Namdo Arirang (남도아리랑)

Gajokhwegwan (가족회관)

2024-12-04

50 Dongmyeong-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju

Gajokhwegwan is a Korean table d'hote restaurant with 36 years of tradition. Visitors can experience the charms of Jeolla Province style food that only uses fresh ingredients in season. There are both private rooms and large group seats to enjoy the meal.

Yeongi Sikdang (연기식당)

2024-12-04

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This restaurant is the first to offer grilled freshwater eel in Gochang. The eel is grilled in the kitchen, so you don’t have to worry about the often smoky business of charcoal-grilled on the table.

Gyeongdo Hoegwan Yeocheon Branch (경도회관 여천점)

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If entering Gyeongdo Island on a ferry is not an option, you can dine here instead. The restaurant serves the same pike eel dishes as the one served at Gyeongdo Hoegwan Main Branch. It also has private rooms, so this restaurant is ideal if you visit with a group or want to dine in a quiet ambience.

Gyeongdo Hoegwan Main Branch (경도회관 본점)

2024-12-04

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061-666-0044

This pike eel restaurant on Gyeongdo Island is said to be the first place in Korea to offer gaetjangeo shabu-shabu. It is located at the entrance to Gyeongdo Quay at Oedong Village, and you can enjoy a panoramic view of Yeosu as you dine. The restaurant serves pike eel dishes made with pike eel caught by the owner, and from late April to early November, it serves gaetjangeo shabu-shabu, also known as “hamo yubiki.”

Mokpo Ramyeon Hongeo Ramyeon (목포라면 홍어라면)

2024-12-04

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This restaurant offers interestingly new ways to enjoy skate. Its signature menu, hongeoramyeon (skate ramyeon), is not simply a ramyeon with skate added. It is cooked with a deep and intense soup made from the restaurant’s propriety seasoning. Other popular dishes include hongeojeon, hongeotwigim, and hongeosamhap made with properly fermented Korean hongeo.

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This restaurant can be recommended to those who try skate for the first time, for the skate served in this restaurant is not as much fermented as the ones served in other restaurants. Its signature menu is the “Mokpoguhap” (nine Mokpo seafood combo), which includes the hongeosamhap and a variety of other seafood. Another popular set menu is the “Hongeo Ilpumsang” (premium skate set menu), a sumptuous table featuring dishes made with skate. Don’t miss the hongeoaeguk (fermented skate liver soup).

Cheongwon Garden (청원가든)

2024-12-04

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This restaurant is one of the most positively reviewed restaurants serving freshwater eels near Seonunsa Temple’s entrance for its clean ambience and delicious side dishes. If you order jangeogui here, the eel is salted or basted with sauce in the kitchen and brought to you for grilling.

Geumdan Yangman (금단양만)

2024-12-04

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This restaurant also operates a freshwater eel farm, so you can get freshwater eels at more affordable prices. The first floor of the building houses the freshwater eel store, and the restaurant is located on the second floor. You purchase live freshwater eel on the first floor, and the restaurant prepares the eel on the spot for you. You can either package and take the eel back or bring it to the second floor to grill it yourself.

Sageori Banjeom (사거리반점)

2024-12-04

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Despite being located far from the town center, this renowned restaurant is bustling with people during lunchtime. The popular menu item is their nakji jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup with octopus), which features a whole octopus added to the spicy noodle soup.

Dongsanjeong (동산정)

2024-12-04

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You can enjoy dishes made with fresh octopus brought daily from the early morning auctions at a relatively affordable price. The recommended dish is yeonpotang, prepared by adding live octopus to a broth simmered for over 3 hours with 13 different ingredients.

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Gajokhwegwan (가족회관)

Yeongi Sikdang (연기식당)

Gyeongdo Hoegwan Yeocheon Branch (경도회관 여천점)

Gyeongdo Hoegwan Main Branch (경도회관 본점)

Mokpo Ramyeon Hongeo Ramyeon (목포라면 홍어라면)