Gejang lunch on the crab street
Gejang lunch on the crab streetPhoto: SJ Yang / CC BY-SA 2.0
Gejang baekban, raw crab marinated in soy and served as a set with rice, is on the city’s official list of ten tastes. Bongsan-dong’s street of gejang houses dates from 2009. Hwangso Sikdang refills the crab once and opens 08:00–20:20 every day, last order 19:40. Bring won; card acceptance is not confirmed.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr 30 min door to door, so even a tender day works.
- It is not only a photo stop: crab that steals rice, sole in vinegar, and a street of carts that opens after you sail.
- No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
Why Gejang lunch on the crab street is famous
Crab that steals rice, sole in vinegar, and a street of carts that opens after you sail
Gejang baekban is raw crab marinated in soy sauce, served as a set with rice and side dishes. It heads Yeosu's official list of ten tastes alongside Dolsan mustard-leaf kimchi. The city created a street of gejang houses in Bongsan-dong in 2009. Hwangso Sikdang on that street serves the set and galchi-jorim, and refills the crab once. It is open 08:00 to 20:20 every day, last orders 19:40. The listing is a secondary one, and card acceptance is not confirmed.
The city publishes a list of ten dishes and calls one of them a rice thief. The rest of the list is a calendar of what the boats bring in, and your call date decides which page you are on.
The seodae-hoe house by the old-town marine park; vinegar still brewed in-house
The city formalises the crab lane in Bongsan-dong
Clean seawater piped 400 m offshore to the Gyodong live tanks
New arcade for ₩930 million; shopfronts shaped like boats
Gejang in Bongsan-dong or seodae-hoe at Samhakjip is a nine-minute taxi from the berth and fits any call. The pocha street opens at 18:00 from March to October, so it needs a late sailing.
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.
On the gejang-baekban street in Bongsan-dong, 2 Bongsannam 3-gil. Gejang set and galchi-jorim; the crab is refilled once. 08:00–20:20, last order 19:40, open every day. Card acceptance not confirmed; queues at lunch (secondary).
Open in Google MapsWhere locals goJeonggane정가네 갓갈치조림게장Galchi-jorim (braised hairtail) set, about 10 min on foot from Dolsan Park. Weekdays 10:00–20:00, weekends 09:00–20:00, no closed day (secondary listing).
Open in Google MapsGejang lunch on the crab street and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 1 hr 30 min goes
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
9 minutes each way is the measured figure for taxi ~9 min to bongsan-dong, about ₩6,200, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 12 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
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.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
2 hr 30 min for bothExpo site, Sky Tower and the Big-O
The 2012 Expo grounds surround the berth.
See the detail → 3 hr for bothMaritime cable car over the bay
Korea’s first cable car over the sea, opened in 2014: 1.5 km between Jasan Park on the mainland and Dolsan Park on the island.
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3 hr for bothJinnamgwan and Yi Sun-sin Square
Jinnamgwan, National Treasure No.
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