[Busan] Fishcake Feast @ Goreasa 고래사어묵 해운대점 Haeundae

This place is like 5 minutes walk from my hotel, so we went there a few times to buy our snacks. They have dine-in area in the shop.

shopfront

fish cake with prawn

all sorts of fish cake variety

The shop also sells a few types of noodles, so one could order the mains from the counter and add-on the fish cakes as side dishes.

The limited or seasonal fishcake is usually at the counter, so do walk around to scout for which ever that catches your fancy. But be careful not to go overboard. For me, I think my max per seating was just 4 fish cakes.

my breakfast

After you had purchased the food, go right in and get yourself a seat at the communal table. There is a microwave oven with instructions on how to heat up the fish cakes. There is also a cabinet that stores small cups for the hot soup. This soup was a nice accompaniment for the fish cakes. Tasty too!

microwave for the fish cake

heavy breakfast

The price for the fish cakes varies and those with premium ingredients such as whole prawn or abalone (yes they have this as well!) will be more costly as expected.

Pretty cool experience and it is a pilgrimage of sorts to tourist to come to at least one of these shops try.

Goraesa Eomuk Fishcake Shop 고래사어묵 해운대점

Address: 14 Gunam-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea

Website: http://www.goraesa.com/

Business Hours:

Sun-Thu: 9:30 AM–9:30 PM

Fri-Sat: 9:30 AM–10:00 PM

[Jeju] Octopus Noodles 오빠네 왕만두 문어라면 @ Dongmun Traditional Market 제주동문시장

Although we know we were headed to Dongmun Traditional Market, I didn't do any research prior on what food to eat there. Tracy said there's an octopus ramyeon shop, so we went round trying to look for it without realising that we had passed by it before... 

let's walk walk

tangerines and more tangerines!

wet market section

At last, we looked up at the banner of one of the shop that we had passed by earlier, and voila! 'Octopus Noodle' !

our breakfast stop

The shop front seemed to be selling steamed mandus and steamed cakes. We enquired from the lone person in the shop if we could get breakfast there and he said yes.

The place was a small and functional. We were the only customers at that time. The interior felt like it was frozen somewhat in the passage of time.

interior

The information that Tracy got, was from this post. I wanted the mandus so we enquired from the uncle on how many pieces were there in one serving. He said 5. So I asked if we could do a mix and he said ok.

mandu (5 pieces) ₩5000 - 3 pork and spring onions, 2 kimchi

pork and spring onions mandu

kimchi mandu

The steamed dumplings were lovely. Both were pretty flavourful. Complimentary water is available. Self-service and get your own cup from the water dispenser in the shop.

side dish for the noodles

Though we were only having instant noodles, the shop still serves complimentary kimchi and pickled radish as side dish.

octopus ramyeon @₩12000

The broth for the octopus noodles was rather spicy. The octopus were cut up into small pieces and I quite liked the texture. Chewy but not tough.

pork ramyeon @₩11000

We ordered the pork noodles, and the broth, noodles for this was different from the octopus ramyeon. There were generous pieces of pork in the noodles. However, the meat was lean and a tad tough. It also had a stronger porky smell.

Both bowls had similar toppings of bean sprouts and onion slices.

The uncle was friendly and since we were the only customers, he talked to us a little bit to find out where we were from, and how did we find the shop.

Dongmun Traditional Market 제주동문시장

Address: South Korea, Jeju-do, Jeju-si, 특별자치도, 동문시장

Business Hours:

Daily: 8 AM–11 PM

[Jeju] Pit Stop at Youdong Coffee 유동커피 Seogwipo

Day 4 of our Jeju travel and it is now time to cafe hop! For our first cafe, I chose Youdong Coffee. No particular reason besides it being along our route of travel. However, this random choice turned out to be a good one!

first view of the cafe

let's chill on a Sunday morning

award winning barista

Arrived at about 920am, and the place was not too crowded. Probably Sundays are for sleeping in! 

interior

We ordered our preferred drinks and shared some pastries. The drinks selection were pretty good but the pastries were somewhat limited. Not an issue as we wanted to have just a quick stop here.

mugwort latte (no coffee) @₩5000

cafe latte @₩4500

maple croffle and sammaebong pie @₩3900 and ₩4800 respectively

The croffle, looks somewhat different from what I had imagined. I think I haven't eaten enough croffle! Tasted pretty sweet, and actually can't remember much of its texture. But definitely more of a waffle than a croissant.

maple croffle

The Sammaebong Pie was interesting and I ordered it, just because it has an interesting name and we don't really know what to expect of it. The pastry was flaky as expected and its taste was somewhat familiar. I pondered on it and suddenly, I knew what it tasted like. Kaya! Hahaha, pretty much unexpected to find a taste of home in Jeju.

flaky

familiar tasting jam

And for my drink, I had the 'Tiramisu' coffee. Inside, was a cup of cold milk cream. Not frothy but like cream cream. I must say, it tasted awesome! Loved it!

Tiramisu Cafe Latte @₩5000

amazing cup of coffee dessert

Felt like that cuppa was a dessert on its own. Satisfying and totally recommend you to try the Tiramisu Cafe Latte.

Youdong Coffee 유동커피 

Address: 406-1 태평로 Songsan-dong, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youdongcoffee_company/

Contact: +82647336662

Business Hours: 

Daily: 8am to 1030pm

[Jeju] Jeju Osung Traditional Restaurant 제주오성 @ Seogwipo

We started the day with breakfast at a traditional restaurant specializing in hairtail fish. The place was fairly easy to find and has free parking nearby.

 

Jeju Osung Traditional Restaurant

must be a good sign

The restaurant is located at Level 2 and accessible by stairs or lift inside the building. The lobby is beautifully decorated and there is a souvenir shop there as well. 

coffee machine

lobby

The TV screen at the lift showed that Sanghyuk 상해기 (Korean famous mukbanger) has been to Jeju Osung before.

Sanghyuk on-screen

advertisement inside the lift up

Was greeted when we reached the restaurant at Level 2 and brought to the table. The place was not busy at about 10am.

Order via the tablet screen available at each table. Pay by card or cash upon ordering.

let's order breakfast

We ordered the Braised Cutlass Fish for 2 pax, ala-carte order of grilled mackerel and sea urchin seaweed soup, additional 2 bowls of rice and a beer. Hehe, yes why not have tangerine beer at 10am.

robot server

side dishes

hijiki 톳

mini japchae

pickled onions

this paste was interesting

The japchae side dish was pretty good. But the most interesting one was the boiled cabbage served with a type of fermented bean paste sauce that tasted pretty peculiarly umami but fishy. Interesting and it grows on you the more you eat it.

tangerine IPA

In Jeju, it is my daily mission to drink or eat something associated with hallabong or tangerines. Hehe. The tangerine IPA was refreshing although a bit odd to be drinking it so early...

ala-carte order of sea urchin seaweed soup @₩15000

Braised Cutlassfish in a Pot (for 2 pax) @₩69000

The 'Braised Cutlassfish in a Pot' consists of all the side dishes, a pot of braised cutlass fish and a long grilled version of it. 

our meal

Staff will assist in deboning the grilled cutlass fish so that it is easier to eat. This fish has many many bones.

deboning in action

nice

One could taste the fish more in the grilled version but I love the braised version as the spicy sauce was very good to have with the rice. So tasty!

The extra order of mackerel was good too as it has a much firmer texture than the cutlass and has more oily mouthfeel.

ala-carte order of grilled mackerel @₩15000

The set also comes with seaweed soup and the difference between the regular ones versus the sea urchin one was that the added sea urchin gave the soup a certain creaminess. Other than that, the taste remained largely the same.

We were very full from all the food. Spent ₩108000 for breakfast.

Jeju Osung Traditional Restaurant 제주오성

Address: 27 Jungmungwangwang-ro, Saekdal-dong, 특별자치도, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea

Website: https://m.blog.naver.com/learning2021

Contact: +82647393120

Business Hours: 

Daily: 9 am–9 pm