Tongin market, located in Tongin-dong, Gongno-gu, Seoul near the Gyeongbokgung Palace, has a reputation for its lunch box cafe. ‘Tong’-a lunch box cafe operating from Jan. 2012- has become a unique attraction where foreign tourists visit.
Lots of tourists visit here by link to Gyeongbokgung Palace. ‘Tong’, a lunch box cafe, made use of its own good points that side dish stores occupies a big part of the market.
At first, if you pay some money to customer satisfaction center, an empty case is provided for your equivalent yeopjeons to buy side dishes. When you receive a food tray, you can go around the market, looking for some franchise of this cafe and buy side dishes you would like to purchase by yeopjeon.
You can generally buy side dishes with 1 or 2 yeopjeons(500 Won ~ 1,000 Won). There are lots of side dishes appealing to your tastes from various kinds of Korean style pancake(jeon) to salted seafood, vegetable, dumpling and so on at this market. Market traders are generous enough to give lots of dishes to eat your fill. 
You shouldn’t miss oil-seasoned tteok-bokki(stir-fried rice cake), this market’s specialty. Tteok-bokki fired with oil on the pan, a different cuisine from general Tteok-bokki, makes unusual flavor. You can buy small amounts of oil-seasoned tteok-bokki.
If you fill up a food tray with side dishes you’d like to eat, you revisit the customer satisfaction center you got some yeopjeon. You can eat your dishes and also buy cooked rice and soup at this place. This cooked rice and soup are worth 1,000 Won and you can pay by cash or by yeopjeon.
It’s just for a 5,000 Won meal but you can feel full. The lunch box cafe at Tongin market is very attractive at the point of choosing some side dishes that you want to eat. The more people come with, the better dishes you can choose together. You can also get some dessert here at low price. You can get some discounted drink each by 500 Won at this cafe.
<use information to Tongin market >
- how to visit Tongin market
1. getting off at seoul station of korail airport railroad > transfer to subway line no.4 > chungmuro station> transfer to subway line no.3 > 5 minutes on foot at exit 2 from Gyeongbokgung Palace station
2. getting off at seoul station of korail airport railroad > transfer to subway line no.1 > Jongno 3-ga station> transfer to subway line no.3 > 5 minutes' walks at exit 2 from Gyeongbokgung Palace station
- available day of lunch box cafe: every Tuesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm (please note that the sale of yeopjeon is closed at 4 pm)
- off-day: the whole market is closed on the third Sunday every month
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