Tongyeong — Places to eat
A harbour town where you buy gimbap and honey buns by the water
- Dongjin Chungmu Gimbap — Plain-rice gimbap with squid salad, a 40-year-plus shop
- Hanil Gimbap, Main Branch — A chungmu gimbap shop open from 6am to 11pm
- Myeongga Chungmu Gimbap, Main Branch — Chungmu gimbap dipped in sesame-oil salt sauce
- Wonjo Sirak-guk — Eel-broth sirak-guk served from 4:30am
- Hooni Sirak-guk — Sirak-guk plus soy noodles and oyster rice-cake soup in Seoho
- Manseong Bokjip — Clear baby-pufferfish soup for an early morning reset
- Meongga, Tongyeong Main — Sea-squirt bibimbap mixed without chili paste
- Wonjo Milmul Sikdang — Sea-squirt bibimbap at Jungang Market from 8am
- Gul Hyangtojip — Oyster bossam and rice, a 30-year-plus oyster house
- Daepunggwan — Abalone pot rice and oyster set courses, with a queue
- Tongyeong Donghae Sikdang — A Tongyeong seafood table that changes with the season
- Donggwang Sikdang — A pufferfish soup shop in its third generation since 1970
- Ulsan Dachi — Order drinks and the seafood keeps coming, Tongyeong dachi style
- Dadama Haemul Ttukbaegi — A 12,000-won seafood doenjang stone pot, packed
- Yonggung Ttukbaegi — A seafood stone pot topped with chunky crab
- Tongyeong Bapsang Sikdang — A seafood stone pot with anchovy-salad side spread
- Tolbo Hwaleo, Jungang Fish Market — Pick a live fish and have it cut on the spot
- Donam Sikdang — Oyster pancake and seafood doenjang in a roomy family restaurant
- Dongpirang Saengseon-gui — Grilled-fish set with a crab doenjang stew
- Geumok Sikdang — Fresh hairtail stew and grilled-fish sets from 8am
- Simgane Seafood Jjamppong — Seafood on beef-bone broth, a jjamppong queue spot
- Wonjo Halmae Ujja — Udon topped with jajang, the Tongyeong way
- Omisa Kkulppang, Main Shop — The old Tongyeong honey-bread shop, red bean filling only
- Manna Kkulppang — Honey bread made with natural honey since 1980
- Bada Bom — Every seat looks out on the Gangguan harbor
- Cafe Nyeok — A rotating 7th-floor deck over the Tongyeong–Geoje sea
- Baeyangjang — A seaside café in a renovated sea-squirt hatchery
- Jijeotteu — Baguette salt bread and egg tarts at a small Bongsu-gol bakery