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The Netflix Noodle Stall at Gwangjang: What the Reviews Report

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📄Gohyang Kalguksu, the knife-cut noodle stall from Netflix’s Street Food: Asia at Gwangjang Market. 29 reviewers went; 21 of 25 liked the food.

Customers seen from behind at a Gwangjang Market food stall, facing a counter stacked with side dishes, dumplings and coils of blood sausage on a steamer, with a laminated picture menu in front

💡Quick Answer

The Gwangjang Market stall from Netflix’s Street Food: Asia is Gohyang Kalguksu, the knife-cut noodle stall run by Cho Yonsoon, the “Netflix lady” of the reviews. Of 1,458 reviews of the market, 61 mention the series and 29 describe going to a stall it featured. Of the 25 who judge the food, 21 are in favour and 4 are not. Ten mention a queue, and all ten rated the market four or five stars. Nine say most stalls sell the same dishes.

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Twenty-Nine Reviewers Went for It

Netflix released Street Food: Asia in April 2019. Its Seoul episode was filmed at Gwangjang Market and follows Cho Yonsoon, who makes knife-cut noodles and dumplings at a stall called Gohyang Kalguksu. The earliest review in our sample that mentions the series is dated May 21, 2019, less than a month later.

It comes up in 61 of the 1,458 reviews in our representative sample of the market. Fifteen call it Street Food, six name Cho Yonsoon, and nine call her simply the lady: the Netflix lady, the Netflix Kalguksu lady. Three more say the Netflix auntie. We read all 61 and sorted them by what the reviewer actually did.

🎬 What the review does with Street Food: Asia	Reviews
✅ Went to a featured stall and liked the food	21
Went, no verdict on the food	4
❌ Went and was disappointed	4
Looked for it and could not find it, or says stalls are gone	2
Mentions the series only as the reason for the fame, the crowd or the prices	30
All reviews that mention the series	61

Twenty-nine of them went to a stall the series featured. Twenty-five say what they thought of the food: 21 in favour, 4 against. The other four went and wrote about the queue, the price or the seats instead.

We went specifically to one of the famous Netflix featured stalls and food was delicious. — Google Maps, 5 stars, July 2025

Yes, there is the Netflix lady but it’s not worth the hype. — Google Maps, 4 stars, October 2025

The trade-off: people who cross a city for one stall and then write a review are not a random sample of diners. Their reviews average 4.55 against 4.30 for the market as a whole, and nothing here can separate the noodles from the pleasure of having found them.

The Queue Is Reported More Often Than Regretted

Ten of the 61 mention a queue or a wait. None of them timed it, and all ten are four- or five-star reviews. What they describe is short and specific:

Price same with other stalls and even those there was a queue. Our party of 5 was seated quickly. — TripAdvisor, 4 stars, March 2024

We had to wait about ten minutes before a bench opened to accommodate the whole family. — TripAdvisor, 4 stars, June 2019

One reviewer, back for a third visit on a Wednesday afternoon, found no queue to speak of. And a review from September 2019 settles the question the way most of the twenty-nine do:

happy to report that it is worth the hype and the possible wait for seats — TripAdvisor, 4 stars, September 2019

The trade-off: ten reviews cannot promise you a ten-minute wait. They tell you that the people who waited mostly did not mind, which is a statement about them as much as about the line.

What the Netflix Episode Leaves Out: Most Stalls Sell the Same Dishes

Nine of the 61 make the same observation without being asked. The market repeats itself: the same noodles, dumplings and pancakes, stall after stall. What the series changed is which one has the crowd.

Much of the good is repeated at multiple vendors but those that have had the Netflix seal of approval have the long lines. — TripAdvisor, 4 stars, April 2024

To be honest, most of the stalls were selling the same thing so any of them were fine. — Google Maps, 5 stars, May 2025

Among the 61 reviews that mention Street Food: Asia	Reviews
🍜 Knife-cut noodles	27
🥟 Dumplings	19
🥞 Mung bean pancake	13
⏳ A queue or a wait	10
🔁 “The stalls all sell the same thing”	9
📍 The stall number or the vendor’s name	9

The dishes named alongside the series are the ones it showed: knife-cut noodles in 27 reviews, dumplings in 19, mung bean pancake in 13.

The trade-off: the same dish is not the same cooking. Almost none of the nine ate at two stalls to compare, so “any of them were fine” is a guess about the stalls they walked past.

Finding Gohyang Kalguksu: Stall 70, and the Reviewers Who Could Not

Nine reviews give either the stall number or the vendor’s name. Four of them, written between 2019 and 2025, give the number as 70, and six name the vendor, Cho Yonsoon. One gives the name of the stall, Gohyang Kalguksu, which is written 고향칼국수 in Korean. Others point to a simpler method:

You’ll see which ones as they have posters outside. — Google Maps, 5 stars, March 2026

Two reviews are a warning against assuming. One visitor could not find the stall at all, and a review from September 2026 says some of what the series showed is no longer there:

We tried to look for the Netflix Kalguksu lady but we couldn’t find her. — Google Maps, 3 stars, October 2025

There were many shops from the Netflix show that is no longer open. — TripAdvisor, 4 stars, September 2026

The trade-off: a stall number is the kind of fact a review gets right on the day and wrong a year later. We report what reviewers wrote and when. We have not verified which stalls from the series are trading today.

What Street Food: Asia Changed at Gwangjang, According to the Reviews

Thirty of the 61 never went to the stall. They mention the series to explain something else: the crowd, the fame, the tour groups, the prices.

Before Netflix, Gwangjang market has a good mix of locals and foreigners - think 70:30 or 60:40. — Google Maps, 5 stars, July 2025

Good market, but not my fave, very crowded and a lot of tours to see lady of netflix noodles! — Google Maps, 3 stars, April 2026

The series is not, however, what unhappy visitors write about. It comes up in 5 of the 242 low reviews. It comes up in 56 of the 1,216 high ones. If anything it is mentioned more by satisfied visitors, though five reviews is too few to put a number on the difference.

The trade-off: a reviewer who says the market was better before the series is remembering, not measuring. The reviews can show that people believe it changed the place. They cannot show by how much.

Methodology

Figures come from the SeoulFoodTour research corpus. The sample here is the 1,458 rated reviews of Gwangjang Market collected without filtering by rating — 1,106 from Google Maps and 352 from TripAdvisor, dated March 2019 to September 2026. A second set collected to find low ratings is not counted anywhere in this article.

How the 61 were found. A search for the series and for related words — influencers, video platforms, “viral” — returned 68 reviews. Seven of those are about something else, such as influencers in general, and were set aside. The remaining 61 mention the series.

How they were sorted. Each of the 61 was read in full and placed in one category by hand. The assignment is recorded review by review, so any single row can be checked. Counts in the second table come from word searches inside those 61 and were also read.

Names and dates. The title of the series, its release in April 2019, and the names of the stall and of the woman who runs it are public facts, checked outside the corpus in October 2026. Whether Gohyang Kalguksu is trading today, and at which number, was not checked.

Language. Reviews in other languages are counted. Every quotation is from a review written in English and is reproduced exactly as it appears in the original record, spelling included.

What this article does not do. It does not confirm which stalls from the series are open, where they are, or what they charge. Those are current facts and a review corpus is not a source for them.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Netflix noodle stall at Gwangjang Market worth it?+

In our sample of 1,458 reviews, 29 describe going to a stall that Street Food: Asia featured. Of the 25 who give a verdict on the food, 21 are in favour and 4 are not. That is a small group of people who chose to go and chose to write, so read it as what visitors report, not as odds.

Which Gwangjang Market stall was on Netflix?+

The Seoul episode of Street Food: Asia follows Gohyang Kalguksu, a knife-cut noodle and dumpling stall run by Cho Yonsoon. Four reviews in our sample, written between 2019 and 2025, give its number as 70. Reviews also mention a mung bean pancake stall and a soy crab stall from the same episode. Stall numbers can change; look for the posters on site.

Who is the Netflix noodle lady at Gwangjang Market?+

Cho Yonsoon, who makes knife-cut noodles and dumplings at Gohyang Kalguksu and appears in the Seoul episode of Netflix’s Street Food: Asia. Reviewers call her the Netflix lady or the Netflix auntie, and six of them use her name.

How long is the queue at Gohyang Kalguksu?+

Nobody in our sample timed it. Ten reviews that mention the series also mention a queue or a wait: one family waited about ten minutes for a bench, one party of five was seated quickly, and one visitor on a weekday afternoon found no queue.

Are the other stalls at Gwangjang Market any different?+

Nine of the 61 reviews that mention the series say most stalls sell the same dishes. That describes the menu, not the cooking: few of those reviewers compared two stalls side by side.

Did Netflix change Gwangjang Market?+

Thirty reviews mention Street Food: Asia only to explain the crowd, the fame or the prices. The series itself is not what low reviews are about: only 5 of the 242 low reviews in our sample mention it.