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Hoe makguksu, heaped with sweet-spicy seasoned pollock, is the one to reach for here before the plain makguksu. The buc…

The window seats look straight out at Mangsang Beach, but the kitchen does not hurry. Some days food takes over half an…

Beyond the glass facing Mulchi Beach there are surfers out even in winter, and it is easy to sit in the warm room watch…

Tofu hot pot sits at the very top of the menu, with firm block tofu and silky sundubu cooked together in one pot. The s…

Surf videos play on the ground floor beside a few vintage motorcycles, and the second-floor windows look out on the wav…

The Ulsanbawi ridge of Seoraksan fills the big windows, and from the window tables it rises just beyond the pot. Neungi…

Pour cold dongchimi over the buckwheat noodles and the fresh tang of radish spreads through them; mix in the chili sauc…

Flower arrangements that change with the seasons and quiet music set the scene for omakase sushi in Sokcho, served piec…

Curry rice comes with every order, and extra curry rice, white rice and noodles cost nothing. The hand-pulled noodles a…

Since 1955 this old shop in Inje-eup has served North Korean-style makguksu, with noodles of 100% buckwheat. The dongch…

Wood and exposed brick line the indoor room, a terrace sits outside, and at the brew bar each cup is made one at a time…

Only marbling-grade 9 hanwoo, the top of the 1++ tier, comes in, and diners choose their own cuts to grill over charcoa…

A whole wild octopus, caught that day, goes into the pot uncut with blue crab, shrimp, mulmangchi (a local sea fish) an…

Hoe naengmyeon here is chewy potato-starch noodles heaped with raw pollock and mixed through a spicy sauce. A large ser…

Wok smoke comes through strongly in the junghwa bibimmyeon, a brothless noodle dish loaded with seafood. The restaurant…

The hongge sandwich pairs Sokcho red snow crab with pineapple. The crab is neither fishy nor salty, and with pineapple…

A bowl of rich seaweed soup comes alongside both the mulhoe and the hoedeopbap, giving something warm between bites of…

The building splits into a photo studio downstairs, the cafe in the middle and a photo zone on top. The cafe's signatur…

Large windows face Gyeongpo Beach, and the tables are spaced widely enough that the sea is visible from most seats. Ass…

House-made buckwheat noodles sit in chilled dongchimi broth, soft at first and then snapping cleanly between the teeth.…

Climb to the second floor of a building facing the Mukho Port waterfront park. The mulhoe sauce is sweet and tangy with…

Black pepper on the potato gelato turns a dense, mildly sweet scoop into something closer to chilled mashed potato than…

A mother cooks and her daughter runs the floor. The makguksu broth comes separately in a full bowl, and the nutty buckw…

The butcher shop next door comes first. Pick sirloin, striploin, buchaesal (flat iron) or jebichuri, a small cut near t…