Korean restaurant in Yeongdeungpo: pork belly boiled meat set for two

A Yeongdeungpo Times Square restaurant recommendation, Gangmun Uring gangdoenjang gabrisal boiled meat set

There are honestly so many choices when you're trying to eat at Yeongdeungpo Times Square. But once you walk around a full loop, sometimes you just want a proper Korean meal instead of pasta, meat restaurants, or Japanese food. This time I went to Gangmun Times Square Branch inside Times Square.

What I ordered was the uring gangdoenjang gabrisal boiled meat set. It's ₩38,000 for two, and instead of just getting a plate of boiled pork, it comes with the uring gangdoenjang (mud snail fermented soybean paste), lettuce wraps, rice, soup, and a side dish — so the whole spread was more generous than I expected. If you're looking for a Korean restaurant in Times Square and want to share a bunch of different things between two people, this is a menu worth checking out.

Gangmun Times Square Branch location and hours

It's located in the B1 basement food court.

• Address: B1, B148, 15 Yeongjung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• Hours: Daily 11:00 - 21:30
• Parking: Available

First, a look around Gangmun Times Square Branch

Gangmun is inside Times Square, so it's an easy spot to eat while you're out shopping. Once you get to the storefront, the blue-lit Gangmun (江門) sign is the first thing you notice, so it wasn't hard to find.

From outside it looks like an open storefront, but the tables continue further in. They used wood tones and warm lighting, with plants placed here and there, so the vibe was a bit different from a typical Korean restaurant. It felt like a comfortable enough atmosphere for eating with family inside Times Square, or ducking in for Korean food while shopping with someone.

The menu isn't just set meals

Before ordering I looked through the whole menu, and there were more options than I expected. From stews and set meals to bibimbap, rice bowls, noodle dishes, and sides, you don't have to order a set meal to have a proper meal here.

Just from what's visible in the photos, there are stews like uring doenjang jjigae, woo-samgyeop doenjang jjigae, woo-samgyeop sundubu jjigae, and gopchang sundubu jjigae, plus yukhoe bibimbap, kkomak (cockle) bibimbap, various noodle dishes, and a range of side dishes.

Ordering is done at the table via tablet. One of the signature menu items highlighted at the top of the menu is the uring gangdoenjang gabrisal boiled meat set at ₩38,000. It's a set for two, so that's what I ordered this time.

₩38,000 for two, and the full set was pretty generous

Once everything was laid out together, the composition was much clearer than it looked in the menu photos. The gabrisal boiled pork was placed lengthwise in the center, with green lettuce wraps arranged neatly to one side. Alongside that came the uring gangdoenjang, vegetables to mix into the rice, soup, and a side dish.

So it wasn't simply a boiled pork + rice kind of menu. It's set up so you can eat a piece of boiled pork, wrap it in lettuce, add the uring gangdoenjang, and even mix it into the rice. Even though we ordered just one menu item for two, being able to keep changing how you eat it was the defining feature of this set.

The gabrisal boiled pork was sliced thick

I started with the boiled pork. As you can see in the photos, it wasn't sliced too thin — it had a good amount of thickness to it. The lean meat and fat were attached together, and each piece was a good size to pick up with chopsticks.

You can just eat the pork plain, pair it with the side dishes, or wrap it with the lettuce and gangdoenjang — there were multiple ways to eat within this one set. What I like about set meals like this is that you don't have to eat the same combination from start to finish.

But if you only look at the pork, it's a bit lacking

What really caught my eye in this set was the green lettuce wrap served next to the pork. Instead of being served leaf by leaf, it was arranged rolled up as shown in the photo, with sauce on top.

If you've been eating just the pork and then add this in, the whole composition changes. And there's a reason uring gangdoenjang is in the name of this set — it's not just pork and lettuce wraps, you can use the uring gangdoenjang to connect all the way to the rice too.

There really were mud snails in the sauce

Since it's called uring gangdoenjang, you naturally wonder how many mud snails are actually in there. When I picked through the ingredients while taking photos, the mud snails were genuinely there. This is one of those things that's much clearer in photos than in words — if I'd only photographed the whole spread, this detail could've easily been missed, but shooting it up close showed the makeup of the uring gangdoenjang well.

I mixed the rice with the uring gangdoenjang

The rice wasn't served as a plain bowl either. It came in a large bowl with vegetables and gim (dried seaweed) mixed in, so you can add the uring gangdoenjang and mix it all together.

When I got a craving for rice while eating the pork, I'd mix in the uring gangdoenjang and take a bite. Then back to the pork, then a lettuce wrap. The combinations kept shifting throughout the set. Personally, I liked that the pork stayed the main event while the rice was still a proper part of the meal.

The soup had a decent amount of meat in it too

I photographed the soup that came with the set too — a clear broth with radish in it,

and when I scooped with a spoon, there was meat in there as well. Since the main dish already had so many components, I ate the soup here and there alongside the rice. Having soup as part of the set really made it feel like a complete meal.

There's also a side dish to eat with the pork

The red-seasoned noodles and vegetables also had a good presence in photos. Rather than eating pork piece after piece, mixing in this side dish now and then made it easy to keep switching up the combination.

In the end, this menu is best understood not as any single dish standing out, but as gabrisal boiled pork + uring gangdoenjang + lettuce wraps + mixed rice + soup + side dish eaten together in one sitting.

How was it for two people?

This time we had the uring gangdoenjang gabrisal boiled meat set for two at ₩38,000. Thinking of it as a Korean meal for two at Times Square, that's about ₩19,000 per person. On price alone it's not exactly a bargain meal, but the composition is different from ordering individual dishes separately — you get pork, uring gangdoenjang, lettuce wraps, rice, soup, and a side dish all at once.

I felt this menu fits well on a day when you want meat but also want a proper rice meal, and a single bowl of stew alone wouldn't quite cut it.

Looking for Korean food at Yeongdeungpo Times Square

Times Square has so many restaurants that every time I go, I end up spending a while deciding what to eat. Having tried Gangmun this time, I think it suits people who enjoy having a whole spread of different things together, rather than just eating one Korean dish on its own.

The uring gangdoenjang gabrisal boiled meat set I had also stuck with me more for the whole sequence — wrapping in lettuce, adding the uring gangdoenjang, mixing it into rice, then finishing with soup — than for the pork alone. If you're shopping in Yeongdeungpo and looking for a good Korean restaurant at Times Square, Gangmun's set menu is worth comparing. Next time I go back, I'd like to try one of the stews or bibimbap dishes from the menu as a single order.