Suwon Station pork BBQ open until 2am: Ssosam 208 360g platter
In short
Ssosam 208 Suwon Station Branch is a stone-grill pork BBQ restaurant near Suwon Station in Suwon, Gyeonggi, open until 2am. Two diners visited at 8pm on a weekday and ordered the small mixed stone-grill platter (360g) with extra cheese fondue, plus doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew), steamed egg, mul-naengmyeon (cold buckwheat noodles) and spicy fire volcano fried noodles, and the staff grilled everything at the table. With sides this generous the meal was more than two people could finish, making Ssosam 208 a solid pick for a team dinner or an open-air date night.
Good to know
- What we ordered
- Mixed stone-grill platter (small, 360g), extra cheese fondue, mul-naengmyeon, bowl of rice, doenjang jjigae, steamed egg, spicy fire volcano fried noodles
- Hours
- Open until 2am
- Meat origin
- All pork is Korean, except the makchang (pork intestine)
- Lettuce
- Select the '0 won lettuce' option when ordering and staff bring it out
- Self-serve bar
- None
- Grilling
- Staff grill it all for you — pork, kimchi, tofu, even pineapple
as written by the visitor on Sep 19, 2026
Ssosam 208 Suwon Station Branch
Today I'm bringing you a review of Ssosam 208, a well-known pork BBQ spot near Suwon Station!
How busy is Ssosam 208 Suwon Station at 8pm on a weekday?
I visited around 8pm on a weekday! There were a few groups having work dinners, so it wasn't wide open, but seats were still available. Turnover seemed pretty fast!
A pork BBQ restaurant open until 2am! Apparently it's even been on TV.
I stayed until 10pm, and customers were still coming in at that hour! Coming out for pork BBQ that late at night — I found it kind of amazing.
All the pork is domestic except for the makchang (pork intestine)!
Side dishes at Ssosam 208: kimchi rice noodles, and lettuce you add at order time
Here's how the basic side dishes came out at Ssosam 208 Suwon Station Branch. There was oil-salt dipping sauce, some kind of wasabi-mixed sauce, ssamjang (soybean paste dip), and what looked like the spice used for dipping lamb.
The red noodles in the last row were called kimchi rice noodle soup. Spicy and unusual! It felt like a spicy counterpoint that cuts the richness of the pork. For lettuce, they said you just tick the '0 won lettuce' box when ordering and they'll bring it out. There was no separate self-serve bar.
Is the 360g small mixed stone-grill platter enough for two?
I ordered the mixed stone-grill platter (small, 360g)! Since it's under 400g I wondered if it'd be enough, but with all the sides we added, it ended up being just right!
(For reference, we ordered the mixed stone-grill platter, extra cheese fondue, mul-naengmyeon, rice, doenjang jjigae, steamed egg, and spicy fire volcano fried noodles. That's what two women ate, and we were so full we had to leave some leftover,, 🥲)
Staff grill every single piece of meat for you! Since they grill it all and the meat is thin so it cooks fast, I thought it'd be great for a work dinner too. Sure enough, I saw a lot of tables that looked like office groups!
They also grill the kimchi, tofu, and pineapple.
It'd been a while since I'd had such thin-cut pork, and watching it turn golden on the stone grill was seriously mouthwatering! My first bite was dipped in salt, and it was exactly what you want from stone-grill pork belly!! Since the meat is thin it cooks fast too, which made it easy to eat.
Extra cheese fondue: the spicy lava cheese explained
I added an order of cheese fondue! It was shaped like a lava flow, pretty unusual. It wasn't rich or heavy — more like spicy, actually?
The cheese has a spicy kick, different from buldak mayo but with a similar vibe somehow? First time trying it, and it was fascinating — felt like eating something exotic.
A bite with the golden grilled kimchi, a fresh bite with the scallion salad, another bite dipped in oil-salt sauce with kimchi. Every side dish paired well together. Personally, dipping in oil-salt sauce and wrapping it with kimchi was my favorite.
Doenjang jjigae, steamed egg and mul-naengmyeon on the side
For side dishes we ordered doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew), steamed egg, and mul-naengmyeon (cold buckwheat noodle soup). The doenjang jjigae even had meat in it and was really delicious! The steamed egg arrived and I was surprised by how huge it was! It had sesame oil in it, giving it a nutty aroma and flavor. And the mul-naengmyeon noodles were chewy and tasty!
What do Ssosam 208's spicy fire volcano fried noodles taste like?
They had spicy fire volcano fried noodles on the menu, so I ordered it wondering — buldak (fire chicken) flavor, maybe? It really was buldak fried noodles, but drenched in what looked like the same sauce that goes into the cheese fondue! Super spicy, but not spicy in a one-note way — it had a cheesy flavor too! Really spicy, but wrapping it up with the pork made it delicious!
Team dinner or date night: which suits Ssosam 208 better?
Ssosam 208, a well-loved pork BBQ restaurant near Suwon Station, even has drinking games set out! Great for a work dinner, and with the windows open it gets that open-air patio feel, so I'd recommend it for a date night too!
Ssosam 208
- A pork BBQ spot where staff grill everything on the stone plate
- A place with a wide variety of side dishes
- A new way to eat pork — dipped in cheese fondue
- A place with more than just meat — plenty to eat overall
Where it is
11 Deogyeong-daero 895beon-gil, 1st floor, Paldal-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea경기도 수원시 팔달구 덕영대로895번길 11 1층
