and kept clean. Tables are well spaced out with clear boundaries, so it'd be good for company dinners too!!

Is there parking at Gogigaondang?

If you're driving, you're probably wondering about parking! Gogigaondang has parking right in front of the restaurant — space for about 4–5 cars.

Gogigaondang menu and prices

Gogigaondang's signature dish is Grade 1 female pig raw ogyeopsal (five-layer pork belly), grilled on a cauldron lid.

• Antibiotic-free Grade 1 raw ogyeopsal — ₩19,000
• Raw teugmok-sal (premium cut) — ₩19,000
• Gabri-sal (pork shoulder blade) — ₩19,000
• Hangjeong-sal (pork jowl) — ₩19,000
• Radish salad fried rice — ₩5,000
• Gomchwi naengmyeon (cold noodles) — ₩7,000, and more

And something I loved here was the side dish spread.

There's kimchi and various sides that go great grilled alongside the meat, so it was fun putting them on the cauldron lid one by one and eating together.

They also serve house-made kimchi using domestic ingredients!!

There's also a self-serve corner, so you can grab what you need easily!

What we ordered: ✔️two servings of raw pork belly ✔️cha-dol doenjang jjigae ✔️radish salad fried rice — just this, and it was plenty filling for two.

Cauldron-lid raw ogyeopsal: the staff grill it for you

The moment the meat arrived, you could tell it looked great.

Thickly sliced, with a great ratio of lean meat to fat — you could just tell by looking that it was fresh!

And here, the staff kept grilling the meat for us the whole time, so all we had to do was eat comfortably haha.

This is honestly great for a date, isn't it? No need for one person to hold the tongs and keep checking the meat — we could just chat and eat, which was really nice.

And since it's not just a regular grill plate but a cauldron lid, the fat from the meat drips down and grills the kimchi and sides together too... it's honestly hard for that to taste bad... 🥹

Don't skip the myeoljeot anchovy dip

And if you go here, you really need to try the myeoljeot (fermented anchovy sauce). The meat was amazing that day, but honestly the myeoljeot is what stuck with me most haha.

Dip a well-grilled piece of pork belly lightly in the myeoljeot, and the savory meat gets an extra salty umami kick — genuinely so good...

If you like myeoljeot, you absolutely have to dip here. I think I ate almost all my meat with it haha.

Cha-dol doenjang jjigae, the beef brisket soybean stew

And eating meat without a hot bowl of doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew) just feels incomplete.

We also ordered the cha-dol doenjang jjigae, and sipping the broth between bites of pork belly hit the spot.

Ordering a stew alongside instead of just eating meat nonstop made the menu combination much better for two people.

Finishing with radish salad fried rice

And of course, the finale is fried rice! Here it's not just plain fried rice but radish salad fried rice, which made me even more curious.

They fry it right on the cauldron lid, and the rice wasn't mushy at all — fluffy and just right, exactly my style 🤍

With the radish salad mixed in, it wasn't heavy at all even after eating meat, and I kept going back for more. If you're coming for cauldron-lid pork belly, I highly recommend finishing with the radish salad fried rice!!

Is Gogigaondang good for a weekend dinner date in Dongtan?

We visited for a weekend dinner date with my boyfriend, and Gogigaondang is genuinely a place I want to go back to for the meat alone. There are so many cauldron-lid pork belly places these days, and plenty where staff grill for you, but what matters most in the end is whether the meat itself is actually good, right?

From the very first bite, there was zero gamey smell, the texture was great, and the savory flavor really came through. Among the Dongtan BBQ places I've visited recently, this was one of the most satisfying.

If you're looking for a good pork belly spot in Bansong-dong, Dongtan, or a great place for cauldron-lid ogyeopsal, I fully recommend Gogigaondang 🤍