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On Korea’s Taean Peninsula - which is famous for its fresh food - farms, mountains and the sea come unforgettably. Harvests from the land and sea provide a bounty of fresh, varied seafood and top-quality vegetables. Many Korean chefs say these vegetables are the highest quality in all of Korea.
The tour takes you out into the Taean Peninsula to visit farms, a local market, a stunning mudflat, and the fast-disappearing food heritage of traditional salt known as ‘Jayeom’, named by Slow Food as the ‘Ark of Tasts’. This full-day tour to the heartland of Korean cuisine includes lunch and an unbelievably fresh seafood dinner. It’s a cultural and culinary experience you’ll never forget.
Tour Information
Length: 12~13 hours
Type: Transport, walking, eating
Food samples: Raw fish, seafood, vegetables
Suggested items: comfortable walking shoes, bottled water, umbrella or rain protection, camera
Meet Up Place: Ticket Office of Central City Bus Terminal (Honam Line)
Meet Up Time: 7:40am
Price: USD 350.00 per person (need at least 2 people to start the tour, price includes VAT, basic food & beverage)
*Tour runs upon request.
*Please contact us directly for reservations.
*Group rates may apply, depending on no. of attendees.
*meals will include raw fish.
*This is our most popular tour for food professionals
Tour Itinerary (1 day)
Meet-Up at Seosan Bus Terminal
Local Market & Seafood lunch at dinner’s restaurant in the market
‘Jayeom’ Traditional Salt Farm
Desert & Beach
Dinner at farmer’s Restaurant.
jenniferxcho– :
‘m months late posting a review of the Tuscany of Korea tour but our memories of it are still so vivid and impressionable. I work in the culinary industry in the U.S. and really wanted to experience a part of Korea I never had before (I’m Korean American and I’ve visited Korea many times before….just never to the TaeAn peninsula). Despite the time of year not being ideal (middle of January!), Veronica – the owner of GastroTour and our tour guide – was so quick to accommodate and her enthusiasm in taking us around in freezing temperatures never waivered.
She picked us up from our airbnb, greeting us with a bag of delicious mandarins, and drove us out of the chaotic scenes of Seoul rush hour and closer to the beautiful coastal landscape of TaeAn. Our first stop was at a local market in Seosan where we picked out our “breakfast” – we had the most delicious raw abalone, “hwe” (raw fish), and a spicy fish soup. We visited a sea mud salt farm and a rice syrup producer – – snow intermittently fell, making for quite an adventure, and Veronica was even so thoughtful in improvising. For example, she stopped at a small roadside vendor to pick up roasted sweet potatoes and we had a little “snack” of kal guk su that was so nourishing to eat when it was so cold! Before driving back to Seoul, Veronica filled our bellies with ganjang gejang ( fermented raw crab, local specialty)… there was just dish after dish of deliciousness. I thought I had died and went to seafood heaven! 😀
Thank you Veronica & Gastro Tour for everything….there are a lot of gimmicky and run of the mill tours out there, but what I loved about Gastro Tour is you experience food culture and traditions from the inside. We will call upon you again next time we are in Korea & we hope other visitors to Seoul will do the same!