Yeouido gimbap restaurant set with fried snacks: Hyeonseonine

I visited Hyeonseonine, which is supposedly a hot Korean snack spot in Yeouido. It’s a chain I’d wanted to try, and I found it while visiting The Hyundai—such a great Korean snack place near The Hyundai 🍙 You can eat alone here too, and it has all the Korean snacks Koreans love, from gimbap (seaweed rice rolls) and fried snacks to tteokbokki and sundae.

Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch

Location and how to visit Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch

Hyeonseonine Tteokbokki’s Yeouido branch is 258 m from Exit 3 of Yeouido Station. It’s a five-minute walk from the station, so it’s easy to visit on foot. There’s no separate parking ❌, making it a good stop when you’re visiting The Hyundai.

Self-service bar

You need to pick up danmuji (pickled radish), salt, and so on yourself at the self-service bar. It’s an affordable Korean snack spot in Yeouido, so please use the self-service area!

Hyeonseonine recommendations and the set I ordered

Menu

• Tteokbokki: ₩6,000
• Sundae: ₩6,500
• Mini gimbap: ₩5,000
• Assorted fried snacks: ₩6,000
• Hyeonseonine Combo Set: ₩25,000 — tteokbokki + fried snacks + sundae + gimbap + fish cake
• Hyeonseonine Set: ₩23,000 — tteokbokki + fried snacks + sundae + gimbap

What I ordered

I ordered the Hyeonseonine Set (tteokbokki + fried snacks + sundae + gimbap). I considered ordering individual items, but I like having lots of things together, and all the reviews were good overall, so I went for the set!!

How each item in the Hyeonseonine Set tasted

Basic sides

These are the basic sides I brought over from the self-service bar. You can help yourself to danmuji, salt, soy sauce, and cutlery. The danmuji was thin, so approved.

Mild tteokbokki

I ordered the tteokbokki mild, and it was just a tiny bit spicier than Shin Ramyun. The rice cakes seemed to be made with rice, which I personally liked even more.

The tteokbokki sauce wasn’t just spicy—it had sweetness too, exactly the kind of tteokbokki flavor I like. Rather than tasting like a franchise version, it had that savory, spicy homemade flavor. I liked it so much I’d eat it often if it were near my home haha.

Sundae and offal

Sundae is indispensable with tteokbokki. So many Korean snack places don’t serve offal these days, but I loved that they gave plenty here. It came with sundae, liver, and osorigamtu (pig’s stomach).

Among the offal, the osorigamtu was the tastiest. The liver was a little dry, which was a shame.

The portion was quite generous too—about enough sundae for 1.5 people.

The sundae was lightly seasoned, so it was tasty even on its own: nice chewy sundae.

Mini gimbap

The mini gimbap was bigger than I expected. If you have a small mouth, it might be hard to eat in one bite.

It tasted like the gimbap we all know, and the sesame oil brushed on top gave it a delicious nutty flavor. You get four rolls in total. Portion-wise, it seemed about equal to one regular gimbap roll.

The mini gimbap has egg, danmuji, spinach, and ham—a combination that can’t possibly taste bad. It’s even better dipped in the tteokbokki sauce haha.

Fish-cake broth

The Hyeonseonine Set doesn’t include fish cake, but it does come with fish-cake broth. Having the broth definitely made the meal better. It was refreshing and clean with a peppery flavor—good sense from the owner.

Assorted fried snacks

The fried assortment included one each of sweet potato, vegetable fritter, gim-mari (fried seaweed roll), yaki mandu (fried dumpling), and squid. It was nice to sample every kind, and the fritters weren’t hard; they were crisp and tasty, like they’d just been fried.

Fried snacks absolutely need tteokbokki sauce. The sauce is spicy, so it goes well with the rich fried snacks. The sweet-potato fritter was sweet and so delicious too.

The fried snacks were all good overall, so I think you can order according to your taste. My picks are the gim-mari and sweet-potato fritter. The squid fritter seemed the most ordinary.

It was enough for two people to eat until full. Since the set is in the ₩20,000 range, I recommend it if two people want to enjoy a variety of Korean snacks.

Why I want to return to this IFC Mall Korean snack spot

Hyeonseonine Tteokbokki is the Yeouido IFC Mall spot I’m recommending today!! I recommend the set, and among its items my ranking is tteokbokki > mini gimbap > fried snacks > sundae. The tteokbokki sauce was so good that I want to come back to this Yeouido Korean snack place 🍜🍤🌭🥙

If you’re wondering what to eat for a quick meal in Yeouido, go for Hyeonseonine Tteokbokki~! Everything was above average overall and the value was good, so I really enjoyed this Korean snack spot. It’s inside IFC Mall, so stop by if you’re looking for food at IFC Mall.