Goyang soy crab restaurant with a 24,900 won refill set: Deodeo

Today I went to Deodeo Ganjanggejang with a friend after an acquaintance kept raving that the soy crab here was seriously delicious. Honestly, when we arrived and saw the exterior, it looked older than I expected, and I felt like I'd tracked down some hidden master — but I also wondered, is this place really that good?

Spoiler: by the time we left, I was already telling the owner I'd be back soon 🤣

Blue Ribbon five years running: inside Deodeo Ganjanggejang in Wondang

Walking up to the entrance, I spotted traces of TV appearances first, and then a row of Blue Ribbon stickers lined up.

Turns out it's been selected five years straight, from 2022 to 2026. Huh — maybe my doubts were unfounded. Reassured by the Blue Ribbon, we went in. Inside, there were already quite a few customers. We ate away without noticing, and by the time it filled up completely, there was even a wait outside as we left.

📍 357-1 Wondang-ro, Deogyang-gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea

What comes with the 24,900 won all-you-can-eat set?

What my friend and I ordered was the all-you-can-eat set menu.

Soy crab + marinated crab + crab stew — ₩24,900 per person

Soy crab, marinated crab, and crab stew come together with steamed egg, and rice is ordered separately — though the staff smartly added rice bowls for us when taking our order. Besides the all-you-can-eat set, there's also a whole-crab course, and you can get the crab packed for takeout or delivery too.

Once the food started coming out, the big table filled up fast. 🦀 Soy crab, marinated crab, and a bubbling crab stew~

How does the soy sauce crab taste? Not salty, mild seasoning

The soy crab wasn't overly salty, and the marinated crab wasn't too spicy either — overall the seasoning wasn't overpowering.

The steamed egg comes with the set too, so I kept dipping into that between bites of crab haha.

I usually prefer marinated crab over soy crab, but for some reason that day I ended up eating way more of the soy crab lol.

Four crab refills for two, one bowl of rice each

The refilled crab was packed with meat too 😆 The first round was already good, and even the refills had meat crammed inside. No wonder we kept refilling lol. Trying to recall how many rounds my friend and I went through, I think it was about 4 refills 🤣 But even so, we each ate just one bowl of rice. How much crab did we eat with a single bowl of rice, honestly lol. The shells were thinner than expected too, easy to cut with scissors, and packed with meat inside.

There was even a little guide taped to the table showing how to neatly pick meat out of the claws — pretty fun, and genuinely helpful while eating the soy crab lol.

Rice in the crab shell with seaweed and flying fish roe

Picked out the crab meat and mixed rice right into the shell~ then topped it with a bit of the marinated crab sauce~

Wrapped it in seaweed with flying fish roe~

Free ramen noodles in the blue crab stew

Between bites of crab, I kept sipping the hot crab stew broth too~ and while we were eating, they brought over free ramen noodles as a service.

We were already pretty full, but how could we let free ramen noodles just pass us by lol. Dropped them into the crab stew and finished those off too.

I haven't gone out of my way to eat soy crab in a while, but this day my friend and I really did it right lol. I thought I wouldn't crave crab for a while after this, but sorting through the photos now, I'm already craving it again.