Busan Night Market “Pu-pyeong gang-tong Market” 부평 깡통시장

Busan’s Bupyeong Market is also known as gang-tong (tin can) market. It earned that funny name when it had a variety of imported canned goods from the United States for the US forces stationed in Korea during the Korean War.
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This Night market is “ALWAYS” open from 19:30-24:00 and has been operating since October 2013. We went there by subway to Jagalchi station (Line 1), exit 3.

From the subway station, it’s about a 10mins walk.

The night market is close to the Gukje market (day market) and it’s right next to Dae Young Hotel.

Along the 110m-long street the market is lined with food kiosks – each of them offers a different kind of food.

They served just the right size if you like to try the local food – this is a great place to start your Korean food experience.

I enjoyed a variety of foods at reasonable prices ranging from 3,000 won to 5,000 won ($3-$5)

But if you want some TO GO, try to say “po-jang-hair ju-se-yo” 보장해 주세요, TO GO PLEASE, and they will wrap it a little better for you.

I’d like to call this market as Food Torch market – because all the food was glazed using a torch!

Is it safe to use a butane torch on food?

Propane and butane are pure alkanes. They don’t produce anything nasty when burned. The worst you could possibly get should be carbon monoxide (and I am not even sure it can be produced in a torch, the dioxide ifs much more likely), but it being a gas, it won’t stick to your food. The complex molecules you get from heating the food itself have more potential for being harmful than the combustion products of a propane butane torch. Ago yes, it is food safe.

Mar 29, 2013

Ref:https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/33094/is-it-safe-to-use-a-propane-torch-bought-at-a-hardware-store

Cooking with torch makes the market look like it’s on the fire in the Summer!

Well, there is no spot to sit and eat, we had to stand and eat on the side.

Each kiosk will provide a trash bag – I’d like to recommend you to bring some wet tissues. The small food container will make your hands sticky!

They said “Night Market is full of traditional food from all over the world including Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and China”

I’m Thai – I didn’t see any Thai food here – just saying…

We got here about 7pm, it’s getting busy already! Some kiosk’s had a long line – So I guess that’s the good one!

There were some drink shops but nothing fancy – at least they have TO GO beer and it’s just $2!
(맥주 mag-ju = Beer)

Food, drink and yes, DESSERT!
There is a popular bakery shop which has many kinds of seasonal fresh fruit pies. During July-August, don’t miss the Peach Pie!

The Korean pie crust which is more like biscuit than pie – so I ate all the top but not the pie crust. It’s too bad it’s $8 pie and I ate just half of it!

And this is what I wanted to try, the fried milk! Unfortunately, the line was just too long to wait 🙁

(우유 u-yu = Milk)

We ended our food tour with the HONG KONG waffle with a honey comb on it! It’s about $5.

I noticed that honey is very expensive here!!!

We were so full for tonight, it was little something and little other things we tried and ate for 1.5 hrs!

If you’ve been to Thailand – you can find the night market like this on every small street in Bangkok.

But in Busan, this is the best one I found! It’s too bad it’s too far from our condo in Haeundae, we had to take 2 subway lines and it’s about an hour ride even it’s just a couple dollars.