Updated: July 2026

Four Korean kitchens in Dubai run to 1AM, and that is the whole realistic window for late night korean food dubai. Mukbang Shows Deira on Al Ittihad Rd in Port Saeed is the pick, with unlimited Korean BBQ from AED 69 and the full à la carte menu running to close. Everything else in the city shuts between 11PM and midnight.

TL;DR

• Latest and best: Mukbang Shows Deira and Love Mukbang DWTC — both to 1AM, a la carte from AED 39
• Cheapest 1AM order: rabokki AED 49, tteokbokki AED 55, solo fried chicken AED 48
• If you are already east: Hanok, International City — to 1AM, the Korean-Chinese specialist
• New Dubai side: Mashisoyo, JLT — to 1AM, and the only one
• There is no 24-hour Korean food in Dubai. 1AM is the ceiling.

Where can you get late night korean food dubai actually serves after midnight?

Four kitchens: Mukbang Shows Deira, Love Mukbang on Sheikh Zayed Road, Hanok in International City and Mashisoyo in JLT. All four run to 1AM. Everything else shuts between 11PM and midnight, and Mukbang is the only unlimited Korean BBQ still firing at 1AM, from AED 69 a head.

The practical reality at 11:40PM is that your options collapse to those four addresses. Deira and Sheikh Zayed Road are the strongest of them because both branches keep the entire à la carte menu open until close — you can order Korean fried chicken, a hot pot or street snacks at 12:30AM without being pushed into a full barbecue tier.

One caveat applies to all four and it is the one that ruins nights: a published closing time is not a last-order time. Kitchens stop taking tickets before the shutter comes down, and none of these venues publish the gap. Call.

Which Korean restaurants in Dubai are open latest?

Here is the whole picture on one screen, latest first. Hours were checked against official listings on 26 July 2026.

Two things worth noting about the table. Restaurant hours change without notice, so treat it as a shortlist to call rather than a guarantee. And prices do not move at night — no Korean restaurant in Dubai runs a documented late surcharge or a reduced late menu, which is the opposite of what most people expect.

Where to eat Korean after midnight in Dubai

Mukbang Shows Deira is the first choice for late night korean food dubai. It is at Al Ittihad Rd, next to the bus station, Port Saeed, on +971-4-886-4494, running Mon-Thu 1PM-1AM and Fri-Sun 12PM-1AM. The reason it wins after midnight is not the barbecue — it is that the full à la carte menu stays open. A solo jjampong is AED 60, soondubu jjigae AED 59, tteokbokki AED 55, rabokki AED 49, solo fried chicken AED 48.

It is 100% halal, beef and chicken only, with no pork and no alcohol on the premises. The honest limitations are worth stating plainly. The unlimited Gangnam tier at AED 69 carries a two-person minimum and an enforced AED 60 leftover charge, so committing to unlimited barbecue at 12:45AM is usually a mistake — this is an à la carte hour. And the JBR branch closes at midnight rather than 1AM, so the Marina side genuinely loses an hour.

Love Mukbang DWTC keeps the same 1AM hours and is the easiest address here to reach without a car: The Apartments Block A, Sheikh Zayed Rd, directly opposite World Trade Centre metro station, on +971-54-524-5904. Same menu, same halal terms, premium tier pricing from AED 79.

Hanok (The Korean Restaurant) in International City is the next genuine 1AM option, at Ground Floor, Indigo Spectrum 1, CBD, on +971-52-509-7505, open 11AM-1AM daily. It is the city’s Korean-Chinese specialist, so jajangmyeon and jjampong are what people drive out there for. The caveat is the drive itself: International City is not on the metro and it is a long way from the Sheikh Zayed Road corridor. Confirm halal details directly.

Mashisoyo in JLT is the only late kitchen on the New Dubai side, in the basement of JBC 1 Tower, Cluster G, open 11AM-1AM. It states that it is halal and it carries vegetarian versions of the standards. Two caveats: it is a basement unit that takes finding, and it is still a fifteen-minute drive from JBR rather than a walk.

Sonamu on the mezzanine of the Asiana Hotel on Salahuddin Rd runs dinner service to midnight. It is a licensed venue where alcohol is served, and the buffet is listed at AED 220 a head food-only — roughly three times what the same night costs à la carte a few minutes away.

Shogun, on the third floor of Al Ghurair Centre Tower 2, closes at 11:30PM, with unlimited Korean BBQ advertised from around AED 65 and a halal certification. It is a 9PM plan, not a midnight rescue, and the last sitting goes in well before the stated close. Romantic Baka, on the ground floor of the same mall, closes at 11PM — which in practice means ordering by about 10:30. It is halal with no pork and among the best-rated Korean grills in Deira, so it is worth knowing precisely when it stops rather than driving there hopefully.

Mannaland on Al Mina Rd in Al Hudaiba has been going for more than fifteen years and closes at 11PM. Kyochon runs on mall hours and stops at 11PM across its Dubai branches. Both are good; neither is a late-night answer.

What Korean food is actually good late at night?

Fried chicken is the canonical order and it holds up better in a delivery box than anything else on a Korean menu — the double-fried crust is built to survive being sauced, so it survives a car journey too. At Mukbang the sharing plate is AED 82 and solo is AED 48; Yangnyeom, Honey Soy, Garlic Mayo and Korean Cheese Chicken are AED 90 sharing or AED 51 solo. There is more on the varieties in the Korean fried chicken guide.

Broth is the better order if you have been outdoors in a Dubai summer night. Jjampong is AED 60 solo and AED 99 sharing, budae jjigae AED 99, soondubu jjigae and doenjang jjigae AED 59 each. These are slow food — they rehydrate you and they are eaten over twenty minutes rather than five, which is exactly how late eating works in Korea.

Street snacks are the cheapest way to close a night. Tteokbokki is AED 55, rabokki AED 49, and gimmari, mandu and gimbap all sit under AED 50. What to avoid is the thing the restaurant would normally want you to buy: a full unlimited barbecue tier at 12:45AM. You will not finish it, and the leftover charge is real. Everything is on the full menu.

What is yasik, and why does Korea have a word for this? (야식)

야식 (yasik) literally means “night food”, and it is a recognised eating occasion in Korea rather than a guilty snack. That is the difference worth understanding: nobody in Seoul apologises for eating at 1AM, because the meal has a name, a menu and an entire delivery industry attached to it.

The famous pairing is 치맥 (chimaek), a contraction of chicken and maekju, beer. In Dubai’s halal Korean rooms the chicken half of that survives intact and the beer half does not. Mukbang Shows is alcohol-free throughout, so the pairing here is fried chicken with a bubble tea or a Korean tea — genuinely different from the Seoul version, and worth saying rather than glossing over.

The standard yasik orders in Korea are fried chicken, ramyeon, tteokbokki and jokbal. Jokbal is braised pig trotters, so it is not halal and it does not appear at Mukbang or the other halal Korean kitchens in Dubai. What fills that space instead is the broth category — jjampong, budae jjigae, soondubu jjigae — which is arguably closer to what a late-night eater actually wants anyway.

The habit itself is old and practical: Korean cities have long kept street stalls and delivery running deep into the night, and the food that ended up on those menus is food that reheats badly but eats well hot, spicy enough to register when you are tired. That is why fried chicken, rice cakes and chilli-red broth dominate the category rather than anything delicate. The MICHELIN Guide’s look at late-night dining in the Gulf makes a similar point about which cuisines end up owning the small hours in this region.

Understanding yasik makes the 11:50PM decision simpler. You are not looking for a restaurant; you are looking for a kitchen that is still hot and a dish built to be eaten late.

Can you get Korean food delivered late in Dubai?

Mukbang Shows lists on Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem, Noon Food and Keeta. Delivery windows follow the branch hours rather than extending past them, so the same 1AM wall applies at Deira and Sheikh Zayed Road, and the JBR branch drops off an hour earlier at midnight.

The rule that matters is to order before the kitchen closes rather than at closing. A driver still has to reach the restaurant and then reach you, and the kitchen stops accepting new tickets before the stated close. Neither the restaurants nor the apps publish that cut-off, so if you are ordering close to the wire, ring the branch rather than trusting the app to still be accepting orders.

Hanok and Mashisoyo both list for delivery as well. Their windows track their own 1AM closes. What does not exist anywhere in the city is 24-hour Korean delivery — for late night korean food dubai, 1AM is the ceiling in every format, dine-in or delivered.

Which area of Dubai is best for late night Korean?

Deira is the real late-night cluster. Mukbang Shows Deira is on Al Ittihad Rd near Deira City Centre metro station with free parking, and Sonamu on Salahuddin Rd runs to midnight a few minutes away. The two Al Ghurair Centre venues, Shogun and Romantic Baka, close at 11:30PM and 11PM, so they belong to the earlier half of the evening.

Sheikh Zayed Road gives you Love Mukbang, opposite World Trade Centre metro station — the most convenient 1AM address in the city if you are coming from Downtown or Business Bay. International City has Hanok until 1AM but needs a car. JLT has Mashisoyo until 1AM in the basement of JBC 1.

The gap on the map is the beach. JBR and Dubai Marina have no Korean kitchen open past midnight, including Mukbang’s own JBR branch, which stops at 12AM. If you are on that side of town after midnight, JLT is the nearest Korean option and it is a drive. One more piece of planning: check Metro running times before you rely on them for the trip home, because the network stops well before these kitchens do. Time Out Dubai’s late-night dining round-up is the best cross-cuisine list if Korean is not essential.

Six things worth knowing before a late Korean order

1. Closing time is not last-order time. None of these venues publish the gap between the two. One phone call after 11:30PM saves the drive.
2. Go à la carte, not unlimited. The Mukbang tiers carry a two-person minimum and an AED 60 leftover charge. At 12:45AM, a solo hot pot or a plate of fried chicken is the better call.
3. There is no 24-hour Korean food in Dubai. The latest anything runs is 1AM, at four addresses.
4. Prices do not rise at night. A solo jjampong is AED 60 at midnight and AED 60 at 2PM.
5. Halal status varies, so check it. Every Mukbang branch is 100% halal, beef and chicken only. Shogun is halal-certified and Romantic Baka has no pork on the menu. Mashisoyo states it is halal. For Hanok, Mannaland and Kyochon, confirm directly. Sonamu is a licensed venue where alcohol is served.
6. Plan the journey home. The two most convenient branches sit at Deira City Centre and World Trade Centre stations, but a 1AM finish is a taxi either way.

FAQ

What time do Korean restaurants close in Dubai?
Most close between 11PM and midnight. Only Mukbang Shows Deira, Love Mukbang DWTC, Hanok in International City and Mashisoyo in JLT reach 1AM.

Is there 24-hour Korean food in Dubai?
No. There is no 24-hour Korean kitchen in the city, dine-in or delivery. The latest close is 1AM.

Which branch of Mukbang Shows stays open latest?
Deira and Love Mukbang DWTC both close at 1AM. The JBR branch closes at midnight.

What is the best thing to order late at night?
Fried chicken if you are taking it home, a hot pot such as jjampong or soondubu jjigae if you are eating in, and tteokbokki or rabokki if you want the cheapest option.

Is late-night Korean food more expensive in Dubai?
No. No Korean restaurant in the city publishes a late-night surcharge or a reduced late menu — the midnight price is the afternoon price.

Can I get Korean food delivered after midnight?
Yes, from the 1AM branches, but order well before closing rather than at it. Kitchens stop accepting tickets before the stated close and the cut-off is not published.

After 11:30PM, late night korean food dubai comes down to four addresses, and Mukbang Shows Deira is the most reliable and the cheapest of them. Call ahead, order à la carte rather than committing to an unlimited tier, and the rest is just geography.