Munjeong udon restaurant sharing spicy mazesoba for two: Gome Mui

I met up with a friend near Munjeong Station for lunch and, after looking around, we ended up at Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong. It's inside Tera Tower right by the station, so it's easy to find, and with pot rice, tonkatsu and udon all on the menu, it seemed like a good spot for a friend lunch. There are a lot of offices nearby too, so it looked like a solid weekday lunch spot for office workers as well — a genuine Munjeong Station restaurant worth knowing.

We each ordered one dish — steak pot rice and spicy mazesoba udon — and shared them, and the savory, mild pot rice paired better with the spicy noodles than I expected. The steak pot rice, mixed with a broken egg yolk over tender steak, was delicious, and the spicy mazesoba udon was spicier than I thought but so full of umami that we ended up mixing rice into the leftover sauce at the end.

Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong: location, hours and parking

• Address: Tera Tower 2, Building A, B1 G115, 167 Songpa-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul
• Hours: Mon–Fri 11:00–21:00 / Sat 11:00–20:00 / closed Sundays
• Break time 15:00–17:00, last order 20:30 / 19:30
• Parking: Munjeong Station Tera Tower underground lot, 1 hour free
• Baby chairs available

How to find Gome Mui in Tera Tower near Munjeong Station

Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong is on B1 of Building A in Tera Tower near Munjeong Station. It's about 300m from Exit 3, so it was easy to reach by subway to meet my friend.

If you're driving, park underground at Munjeong Station Tera Tower and head to B1 of Building A. Parking is free for 1 hour, up to 1.5 hours including turnaround time — worth keeping in mind. It's right next to a Mega Coffee, so it was very easy to spot. We visited on a weekday for lunch, and since the area around Munjeong Station has a lot of offices, it seemed like a good option for office workers' lunch too.

Inside Gome Mui: seating and high chairs

Inside, the space was clean and tidy. There was a range of seating — tables good for chatting face-to-face with a friend, and spots that looked fine for solo diners too. Baby chairs were also available, so it seemed like a place I could come back to with kids next time.

What does the name Gome Mui mean?

'Gome Mui' isn't a common name, so I was curious what it meant. Apparently it combines the Japanese words gome (米, rice) and mui (無二, one-of-a-kind), symbolizing "a precious flavor found nowhere else in the world." It also draws on the French word gourmet, meaning a sense for fine food. Starting from a single grain of rice and aiming for a flavor and quality that's truly one of a kind — a name that fits well with a restaurant built around pot rice.

Gome Mui reportedly uses rice koji across all its menu items. The pot rice uses a blend of premium-grade rice, the tonkatsu is aged at low temperature using salt koji, and the udon uses house-made tsuyu, broth and noodles. They also introduce new seasonal menus using seasonal ingredients, so I'd like to try other dishes next time.

What we ordered: steak pot rice 17,000 won and spicy mazesoba udon 12,000 won

The tables at Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong have tablets, so we could browse the menu at our own pace and order right away. We ordered the steak pot rice (₩17,000) and the spicy mazesoba udon (₩12,000). My friend and I went back and forth over the menu and decided to order different things so we could share. Since it was our first time at Gome Mui, I felt like I had to try a pot rice, so I picked the steak version, and my friend was in the mood for something spicy, so she chose the spicy mazesoba udon.

Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong also had a Naver review event running. Save the place on Naver Place, then write a receipt review including a photo of your order, and show it to staff. Complete it and you get a free americano or a 350ml drink. Since I usually want a drink after a meal anyway, it seemed worth joining if you're visiting.

What was in the thermos served first?

After we ordered, staff brought over a small thermos. My friend and I were like "what's this for?" haha — turns out it held warm water for making nurungji (crispy scorched rice) after finishing the pot rice.

Once you've served the pot rice into your bowl, you pour the warm water over the scorched rice left at the bottom of the pot, close the lid, and wait a bit. The rice stuck to the bottom softens up and you end up with a warm nurungji to finish.

What does the steak pot rice taste like?

After a short wait, the steak pot rice arrived as a full spread. It came with soup and side dishes and sauce, neatly arranged, and looked quite hearty.

Opening the lid revealed warm rice piled generously with steak, topped in the center with an egg yolk, butter, chopped green onion and sesame seeds. Honestly, a combination like that can't not be good, haha.

There were instructions on how to eat the pot rice, so we followed them. First, mix the rice and steak in the pot evenly, then scoop it into a bowl. I popped the yolk in the center and mixed that in too. The steak was tender, not chewy at all, so it went well with the rice, and mixing in the yolk made it even richer and more savory.

The steak pot rice, piled high with tender steak, was mouthwatering just to look at. There was so much meat that it felt genuinely filling.

Adding the sauce a little at a time, to taste

The rice itself wasn't seasoned as strongly as I expected. I tried it plain first, and once it felt a bit mild, I added the sauce that came with it — that was just right. Adding the sauce balanced the seasoning and brought out even more umami from the steak and rice. Personally, I'd recommend tasting the base flavor first rather than dumping all the sauce in at once, then adding it gradually to your taste.

After scraping out the rice, we poured in all the warm water from the thermos we'd gotten earlier. The steak pot rice alone was pretty filling, but finishing with the warm nurungji made it feel like a truly complete meal. Pot rice really does need to be eaten down to the nurungji, haha.

How spicy is the spicy mazesoba udon at Gome Mui?

The spicy mazesoba udon we'd ordered together arrived too. Meat sauce, egg yolk, green onion and seaweed flakes were piled generously on top, so we mixed it all together evenly before eating. Even with "spicy" in the name, I figured it probably wouldn't be that spicy — but one bite in, it was noticeably spicier than expected, haha.

But it wasn't just spicy for the sake of it. At first the heat hits, but as you keep eating, the meat sauce and other ingredients come together into a savory, umami-rich spiciness. It was spicy but kept us reaching for more with our chopsticks — my friend and I just kept eating.

Mixing rice into the leftover sauce at the end

After eating most of the noodles, there was still a fair amount of sauce and meat left at the bottom of the bowl. It felt like too much of a waste to leave it, so we scooped in a bit of rice from the steak pot rice and mixed it all together. Apparently you can ask for a separate bowl of rice, but since we're both kind of dieting, haha, we didn't add extra rice and just used a bit from the pot rice to taste.

Honestly though, I think everyone should try this finishing rice with the spicy mazesoba udon. Different from eating it with the noodles, the spicy, savory sauce clung to every grain of rice and was genuinely delicious. Between the nurungji from the steak pot rice and the mixed rice from the mazesoba udon, my friend and I both left completely full.

On the way out, we also got a Yakult as a parting treat. It might seem like a small thing, but little touches like that are exactly what make me want to come back. A post-meal Yakult really is love...♥

Is Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong good for lunch with a friend?

Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong was a good weekday lunch spot with a friend. It's close to Munjeong Station and inside Tera Tower, so it was easy to meet up, and the clean interior made it comfortable to chat over lunch. What I liked most was the variety — pot rice, tonkatsu, udon — so there's something to fit different tastes.

The steak pot rice we had was tender, and mixing in the broken yolk made it wonderfully savory. The seasoning wasn't too strong, so we could add sauce to our own taste, and finishing with the warm-water nurungji was a fun touch. The spicy mazesoba udon was spicier than expected, but the umami kept us coming back for more, and mixing rice into the leftover sauce at the end was especially memorable.

Ordering one dish each and sharing let us alternate between the savory, mellow steak pot rice and the spicy mazesoba udon, and the combination worked really well. If you're looking for a relaxed lunch spot with a friend near Munjeong Station, a warm and filling pot rice restaurant, or a Tera Tower restaurant with plenty of menu variety, Gome Mui Songpa Munjeong is worth a visit.