Restaurants in Mokpo, Jeonnam - 17 Picks

This bakery sits wall to wall with Korombang Bakery and has fewer breads and fewer seats than its neighbor. In the shri…

Under a crisp baked crust, the shrimp baguette hides a salty shrimp filling, and the salt comes through clearly. The cr…

Junchi, a bony herring-like fish, gets sliced bones and all, tossed with onion, cucumber and a tangy red dressing, then…

Octopus wound around a skewer, grilled and brushed with a sweet-spicy glaze, nakji horongi anchors the menu at this Yeo…

Clams dressed with makgeolli vinegar arrive sweet and tangy in a big mixing bowl with seaweed flakes, and tipping in th…

Skate from Heuksando, fermented lightly, gives first-timers an easy entry into hongeo samhap, the Jeolla trio of fermen…

One order of jungkkan brings small portions of tangsuyuk and jjamppong alongside, and solo diners get the same. Finely…

Big windows look down on Mokpo's North Port and the ships moving through it. Seating is plentiful enough that a table u…

Only two soups come out of this kitchen: seonji haejangguk and kongnamul gukbap. The first is a red, spicy broth loaded…

In Mokpo, bandaengi (a small, oily herring-like fish) is also called songeo-hoe, and here it is sliced thin with the bo…

Picked flower-crab meat and seaweed are tossed in a mild dressing for the crab seaweed bibimbap, which, unlike most cra…

Jjolbok, small dried puffer fish, is simmered bones and all until the flesh falls into a thick, almost porridge-like br…

Lines form around the times egg tarts come out of the oven, and a batch can be gone in 30 to 40 minutes. Sets of six ar…

Both the yellow and the black soybean milk are thick enough to pour slowly off a spoon. The yellow one tastes gently sw…

Tables sit right on the Manho-dong harbor front in Mokpo, so drinks at dusk come with the sunset and the harbor lights.…

Live octopus is chopped into nakji tangtangi and arrives on one platter with beef yukhoe and abalone. Taste each on its…

The tangsuyuk wears a thick white glutinous-rice batter that chews like rice cake, with sweet sauce poured over the old…