Warung Makan Borobudur

Restaurant · Seoul, South Korea

About Warung Makan Borobudur

Warung Makan Borobudur occupies a food court on the basement level of a building at 60-19 Gasan-dong in Seoul's Geumcheon District, about five minutes on foot from Exit 4 of Gasan Digital Complex Station on Seoul's subway network. The restaurant takes its name from the ninth century Buddhist monument in Central Java, a common naming choice among Indonesian businesses abroad that evokes a recognizable piece of home rather than any direct connection to the historic site itself. Its owner is Indonesian, and the restaurant imports its main spices directly from Indonesia rather than substituting local ingredients, a detail frequently mentioned by diners as setting its food apart from more Koreanized versions of Indonesian dishes found elsewhere in the city. The menu centers on nasi goreng, various satay preparations, and pecel, a vegetable dish served with a peanut based sauce, alongside other dishes typical of home style Indonesian cooking served in generous, affordable portions aimed at workers rather than tourists. The restaurant is open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and can be reached at 02-868-3071. It includes a prayer room on site, a feature that matters to the many Muslim Indonesian workers and students who make up much of its customer base, particularly on weekends when the restaurant is reported to be at its busiest with people seeking a taste of home after a week of work or study. Gasan Digital Complex, the surrounding district, is a major hub for IT and manufacturing companies and draws a significant number of foreign workers, which has supported a small cluster of Southeast Asian food options in the area's underground shopping arcades alongside Korean and Chinese eateries. This review confirms the restaurant's address, phone number, and operating hours against multiple independent sources describing the same Gasan-dong location, updating a listing that had previously carried almost no detail beyond the restaurant's name and a general Seoul designation.

Address

60-19 Gasan-dong, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Opening hours

Daily
11:00 AM - 10:00 PM

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Category

Indonesian Restaurant in South Korea

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