Bupyeong Market gradually became packed with restaurants as the laborers working at the Jagalchi Market and the nearby wharfs looked for places to eat. In the 1980s, pig’s trotter became available at relatively affordable prices at the market, which marked the beginning of what has become known as Pig’s Trotter Alley. One thing special about the pig’s trotter at the Bupyeong Market is that unlike any other places in Korea, it is served as a salad along with vegetables. In addition, whole chicken served after being deep-fried in a cast-iron pot is a must-try dish at the market. It is incomparably delicious, huge, and cheap.

Bupyeong Jokbal Alley is the birthplace of pig’s trotter salad and five-spice pork in Korea. There’s always something special about being the originator, which holds true to the pig’s trotter salad at Bupyeong Market. You can’t walk away without trying this dish.

Once you place an order, you’ll be served with a bowl of noodles as an appetizer. The noodles in a brown sauce used for pig’s trotter salad will immediately spike your appetite with its sour flavor.

Finally, here comes the pig’s trotter salad!
You’ll find a small pile of vegetables such as julienned carrot and cucumber seasoned in yellowish -brown mustard sauce. Once you take a closer look at it, you’ll also find yellow and chewy julienned jellyfish seasoned along with the vegetables. Delicious-looking pig’s trotter cut into large pieces is soaked in a thin layer of sauce.
Pig’s trotter is less greasy yet more savory in this sauce. Use chopsticks to pick a huge piece of meat topped with jellyfish salad.
The coldness of pig’s trotter salad followed by its chewiness, the crunchy texture of cucumbers and carrots, and the refreshing flavor of jellyfish are in such perfect harmony that you’ll have a tingling sensation in your mouth.
Now, it’s time to add a piece of meat on top of a lettuce and a sesame leaves. Create and taste a vegetable wrap with pig’s trotter along with other side dishes such as seasoned dried radish, kimchi, and seasoned soybean sprouts, and you’ll see how delicious the chewy pig’s trotter is and how refreshing the vegetables are.

Chicken, deep-fried in a cast-iron pot, is always delectable and always right. Particularly at Bupyeong Market, a chicken gets deep-fried moving between two cast-iron pots, which is the key to the inimitably crispy fried chicken.

Go on and get a plate of crispy golden-brown fried chicken. The crispy batter is still hot enough to give off heat. You might expect to see a whole chicken deep-fried. However, it gets cut into small pieces before being served. At Bupyeong Market, the dish is still called “whole chicken” instead of “fried chicken.” Whole chicken and fried chicken may look the same but are different. Whole chicken has a positive connotation of something big, rough, and warm. This may be the reason Bupyeong Market’s whole chicken is “big.” You won’t believe that the amount of food on your plate is only for one person.

Bupyeong Market’s whole chicken is crispy at a glance but soft inside. The best part of Bupyeong Market’s whole chicken is its softness coming after its crispiness. The white meat, along with the crispy batter, creates a double sensation in your mouth. Please don’t think that the market offers only plain fried chicken. You can try a sweet and sour fried chicken in a spicy glaze or a slightly salty fried chicken in soy sauce as well.

It’s time head on down to Bupyeong Market, known for serving Korea’s first pig’s trotter salad and frying up those huge old-fashioned fried chickens. Check it out,; don’t just imagine it!