9 November 2022
Seogwipo Olle Market offers another opportunity to taste the street food of Jeju and Korea. Besides the cooked food, the market sells a good variety of dried local products, seafood, fruits like tangerines and also souvenirs for tourists.
Seogwipo Olle Market
From our hotel in Seogwipo (BK Hotel), it was a 1 km walk to the market. This autumn evening weather was perfect for walking with cool temperature and no wind.
On the way to the market, we passed through Lee Jung Seop Art Street. This street is named after a famous local genius painter who painted many Seogwipo scenes. The street has art galleries, studios & cafes. Most were closed at night but a few were still opened.
Interesting figure outside a shop along Lee Jung Seop Art Street.
Entrance to the Seogwipo Olle Market.
The covered market has a main alleyway with many side alleys branching out on both sides.
It was extra crowded on this day. We saw many students with teachers, probably on an organised school excursion.
The first street food we tasted was the bungeoppang or “carp bread” from a stall just at the entrance. This popular Korean street food is a fish-shaped pastry stuffed with sweetened red bean paste.
There are many stalls selling tangerine related biscuits, chocolates and pastry snacks. It was worthwhile to buy some to eat or bring home as gifts.
We left it to the ladies in our group to do the shopping.
This pastry with tangerine jam fillings is very delicious.
Orange coloured hats representing Jeju’s tangerine is commonly sold. We saw a few tourists wearing them.
There are many street food stalls in this market. The market is designed in such a way where there are seats lined along the middle of the passageway where customers can eat comfortably at their own convenience after purchasing their food. The only thing missing is the trash bins for the used food packaging and utensils. We have learned by now that we have to bring along our own trash bags to bring our rubbish back to our hotel.
It was a good that we came in a group, so we could share our food and got to sample more varieties of food.
These were some of the street food we tried.
Pork filled buns. There are many types of filling to choose from. 3,000 KWR each or 4 buns for 10,000 KWR.
Buns filled with minced pork and sweet and spicy dipping sauce.
Another stall selling pork-based street food.
Delicious wok fried sweet and sour pork with sunflower seeds.
Stall selling peanut pork buns. These peanut buns are shaped like peanuts but are not flavoured with peanuts! We managed to buy the last ones before everything is sold out.
The peanut pork buns are actually filled with minced pork and vegetables. We bought both the spicy and non-spicy versions.
All these street food were washed down with the most popular drink in the Olle Market, the Hallabong juice sold in bottles.
One of my travelling companions had craving for the eomuk (Korean skewered fishcakes) and tteokbokki (chewy rice cakes cooked in a red, spicy broth). These were very popular and common Korean street food.
We managed to find a stall selling them at a quiet corner in the market. The lady stall keeper, who could speak Chinese, was so kind as to fulfill our request to cut the fish cakes and tteokbokki into small pieces and serve them on plates for us to share.
Skewered rice cakes (left) and tteokbokki (right)
We ended our evening in Seogwipo at a restaurant along or near Lee Jung Seop Art Street. Fried chicken, pizza, beer and soju is a good way to end the day.
Cheers!
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