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Donkkaseu Ondo — Uijeongbu

돈까스온도 의정부본점

Tonkatsu, pasta and pizza · Gosan-dong, Uijeongbu

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Donkkaseu Ondo is a Korean-style cutlet house in Gosan-dong, Uijeongbu. Of 141 posts tied to it by address, 83 call the coating crisp, 59 say it gets rich.

The basics

Hours11:00 – 21:30 · Last order 20:30
No afternoon break
QueueAbout 10 min on a weekday lunch, 30–50 min at weekend peak
Typical spend₩12,900 – ₩20,900
ParkingStandalone building, own lot, 24+ spaces
Floor area189 m²
Phone0507-1419-1434
Address24 Gosan-ro 125beon-gil, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do
TransitUijeongbu Gosan district. Bus from Uijeongbu Station; about 30–40 min by bus from Nowon.

Eight posts state the hours independently and they agree. One post from June 2025 mentions a 15:00–17:00 break, but later posts say there is none — we went with the more recent ones.

Map showing Donkkaseu Ondo — Uijeongbu in Gosan-dong, Uijeongbu

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

What this place actually is

  1. Almost everyone here eats the cutlet. 139 of the 141 posts say they did. But 70 also ate pasta and 38 ate pizza, so the menu reaches well beyond the fryer on purpose. If your group cannot agree on one thing, that matters — and it is why so many of these posts are about family meals.
  2. You order from a tablet at the table (59 posts). You can eat here without speaking any Korean. Nobody has written whether the tablet has an English mode, so we do not know yet.
  3. There is a nursing room (44 posts), and 74 posts mention high chairs. One blogger wrote it was the first restaurant they had seen with a nursing room. Travelling with a baby, that is unusual.
  4. Rice, cabbage salad and side dishes are refilled free. You ask a staff member rather than going to a counter.

What 141 bloggers said

Of the 141 posts, 94 call the dining room clean and roomy and 91 say it is easy with children. On the food itself, 83 mention the crisp coating and 59 say it gets rich before they finish. The most common complaint is the queue — 66 posts.

Mentioned as good

Clean, roomy dining room94 / 141
Easy with kids91 / 141
Crisp coating83 / 141
Easy parking81 / 141
Juicy inside56 / 141
Friendly staff34 / 141
Thick cut30 / 141
Free refills13 / 141

Mentioned as a drawback

Queue at peak times66 / 141
Gets rich by the end59 / 141
Not cheap5 / 141

Prices are what bloggers wrote down. Press play to hear the Korean name.

Parking

A standalone building with its own lot. 46 posts put the capacity at 24 cars or more and 71 describe it as roomy. Six mention it filling up at peak times. If you are driving, this is one of the easier places in the area.

Posts stating 24+ spaces46 / 141
Posts noting a standalone building51 / 141
Posts noting it fills at peak6 / 141

Weather

Rain

Standalone building with its own lot51 / 141
Posts mentioning an indoor waiting area19 / 141
Posts mentioning waiting outside1 / 141
  • Waited in the car while it rained1
  • Free draft beer on rainy days — 2025 post, unconfirmed1

Summer heat

Posts tying the cold noodle set to summer9 / 141
Posts mentioning air conditioning or ceiling fans2 / 141

The cold buckwheat set looks seasonal — the posts mentioning it cluster between June and August.

Winter cold

Posts mentioning windows or daylight25 / 141

Only one post speaks to winter directly: tall windows let in enough sun that the heating was not needed on a cold day.

Who comes, and how

With family87 / 141
Groups and work dinners63 / 141
A drive out of town40 / 141
A date32 / 141
Eating alone8 / 141

It sits on the edge of town, so 40 posts describe coming here as a drive rather than a walk. Bloggers name the areas they came from — Tapseok, Yonghyeon-dong, Millak 2-district, Cheonghak-ri, Byeollae. Almost nobody writes about pairing it with another place nearby.

On television

31 posts call this a place "an actor from Dongsangimong visited". It was not filmed here and no show has featured it — two actors who appear on that programme came shortly after it opened, and bloggers compressed that into a line that reads like a TV tie-in.

If you are visiting from abroad

What the posts tell us

  • Chairs, not floor seating86
  • High chairs, and a nursing room74
  • Order from a tablet at the table59
  • Takeaway containers provided35
  • Queue through a kiosk or the CatchTable app22

Still unanswered

  • Is there an English menu?
  • Does the ordering tablet have English?
  • Do foreign cards work?
  • Does anyone there speak English?

Korean bloggers have no reason to write about any of this, so the second list stays empty no matter how many posts we read. We checked all 141 — none mention an English menu, and none mention a foreign visitor.

Where else it comes up

Beyond blogs, this place comes up in 10 Naver cafe (forum) threads across 5 communities. We can only read the titles and snippets there, not the bodies, so these are not part of the count above. What they do show is who bothers to mention it — and one of the ten is the shop advertising itself.

How to read these posts

141 posts, and only 3 of them say they were paid for. 34 go out of their way to say the writer paid — an unusually high number. The posts are spread across 17 months rather than piled into one campaign month. Taken together this reads like ordinary word of mouth, not a push. The caveat is real though: Korean disclosure usually sits at the very bottom of a post as a hashtag, and undisclosed paid posts would look exactly like the 104 that say nothing either way.

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The posts start in May 2025, jump to 30 in 2025-06 just after the shop opened, and then settle down. 2026 has averaged about 3.4 posts a month. There is no second spike, which is what a campaign month usually looks like.

Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-051
2025-0630
2025-0712
2025-087
2025-0925
2025-1011
2025-117
2025-1217
2026-015
2026-021
2026-031
2026-046
2026-053
2026-067
2026-071
2026-084
2026-093

What we do not know

141 posts read in full · 2025-05-27 – 2026-09-22 · Checked on 2026-09-22

What changed on this page
2026-09-23188 → 141
Matched by street address and phone, not by name. 47 posts were about a different branch.
2026-09-2315 → 13
Removed two items that were on another branch's menu.
2026-09-2319,900 → 19,500
Posts split 2:2, so we checked the shop's own Naver listing.
2026-09-234/35/101 → 3/34/104
Recounted against the 141 confirmed posts.
2026-09-23₩10,000–₩20,900 → ₩12,900–₩20,900
The lower bound came from a deleted item that belonged to another branch.
2026-09-23189.09㎡
Was in the licence data all along; we had not used it.
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