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Seoul: Taste of Korea, Authentic Home Style Cooking Class
Experience the magic of Korean cuisine through an authentic home-style and hands-on cooking workshop in Seoul. Prepare a meal, then savor it with...
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History
Busan's hoe culture runs on live tanks and volume: flounder, rockfish and seasonal catch sliced minutes after netting, eaten in chogochujang or wrapped in lettuce and perilla. The template is Jagalchi, buy downstairs, eat upstairs, and Millak Raw Fish Town, where the takeaway box and a beach wall count as a restaurant. It differs from sashimi on purpose: thicker cuts, bolder sauces, and a maeuntang stew boiled from the frame to close.
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Busan: Food Market Tour, Smash Seafoods and Street Foods
1. At Busan's biggest seafood market, indulge in a seafood smash and learn about Korea's drinking culture. 2. Discover the must-try street foods at...
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Common allergens: Fish, Shellfish
Make it at home
Ingredients
- 1 very fresh sashimi-grade flounder or rockfish, filleted and skinned by your fishmonger
- Chogochujang: 3 tbsp gochujang, 2 tbsp vinegar, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp sesame oil
- Ssam set: lettuce, perilla leaves, sliced garlic, green chilli, ssamjang
- For maeuntang: the fish frame, 1 litre rice-washing water, Korean radish, gochugaru, doenjang, crown daisy
Method
- Chill the fillets hard, then slice across the grain into thick, finger-width pieces with one clean pull per cut.
- Whisk the chogochujang and set out the ssam vegetables.
- Eat the first slices plain, then in chogochujang, then wrapped with garlic and ssamjang in perilla.
- Meanwhile simmer the frame with radish, doenjang and gochugaru for 15 minutes, add crown daisy, and finish the meal over rice with the stew.
Tip from the editors. Only buy fish you would eat raw from a fishmonger who knows that is the plan; the stew from the bones is not optional in Busan.
Where to eat hoe, busan style
Hoe, Busan style in Busan
Jagalchi Market ★ 4.8
Jagalchi Market is Korea's largest fish market, born from Busan's wartime waterfront, where you pick live seafood downstairs and eat it upstairs.
TipBuy on the ground floor, then pay a sitting fee at the second-floor hoe rooms to have it cut and served.
Millak Raw Fish Town ★ 4.4
Millak Raw Fish Town stacks hoe vendors at the end of Gwangalli Beach in Busan; buy your sliced fish downstairs and eat it upstairs facing the bridge.
TipGet a takeaway hoe box and eat on the beach wall; upstairs rooms charge a table fee instead.
More places to eat in Busan
Not on this list, but among the highest we score in this city. Every one is in our guide with its address, hours and what to order.
- Chaoran Cantonese, our score 4.4
- Hanwolgwan Korean, our score 4.4
- Choryang Milmyeon Korean, our score 4.3
- Cha Ae Jeon Halmae Kalguksu Korean, our score 4.2
- Nagahama Mangetsu Ramen, our score 4.2
- Sogonggan Korean Contemporary, our score 4.2
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