Yeouido Station walkway tteokbokki: dog-friendly patio, Hyeonseonine

Today's place is a Yeouido tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes) favorite: Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch (현선이네 프리미엄 IFC몰점).

Every time I take the Yeouido Station underground passage to IFC Mall or The Hyundai Seoul, I pass this tteokbokki shop in the middle of the moving walkway and wonder about it. Well, I finally tried it! Let's get started~

Where is Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch, and what are the hours?

Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch is about halfway along the moving walkway from Yeouido Station Exit 3 to IFC Mall or The Hyundai Seoul. When you're almost at IFC Mall, you'll see Hyeonseonine next to a GS25 convenience store, so it isn't hard to find.

Hyeonseonine is said to be one of Seoul's top three tteokbokki spots, and it started in Yongsan.

Opening hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends.

Indoor seating and outdoor tables at Hyeonseonine: are dogs allowed?

Inside, there were lots of tables for 2 to 4 people, and the spacing between them was fairly tight. We visited around 3 p.m. on a weekday and it was still quite busy.

There are also outdoor tables between Hyeonseonine and the GS25, and you can eat there too. Dogs are allowed at the outdoor tables, so keep that in mind~

Hyeonseonine tteokbokki menu and how to order

The menu has two sections, regular tteokbokki and instant (cook-at-the-table) tteokbokki, and there were plenty of set menus too.

You can order instant tteokbokki at indoor tables, but at the outdoor tables only the regular tteokbokki menu is available.

You order on the tablet at the shop entrance. Here's what we ordered 👇👇👇

Hyeonseonine Combo Set ₩25,000 (tteokbokki + fried snacks + sundae + gimbap + fish cake)

If you write a review on Naver, Google or Daum, they give you either a fried rice cake or a savory mayo rice ball as a free extra, so go for it~

There's also a self-serve bar in one corner. If you're eating at the outdoor tables, grab small plates, disposable aprons, tissues, pickled radish and water here. We made sure to get the pickled radish, which is a must with tteokbokki.

How did the Hyeonseonine Combo Set taste?

The Hyeonseonine Combo Set includes tteokbokki, fried snacks, sundae (Korean blood sausage), gimbap and fish cake, and they told us the sundae takes a little while. So they brought out everything except the sundae first.

Mild wheat-flour tteokbokki

Let's start with the main dish, the tteokbokki.

You can choose mild or spicy. We ordered mild, and even a spice wimp like me could enjoy it.

The rice cakes were the flour kind, nice and chewy, with the sauce soaked all the way through.

Crispy assorted fried snacks

The fried snacks in the combo set came in a nice variety and nice and crispy. There was squid fry, and there was gimmari (glass-noodle seaweed roll), and there were dumplings, and sweet potato fry, and vegetable fry too.

Fish cake and mini gimbap

The combo set also included fish cake.

The fish cake was soft and tasty, and taking a sip of the hot fish cake broth between bites of tteokbokki was just right.

Then the mini gimbap (seaweed rice rolls) came out. The bite-size rolls don't seem to have much in them, but they tasted great eaten with the tteokbokki.

Sundae with offal, served last

After a little while, the sundae finally arrived.

The sundae completes the Hyeonseonine Combo Set, so of course we had to take a shot of the whole spread!

When you order sundae at Hyeonseonine, they ask whether you want offal included. I love offal, so I chose the option with offal.

Sundae is tteokbokki's partner, and this one had no off smell at all, just sticky and chewy, a perfect match for the tteokbokki. You all know that dipping sundae in tteokbokki sauce is a dream pairing, right? And you know fried snacks taste even better soaked in the sauce, right? Finally, dipping the mini gimbap in the sauce too was pure heaven.

Is Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch worth it?

The Hyeonseonine Combo Set is a well-rounded snack set, from tteokbokki to sundae, fried snacks, fish cake and gimbap, so it felt generous and satisfying. If you're looking for a good tteokbokki place in Yeouido, I recommend Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch~