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.
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.
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