[Nonhyeon-dong Restaurant] Hongmyeong - A Chinese Restaurant Featured on Blue Ribbon Survey and in Sung Si-kyung’s *Wheeinteoldae*, with Jjajang, Hand-Made Fried Dumplings, Ganjjajang, and Japchae Fried Rice All Delicious.

Baek Won-jang’s rating ★★★★★

Hello.

This is Baek Won-jang’s Food Michelin.

Last time, I introduced Donghwabanjeom, a Chinese restaurant with 60 years of tradition and a Blue Ribbon Survey pick, as a must-visit place in Busan.

It was a recommended Chinese restaurant by Heo Joo-yeop, and even for me, who had never properly tried nanjawanseu before, it was delicious.

The sweet and sour pork was also really good, so although the thumbnail features the sweet and sour pork as the main character, this place is definitely famous as a nanjawanseu restaurant!!

And so, let me introduce a Nonhyeon-dong nanjawanseu and handmade fried dumpling restaurant I visited.

Hongmyeong

A nanjawanseu restaurant featured on Wheeinteoldae in a two-part episode!! The thumbnail is taken by this dish too.

It’s such a well-known place that many of you may already know it, but in some ways it boasts an even more distinctive nanjawanseu flavor than Donghwabanjeom.

This is a review after trying not only the famous nanjawanseu, but also the handmade fried dumplings, ganjjajang, and japchae fried rice. Haha.

Location: 10, Nonhyeon-ro 131-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

Parking: Valet parking available. 4,000 won

This is a Blue Ribbon Survey nanjawanseu Chinese restaurant very close to Hakdong Station.

The location is, well... it’s in a really great spot for gatherings.

As with many good restaurants in Gangnam, valet parking is available, which is definitely a big plus.

Siksin app rating

It also appears to have received 2 stars on the Siksin app!!

Oh, after reading the post, I saw that japchae fried rice is featured right at the top of the description.

Honestly, I thought the japchae fried rice was quite tasty too.

Hongmyeong is counted among the Chinese restaurants featured on Sung Si-kyung’s Wheeinteoldae. Let’s try all of the famous dishes~!!!

Exterior

We entered at 6:00 p.m.

The photo came out really dark.. I took it in a hurry to match the sign lighting.. haha.

It was too crowded, so taking photos was a bit awkward, to be honest ~~~

If you park your car in front of the shop and wait, the valet parking attendant will come out. There isn’t a separate ticket.

The shocking part was that when we left a little after 7:00 p.m. after eating everything, this sign had been put up....

It looks like they close once ingredients run out. If an ordinary office worker comes after work, it would be hard to eat here..ㅠㅠ

Interior

The entrance shot of “Hongmyeong,” taken with the owner’s permission (?)!

And beneath the register was a poster saying they had appeared on Siksin Road.

A proud display of the 2024 and 2025 Blue Ribbon Survey stickers and the Siksin app’s 2-star rating~

The seat we were shown to was the second seat from the very back corner.

This is a photo of the interior taken from that seat! If you look to the right, there are private rooms too.

There weren’t as many seats as I expected, so it seemed to prioritize turnover.

Maybe because of that, when I read Naver reviews, I saw some negative comments like dishes being cleared too early so customers would leave quickly.

But I’m guessing that happens when it gets crowded... overall, I didn’t feel that the service was unpleasant.

This is the menu at Hongmyeong, a Chinese restaurant in Nonhyeon-dong.

It’s labeled as a menu of delicious dishes.

As Mr. Psy said in the video, just looking at it gives off the feeling of, “Ah~ we really do our dishes well~~”

But there are no photos... and it feels like the text is packed in without much order.

Personally, I thought they could make the menu look a bit prettier!

Oh, come to think of it, you can only order the handmade dumplings if you order a dish?!

As far as I know, handmade dumplings take quite a bit of effort, so I understand they’re not really a big-profit menu item at a Chinese restaurant.

I heard proper fried dumplings aren’t something that should just be given as a service item.

Something I just thought of: if they made the menu like Somboon Seafood in Bangkok, I think business would be much better ~!

Anyway, I ordered nanjawanseu.

Next is the meal menu.

It has a subtitle that says “A happy meal plan.”

Since I heard the ganjjajang was delicious, I ordered ganjjajang.

Since I heard the japchae fried rice was delicious, I ordered that too.

And of course, I ordered the handmade fried dumplings as well~???

It can be ordered starting from 5:00 p.m., but when we left, the entrance said ingredients had run out.... so it was a precious handmade fried dumpling you could only get if you visited around 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Let the meal begin!!!

Nanjawanseu (48,000 won)

This is Hongmyeong’s signature dish, nanjawanseu.

Compared with the one I introduced earlier from Donghwabanjeom in Busan, the appearance is actually a bit different...

The ingredients surrounding the nanjawanseu, which contains a mix of beef and pork, also look very substantial and tasty.

The large mushrooms are especially impressive.

I’ve recently gotten into close-up shots like this. Haha.

The large shiitake mushrooms are truly impressive, and when you bite into them in your mouth, delicious oyster-sauce juices burst out.

You scoop it up like this and dip it into the special sauce.

Before the sauce soaks in, the nanjawanseu has a crispy outside and tender inside when you bite into it.

Oh.. this is what nanjawanseu is like! That’s the kind of taste it has.

The meaty aroma from the mix of pork and beef is just incredible. And it doesn’t taste fishy at all.

The taste of the nanjawanseu with bok choy and mushrooms is heavenly.

It was really delicious~

Handmade Fried Dumplings (15,000 won)

These handmade fried dumplings are priced at 2,500 won per piece.

They’re ordered by almost every table.

They’re not small. They’re quite plump in a generous size.

That makes you expect a lot from the filling~

When you pick it up, it has a very grand appearance.

The outside is completely crispy.

When you tear one open and look inside, you can really tell why Hongmyeong’s handmade fried dumplings are so famous.

The meat inside is quite fresh, plentiful, and moist.

How could a handmade fried dumpling filled with so much meaty flavor not be delicious?

If a restaurant is famous for nanjawanseu, it must handle meat well, and the fact that the fried dumplings are delicious seems to go along with that.

These two delicious dishes... just looking at them makes me happy.

Ganjjajang (11,000 won)

As I was eating in admiration of the nanjawanseu and fried dumplings, the meal dish arrived.

Here came the ganjjajang with that soft-boiled fried egg that stands out.

Doesn’t the yellow noodles look really delicious?

Both the noodles and the stir-fried ganjjajang sauce look so fresh.

I can’t quite express it here, but the noodles are truly excellent.

They’re so chewy that you can tell just from picking them up that they’re delicious!!

The ganjjajang sauce had a generous amount of freshly stir-fried onions, and the onion flavor really came through so strongly that even the next day I could still taste onion in my mouth... haha.

When you pour the sauce on like this, it also looks fantastic.

Because it’s made with freshly stir-fried sauce, it feels less like something you mix thoroughly like uni jajang and more like something you “eat together” with the noodles.

I lifted it up without taking a single bite... as expected, it’s hard to photograph something meant to be mixed together in a way that looks truly delicious. ㅠㅠ

It tastes like the ganjjajang you’re imagining, but it isn’t greasy and is very easy to eat in big slurps.

There are also shrimp here and there... for 11,000 won, it was quite high quality.

I thought it felt like ganjjajang from a hotel Chinese restaurant.

Japchae Fried Rice (11,000 won)

This is the japchae fried rice my friend ordered.

Personally, this was the dish I’d rate higher than the ganjjajang.

It felt like Hongmyeong was saying, “I can do every dish well!!”

The stir-fried japchae tastes absolutely excellent.

Honestly, it could have been greasy, right? But it isn’t greasy.....

And the well-stir-fried fried rice under that casually stylish soft-boiled egg also makes the experience even more impressive.

I was full, so I only took a little and tried some, but it was really delicious.

The japchae fried rice tasted like something I’d come back just to eat again. It was seriously good.

It was a special japchae fried rice full of savory flavor but not greasy, which was truly impressive!!!

I was thinking my restaurant-exploring partner didn’t order it for nothing~ Haha.

So from nanjawanseu to handmade fried dumplings, ganjjajang, and japchae fried rice, the whole lineup was fantastic. Haha.

It became a happy dinner, and it was a pleasant day.

We really, really enjoyed our meal today!

Conclusion

It didn’t appear on Sung Si-kyung’s Wheeinteoldae for nothing.

It has become one of Seoul’s top-tier Chinese cuisine restaurants.

I know there are quite a few good Chinese restaurants in Gangnam.

Personally, I’ve been trying hard to explore them, but I haven’t been to many places yet..

As I mentioned recently, I think great Chinese restaurants can suddenly be found anywhere, so I tend to go around without bias... but in general, there aren’t that many places that are tastier than hotel Chinese restaurants.

Like Moviejang near Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Station, Hongmyeong in Nonhyeon-dong seems to be one of the few Chinese restaurants I think is tastier than a hotel Chinese restaurant.

A place that makes you let go of the idea that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well. Isn’t that exactly the kind of restaurant worth cherishing? :)

Taste: ★★★★★

Value for money: ★★★★★

Accessibility: ★★★★★

Facilities: ★★★★☆

Parking: Valet available. 4,000 won.

There are so many great Chinese food restaurants.

That’s why I don’t really say things like, “This is one of Seoul’s top three Chinese restaurants.” Haha.

Just my personal opinion, but Hongmyeong seems like a place where you can expect anything that comes out of the kitchen.

When I’m craving nanjawanseu... no, even when I’m craving ganjjajang or japchae fried rice, I should come here again ^^

Thank you for reading my out-of-pocket restaurant review again today,

I’ll try to become a memorable restaurant coordinator with carefully selected posts. :)

This has been Baek Won-jang, a dentist who dreams of becoming both a master of implants and a foodie.

Thank you.!!