Something you must eat in Jeju Island
- Black pork (Something you must eat in Jeju Island)
Many Koreans think of black pork when they think of Jeju Island. Black pigs are not black in color, but are native pigs of Jeju Island with black fur unlike regular pigs. Then, what is the difference between black pork and regular pork??
Usually, pork is chewy, but Jeju black pork is chewy and has meat, unsaturated fat, and skin, so it has a savory taste and texture no matter what part you grill. Grilled black pork is dipped in salted fish made of anchovies, “melted salted fish,” which helps to reduce the greasy taste of the meat and makes it taste even better!
Black Pork Street
It takes about 15 minutes by car from the airport to gather meat restaurants that promised to use only Jeju pigs. It is near the famous Dongmun Market in Jeju Island, so you can enjoy eating Jeju’s special black pork after looking around the market.
- Braised hairtail
There are various ways to eat hairtail in Jeju Island. Among them, the way to eat it the most is braised. Braised with spicy red pepper powder from Jeju Island is a complete rice thief!!! Fresh hairtail meat melts in your mouth.
- Meat noodles
Meat noodle restaurants are common in Jeju Island. Meat noodles are also popular for perfect hangover by putting noodles in a milky broth and putting boiled pork on top. It tastes better if you add pepper, cheongyang pepper, and red pepper powder to your taste!! You can fill your stomach with just one bowl of boiled pork with two pieces of noodles.
In Ido-dong, downtown Jeju, there is a noodle culture street where noodle restaurants are gathered. It’s not far from the airport, and there are many restaurants selling end-of-life noodles, and you can enjoy Jeju-style meat noodles!!
- Enjoy abundant seafood~
Jeju Island, which is surrounded by clear and wide seas, offers a variety of rich seafood. Yellow sea bream, red sea bream, yellow sea bream, hairtail, cuttlefish, squid, sea urchin… You can easily find and eat fresh fish and various seafood anywhere. You can eat seafood in a variety of dishes with stew, grilled, and soup, and it’s very delicious even if you eat it as sashimi.
Seobudu Raw Fish Restaurant Street
Sashimi restaurants are lined up along the western breakwater of Jeju Port. It is very romantic because you can see the sea while eating raw fish and various seafood dishes.
- Omegi rice cake
Omegi rice cake is a special product of Jeju Island, and its main ingredient is chajo produced in Jeju Island, which is made by kneading it and boiling it in boiling water.
Omegi rice cake from Dongmun Market was introduced on the TV program “Wednesday Food Talk” on Jeju Island, gaining popularity. In addition, specialties and restaurants in the market gained popularity, revitalizing the Dongmun Market. Looking back on the history of tourism products in Jeju Island, it was first red sea bream, followed by shiitake mushrooms, mackerel, and tangerine chocolate. While people were looking for something more like Jeju Island, Omegi rice cake appeared and attracted great attention, and now it is helping the entire tourism industry of Jeju Island. A lot of people sell it as Omegi rice cake after putting red bean paste in rice cake made of chajo, mugwort, and glutinous rice cake and making mixed rice cake of mugwort and red bean paste is not real Omegi rice cake. As an aside, omegi rice cake is made by pouring boiled water, stretching it, breaking yeast, and fermenting it to make omegi liquor. As the demand for tourists increased and improved, the taste was well refined in the modern way, and the variation is well carried out on its own, such as adding Hallabong instead of mugwort or mixing nuts with red bean paste. The reason why it has become a product that sells well regardless of generation until modern times. Here, “Omegi” is commonly mistakenly known as “Jojo’s Jeju dialect,” but in reality, it is a Jeju dialect that means “round, rice cake with a hole in the middle made to make alcohol,” and is named after the shape of pressing rice cakes is concave.
