Seoul Vegan & Vegetarian Market Food Tour with Temple Classics

Overview

Available languages

English

2 hours

Mobile ticket

12 plant-based tastings & 4 drinks at Gwangjang Market, including temple-inspired food, desserts & drinks. Go beyond eating. Explore how traditional, modern & temple cuisine shaped Korean food culture and the etiquette behind it.

• Taste a naturally plant-based Korean food—not a dietary alternative

• Discover how Korean food and drink move together, from premium makgeolli to modern blend somaek

• Explore temple-inspired dishes and traditions, from goukcha to dasik

• Learn Korean table manners, and the unwritten rules of sharing, pouring, and toasting

• Enjoy 12 tastings across 7 curated stalls —an opportunity to explore the quieter stories, context, and history behind each dish

• Leave with a printed recap market map — a quiet guide for revisiting each stop at your own pace

By the end, you will have experienced more than a series of tastings —how Korean food, drink, etiquette, and philosophy move together—subtly, but with lasting coherence.

Additional Info

Service animals allowed

Public transportation options are available nearby

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap

Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Owing to the carefully curated and harmonious nature of this experience, we are regrettably unable to accommodate certain dietary requirements on our tour. We kindly invite you to contact us so that we may advise, with due care, whether your particular needs can be thoughtfully accommodated.

As this experience includes the convivial serving of alcoholic beverages, only those guests who are of legal drinking age in the Republic of Korea (19 years or older) may partake in the alcoholic offerings. We are unable to serve alcohol to minors under any circumstances, and we kindly ask that all guests bring valid identification should age verification be required.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What To Expect

This is not a simple vegan offering, but a considered exploration of how varied, layered, and deeply satisfying entirely plant-based Korean food can be. Among the 13 dishes you will taste, elements of temple cuisine appear throughout — lending a quiet depth rarely found in the market. Drinks are treated with equal care. Rather than the familiar, you will be introduced to premium makgeolli — selected for character and balance, and served with the context and etiquette that give it meaning. To allow you to remain fully present, a printed tour recap market map will be provided at the end — a quiet companion for revisiting each stop at your own pace. The experience concludes with a small parting taste: Gim-bugak from Namwon — a delicately crisp seaweed and rice wafer rooted in temple cuisine and traditional ceremonial food, made from natural ingredients and rarely found within the market itself, offered to take home.

What‘s Included

Gim Bugaak — premium crispy seaweed & rice wafer

English-speaking curator, a local regular at Gwangjang Market

Printed tour recap market map (yours to keep)

Dasik — Buddhist temple tea confections

GokCha — premium makgeolli, traditional rice wine

Yakgwa — flower-pressed honey & sesame biscuits

Korean Seasonal Fruit - at its sweetest moment

Tteokbokki — rice cakes in gochujang sauce

Soju & Somaek — clean, light distilled spirit & iconic beer blend

Mayak Gimbap — seaweed rice roll with magic sauce

A seamless access to stalls—no waiting in long queues

Bibim Guksu — spicy cold noodles in chojang sauce

Sikhye — fermented sweet rice drink (ceremonial digestive)

Water throughout

Hotteok — Korea's quietly charming answer to the pancake

YuBoo ChoBap — fried tofu pocket rice

Hobakjuk — a porridge of fully ripened pumpkin

NockDoo Jeon — crispy mung bean pancake

Gratuities

Transportation to or from the market

Personal expenses

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