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Gwangjang Market: What to Eat
Mung-bean pancakes, raw-beef bibimbap and ₩7,000 noodles in Seoul's oldest market.
Gwangjang Market has fed Seoul since 1905 and is the easiest place in the city to eat with zero Korean: sit at a counter, point and eat. Go hungry, share plates, and walk the food alley before you choose. These four sit within a minute of each other near Jongno 5-ga Station exit 7.
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The most famous pancake stall: crisp, cheap, fried in front of you.
Order: For two: one bindaetteok, one meatball plate, one bottle of makgeolli.
Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1), Exit 8
Menu, prices & directions - 2
Next door, with upstairs seating and beef pancakes.
Order: For two: one bindaetteok, one mixed jeon and a bottle of makgeolli.
Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1), Exit 8
Menu, prices & directions - 3
The yukhoe alley's best-known shop.
Order: Solo: yukhoe bibimbap. For two: one bibimbap and one yukhoe to share.
Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1), Exit 8
Menu, prices & directions - 4
Hand-cut kalguksu at a counter for ₩7,000.
Order: Solo: one kalguksu. Then keep grazing the market.
Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1), Exit 8
Menu, prices & directions
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