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Kimchi Kitchens Busan Food Tour with 10+ Tastings
Busan
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The original lunchtime Busan food tour into the culinary engine room of South Korea. Explore the markets of Gukje and Bupyeong Kkangtong with your local food host. There's 10+ included tastings, from tteokbokki rice cakes to hotteok pancakes, and many more harbour-side street eats. Experience the maritime opera of Jagalchi seafood market, and see a unique insight into Busan’s food cultures. Come hungry.
Highlights
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
10+ food tastings included, more than any other Busan food tour
Moveable feast with 8-9 stops around the streets of old Busan
Bottled water included
Max 8 exclusive guests, smallest group size in Busan (private tour or 9+ guests - contact us)
Led by professional foodie guides
Alcoholic drinks excluded
Pick up and drop off from hotel excluded. Easy-to-find meeting point for all guests.
Vegetarians have 3-4 less tastings due to limited alternatives
Unsuitable for severe allergies, halal & celiac disease, due to risk of traces & cross-contamination
Meeting Points
Departure
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Meet your guide inside Lotteria cafe. The cafe is near to the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) sign. Guests can use the bathroom facililties inside, and the guide will provide water. The tour is approximately 3.5 to 4 hours in duration.
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Important Information
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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See 'What to Expect' section and 'What's Included' for info on dietary restrictions
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We recommend comfortable walking shoes. Bring rain gear/umbrella, if rain looks likely. There's lot of tastings to try, come hungry!
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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The original lunchtime Busan food tour into the culinary engine room of South Korea. Explore the markets of Gukje and Bupyeong Kkangtong with your local food host. There's 10+ included tastings, from tteokbokki rice cakes to hotteok pancakes, and many more harbour-side street eats. Experience the maritime opera of Jagalchi seafood market, and see a unique insight into Busan’s food cultures. Come hungry.
Highlights
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
10+ food tastings included, more than any other Busan food tour
Moveable feast with 8-9 stops around the streets of old Busan
Bottled water included
Max 8 exclusive guests, smallest group size in Busan (private tour or 9+ guests - contact us)
Led by professional foodie guides
Alcoholic drinks excluded
Pick up and drop off from hotel excluded. Easy-to-find meeting point for all guests.
Vegetarians have 3-4 less tastings due to limited alternatives
Unsuitable for severe allergies, halal & celiac disease, due to risk of traces & cross-contamination
Meeting Points
Departure
201
Meet your guide inside Lotteria cafe. The cafe is near to the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) sign. Guests can use the bathroom facililties inside, and the guide will provide water. The tour is approximately 3.5 to 4 hours in duration.
Return
Itinerary
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Busan
Busan’s maritime metropolis is where jagged mountain peaks plunge headfirst into the East Sea, serving as the glamorous stage for Asia’s premier International Film Festival (BIFF). At the docks, you’ll find a resilient food culture built by port workers and post-war refugees, from bone-deep pork broths to the legendary fish cakes that define the city’s survivor spirit.
Our feasting tour of 10+ tastings invites guests around the backstreets of Busan, led by our team of professional foodie guides.
Before we get started, our tour reflects the local cuisine and the limitations of street food vendors means we unfortunately cannot cater for every dietary restriction. Here's an honest appraisal for the tour so no-one is disappointed:
✖️Vegetarians have 3-4 less tastings due to limited alternatives at some vendors.
✖️ Unsuitable for severe allergies, halal and celiac diets due to risk of traces and cross-contamination.
If you are feeling adventurous for a foodie journey, read on!
15 minutes
2
Busan
Long before the filmstars arrived, BIFF square was a theatre district of street food heroes, with the scent of bubbling vats and roasted nuts cutting through the ocean breeze. We aren't here for the red carpets. We’re visiting the legendary ajummas and their open-air kitchens, with the rhythmic art of kalguksu - where dough is knifed into thick, steamy ribbons of hand-cut noodle soup, served alongside pickled kimchi, and an optional hit of gochujang chilli paste.
45 minutes
3
Bupyeong Kkangtong Market
The next reel moves into the sprawl of Gukje and Bupyeong Kkangtong markets, known as "Tin Can Alley.", a onetime smuggling hub for US Army canned goods. This labyrinthine neighborhood tells the story of the iconic tteokbokki, where chewy rice cakes are bathed in a velvet-red glaze, perfectly paired with gochu and ojingeo twigim - deep-fried peppers and squid battered into a golden crunch. Most visitors never really scratch the surface of this city’s food landscape, and our full specturm of 10+ tastings is designed to take you behind the lens.
1 hour
4
Busan
While fish cakes are found all over Korea, Busan is the undisputed capital. It's where the umami-laden slabs became the protein fuel for a burgeoning working class. Follow the steam to seek handmade mandu, succulent dumplings wrapped with precision, before tucking into haemul pajeon, a craggy pancake loaded with the daily catch. It’s traditionally washed down with makgeolli rice wine, a companion of Korean labourers for centuries.
Stroll past Bosu Book Street, before working your chopsticks over tangles of Busan japchae, a unique take on glass noodles, and dwaeji gukbap pork rice soup - a masterclass in simplicity and sustenance.
1 hour
5
Jagalchi Market
A tour of the city would be incomplete without entering the world-famous Jagalchi market. Witness a technicolor display of writhing octopuses and prehistoric sea squirts, amidst a soundscape of thudding cleavers and harbour-side haggling.
Just as a great director builds up to the cinematic climax, we spoon-dive into bingsu, a K-pop favourite featuring shaved ice as light as snow, and ssiat hotteok griddled sweet pancakes, stuffed with a buttery riot of sunflower seeds.
This is a food tour that ignores the tourist scripts and goes straight for the real Busan food scene. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of Busan’s culinary history, with time well spent navigating the secret recipes that have been feeding locals for decades.