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Seoul Vegan Vegetarian Market Food Tour with Temple Classics

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Free cancellation available
Price is RM 345 per adult

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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
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Overview

  • Taste a richly flavoured plant-based Korean food—not a dietary alternative
  • Discover how Korean food and drink move together, from makgeolli to somaek
  • Explore temple-inspired dishes and traditions, from goukcha to dasik
  • Learn Korean table manners, and the unwritten rules of Korean drinking
  • Enjoy 12 tastings 7 stalls with the quieter stories, context, and history behind

Activity location

    • Seoul
    • Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Seoul, South Korea | We shall meet just outside Seoul Subway Line 1, at Jongno 5-ga Station—precisely between Exits 7 and 8, in front of the police station.
    • Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

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Seoul Vegan Vegetarian Market Food Tour with Temple Classics

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Small-Group Tour: A more intimate experience, limited to 12 guests or fewer.

Language options: English
Price details
RM 345.24 x 1 AdultRM 345.24
Total
Price is RM 345.24

Private Tour Option

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Reserved Exclusively for Your Group: Upgrade to a fully private experience, reserved exclusively for you and your group.

Language options: English
Price details
RM 1,039.48 x 1 AdultRM 1,039.48
Total
Price is RM 1,039.48

What's included, what's not

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    Hobak Juk — a porridge of fully ripened pumpkin
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    NockDoo Jeon — crispy mung bean pancake
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    Mayak Gimbap — addictive seaweed rice roll
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    Bibim Guksu — spicy cold noodles in chojang sauce
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    YuBoo ChoBap — fried tofu pocket rice
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    Tteokbokki — rice cakes in gochujang sauce
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    Sikhye — fermented sweet rice drink (ceremonial digestive)
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    Korean Seasonal Fruit — at its sweetest moment
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    Yakgwa — flower-pressed honey & sesame biscuits
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    Dasik — temple tea confections
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    Hotteok — Korea's quietly charming answer to the pancake
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    Gim-bugak — crispy seaweed & rice wafer from temple and ceremonial traditions
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    GoukCha— premium makgeolli, traditional rice wine
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    Soju & Somaek — Korea's clean, light distilled spirit & its iconic beer blend
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    Water throughout
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    A printed tour recap market map, allowing you to revisit each stop at your own pace.
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    English-speaking curator, a local regular at Gwangjang Market, shaped by 800+ guest experiences
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    A seamless access to stalls—no waiting in long queues
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    Hotel pickup / drop-off
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    Additional personal purchases
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    Gratuity (optional but warmly appreciated)

What you can 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 12 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. Alongside this, we explore soju and a thoughtfully composed modern blend, so-maek, not merely as drinks but as social rituals. You will be gently guided through the manners of sharing, pouring, and toasting — the small, graceful gestures that shape how Koreans gather, connect, and celebrate around the table.

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.

Location

Activity location

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    • Seoul
    • Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Seoul, South Korea | We shall meet just outside Seoul Subway Line 1, at Jongno 5-ga Station—precisely between Exits 7 and 8, in front of the police station.
    • Seoul, Seoul, South Korea