Where Busan shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Busan shops, snacks and lunches.
Jagalchi Market is Korea's largest fish market, born from Busan's wartime waterfront, where you pick live seafood downstairs and eat it upstairs.
Go for: Hoe, Grilled fish, Live seafood
Tip: Buy on the ground floor, then pay a sitting fee at the second-floor hoe rooms to have it cut and served.
Gukje Market grew out of postwar Busan and still runs as a maze of stalls, its food alleys ladling bibim dangmyeon, yubu pockets and chungmu gimbap.
Go for: Chungmu gimbap, Bibim dangmyeon, Yubu jeongol
Tip: Head for the food alley crossroads where the ajummas share bench seating; point-and-order works fine.
Bupyeong Kkangtong Market runs Korea's first regular night market in Busan, tin-can history by day and cart food at plastic tables after dark.
Go for: Night market snacks, Eomuk, Yubu jumeoni
Tip: Come hungry after half past seven when the carts roll out; work one lap before committing.
Haeundae Traditional Market packs one covered lane behind Busan's busiest beach with tteokbokki counters, grilled hagfish and gukbap kitchens.
Go for: Tteokbokki, Gomjangeo, Hotteok
Tip: Walk the full lane before choosing; the famous tteokbokki queue moves faster than it looks.
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.
Go for: Hoe, Sashimi to takeaway, Beach picnics
Tip: Get a takeaway hoe box and eat on the beach wall; upstairs rooms charge a table fee instead.