Cheonan hot pot revisit with a friend, first gopchang order: Omi Omi

Hello, it's your Buta of the day 🐷 Today I went to the Omi Omi handmade dumpling hot pot place in Bukmyeon, Cheonan, with a close older friend after a long while (our go-to spot, again). I'd call Omi Omi the king of value dumpling hot pot, and I went in with high hopes. Let's start the review.

Omi Omi Sono Bell Main Branch: location, hours and parking

Omi Omi Handmade Dumpling Hot Pot & Kudzu Naengmyeon Sono Bell Main Branch (오미오미 수제만두전골&칡냉면 소노벨 본점) is at 10 Dongpyeong 3-gil, Bukmyeon, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungnam, and it's open daily from 11:00 to 21:00. The break time is 15:00–16:30, last order is at 20:00, and there's a parking lot in front.

• Location: 10 Dongpyeong 3-gil, Bukmyeon, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungnam
• Hours: daily 11:00–21:00
• Break time: 15:00–16:30 / last order 20:00
• Parking: lot in front of the restaurant

Inside Omi Omi and the side dishes

The dining hall is quite large, so groups, family meals and work dinners are all 🙆 fine. It's also pleasant and the air conditioning was blasting, so it wasn't hot at all (so nice and cool).

Here are the side dishes: white kimchi, regular kimchi and pickled radish. The kimchi is good too.

Omi Omi's self-serve corner: unlimited sujebi and ramen noodles

At the self-serve corner you can take as much white kimchi, regular kimchi, ramen noodles and sujebi (hand-pulled dough flakes) as you like. I love self-serve corners like this because I can load up without feeling awkward.

Unlike other places, the sujebi dough here is actually made in-house, wow 👀 I recommend the sujebi over the ramen noodles 👍

Omi Omi menu and how to order

There are two hot pots: the regular handmade dumpling hot pot and the gopchang handmade dumpling hot pot. You can choose a spicy or mild broth, and the minimum order is 2 servings. We ordered the gopchang dumpling hot pot for 2, spicy.

This is the Omi Omi user guide. Before you add noodles, there's more broth in the fridge. You can also ask for dadaegi (seasoned chili paste). When you've finished, ask for the dessert mul naengmyeon (cold broth noodles).

You also get a plate of king dumplings for a receipt review, so write an honest receipt review and get that plate, no question!!

The shiitake and bracken handmade dumplings before the hot pot

Before the hot pot, Omi Omi brings out two kimchi dumplings and two meat dumplings. Fair and square, so nobody fights over them, haha.

The meat dumplings have shiitake and bracken in them, giving a nice aroma that doesn't taste artificial. There's plenty of meat too, and they're clean-tasting. The kimchi dumplings are also light yet spicy and tasty.

Omi Omi spicy gopchang dumpling hot pot: portion and value

Finally, the main event: the gopchang dumpling hot pot (spicy). I was surprised by how much gopchang was in it, and I slightly regretted ordering the plain handmade dumpling hot pot last time. It has king dumplings, lots of meat, and tons of gop (tripe fat) too, so the portion is big and the value felt great.

With a bubbling dumpling hot pot, looks matter too, I think. This one looks really pretty.

See how much gopchang there is? Wow 👀 This is seriously a delicious dumpling hot pot place. There's shrimp in it too, so the broth is refreshing. And there's no shortage of vegetables either, so you can eat plenty of them, which I liked.

Black rice and sujebi noodles

A bowl of rice at Omi Omi is ₩1,000 and it's black rice. Guys just can't resist black rice, right? I couldn't hold back and almost ate 2 bowls, haha.

For the sujebi noodles, I also grabbed 2 pieces of dough from the self-serve corner and put them in.

Omi Omi dessert: kudzu naengmyeon

After you finish the dumpling hot pot, Omi Omi gives you kudzu naengmyeon (cold noodles made with kudzu starch) for dessert. Doesn't it look refreshing? The naengmyeon sauce is tasty too.

Since it's kudzu naengmyeon, it felt super cool after the hot pot. When I told the owner I'm allergic to cucumber, they put pickled radish in instead, haha. The naengmyeon tasted good too. Great value.

Verdict: get the gopchang dumpling hot pot at Omi Omi

It had been a while since I'd been to Omi Omi, and as always I never regret going. Until now I'd only had the plain handmade dumpling hot pot, and I regretted not getting the gopchang one sooner. The unlimited sujebi and ramen noodles seem like a point guys will like. And the dessert naengmyeon you get at the end isn't big, but it's never lacking either.

My friend, who had never had dumpling hot pot in his life, raved that it was delicious and the portion was big. I recommend the hot pot for its portion, taste and value, and I recommend the gopchang dumpling hot pot even more.