Korean BBQ staff-grilled pork belly and cheonggukjang: Dwaeji Mansion

I went to Pangyo for the first time in a while today, and stopped by Dwaeji Mansion, a Korean BBQ place in Pangyo Avenue France. I'd wanted to go for ages but kept putting it off — finally made it happen this time! Here's my honest review.

Dwaeji Mansion Pangyo location and parking

• Name: Dwaeji Mansion Pangyo Avenue France Branch
• Address: 25 Dongpangyo-ro 177beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (1F, Pangyo Avenue France)
• Hours (Sat–Sun): 11:30–22:00 / break 14:30–16:30 / last order 21:30
• Hours (Mon–Fri): 11:30–22:30 / break 14:30–17:00 / last order 22:00
• Parking: In-building parking supported

You can park in the building, and the restaurant supports it, so it's really convenient. A place with good parking is such a precious thing these days...

What's the vibe inside?

The atmosphere is really cozy. Just the right vibe for eating meat, haha!

Dwaeji Mansion Pangyo menu

The menu basically has pork belly and pork neck, plus various types of Iberico pork! The side menu had clean options like white kimchi noodles, kimchi jjigae, cheonggukjang, and herring roe bibimbap. What did I end up eating? I'll show you below!

Basic side dishes and recommended combos

The basic side dishes set out were pickled hot peppers, pickled wood ear mushrooms, white kimchi, wasabi, pickled young ginger, garlic scapes, sauce, salt, and herring roe. You're supposed to combine these with the meat as you eat, and the staff member grilling for us explained each combo one by one, so we could enjoy it properly.

A soju-and-beer mix before the meat arrives — pretty much the unwritten rule, right?

The scallion salad came out a bit later, and it was lightly seasoned and delicious.

Pork belly and pork neck, fully grilled for you

Here's the pork belly and pork neck we ordered. It doesn't look it, but it was cut really thick, with a great chew.

The meat was grilled from start to finish by the staff, so we could eat really conveniently. Of course they grill it more deliciously than we would!

The pork belly was really thick too. It seemed like there's a whole separate technique to grilling the meat!

They grilled the vegetables carefully by hand too, which made eating so easy and pleasant.

First bite: salt

The first bite was recommended with salt, and it really was simple-is-best! Eating it with salt seemed to be the tastiest way.

They plated the meat piece by piece for us, so we could enjoy it easily.

Garlic scapes + herring roe

The second combo was garlic scapes with herring roe, and I really loved this one too! It felt like it completely cut through the greasiness of the meat.

After that I tried it with white kimchi too, and just went a bit freestyle — I got why they bother explaining the recommended combos in the first place!

The rich sauce is the real kicker

This was the rich, thick sauce — I forgot the name, but this sauce was really the highlight!!

It went great with the vegetables too, and I really enjoyed it!

Finishing with the signature cheonggukjang

And finally, the moment we'd been waiting for — cheonggukjang!!! I was torn between this and kimchi jjigae, but since it's the signature dish I ordered the cheonggukjang, and it was really good. It's not seasoned too strongly, so it's fine even for beginners, and it went so well with rice that I really enjoyed it!! I'd recommend Dwaeji Mansion Pangyo whenever you need to go to Pangyo for meat!!!