Local food streets in Gangwon

A downtown alley densely packed with dakgalbi restaurants.

Dried seafood, raw fish and fried chicken, all inside one building.

An old town market mixing street food with seafood stalls.

South of Gyeongpo, Chodang-dong is a cluster of soft tofu houses that set their curds with seawater. Many open early, so it is a breakfast destination.

Gangneung cafes lined along the beachfront.

Below the Daegwallyeong pass, Hoenggye-ri has drying racks and restaurants specializing in dried pollack. Grilled pollack and pollack soup sets are standard, best in the winter drying season.

Yangyang's largest harbor, ranked among Gangwon's three most beautiful ports; raw-fish centers along the port slice fish caught before dawn.

The largest five-day market (days ending 4/9) in the Yeongdong region, famous for direct pine-mushroom sales in autumn plus wild greens and seafood.

A food-alley market locals love, packed with hanwoo charcoal-grill, buckwheat pancake and dumpling stalls; connected to Wonju Jungang Market.

A leading East Coast fishing port with a 70-stall live-fish market; dawn fish auctions sit beside the Nongol-damgil mural alley.

Samcheok's Jeongna-hang raw-fish center along the Millennium Road gathers 22 sashimi shops; crowds come for live snow crab in season.

Opened in 1959, Yeongwol's early-morning market sells local farm goods and buckwheat pancakes; nearby Donggang-river snail (dasilgi) eateries near the station are noted too.

Established in 1965, Geojin Market sits beside Geojin Port, once Korea's top pollack-fishing hub; live-fish stalls and a fish market still thrive there.

The fish market at Daejin Port, Goseong's northernmost harbor, trades pollack, squid and octopus; known together with Daejin Lighthouse's harbor views.

Hongcheon's main market with a five-day fair on days ending 1/6, known for olchaengi-guksu (tadpole-shaped corn noodles) and buckwheat pancakes.

Opened in 1971, this market has an alley of shops serving Taebaek's signature mul-dakgalbi (broth chicken stir-fry); also rich in wild greens and herbs.

A dried-pollack (hwangtae) village settled by Hamgyong refugees after the Korean War, producing over 70% of Korea's hwangtae; winter drying racks make a dramatic sight.

Hoengseong's main market with a five-day fair on days ending 2/7, once called 'the biggest market outside Dongdaemun' under Japanese rule; known for direct Hoengseong hanwoo beef sales.

Cheorwon's largest market with a five-day fair on days ending 5/10, offering Odae rice, hanwoo beef, deodeok root, and a food alley of potato dumpling soup and buckwheat pancakes.

Hwacheon's main traditional market, begun in 1953 by war refugees as a permanent market; during the Sancheoneo (mountain trout) Festival it sells specialties like trout sundae.

The central market of Yanggu, Korea's 'sirae-gi (dried radish greens) town,' famous for sirae-gi dishes and ox-head soup; a night market runs Friday-Saturday evenings.