Eating in Korea: Seoul #5 Dookki Tteokbokki Buffet Restaurant (두끼 떡볶이) - Korean Tteokbokki Buffet

 

Dookki Tteokbokki Buffet Restaurant (Korean: 두끼 떡볶이)

 The Dookki Tteokbokki buffet restaurant is a franchise and has dozens of branches in Korea, so you can search on the map for the one closest to your location and visit it. This restaurant is a place where you can make your own Tteokbokki, unlike other places, and various ingredients are prepared in a buffet-style, allowing you to make your own Tteokbokki at the table with the ingredients you want and the sauce you want. 

 

 Usually, Tteokbokki can be eaten on the street or snack bars for KRW 3000 to KRW 5000. It means that you can enjoy Tteokbokki at a lower price than this restaurant. But if you really want to eat Tteokbokki with various toppings, or if you want to eat Tteokbokki with a different sauce than regular gochujang (chili paste), or if you want to eat Tteokbokki a lot, you can go to eat Tteokbokki to this restaurant. 

 

 Tteokbokki is a popular Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white, cylinder-shaped rice cakes), eomuk (fish cakes), boiled eggs and scallions are some of the most commonly added ingredients. It can be seasoned with either spicy gochujang (chili paste) or non-spicy ganjang (soy sauce) are based sauce. It is commonly purchased and eaten at snack bars or street stalls. 

 

 There are many other branches, but I would like to introduce you to this restaurant with a place where I visited. The prices of other branches and the ingredients prepared are all the same, so it is irrelevant which branch you visit. 

 

1. Branch in sillim: 

- Address: 2nd floor, 310, Sillim-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul

 

- Operation time: Everyday 11:00~21:40 (Entrance closing time 21:00)

 

- Tel: (+82) 02-877-2771

 

- Menu and price: Tteokbokki Buffet (The buffet is only available for one and a half hours. I've visited this restaurant several times, but in an hour and a half, you can enjoy your time there.)

 

- Video of Dookki Tteokbokki Buffet Restaurant:

 

 

 

 

 I visited Sunday at 12:30 pm so there were a lot of people. There were two teams in front of me, but I was able to sit down after a while. I haven't visited any other branch so I don't know but if you visit sillim branch during lunch or dinner, you'll have to wait. The good thing is that the restaurant prepared chairs at the entrance so you can sit on your chair and wait. 

 

 You can check on the country of origin mark that most of the ingredients are from Korea and you can check also the explanation of allergies, so if you're allergic to certain ingredients, refer to them before you eat them. 

 

 

 These days, the number of single-person households in Korea is increasing. Supermarkets sell small amounts of packaged meals for single households, and restaurants also set aside one-person seats for guests who come alone. This restaurant also has separate seats for guests who come alone. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about just visiting alone. 

 

 

 Here's important guide. In Korea, there is a system called the environmental preservation campaign according to the restaurants. If you leave more than one bowl of food, you will be fined KRW 2000, so please take this into consideration. 

 

 

 In many Korean restaurants, fiber deodorants are available for customers to use because sometimes the smell of food permeates clothes and hair. It's a kind of service. The service that cares about customers is always good. 

 

 

  Now I'll explain how to use this restaurant. The staff will take you to your seat and there will be a piece of paper on the table. It is about how to use this restaurant. 

 

 Use the following to adjust the temperature of the induction range. When you boil the broth at first, set the temperature of the induction range in 4 stages, after adding the ingredients, set the temperature of the induction range in 6 stages and set the temperature of the induction range in 1 stage at the end. 

 

 

 And you can make your own Tteokbokki in the order below.

Step1. Pour the broth up to point 1/4 of the pot.

Step2. Place the sauce and fries in the sauce bowl and fryer bowl, and place rice cakes, vegetables, and ingredients in the salad bowl as much as you like. 

Step3. Place the sauce in a pot and add various rice cakes. 

Step4. Please add whatever ingredients you want to eat. 

Step5. After eating Tteokbokki, you can try to eat fried rice. 

 

 

 The ingredients for Tteokbokki prepared in the restaurant are as follows. Eggs, instant noodles, sausages, fish cakes and so on. 

 

 

 There are many kinds of sauce. The number of chili peppers is shown depending on the level of spicy, 

please refer to this and make it up and eat to your taste. Like the picture below, you can make dozens of different kinds of Tteokbokki with a combination of various sauces such as curry Tteokbokki, soy sauce Tteokbokki, cream Tteokbokki and so on. 

 

 

 There are several sections, such as the beverage section, Tteokbokki ingredients section, and fried stuff section and so on. Take a slow look around. And then you conquer section one by one. If you put a lot at once, you can fill up your stomach too fast, so it's better to start with a light one. Especially, I hardly ever eat fried food first because if I start eating fried food first, I can't eat Tteokbokki a lot. 

 

 I usually make spicy Tteokbokki first and eat less spicy Tteokbokki such as curry Tteokbokki or cream Tteokbokki. If I make it twice, I get full. 

 

 

 

 

 When you make Tteokbokki, the Tteokbokki splashes on your clothes. If you don't eat without an apron, there are dozens of red dots on your clothes. There's a new apron at the counter, so take it and eat Tteokbokki with an apron. 

 

 I am always thinking about taking pictures before I eat, but I usually forget. So there are only pictures after eating Tteokbokki. Next time, I will take a picture before eating and share it with you. 

 

 

I recommend this restaurant for those who:

- like Tteokbokki

- like spicy food

- like buffet

- want to experience real Korean local food

 

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