Gukje Market's fried-tofu hotpot in Busan: stuffed yubu pockets, fish cake and glass noodles simmered in anchovy broth at the food alley's shared benches.
Where to eat it: 1 restaurant across 1 city.
Yubu jeongol grew from Busan's eomuk and tofu workshops: fried tofu pockets stuffed with noodle mince, pinned shut and simmered with fish cake in anchovy broth. Gukje Market's food alley made it a fixture, a warming counterweight to the cold dangmyeon on the same bench, and stalls hand the pockets over the pot one by one. It stayed a market dish, its recipe passed between neighbouring ajummas rather than written down.
Common allergens: Soy, Fish, Wheat (gluten)
Tip from the editors. Blanch the yubu in hot water before stuffing to shed frying oil, or the broth turns greasy before the table finishes it.
Gukje Market's food alley seats you on benches over bibim dangmyeon, yubu pockets and chungmu gimbap, Busan street eating at its most direct.
Try: Bibim dangmyeon and yubu jeongol
Tip: Order the bibim dangmyeon and a yubu jumeoni from the same ajumma; stalls share the bench happily.
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