If you are preparing for a cold winter trip, how about a trip to Busan? Busan has a variety of food, attractions, and warm weather for winter, and the Sunlight Festival, a representative winter festival, is held in Busan, where you can enjoy tens of thousands of lights embroidered the beautiful night sea. If you plan to travel to Busan in winter, I introduce five Busan restaurants that must be added to the Mukkit List.
1. Busan Travel Essential Course Daeyeon-dong “쌍둥이돼지국밥 본점“
The “Twin Pork and Rice Soup Main Store” in Daeyeon-dong, Busan, with a light and clean taste. It was selected as the taste of Busan in 2022 and has become an essential course for Busan travel. The popular menu of this restaurant is boiled pork and rice. It is a menu where you can eat boiled pork made of domestic pork and basic rice soup together, and the soft boiled pork is excellent. The basic rice soup with noodles and pork is light and clean, not fishy and has no smell. You can add chives served as side dishes.
▲ Location
35-1, UN Peace-ro, Nam-gu, Busan
▲ Business hours
09:00–22:00
▲Price
Pork and rice soup 9,000 won Sundae and rice soup 9,000 won
2. Dongnae “동래할매파전”, a consistent taste that descends from four generations
Dongnae ‘Dongnae Halmae Pajeon’, a delicious combination of seafood and green onions. Although it is not a crispy pajeon, Dongnae pajeon, which has a thick and soft texture, is full of Dongnae pajeon’s unique charm that cannot be felt anywhere else. The generous seafood, which is between the neatly placed green onions, may feel greasy with a moist texture, but the clean taste of the red pepper paste with it catches the greasiness. Dongnae Pajeon, which is kneaded with soy sauce, adds a subtle scent of soy sauce to enhance the flavor.
▲ Location
43-10, Myeongryun-ro 94beon-gil, Dongnae-gu, Busan
▲ Business hours
12:00-21:00 (break time 15:30-17:00) / Closed every Monday and Tuesday
▲Price
Dongnae Pajeon (small) KRW 22,000
3. Yang Gopchang’s New World Daeshin-dong “옛날오막집”
Opened in 1958, the traditional taste of Daeshin-dong “Old Omakjip” has been around for more than 60 years. It is a high-end tripe restaurant where you have to make a big decision as it is expensive, but you won’t regret it if you try it. Basically, lamb tripe and lamb intestines, which are seasoned red, are grilled over charcoal to preserve their taste. The non-irritating seasoning goes well with the savory and chewy texture. Udon, which is said to be made directly, is a delicacy of this restaurant, and the slightly sweet and savory soup of gopchang hot pot is perfect for the end of the meal.
▲ Location
14, Gudeok-ro 274beon-gil, Seo-gu, Busan
▲ Business hours
12:30-21:30 / Closed regularly on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month
▲Price
Special amount 35,000 won Gopchang 34,000 won Daechang 34,000 won
4. Fresh Gummy Eel Jagalchi Market Grilled “동성장어구이”, which is grilled over briquettes.
“Dongseong Eel Grilled,” Jagalchi Market, where you can taste fresh eel that moves alive. The eel, which is trimmed and served immediately when ordered, proves its freshness with powerful movements. The eel, which is grilled over briquettes, boasts a savory and chewy taste in itself, but you can feel a more attractive taste if you eat it with sesame oil salt sauce and soy sauce marinated with cheongyang red pepper. Grilled eel can be ordered with salt and seasoned grilled, but if you want to feel the true taste of eel, I recommend it.
▲ Location
12-1, Jagalchi-ro, Seo-gu, Busan
▲ Business hours
10:00-22:00 (Last order 21:15) / 2nd and last Thursday of every month regularly closed
▲Price
Eel soup KRW 12,000
5. “부산족발” in Nampo-dong, where sweet and sour cold jokbal is delicious.
Busan Jokbal in Nampo-dong, a famous pig’s feet restaurant in Busan. The menu includes jokbal, cold jokbal, and jangyuk, which you can choose according to your taste. The noodles mixed with cold jokbal sauce, which is served as an appetizer, are refreshing and cool, perfect for boosting your appetite. Thinly sliced jokbal is soft and has a proper mixture of beef crab and lean meat, so it is good to eat with kimchi or sauce served as a side dish. The sweet and sour cold jokbal combines cucumbers, crab meat, carrots, and jellyfish with the sauce to provide a pungent flavor.
▲ Location
13-1 Gwangbok-ro, Jung-gu, Busan
▲ Business hours
10:00-24:00
▲Price
Jokbal (small) KRW 35,000 Cold vegetable (medium) KRW 40,000