Gijang Crab Market (기장 대게시장) – (How to go, what to expect, and what we ordered)

Posted on by Regine

We spent my mom’s birthday during our trip to Busan and knowing that she loves crab, I tried to do my research about where you can eat crab in Busan.

Tha’s how I ended up with Gijang Crab Market (기장 대게시장).

How to go to Gijang Crab Market from Canvas Hostel:

Take bus 1003 (bus stop from Canvas Hostel for bus 1003 can be found here)

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get down at Gijang Market
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as soon as you get down the station face right and walk straight
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turn left on the first corner
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and YOU ARE ALREADY AT GIJANG CRAB MARKET!
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There are a lot of places
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that offers
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seafood
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but after walking, we decided to have lunch here
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this is their sign and their store name is 청해왕대게
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outside the place, they can only sell male crabs and cannot sell female crabs BUT WE WERE SURPRISED THAT THEY TASTED SO GOOD
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the restaurant is beside a stall that sells FRESH ABALONE (roughly 3,000 won/each)
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we chose a crab and chose some abalone and the staff steamed them for us (there is a cooking charge of 4,000 won/person and you can ask them to steam the abalone that you will buy from the store beside them)
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we went up the second floor
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which is actually a place where you can eat what you ordered!
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they’ll give this to you after you order. you’ll show this to the person that will greet you at the 2nd floor
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and they will set up the table for you

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YUM!! My mom loved the crab (we got a Snow Crab). They also gave us free clams!
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FRESH ABALONE
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FOR ROUGHLY $3 EACH
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BUT THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE DISHES! We also ordered Crab Roe Fried Rice
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and it WAS THE BOMB
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LIKE I WILL DEF COME BACK FOR THIS
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ADDED FISH ROE SO THAT IT WOULD BE MORE DELICIOUS

all photos taken using an iPhone

I will definitely come back to this place when I’ll have a trip to Busan again!!

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💚, R

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