Campsite dessert from a Danyang market bakery: Black Garlic Salt Bread

Why a Danyang Gugyeong Market black garlic crawl ends at this bakery

Garlic is the first thing that comes to mind with Danyang, and black garlic especially is famous. Every time I visit Danyang I go to Gugyeong Market, eat sundaeguk (blood sausage soup), grab a meal somewhere, and always finish with a black garlic dessert.

I've had black garlic suyuk (boiled pork), black garlic sundaeguk, black garlic mandu (dumplings)... so shouldn't dessert wrap things up with garlic too?

Black Garlic Salt Bread got hot the moment it opened in Danyang Gugyeong Market. There's always a long line whenever I go, and this time was no different — plenty of people buying.

If you go to the market, you have to stop by black garlic dakgangjeong (sweet fried chicken) — buy some there, show your receipt at the bakery, and you get ₩1,000 off. Make sure to hit them in that order!

Menu and gift set options at Black Garlic Salt Bread

Here's the menu board!! Four types — original, garlic, black garlic, soboro — and buying a gift set gets you a discount.

• Set 1: 4 original
• Set 2: 2 original, 1 garlic, 1 black garlic
• Set 3: 1 original, 1 soboro, 1 garlic, 1 black garlic
• Set 4: 2 garlic, 2 black garlic

Personally, Set 1 and Set 2 are my favorites and what I'd recommend.

I always buy the same combo — one all-original set and one mixed set. As sets, that's Set 1 and Set 2.

Danyang Gugyeong Market's Black Garlic Salt Bread also sells ice cream, and it's really good too — you should try it. It was scorching hot that day, and people really were walking out with salt bread in one hand and ice cream in the other.

Salt bread as dessert after a campsite shower

After arriving at today's destination campsite and pitching the tent while getting completely soaked, a nice cool shower feels like a rebirth — now it's finally my time. Today's dessert time is with these delicious salt breads.

I really liked this packaging. Instead of a separate paper bag, they just attach a simple handle to the regular bakery paper bag — easy to carry, no need to buy an extra bag. I wish every bakery in the country did this.

Ahhh, this is why you come to Danyang!! Black garlic salt bread — you can only get this here.

Not a garlic fan? Try the original salt bread

If you're wondering what to do when you don't like garlic — don't worry, there's a plain salt bread too. The salty, nutty original salt bread is delicious on its own, and you definitely won't regret it.

Soft enough to tear apart easily by hand, baked with the layers nicely intact. The salt gives it good texture and good seasoning.

They use plenty of butter too, so the salt-and-butter combo works really well. I never got into the salt bread trend much personally, but this one was good simply because the bread itself is delicious.

Four flavors to mix and match

Regular salt bread usually only comes in one kind, but this place has four flavors, so there's fun in choosing — and I never got tired of eating them one after another.

I worried a bit that the garlic smell or flavor might be too much, but it wasn't overwhelming at all. Not too salty, not too sweet — the seasoning and the garlic are both just right, the kind of taste anyone would like regardless of preference.

Places that add all sorts of extras to bread often have mediocre bread underneath, but Danyang Gugyeong Market's Black Garlic Salt Bread is genuinely good at the bread itself, so whatever seasoning goes in, it's above average.

The best of the box: black garlic salt bread

Personally, the black garlic salt bread was the tastiest of all. Its color is pitch black, so I thought 'this one's going to hit hard!' — but once again, it wasn't overpowering at all.

They seem to have deliberately darkened the color because it's black garlic, and the black garlic made an already-great garlic bread even richer and nuttier. It was sweeter than the regular garlic salt bread too, and it was completely my type.

When you visit Danyang Gugyeong Market, there's so much to eat, drink, and buy — but make sure to put this bakery on your must-visit list too!!