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Eat first, map later

Three friends, seventy-two hours, and a strict rule: if there’s a queue of locals, we join it.

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Priya ShahFood trail · 3 friends · 31 Oct 2026
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GwangjangIkseon-dongMangwonHongdae

We booked nothing except a bed. The plan was the queue.

Day 1

The market that never sleeps

Gwangjang Market

12:00
Eat

Bindaetteok

Mung-bean pancakes fried in a pan the size of a bicycle wheel. The auntie flipped ours without looking.

Gwangjang at lunch.
Gwangjang at lunch.
15:30
Eat

Mayak gimbap

“Drug rolls”. Tiny, sesame-slick, impossible to stop eating.

We ate eleven things. It was 3:30 pm.
Day 2

Hanok alleys

Ikseon-dong

10:00
See

Hanok cafés

Hundred-year-old houses turned into tiny cafés. We sat on the floor and drank barley tea.

20:00
Experience

Pojangmacha tent

An orange tent, plastic stools, soju and spicy rice cakes with strangers who became friends.

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