Group pork BBQ by Sanbon Station: pick-your-spice stew, Geobugi

Today I visited Geobugi Dongne Gunpo Sanbon Branch (거북이동네 군포산본점), a great pork BBQ spot for group dinners near Sanbon Station in Gunpo~

Where is Geobugi Dongne Gunpo Sanbon Branch, and where do you park?

Geobugi Dongne Gunpo Sanbon Branch is on the Sanbon Station rodeo street, 149m from Sanbon Station Exit 3, so it's a 2-minute walk. It's a big restaurant that caught my eye from the day it opened, and every time I walk past it's packed!

I parked in the Sanbon Jungsim Sangga underground lot. If you come out of Exit 2, Geobugi Dongne is right there.

A spacious restaurant that's great for group dinners

The inside is clean since it's new, and every seat is big and roomy, which was comfortable. It's not one of those cramped, elbow-to-elbow BBQ places. The spacing is wiiide, so I think it's perfect for gatherings.

Geobugi Dongne menu and prices

Here's the menu. True to its reputation as a great-value spot in Sanbon, the prices are really low. The owner's motto is to be the BBQ place that comes to mind first for family meals, the kind where you can tell your kids, "Eat as much as you like."

Couple set, 500g for ₩32,500

The first order at Geobugi Dongne has to be at least 500g, so we ordered the couple set. It comes to 500g in total: pork belly (200g) + neck (100g) + jowl (100g) + gabrisal (100g, the cut at the edge of the pork shoulder). At ₩32,500, that's a very reasonable price.

The couple set also includes three kinds of mushrooms~!

What's at the self-service bar?

At Geobugi Dongne Gunpo Sanbon Branch, you can take as many side dishes as you want from the self-service bar. The wrap fridge has leafy vegetables for wraps, plus toppings you can grill, like rice cake, ham, fish cake and potatoes.

The wrap vegetables were kept nice and fresh, so I took plenty~🥬🥬

There's a good variety of side dishes to eat with the meat, so we could pick what we liked~ This is what we brought back from the self-service bar. Besides meat, there's potato, ham, rice cake and more to grill, which I loved~ The dipping sauces are varied too, so I picked by taste.

Doenjang stew for 2 for ₩4,000, simmered on a second grill

Each table at Geobugi Dongne has charcoal and two grill holes, so

you can boil a stew separately~ We ordered the doenjang stew (soybean paste stew) for 2. It's cheap at ₩4,000, and you can choose the spice level.

When you eat with meat, the stew usually goes cold, but since we kept it boiling alongside the meat, it stayed warm and tasty to the end.

Pot rice for 2 for ₩4,000, leftovers as nurungji tea

Geobugi Dongne sells pot rice (rice cooked in an individual pot), so we ordered it for 2 as well~ It's also a cheap ₩4,000.

Because it's pot rice, it was stickier and way tastier😋 With the leftover rice, we poured in hot water to make sungnyung (scorched rice tea)~

How was the aged meat at Geobugi Dongne?

We grilled the meat on a charcoal grill, and they were generous with the charcoal, so the fire was strong and the meat took on plenty of smoky flavor.

336-hour aged pork belly

The pork belly is aged for 336 hours using Geobugi Dongne's patented technique, they say. The ratio of lean meat to fat is perfect, so it was tender and overflowing with juice, and I loved it! Being aged, it was so soft and nutty with no gamey smell at all😋

Wrapping it in different wraps and side dishes kept it from getting boring, so we could eat a lot.

Neck, gabrisal and jowl

Thick neck meat has little fat, so it's often been dry for me, but Geobugi Dongne's aged neck was so tender. Good meat at a low price, I'll give it that👍

The gabrisal was clean-tasting and tender without being greasy, and

the jowl was crunchy and chewy, with a really satisfying bite~😋

Review event flash-frozen pork belly

And there was also the thin, tender flash-frozen pork belly we got from the review event! Every cut was delicious~

Is Geobugi Dongne Gunpo Sanbon Branch good for a group dinner?

Geobugi Dongne Gunpo Sanbon Branch is a great-value BBQ place by Sanbon Station: the prices are low, but the quality doesn't drop. The pork aged with their patented technique had great texture and flavor, and it was soooo good. The place is big too, so I recommend it for team dinners and family gatherings👍

Opening hours

• Mon–Thu 11:30–23:00
• Fri–Sun 11:30–24:00
• Reservations, group seating and local currency accepted