What is kalguksu noodles?

Thin, handmade Korean noodles known for unique taste and texture.

A Korean dish with mixed rice and vegetables.

What is sundae in Korean cuisine?

Korean sausage made with various ingredients.

Popular Korean beverage with sour and bitter notes.

The Gwangjang Market in Korea is renowned for its diverse food offerings, including live octopus, kalguksu noodles, bibimbap, and marinated dishes, showcasing a wide variety of flavors and preparation methods.
The market's culinary landscape includes unique dishes like live octopus eaten with sprouts, sesame oil, chili, garlic, and soybean paste, as well as octopus and squid sauces with distinct textures and flavors, offering a rich gastronomic experience that blends Korean and Vietnamese influences.

What is kalguksu noodles?
Thin, handmade Korean noodles known for unique taste and texture.
What is bibimbap?
A Korean dish with mixed rice and vegetables.
What is tteokbokki?
Spicy Korean rice cake dish.
What is sundae in Korean cuisine?
Korean sausage made with various ingredients.
What is grapefruit tea in Korea?
Popular Korean beverage with sour and bitter notes.

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The dish in the bowl is a live octopus, a famous Korean delicacy eaten raw.
The market visited is Gwangjang Market in Korea, renowned for its diverse food offerings.
The market features various dishes like kalguksu noodles, bibimbap, kimbap, and marinated dishes.
A master noodle cutter is highlighted, known for her skill in making kalguksu noodles.
The market offers a plethora of food options, overwhelming in variety and quantity.
The noodle cutter expertly prepares kalguksu noodles, known for their unique texture and taste.
The noodles are served with seaweed, zucchini, and kimchi, creating a flavorful dish.
The market also offers raw beef, live octopus, and a variety of other dishes.
The live octopus is eaten with sprouts, sesame oil, chili, garlic, and soybean paste.
The market's offerings include bibimbap, tteokbokki, sundae, and marinated blue crab, each with distinct flavors and preparation methods.

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Octopus sauce is made with fish sauce, tough, sweet, with chili and garlic, reminiscent of Hue's sauce, similar to central Vietnam's sauce.
Squid sauce is tougher and more elastic, costing 10,000 won for half squid and half octopus, equivalent to about 170,000 VND.
Grapefruit tea is popular in Korea, with 1 cup of pure grapefruit juice priced at 5,000 won, around 80-90,000 VND, sour and slightly bitter due to squeezed peel.
Green bean cake is made with mung bean, meat, vegetables, onions, and green bean powder, crispy and fragrant, reminiscent of Banh Xeo in Vietnam.
Tongue is crispy and tough, paired with shrimp sauce with added sugar for balance, priced at 20,000 won, approximately 350,000 VND.
Cold noodles are refreshing after greasy foods, with a long line for twists made from soft dough, fried and sweet, costing about 1,000 won each, around 17-18,000 VND.
Sundae seller is famous for stomach, pig liver, throat, lungs, and rice-filled sundae, with sausages seasoned slightly salty, pig uterus crispy and sweet, priced at 10,000 won, roughly 170,000 VND.