Yeongdo food guide

I Never Seek Out Vegan Food — This Michelin-Listed Restaurant in Busan Changed That

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ARP signature bracken fern pasta with fried enoki mushroom and lotus root chips, a Michelin Bib Gourmand dish in Busan

I don’t go out of my way for vegan food — I just eat what tastes good. So when I sat down at ARP, a small vegan restaurant on Yeongdo Island in Busan, and realized the entire menu was 100% plant-based, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Three dishes later, I left reconsidering what vegetables … Read more

I Skipped the Train Station Branch and Went Straight to the Original Samjin Fish Cake Store in Yeongdo

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Wide display of various fish cake snacks priced between ₩3,000 and ₩4,000 at Samjin Yeongdo

You can buy Samjin fish cakes at pretty much any major train station, department store, or airport in Korea these days. But there is something about tracking down the original — the Samjin Fish Cake Yeongdo flagship, where three generations of the same family have been making eomuk since 1953, right next to the same … Read more