Gwangjang Market Food Guide: What to Eat and Where
One of Seoul's oldest markets and the city's favorite place to eat standing up: crispy mung bean pancakes, mayak gimbap, beef tartare and hand-cut noodles. Here are the stalls and shops Korean diners rate most, with what to order at each.
5 places in our guide
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Bakganae Bindaetteok 박가네빈대떡
Market food · Jongno
One of Gwangjang Market's two famous mung bean pancake houses. You can watch the beans being ground in a stone mill out front, then sit upstairs for crispy bindaetteok, beef tartare and makgeolli.
Try: Mung bean pancake (bindaetteok)
Short wait - 🥩
Buchon Yukhoe 부촌육회
Market food · Jongno
The best-known shop on Gwangjang Market's yukhoe (beef tartare) alley, run by the same family for about 60 years. Order the beef tartare bibimbap, or go bold with yukhoe and live octopus chopped together.
Try: Beef tartare bibimbap (yukhoe bibimbap)
Short wait - 🍜
Gohyang Kalguksu 고향칼국수
Market food · Jongno
The Gwangjang Market noodle stall made famous by Netflix's Street Food: Asia. Sit at the counter and watch Cho Yoon-sun roll and cut the dough by hand, then eat a steaming bowl of knife-cut noodles with handmade dumplings.
Try: Hand-cut noodle soup (son-kalguksu)
30-60 min wait 
Monyeo Gimbap 모녀김밥
Market food · Jongno
The Gwangjang Market stall credited with making mayak gimbap famous: finger-sized seaweed rolls of rice, carrot and pickled radish, dipped in a sharp mustard sauce. The nickname "mayak" ("narcotic") is a joke about how hard they are to stop eating.
Try: Mayak gimbap
Short wait- 🥞
Soonhee-ne Bindaetteok 원조순희네빈대떡
Market food · Jongno
The most famous mung bean pancake stall in Gwangjang Market, right at the entrance to the food alley. Thick, crispy bindaetteok fried in a sizzling pool of oil, with meat patties and beef tartare on the side. The line is part of the experience.
Try: Mung bean pancake (nokdu bindaetteok)
Short wait