Yongsan pork cutlet restaurant for weekend family brunch: Onjeong

Weekend brunch with the kids at Onjeong Gyeongyang Sikdang, Yongsan

This is a place I visited for a late weekend brunch with the kids. Pork cutlet is basically a foolproof choice when picking a menu with children, so naturally we landed on pork cutlet again this time. The spot we went to was Yongsan Donkatsu Onjeong Gyeongyang Sikdang, Yongsan branch, near Hyochang Park Station. It's inside the Richensia building.

These days there are plenty of Japanese-style tonkatsu specialists, but sometimes you crave that old-school gyeongyangsik pork cutlet with the plate drowning in sauce, right? So nostalgic haha. Onjeong Gyeongyang Sikdang, true to its name, delivers exactly that gyeongyangsik style. The menu isn't intimidating for eating with kids either, and beyond the cutlets there's udon too, so it made for the best possible weekend family meal.

How to get to Onjeong from Hyochang Park Station, and what the restaurant feels like

Yongsan Donkatsu Onjeong Gyeongyang Sikdang, Yongsan branch is located at 341 Baekbeom-ro, B-dong 1F Unit 107, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It's about 460m from Exit 5 of Hyochang Park Station, so it's a decent spot to reach by public transit too.

Right from the exterior, you could feel that friendly, familiar gyeongyangsik-restaurant vibe.

Inside, the tables weren't cramped, so it was comfortable sitting down to eat with the kids. And it was clean and pleasant.

Refilling rice and side dishes at Onjeong's self bar

There was also a self bar set up on one side. Basically rice and side dishes are provided by default, and the signage explained you can freely use the self bar if you want more.

This kind of thing is especially welcome when you're with kids who eat a lot of rice. Thumbs up.

The cutlets are fried right after ordering, and even the pork cutlet and sauce are made in-house, apparently. I also noticed the note about using meat prepped that same day and a steam-injection fryer. Eating with kids, details like this made me even more satisfied.

What the family ordered at Onjeong, and what it cost

What we ordered that day was the classic pork cutlet for ₩13,000, the cheddar cheese pork cutlet for ₩13,500, and fried fish cake udon for ₩9,000.

To share with the kids, we picked one of the basic cutlet and one of the cheese cutlet, and added udon for a soup dish on top.

Classic pork cutlet, 13,000 won

First up, the most basic classic pork cutlet. When the plate arrives, the cutlet is bigger than you'd expect, and it's topped with a really generous amount of the gyeongyangsik sauce.

The sauce flavor is a work of art too. It comes with rice, cabbage salad, corn, and bread, so it's exactly the classic old-school pork cutlet setup you'd picture. So delicious 😍😍😍

Cheddar cheese pork cutlet, 13,500 won

And the dish that personally caught my eye the most was the cheddar cheese pork cutlet. I'm a cheese lover, haha.

The cheddar cheese sauce is piled on so generously it nearly covers the whole cutlet — thumbs up just for the visual. It's not just a little cheese on top; every time you cut into the cutlet, cheese sauce pours out.

If the classic cutlet is about enjoying that signature savory sauce flavor, the cheddar cheese cutlet is much richer and softer. That salty, deep cheddar flavor meeting the fried cutlet was great for kids to eat too.

Especially if you like cheese, I think ordering one classic and one cheddar cheese cutlet to share is a good combo. Even though it's the same cutlet, the sauce makes it feel quite different, so it was fun alternating between them.

The kids really ate well too.

Fried fish cake udon, 9,000 won

The fried fish cake udon we ordered together also went well as a side to the cutlets.

There's a generous amount of fried tofu and fish cake, topped with green onion and tempura crumbs, great for spooning up the broth bit by bit.

When you keep eating cutlet, sometimes you crave warm broth, and ordering udon alongside worked really well for that.

The kids also happily spread strawberry jam on the morning bread.

Is Onjeong good for a weekend lunch with a child, or for eating alone?

When visiting with kids, rather than ordering several cutlets, I think ordering one udon to share alongside is also a good idea. Especially since we came for a late brunch-lunch combo on the weekend like this, having both cutlet and udon made for a pretty filling meal.

Looking around the shop, it seemed comfortable for families but also not intimidating at all for eating alone. The menu comes out neatly as a single plate and there's a self bar too, so it seems good for office workers or solo diners nearby looking for a Yongsan solo lunch spot.

Having gyeongyangsik pork cutlet after a while was absolutely delicious. If you're looking for a place to have weekend lunch with kids near Hyochang Park, or craving that old-style pork cutlet soaked in moist sauce after a long time, this was a Yongsan pork cutlet restaurant I'd recommend.