Traditional Food

Tongyeong rice ball rolled in a sheet of laver

  • It has only boiled rice in the sheet of laver in order to preserve for a long time. The taste is wonderful if it is served with radish kimchi and squid with seasonings. The radish kimchi is made of radish, various seasoning, and well-fermented anchovy pickle. The kimchi is then fermented for one day in summer and more than one week in winter. The small squid and squids mixed with seasonings are served as side dishes. The fresh small squid and squids are washed well, boiled for 20 minutes, and then mixed with red pepper. Korean soysauce, onion, garlic, sesame oil, and powdered sesame are mixed well with salt.

Hot swell- fish soup

  • Hot swell-fish soup is made of dropwort, bean sprout, and swellfish. The soup has much protein and vitamin B but no oil and fat. It is good for preventing high blood pressure, neuralgia, and diabetes, and especially, for elimination of hangover and prevention of alcoholism because of its excellent liver detoxication action. It is one of the best traditional food which cleans the blood and skin.

Assorted raw fish

  • Tangpo, Samdok-ri, Sanyang town, Tongyeong-shi. Assorted raw fish is made of fresh sea fishes such as black porgy, black rock fish , bass, flounder, Spotty belly greenling , mackerel pike. It is very popular with many tourists because the taste of fishes in the south coast is the best in the whole country.

Boiled barley

  • Samdok-ri, Sanyang town, Tongyeong City This is made of boiled barley. Its taste is excellent if it is mixed with soybean paste soup. It is excellent for prevention and cure of adult diseases. The taste is wonderful if served with assorted raw fish.

Abalone porridge

  • Tangpo, Samdok-ri, Sanyang town, Tongyeong City. It is made by boiling rice with abalones and has rich nutrition and excellent taste.

Hot fish soup

  • Sanyang, Hansan, and Yokji town, Tongyeong It is made of fresh black rock fish 어, Spotty belly greenling , and bass and various seasonings. It is very popular with many people because its taste is excellent. Abalones produced in the clean sea of the south coast are very popular with many tourists and known as an uncontaminated natural food.