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Yeongheungru, Anseong: Black Bean Noodles and Fried Meat at a Long-Running Chinese Restaurant

Strips of battered, deep-fried meat piled on a white oval plate with a red double-happiness pattern around the rim, with a bowl of red sauce at the lower right edge of the frame.
Bare strips of battered fried meat on a plate rimmed with red double-happiness characters.
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Yeongheungru (영흥루) is a Chinese restaurant in Dongbon-dong, Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, that serves jjajangmyeon (짜장면), noodles in a black bean sauce, and gogi-twigim (고기튀김), fried meat. A September 2021 Esquire Korea list of long-running Gyeonggi restaurants says Yeongheungru has operated since 1910, which a reviewer on the Korean review site Polle could not verify.

A white vertical lightbox sign on the corner of a stone-clad building, reading 中華料理 in red squares above the characters 永興樓, with two phone numbers at the bottom.
The corner sign: 中華料理 (Chinese cuisine) in red squares above 永興樓, the hanja spelling of Yeongheungru.

Jjajangmyeon and gan-jjajang

Yellow noodles on a plate with a blue-green floral rim, half covered by a glossy dark sauce with diced onion and larger pale pieces.
Yellow noodles half covered in glossy dark sauce with diced onion.

Gan-jjajang (간짜장) is the version of jjajangmyeon whose sauce is stir-fried without starch. In my photo, a glossy dark sauce with diced onion and larger pale pieces covers half a plate of yellow noodles. Yeongheungru's menu on Polle lists both jjajang and gan-jjajang, so I can't say which this was. Polle reviewers from 2023 and 2024 who ordered gan-jjajang describe a mild sauce with crisp onion and cabbage. The 2021 Esquire Korea list recommends that first-time visitors try the gan-jjajang and the gogi-twigim.

Gogi-twigim and tangsuyuk

The 2021 Esquire Korea list says Yeongheungru's gogi-twigim, unlike tangsuyuk (탕수육), deep-fried pork in a sweet and sour sauce, comes without sauce, to be dipped in salt with a little pepper or in soy sauce with vinegar and chili flakes, and that its batter is soft rather than crisp. The pieces in my photo are bare, with a bowl of red sauce at the edge of the frame, and I can't tell whether this is gogi-twigim or tangsuyuk.

A large platter that may be yangjangpi

A large round plate with a blue and red floral rim, ringed with shredded white meat, squid rings, shrimp, boiled egg halves, black mushroom-like strips, cucumber, carrot and onion, with shredded vegetables in brown sauce in the middle.
A large round platter ringed with shredded meat, squid, shrimp, egg and vegetables.

The round platter in my photo is ringed with shredded white meat, squid rings, shrimp, boiled egg halves, black mushroom-like strips, cucumber, carrot and onion around shredded vegetables in brown sauce. It resembles yangjangpi (양장피), a shared platter of shredded meat, seafood and vegetables. Yeongheungru's menu on Polle lists yangjangpi at ₩40,000, but I can't confirm that this is what I photographed.

Prices and tips at Yeongheungru

Yeongheungru's menu on Polle (checked November 14, 2026) lists jjajang at ₩8,000, gan-jjajang at ₩10,000, gun-mandu (군만두), fried dumplings, at ₩8,000, a small tangsuyuk at ₩20,000 and gogi-twigim with sauce at ₩30,000. Polle tags Yeongheungru as no parking, no reservations and a no-kids zone, and its reviewers report waits from none to more than an hour. Yeongheungru serves until 2:30 pm, according to a comment on a Polle review from October 2024.

How to order

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간짜장 하나 주세요.

Gan-jjajang hana juseyo.

One gan-jjajang, please.

소스 포함 고기튀김 주세요.

Soseu poham gogi-twigim juseyo.

Gogi-twigim with the sauce, please.

군만두도 하나 주세요.

Gunmandu-do hana juseyo.

One order of fried dumplings, too, please.

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