Sinseol-dong hanjeongsik: 25-dish bossam set at Hansang Charyim

Visit date: Sunday, September 13, 2026 / Location: 28 Hanbit-ro, 1st floor, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul

Why I chose Hansang Charyim Bapsang, 5 minutes from Sinseol-dong Station

I had plans over in the Jongno area of Seoul. But the timing was awkward for grabbing lunch there. So I decided to eat somewhere nearby instead. For various reasons, I ended up visiting the Dongdaemun Korean restaurant Hansang Charyim Bapsang Sinseol-dong.

I remember eating really well around here a few years ago. So the place looked familiar. Hansang Charyim Bapsang Sinseol-dong is about a 5-minute walk from Sinseol-dong Station.

Hansang Charyim Bapsang Sinseol-dong hours and parking

Opening hours

OPEN 10:45 / CLOSE 21:30 / last order 20:30, *closed every Monday. Please keep the hours in mind.

Where to park

Parking is available in front of the restaurant weekdays 11:00–14:00 and weekends 16:00–22:00, so keep that in mind.

Inside the restaurant and what to order

The interior was quite spacious. It was all table seating. There were a lot of older customers.

We looked over the menu and thought hard about what to order. After a long deliberation, we settled on the hansang bossam set (minimum 2 people).

• Hansang bossam set (minimum 2 people), ₩15,000 x2

Looks like some celebrities visited and left autographs. Apart from Matsamin, I didn't recognize anyone else. Matsamin... that's a YouTube channel I used to watch a lot. I should go back and watch it again after all this time. Now I'm suddenly curious what they've been up to lately hahaha.

A Naver review event was running. Since we were planning to grab a drink at a café after the meal, we didn't take part in the review event. Apparently if you join, you get a 500ml drink for free. If you're interested, give it a try.

They set out our spoons and chopsticks from the storage compartment beside the table. The food seemed like it was about to arrive.

What comes with the 25-dish hansang bossam set, and where the ingredients are from

Sure enough, the food came out. Including the bossam (boiled pork wraps), it added up to about 25 dishes. The side dishes came out in small portions, though it looked like refills were possible. I'm usually good at finding and photographing origin labels, but... I couldn't find them this time, ugh. So I'm relaying the origin info based on another blogger's post. I have no idea how that blogger managed to find it though...

• Pork: Austria (for bossam), ribs (USA)
• Napa cabbage kimchi: China
• Chicken: Brazil
• Rice: South Korea
• Tofu (soybeans): USA

The rice was the only domestically sourced ingredient. If you're sensitive about ingredient origins like I am, keep this in mind!

How did the side dishes, doenjang soup and bossam taste?

I started with one of my favorite side dishes, quail eggs braised in soy sauce. It was sour and pretty salty.

The doenjang soup (fermented soybean paste soup) tasted similar to the doenjang soup I used to eat during my military service. It brought back memories, a nostalgic kind of taste. Besides tofu and green onion, there wasn't anything special added to it.

Finally, I tried the star of the meal, the bossam.

For my first bite, I combined it with dried radish strips and seasoned bean sprouts. Most of the side dishes were quite salty, but the bean sprout salad was relatively clean-tasting by comparison.

To help reduce waste, we returned the side dishes we weren't going to eat before we started. That was about 6-7 dishes. Maybe you could do the same — speak up early or send back untouched side dishes before you reach for them, for the sake of the environment. That wraps up my visit to the Dongdaemun Korean restaurant Hansang Charyim Bapsang Sinseol-dong.