[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

[Busan] Haeundae Eonyang Bulgogi 해운대언양불고기 @ Gunam-ro Haeundae

We were just wandering around the area near our hotels to look for dinner as the one that we went to after Spaland, was closed when we arrived at 9pm. 

So we came back to the stretch of eateries at Haeundae beach as most opens till late. Decided on KBBQ and walked into this random shop that we saw.

Staff was quick to urge you in to take a seat. I guess they're feeling competitive as the next door shop is also doing KBBQ.

take a seat

table full

Ordered the beef platter set, plus additional order of yukhoe (raw beef).

heating up

Ivan's favourite drink

for dipping

sauce, garlic

beef platter

sirloin (deungshim), chadaolbaegi (brisket), bulgogi

brisket

We started grilling the brisket but did a pretty bad job at it, because we were noobs and didn't spread out the brisket properly. The staff came by to rescue it and managed to get the job done though some parts were burnt beyond recognition. Hahaa! From then onwards, the staff decided to help us with the grilling. The worker is from Vietnam and speaks fluent Korean, and some English.

beef brisket

mushroom banchan

yukhoe

The yukhoe was nice but could do with more slices of pear.

The set also came with a small serving of galbi soup.

galbi-tang

It was nice to have the staff to help grill the meats.

next cut

cooked

cutting it up

The meat cuts were decent and the flavour was nothing out of the ordinary. And the finale for the BBQ was the bulgogi.

finale - bulgogi

It looked nondescript but once you've tasted it, that's when realization hits! It was good! And after that, we enquired what's the shop name and it is Haeundae Eonyang Bulgogi. Ahhhh, now it makes sense. Recommend the bulgogi, it was legit.

yummy bulgogi

Thank you to the staff who attended to us that night. We spent ₩192,000 for the meal, which was about SGD49 per pax.

해운대언양불고기

Address: 23-1 Gunam-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea

Contact: +82517463482

Business Hours: 

Daily 24 hours

[Busan] Haeundae Obok Restaurant 해운대 오복돼지국밥 @ Haeundae

After Jeju, we went to Busan. For our first day in Busan, dinner was dwaeji gukbap (pork porridge) at Haeundae Obok Restaurant. It's a restaurant that is within walking distance from our respective hotels.

The restaurant feels like a family restaurant and I spied that solo diners are welcomed too. The restaurant offers set meals for 2 pax, so one could choose which type of rice porridge (difference is with the accompanying meats) and it has its own accompanying sides. I was sharing with Ivan, so I chose my porridge to be with the pork head meat (because it sounded like a delicacy) and it came with a small side of boiled pork. Hence and Tracy's set came with the sundae (blood sausage).

our set meals

Staff was generally friendly and we did see the boss in the restaurant as well.

makgeolli with rice porridge, hehe

interior

The orders arrived rather quickly as the restaurant was not too busy at the time of our visit. We were there for early dinner or late lunch.

dwaeji gukbap with sundae

 pork head meat and stomach

I liked my order. Pork porridge of head meat and innards. The broth was flavourful and rather comforting although it was pretty hot weather outside.

side dish of sundae

side dish of boiled pork slices

chives

lean pork slices

I liked the pork porridge here better than the one that I had at Busan city center in the previous visit. No queue and on point flavours.

We spent about ₩16,250 per pax.

 

Haeundae Obok Restaurant 해운대 오복돼지국밥

Address: 15 Gunam-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea

Contact: +82517311488

Business Hours:

Daily 24 hours