Order Gamasot seolleongtang: broth from ten different beef cuts.
Near Dongdaemun Fashion Market, Bonga cooks its seolleongtang in a traditional gamasot (iron cauldron) from ten beef cuts for 24 hours straight.
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Order Vanilla latte
Cafe Onion turned a crumbling concrete warehouse in Seongsu into one of Seoul's most-photographed spaces, with a thick-cut honey butter toast counter.
Order Hand-drip single-origin filter
Center Coffee sits at the Seoul Forest edge of Seongsu, a three-floor specialty cafe from past UK Barista Champion Sang Ho Park, pouring single-origin Geisha.
Order Honey butter thick-cut toast
Cafe Onion's Seongsu warehouse space runs a bakery counter with honey butter thick-cut toast that draws a pre-opening queue on weekend mornings.
Mesh is one of Seongsu's earliest specialty roasters, a seven-seat space on Seoulsup-gil pulling Nordic-style light roasts on a MOAI Bar System and rotating.
Try Soondae (Korean blood sausage), eomuk (fish cake), gimbap
The night stalls around Dongdaemun Design Plaza serve the garment workers who sew through the night, with soondae, eomuk and gimbap until 05:00 every day.
Seoul Brewery's Seongsu flagship spreads a brewhouse, taproom, restaurant, cafe and rooftop across five floors of a converted Seongsu building.
Order Honey butter thick-cut toast with iced Americano
Cafe Onion Seongsu opens at 08:00 and the thick-cut honey butter toast -- white Pullman loaf griddled in brown butter -- is the morning order of the district.
Try Soondae (blood sausage), eomuk (fish cake skewers), gimbap
The night stalls around Dongdaemun Design Plaza serve the garment-district workers who sew through the night, and they remain open until 05:00.
