Written by hand, not generated. Dishes, markets, timing and prices for South Jeolla.
Tidal flats, an archipelago and wide farmland in one province make for unusually deep supply. Tables come loaded with side dishes, and each city has its own signature ingredient — cockles in Beolgyo, octopus in Mokpo, mustard leaf kimchi in Yeosu.
Blanched cockles served dressed, in pancakes and in salads across a full table. There is a knack to twisting the shells open with a spoon.
A slender long octopus, eaten in clear soup or dressed with sesame oil.
Mudflat fish ground and simmered with soybean paste.
Sole cured in rice wine vinegar and tossed with vegetables, served alongside mustard leaf kimchi.
Chopped and grilled ribs served with rice steamed inside a bamboo tube.
A seafood market with a street of evening food tents alongside it.
A district of surviving old buildings, close to the octopus and croaker restaurants.
A street given over to cockle set meal restaurants.
A tourist strip of bamboo rice and rib patty restaurants.
One of the largest periodic-and-permanent markets in the province.
What it costs — A cockle set meal runs around KRW 20,000 per person, and braised hairtail about KRW 50,000 for two.
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