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Pooja 2, Dongdaemun: Curry, Naan and Tandoori Chicken near Central Asia Street

A table at Pooja 2 in December 2021: naan on two round metal trays lined with paper napkins, a plate of white rice, an oval dish of red curry, a green curry streaked with white cream and a plate of meat in dark red sauce.
The table in December 2021: naan on two metal trays, rice and several dishes.
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Pooja 2 (뿌자2) is an Indian restaurant in Dongdaemun, Jung-gu, Seoul, serving curries, naan and tandoori chicken. Esquire Korea's April 2022 guide to foreign restaurants near Dongdaemun and DDP calls it a branch of Pooja (뿌자), a name the magazine says stands out among the area's many Indian and Nepali restaurants, and names tandoori chicken as the dish the restaurant is known for. The guide places it a little way in from Central Asia Street, which runs between exits 5 and 7 of Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station.

Naan and two curries

My photos are from December 2021. Naan (난), the soft flatbread you tear and use to scoop up curry, sat on two round metal trays lined with paper napkins, puffed up and covered in dark blisters. Beside the trays are white rice and curries in oval white dishes: a red-orange one with chunky pieces and sliced scallions, and a smooth green one streaked with white cream that looks like a spinach curry. I can't tell from the photos what the pieces in the red curry are.

Close-up of naan on a round metal tray lined with a paper napkin, the bread puffed up and covered in dark blisters, with curries and rice at the left.
Naan with dark blisters on a metal tray.
An oval white dish of red-orange curry with chunky pieces and sliced scallions on top and a spoon resting in it, with a green curry streaked with white cream behind.
Red curry in front, green curry behind.

Meat in dark red sauce and a cup of soup

A white plate of meat chunks in a dark red sauce with onion-like wedges and green chili pieces, topped with sliced scallions.
Meat in a dark red sauce with green chili.

The meat on the white plate sits in a dark red sauce with what look like onion wedges and green chili pieces. Polle's menu list for Pooja 2 has several meat dishes, so I can't say which one this is.

A white two-handled cup on a saucer holding orange-red soup with a swirl of cream.
A cup of orange-red soup with a swirl of cream.

The cup beside it holds an orange-red soup with a swirl of cream that looks like tomato soup.

Tandoori chicken at Pooja 2

Esquire Korea says Pooja 2 grills its tandoori chicken so well that the meat comes out very soft, with the smell of fire and spices in it. The magazine calls it a little spicier than the original version and suggests naan and a mild curry if the heat surprises you. Polle reviewers are mostly positive: one, in a post shown as about a year old, ranks Pooja 2 first among the Indian and Nepali restaurants they have tried in Korea, while another, shown as about 11 months old, complained that the ₩50,000 two-person set came with little curry.

Pooja 2's menu and prices

Pooja 2's menu list on Polle, which I checked on November 14, 2026, shows naan at ₩4,000 to ₩7,000, most chicken curries at ₩16,000, tandoori chicken at ₩24,000 and a two-person set at ₩49,500. Polle also lists Pooja 2 as taking reservations and having no parking.

How to order

Show this to the staff

탄두리 치킨 하나 주세요.

Tanduri chikin hana juseyo.

One tandoori chicken, please.

난 하나 더 주세요.

Nan hana deo juseyo.

One more naan, please.

덜 맵게 해 주세요.

Deol maepge hae juseyo.

Please make it less spicy.

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