Cheonan BBQ for two with an extra round of gabrisal: Cham Dwaejitgan

I was trying to figure out where to eat meat in Cheonan and ended up at Cham Dwaejitgan Cheonan Dujeong Branch (참돼짓간 천안두정점) in Dujeong-dong!

The place was clean and fairly spacious, so it's good for groups, and best of all the staff grill the meat for you, which made it a really comfortable samgyeopsal spot in Dujeong-dong!! We tried both samgyeopsal and ogyeopsal and both were so good, and I loved the combo of grilling minari and potato slices alongside the meat!! Now let me tell you all about it!! 🫧

The exterior is so clean, right?!

Where is Cham Dwaejitgan Cheonan Dujeong Branch, and when is it open?

• Address: 충남 천안시 서북구 원두정5길 10 1층 101호
• Hours: Daily 4:00 PM – 4:00 AM
• Group visits and reservations available
• Parking: A few spots in front of the restaurant, I'd recommend calling ahead!!

Is the room big enough for a Dujeong-dong team dinner?

Cham Dwaejitgan Cheonan Dujeong Branch had a clean, spacious interior. Some BBQ places have tables crammed together and feel a bit chaotic, but this place felt clean overall.

There were plenty of tables and space for group seating, so it looked good for visiting with a bunch of friends or for a company dinner~!! They actually mention accommodating up to 60 people at once, so if you're searching for a group dinner spot in Cheonan, this might be worth checking out!!🎉

The grill plate looks brand new, doesn't it?!✨✨

Sauces and the self-service banchan bar at Cham Dwaejitgan

One thing that makes Cham Dwaejitgan a bit special is how many sauces they have🤤 My favorite was the combo of mushroom wasabi sauce with samgyeopsal!!

There's a self-bar so you can eat as many side dishes or wraps as you want👍🏻 Being self-serve somehow makes it more comfortable haha.

The default sides that come out are varied too — from sauces like ssamjang and wasabi to kimchi, bean sprouts and garlic scapes, lots of things that go well with meat, and you can grab more from the self-bar as needed!🙈 I love BBQ places with lots of side dishes and sauces, and here there was real fun in mixing and matching.

Ordering samgyeopsal, black pork ogyeopsal and gabrisal for two

There were just the two of us, but we ordered samgyeopsal, black pork ogyeopsal... and gabrisal like this!!🤭

The great thing about Cham Dwaejitgan is that the staff grill the meat for you directly! Thick cuts can easily end up burnt outside and raw inside if you mess it up, but the staff cut it into bite-sized pieces and grilled it perfectly, so all we had to do was wait and eat haha. Especially at group dinners, there's often one person stuck grilling the whole time who barely gets to eat, so not having to worry about that was really nice.

Alongside the meat they grill kimchi and bean sprouts too, and top it with minari (water dropwort)... minari lightly cooked in the meat's fat, need I say more?ㅠㅠ The minari cuts through the richness of the samgyeopsal, so eating them together felt much less greasy and more fragrant.

The potato slice wrap the staff recommend

Such a great combo, the mushroom wasabi🍄🟫💚

And this is a combo the staff recommended! They grill potato thinly and wrap it with the meat — put the meat on the crisply grilled potato, add on some garlic scapes and other sides, and it's genuinely delicious. It was a BBQ place I liked because there were so many ways to eat, instead of just eating meat over and over.

In the end we added one more round..🥲🐖

Samgyeopsal vs ogyeopsal vs gabrisal: how each cut tastes

Samgyeopsal, ogyeopsal and gabrisal were all satisfying! Samgyeopsal has a good balance of fat and lean meat, so when grilled the outside turns golden and the inside stays moist, while ogyeopsal has more of the skin part than samgyeopsal, giving it a chewier texture!

I'd recommend trying both👍🏻 Switching from samgyeopsal to ogyeopsal changes up the texture so you don't get tired of it and just keep eating haha. With kimchi and bean sprouts grilling in the meat's fat too, I ended up wrapping bite after bite right up to the end🥹

Finishing with 3,900-won margarine soy sauce egg rice

After eating meat you have to have some carbs... so I finished off with margarine soy sauce egg rice. It's ₩3,900, and the margarine mixed into the soy sauce egg rice adds a nutty richness!!

We also shared the stew, and having a hot bowl of soup after all that meat felt like the perfect way to wrap things up haha.

Worth it for samgyeopsal in Dujeong-dong, Cheonan?

Overall the restaurant was clean and the meat quality was solid at Cham Dwaejitgan Cheonan Dujeong Branch!! Highly recommend✨✨✨ Having the staff grill everything makes it easy to eat comfortably, and being able to enjoy the meat so many different ways with minari, potato slices and various sauces was especially great.

The spacious dining room also seems well suited to dates, family meals, or a Dujeong-dong group dinner with several people. If you're in Cheonan looking for samgyeopsal or a BBQ restaurant in Dujeong-dong, this one's worth a visit :)