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Seoul Vegan & Vegetarian Market Food Tour with Temple Classics
Seoul, South Korea
$113
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
12 plant-based tastings & 4 drinks at Gwangjang Market, including temple-inspired food, desserts & drinks. Go beyond eating. Explore how traditional, modern & temple cuisine shaped Korean food culture and the etiquette behind it.
• Taste a naturally plant-based Korean food—not a dietary alternative
• Discover how Korean food and drink move together, from premium makgeolli to modern blend somaek
• Explore temple-inspired dishes and traditions, from goukcha to dasik
• Learn Korean table manners, and the unwritten rules of sharing, pouring, and toasting
• Enjoy 12 tastings across 7 curated stalls —an opportunity to explore the quieter stories, context, and history behind each dish
• Leave with a printed recap market map — a quiet guide for revisiting each stop at your own pace
By the end, you will have experienced more than a series of tastings —how Korean food, drink, etiquette, and philosophy move together—subtly, but with lasting coherence.
• Taste a naturally plant-based Korean food—not a dietary alternative
• Discover how Korean food and drink move together, from premium makgeolli to modern blend somaek
• Explore temple-inspired dishes and traditions, from goukcha to dasik
• Learn Korean table manners, and the unwritten rules of sharing, pouring, and toasting
• Enjoy 12 tastings across 7 curated stalls —an opportunity to explore the quieter stories, context, and history behind each dish
• Leave with a printed recap market map — a quiet guide for revisiting each stop at your own pace
By the end, you will have experienced more than a series of tastings —how Korean food, drink, etiquette, and philosophy move together—subtly, but with lasting coherence.
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Seoul Vegan & Vegetarian Market Food Tour with Temple Classics
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours
- NockDoo Jeon — crispy mung bean pancake
- Hobakjuk — a porridge of fully ripened pumpkin
- YuBoo ChoBap — fried tofu pocket rice
- Hotteok — Korea's quietly charming answer to the pancake
- Water throughout
- Sikhye — fermented sweet rice drink (ceremonial digestive)
- Bibim Guksu — spicy cold noodles in chojang sauce
- A seamless access to stalls—no waiting in long queues
- Mayak Gimbap — seaweed rice roll with magic sauce
- Soju & Somaek — clean, light distilled spirit & iconic beer blend
- Tteokbokki — rice cakes in gochujang sauce
- Korean Seasonal Fruit - at its sweetest moment
- Yakgwa — flower-pressed honey & sesame biscuits
- GokCha — premium makgeolli, traditional rice wine
- Dasik — Buddhist temple tea confections
- Printed tour recap market map (yours to keep)
- English-speaking curator, a local regular at Gwangjang Market
- Gim Bugaak — premium crispy seaweed & rice wafer
- Personal expenses
- Transportation to or from the market
- Gratuities
Meeting point
We shall meet just outside Seoul Subway Line 1, at Jongno 5-ga Station—precisely between Exits 7 and 8, in front of the police station, where a curator holding a blue umbrella will be waiting to greet you.
Return details
We shall meet just outside Seoul Subway Line 1, at Jongno 5-ga Station—precisely between Exits 7 and 8, in front of the police station, where a curator holding a blue umbrella will be waiting to greet you.
This is not a simple vegan offering, but a considered exploration of how varied, layered, and deeply satisfying entirely plant-based Korean food can be.
Among the 13 dishes you will taste, elements of temple cuisine appear throughout — lending a quiet depth rarely found in the market.
Drinks are treated with equal care. Rather than the familiar, you will be introduced to premium makgeolli — selected for character and balance, and served with the context and etiquette that give it meaning.
To allow you to remain fully present, a printed tour recap market map will be provided at the end — a quiet companion for revisiting each stop at your own pace.
The experience concludes with a small parting taste: Gim-bugak from Namwon — a delicately crisp seaweed and rice wafer rooted in temple cuisine and traditional ceremonial food, made from natural ingredients and rarely found within the market itself, offered to take home.
Among the 13 dishes you will taste, elements of temple cuisine appear throughout — lending a quiet depth rarely found in the market.
Drinks are treated with equal care. Rather than the familiar, you will be introduced to premium makgeolli — selected for character and balance, and served with the context and etiquette that give it meaning.
To allow you to remain fully present, a printed tour recap market map will be provided at the end — a quiet companion for revisiting each stop at your own pace.
The experience concludes with a small parting taste: Gim-bugak from Namwon — a delicately crisp seaweed and rice wafer rooted in temple cuisine and traditional ceremonial food, made from natural ingredients and rarely found within the market itself, offered to take home.
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Seoul Vegan & Vegetarian Market Food Tour with Temple Classics
Seoul, South Korea
$113
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!