Busan Street Food

5 dishes in South Korea

5 street foods from Busan, South Korea: Ssiat Hotteok, Milmyeon, Dwaeji Gukbap, Ggomjangeo and Bibim Dangmyeon. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Busan

Nampo-dong Street Stall · Seed-Stuffed Pancake Ssiat Hotteok (Seed Hotteok) Unlike the classic griddled hotteok, it's fried in a shallow pool of oil, then slit open and stuffed with the seed mix while still hot. Busan vendors took the classic syrup-filled hotteok and packed the split-open pancake with a crunchy mix of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, peanuts and pine nuts on top of the molten… Refugee Kitchen · Cold Wheat Noodles Milmyeon It only exists because the ingredients for the 'real' noodle dish refugees wanted — buckwheat and potato starch — simply weren't available in… Chewy wheat noodles are served in a cold, tangy broth with sliced beef, cucumber, and a boiled egg, doused in vinegar and mustard to taste. Busan noodle shops sell it as the city's answer… War-Era Staple · Pork Bone Soup Dwaeji Gukbap Busan's Seomyeon district has a well-known dwaeji gukbap alley where several restaurants stay open around the clock, serving late-night drinkers and… Pork bones are simmered for hours into a milky white broth, ladled over rice with slices of boiled pork, and finished at the table with shrimp sauce, chives, and kimchi. It's sold… Jagalchi Market · Grilled Hagfish Ggomjangeo (Grilled Hagfish) The skin stripped from hagfish before grilling is the material sold abroad as 'eel-skin' leather for wallets and handbags. Live hagfish, skinned right at the stall, is grilled over charcoal or briquettes — either salted plain or coated in a spicy gochujang glaze — until the flesh turns springy and smoky. An… Gukje Market Alley · Spicy Glass Noodles Bibim Dangmyeon The market alley where it's famous grew out of goods traded by Korean War refugees — a food street born from a wartime black market. Slippery sweet-potato glass noodles are tossed with a sweet-spicy gochujang sauce, pickled radish, and fish cake, then handed over on a small plate to eat perched on a low stool right at…

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