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50 places across Japan and South Korea
Yanaka Ginza
A single shopping street the war and the developers both missed.
Nishiki Market
Kyoto's kitchen, four hundred metres long and one shop deep.
Kuromon Ichiba Market
Six hundred metres of grilled scallops and knife shops.
Hōzenji Yokochō
A stone alley of old kitchens, a block from the neon.
Gwangjang Market
Sit on a plastic stool and eat mung bean pancakes.
Mangwon Market
The market Seoul actually shops at.
Euljiro 3-ga
Unmarked bars above lighting shops and print workshops.
Jagalchi Market
Korea's biggest fish market — buy downstairs, eat upstairs.
Tsukishima Monja Street
Seventy shops cooking the same runny pancake.
Ameyoko Market
A postwar black market that never closed.
Tsukiji Outer Market
The wholesale market left, the good food stayed.
Nonbei Yokochō
Forty postwar bars in the shadow of the tracks.
Omoide Yokochō
Yakitori smoke in a lane the width of a corridor.
Sangenjaya Sankaku Chitai
A triangle of lanes that survived every redevelopment.
Ebisu Yokochō
A covered market turned into twenty bars.
Harmonica Yokochō
A hundred shops in a block you could throw a stone across.
Toyosu Market
The tuna auction, seen from a glass walkway.
Pontochō
A lane one person wide, running beside the river.
Demachi Futaba
The mame-mochi worth standing in line for.
Fushimi Sake District
White-walled breweries along a willow canal.
Fukushima Izakaya Alleys
One stop from Umeda, and where Osaka actually drinks.
Tsuruhashi Korea Town
The oldest Korean quarter in Japan, and it smells like it.
Jan Jan Yokochō
A narrow arcade of kushikatsu counters and shogi parlours.
Nakatanidō
They pound the mochi at terrifying speed, in the street.
Komachi-dōri
The eating street from the station to the shrine.
Tongin Market
Buy brass coins, fill your own lunchbox.
Namdaemun Market
Six hundred years old and open through the night.
Sindang Tteokbokki Town
One street, one dish, seventy years.
Jangchung-dong Jokbal Street
Braised pig trotter, on one block, since the 1960s.
Haebangchon
A steep hill village of small kitchens and bars.
Noryangjin Fish Market
Choose it downstairs, eat it upstairs.
Euljiro Nogari Alley
Plastic stools in the road, beer and dried pollack.
Gukje Market
The refugee market that became the city’s centre.
Bupyeong Kkangtong Night Market
Korea’s first permanent night market.
Busan Chinatown
A Chinese street and a Russian street, back to back.
Bujeon Market
Busan’s biggest traditional market, and its least polished.
Seomyeon Food Alley
The eating grid behind Busan’s busiest junction.
Millak Raw Fish Town
Buy the fish downstairs, eat it facing the bridge.
Haeundae Traditional Market
A covered food lane two streets back from the beach.
Gijang Market
Crab, straight off the boats, on one street.
Dongmun Market
The island’s main market, with a night food aisle.
Black Pork Street
One street, one animal, forty restaurants.
Nambu Market Night Market
A 200-year-old market that runs a night market at weekends.
Jeonju Bibimbap Houses
The dish, in the city it is named after.
Makgeolli Alley
Order a kettle of rice wine, the food arrives free.
Incheon Chinatown
Where jjajangmyeon was invented, in 1905.
Sinpo International Market
The market that invented Korean sweet fried chicken.
Bukseong Port Raw Fish Market
Buy it at the counter, eat it at the plastic table.