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Jajangmyeon where it began

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Jajangmyeon where it began

Jajangmyeon where it beganPhoto: 최광모 / CC0

Round trip
2 hr 30 min
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4–6 hour stop ashore
Margin already counted
Getting there
Chinatown
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Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve
Why we send people here

Wheat noodles under a black-bean sauce, the Chinese-Korean dish every Korean eats on moving day. Sinseung Banjeom, a few doors from the museum, is said to be run by a descendant of the family that served it first.

Why it earns the hours
  • Our number 2 for Incheon, out of ten. It is the first thing we would spend the hours on.
Before you count on it
  • No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
The story

Why Jajangmyeon where it began is famous

Jajangmyeon began as a Shandong dish of noodles with fermented bean paste and became Korean by adding caramel to the sauce and onion to the pan. It is the food of moving day and of the day single people mark in April. Today's restaurant called Gonghwachun is a separate, newer business; the family line is said to run through Sinseung Banjeom.

Where to have it

Three places, three different answers

The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.

The famous oneSinseung Banjeom

Yuni-jjajang, the finely minced version, a few doors from the museum. 11:10–21:00 with a break 15:00–16:30; open all year.

Open in Google MapsClosest to the berthGonghwachun (today’s restaurant)

Takes the famous name but is a separate, newer business in another building. 10:00–21:30, open all year.

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Where it is

Jajangmyeon where it began and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.

The rainy-day IncheonA wet day · ~4.5h door to doorWet weather — a museum, a covered market and a noodle lunchThe old port4–6 hours · ~5h door to doorThe Incheon day: Chinatown, jajangmyeon, the market and the harbour
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day →
4 hr 10 min for both

Songdo Central Park

A seawater canal through a new city of glass towers, with water taxis and a boardwalk.

See the detail →4 hr 30 min for both

Dakgangjeong at Sinpo Market

Chicken fried twice and tossed in a sticky sweet-spicy glaze, sold by the box.

See the detail →5 hr for both

Korean Emigration History Museum

In 1903 the first Korean emigrants sailed from this harbour to the Hawaiian sugar plantations.

See the detail →
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Incheon plan page.