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Seomyeon steamed or grilled seafood
A hagfish house in a Beomil-dong alley in front of the old Jobang area, grilling it in sauce. Opening details and parking support are not clearly listed, so leave room in the schedule for a late dinner or a group visit.
The large sauced hagfish grill is KRW 110,000 and the lunch special starts around KRW 13,000. Onion, chili and scallion are tossed through the sauce to order and the whole thing goes onto a wire grill, with heat and clarity in front of any heavy sweetness.
The springy, slightly crunchy bite that hagfish is eaten for holds up, which suits it to rice as much as to drinks. The finish is what the house is built on: seaweed flakes and rice fried into the sauce left in the pan.
It belongs on the shortlist for a work dinner around Beomil-dong and Jobang, or an old-Busan hagfish table with drinks. The lunch special is good value, though for the evening grill it is worth checking headcount and price before ordering.