Yerin Gang · 3 stories
Writes about small shops and cafes she visits around Gangwon. · Writes about: Shopping · Cafés · Restaurants
Doris Patisserie is an egg tart bakery on Jungang-ro 147beon-gil near Sokcho Central Market in Gangwon. The writer texted the day before to reserve original, cream cheese and walnut egg tarts, collected them in the last pickup slot at 15:00 with no wait, and was given an extra freshly baked original tart as a bonus. Booking is simple and pickup takes minutes, so Doris Patisserie is an easy takeaway stop on a Sokcho trip.
Hwangbuja Jeotgal is a traditional salted seafood (jeotgal) shop in the dakgangjeong alley of Sokcho Tourist Fish Market in Sokcho, Gangwon. On the last day of a two-night, three-day Sokcho trip, the writer tasted and picked three kinds — squid jeotgal, nakji-tang jeotgal (octopus) and myeongtae hoe-muchim (spicy pollock salad) — and the ice-pack packing kept them fresh over a drive home of more than five hours via Yangyang. Every tub came labeled, which made it easy to portion the jeotgal into fridge and freezer batches at home.
Sokcho Topgol Makguksu Main Branch is a perilla oil buckwheat makguksu (cold buckwheat noodle) restaurant on Haeoreum-ro 188beon-gil near Sokcho Beach, and its signature dish, deulmemak, is even trademark-filed. A couple ordered the large suyuk (boiled pork) with one deulmemak and one pollack sashimi makguksu, and the noodle portions were generous enough to pass for an upsized bowl elsewhere, with tender suyuk alongside. Lunch at 1 p.m. kept them full until 10 p.m. — a filling meal that easily justifies the trip.
