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Yeongi Sikdang (연기식당)

2025-04-22

전북특별자치도 고창군 아산면 선운대로 2727

This restaurant is the first to offer grilled freshwater eel in Gochang. The eel is grilled in the kitchen, so you don’t have to worry about the often smoky business of charcoal-grilled on the table.

The restaurant runs its own abalone farm, allowing you to enjoy fresh abalone. The most popular dish, “Jeonbok Hansang” (abalone set menu), serves almost every abalone dish imaginable on a single table. Located in the Wando Traditional Market, the restaurant is spacious, making it an excellent choice for group visits.

Cheongwon Garden (청원가든)

2025-04-22

67 Seonunsa-ro, Asan-myeon, Gochang-gun, Jeonbuk-do

This restaurant is one of the most positively reviewed restaurants serving freshwater eels near Seonunsa Temple’s entrance for its clean ambience and delicious side dishes. If you order jangeogui here, the eel is salted or basted with sauce in the kitchen and brought to you for grilling.

Geumdan Yangman (금단양만)

2025-04-22

전북특별자치도 고창군 심원면 검당길 51-10

This restaurant also operates a freshwater eel farm, so you can get freshwater eels at more affordable prices. The first floor of the building houses the freshwater eel store, and the restaurant is located on the second floor. You purchase live freshwater eel on the first floor, and the restaurant prepares the eel on the spot for you. You can either package and take the eel back or bring it to the second floor to grill it yourself.

Sageori Banjeom (사거리반점)

2025-04-22

109 Bongwol-ro, Hyeongyeong-myeon, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do

Despite being located far from the town center, this renowned restaurant is bustling with people during lunchtime. The popular menu item is their nakji jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup with octopus), which features a whole octopus added to the spicy noodle soup.

Dongsanjeong (동산정)

2025-01-23

173 Seongnam 1-gil, Muan-eup, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do

You can enjoy dishes made with fresh octopus brought daily from the early morning auctions at a relatively affordable price. The recommended dish is yeonpotang, prepared by adding live octopus to a broth simmered for over 3 hours with 13 different ingredients.

Sook Octopus (숙이네)

2025-01-23

172 Seongnam 1-gil, Muan-eup, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do

It is an octopus specialty restaurant with over 40 years of tradition. Their most popular dish is nakji chomuchim (sweet and sour octopus salad), flavored with homemade rice wine vinegar.

Wando Haemultang (완도해물탕)

2025-01-23

256-1 Jangbogo-daero, Wando-eup, Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do

The restaurant serves a rich haemultang (spicy seafood stew), packed with various seafood from Wando, including abalone, clams, crab, and octopus. Another specialty is haesintang (chicken and seafood soup), a flavorful soup made with chicken, abalone, and seafood, which requires a reservation at least 3 hours in advance. For solo visitors, the haemul ttukbaegi (seafood hot pot), made with abalone and a variety of seafood in a hot pot, is an easy, hassle-free option.

Wando Moraetteul (완도모래뜰)

2024-12-04

전라남도 완도군 신지면 명사십리길 74
061-552-4015

It is a restaurant where you can enjoy the “Haeyang Chiyu Bapsang” (marine healing set menu) developed by Wando-gun in 2021. “Haeyang Chiyu Bapsang” features Wando’s seafood, including abalone innards, hijiki, green sea fingers, kelp, and seaweed stems.

Sunchang Masire (순창맛이레)

2025-01-23

31-16 Sunchang 11-gil, Sunchang-eup, Sunchang-gun, Jeonbuk-do

This restaurant serves gochujang bulgogi (red chili paste marianated pork) made by Sunchang-gun and celebrity chef Lee Won-il. Gochujang bulgogi is pork marinated with Sunchang red chili paste and grilled with water parsley and green onions.

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