Where to eat in Busan

Milbok-jiri comes two ways here. The standard bowl uses frozen puffer, and a small surcharge switches it to fresh fish,…

A heap of minced raw garlic sits on top of the dwaeji-gukbap, pork soup with rice served toryeom style, where the rice…

The Lee Jae-mo crust packs the rim half with sausage and half with cheese, and toppings you dislike can be left off. It…

Pork rice soup has been ladled out at the same spot facing Busan Station since 1961. The pale broth carries thick slice…

The owner and staff are from India, and with Indian decor and music filling the room, it feels like another country eve…

Open across from Busan Station in Chinatown since 1951, the shop still turns out Chinese-style dumplings. There are mea…

Clear, faintly milky broth fills a big stainless bowl along with thick bone-in cod, chunks of radish the size of a fist…

Live snow crab waits in tanks by the ground-floor entrance, in front of the Ananti hotel, and the one you choose goes s…

This warehouse-style cafe fills a converted factory site at the top of a steep Daeyeon-dong hill. The climb on foot is…

Staff at this Haeundae eel house explain how to eat the hitsumabushi, glazed grilled eel over rice, before you start. E…

Instead of joining the counter line, grab a table first and order by QR code; KakaoTalk then sends your order number an…

Once the pot starts bubbling, staff check it and tell you when it is ready. Nakgopsae, octopus, intestines and shrimp i…

Nobody has to juggle the kids and the grill at this pork restaurant. All four kinds of pork, plain and marinated galbi,…

Started in the 1960s to give working families in Beomil-dong a cheap, filling meal, this pork-soup house still charges…

Thick slices of hangjeong, pork jowl, cover the bowl so completely that the meat seems to outweigh the soup. The broth…

Gunam-ro, the street running from Haeundae Station to the beach, passes right by this fish-cake shop, so single filled…

This second-floor Korean restaurant near Gukje Market lists vegan ramyeon and a tofu steak as separate dishes. Duruchig…

The mul milmyeon broth has almost none of the herbal-medicine note common in Busan milmyeon; it opens sweet, tangy and…

Lean pork and a nest of noodles go into the milky pork broth together. Leave the red seasoning unstirred at first and t…

Clear beef broth, a big handful of bean sprouts and just enough red chili powder to tint the soup: this Gyeongsang-styl…

High ceilings and strong extraction keep the room almost free of smoke, though the big hoods hide the face of whoever s…

Three generations of women, grandmother, mother and daughter, run the place, and their haemuljang is cured in a soy sau…

Besides the main hall, this buffet has small private rooms, a large banquet room and a children's play area, and it als…

Galmaegi-sal, pork skirt, goes over the charcoal here, and every bowl of rice comes topped with a fried egg. Spoon the…