Danyang market taste test: garlic wins over black garlic salt bread

Part 2 of my Danyang Gugyeong Market food tour!! Introducing a special salt bread bakery I found inside the market.

Black Garlic Salt Bread: location and hours

• ⭐️ Black Garlic Salt Bread
• ⭐️ Address: 613 Dojeon-ri, Danyang-eup, Danyang-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
• ⭐️ Hours: Thu–Mon 10:00–20:00
• ⭐️ Closed every Tuesday and Wednesday
• ⭐️ Parking available at Danyang Gugyeong Market public parking lot

Found by the smell of bread drifting down the market street

Walking through Gugyeong Market, there's a spot where the smell of bread just spreads down the street. My feet stopped automatically, and looking around, haha, that's how I found Black Garlic Salt Bread!! Apparently it's made by young folks who research garlic cooking, haha.

Getting closer to the display case, the bread was so golden-brown you couldn't resist it, haha. The surface was glossy and generously topped with salt!

A bite at the tasting corner

There's a tasting corner where you can try before you buy, but one bite and you just have to buy it!! So good.

Salt bread varieties, prices, and set menus

They have original, streusel, garlic, and black garlic salt bread, and the prices are:

• ⭐️ Single items — Original ₩3,000 / Streusel, Garlic ₩3,800 each / Black garlic ₩4,200
• ⭐️ Set 1 — 4 original — ₩11,000 (was ₩12,000)
• ⭐️ Set 2 — 2 original + 1 garlic + 1 black garlic — ₩13,000 (was ₩14,000)
• ⭐️ Set 3 — 1 original + 1 streusel + 1 garlic + 1 black garlic — ₩14,000 (was ₩14,800)
• ⭐️ Set 4 — 2 garlic + 2 black garlic — ₩14,800 (was ₩16,000)

Buying a set lets you enjoy a wider variety of flavors a bit cheaper.

The black garlic salt bread is apparently made from black garlic sourced from Danyang's native six-clove garlic, domestic sun-dried salt, and top-grade French gourmet butter, all working together!! These days a lot of places just slap the name 'salt bread' on anything, but this place gives off a real authentic vibe 🤤🤤

Only the black garlic salt bread comes in its own individual disposable dish, and the sauce looked thick and delicious, so I was really looking forward to trying it.

There's even a space in the store for aging the black garlic, haha.

They also sell an ice cream salt bread, ㅜㅜ. Ice cream plus salt bread sounds amazing, but sadly my hands were already full of bags so I couldn't try it,,⭐️

Opening Set 1 and Set 2 at home

Back home, time to open up the Black Garlic Salt Bread haul. I bought Set 1 and Set 2, haha. In total: 4 original salt bread, 1 garlic salt bread, 1 black garlic salt bread. Got it!!!

Black garlic salt bread taste

The bread was so puffy and cute-looking, hahaha. The black garlic salt bread, which I was most excited about, had an even stronger garlic aroma than I expected. It tasted like a fully concentrated garlic baguette?! The garlic flavor wasn't too overpowering and blended really well with the bread, which I loved even more. I feel like this would go great with milk too.

My personal favorite: the regular garlic salt bread

And then the regular garlic salt bread. It's piled high with garlic flakes. The garlic flavor was milder than the black garlic version, but it was nutty and crispy in its own charming way — honestly, to my taste, the regular garlic salt bread was the best.

Reheated from frozen in the air fryer

The butter cave inside was on point too, and after freezing it and reheating it in the air fryer the next day, it tasted just like freshly baked salt bread, even better, hahaha. Next time I visit Gugyeong Market I'm buying a ton of garlic salt bread and stocking up my freezer!!

All you bread lovers around the country, when you visit Danyang, a stop at Black Garlic Salt Bread in Gugyeong Market is a must!! Thanks for the meal today.