Fall is a season that whets the appetite wherever you go, with your appetite growing stronger than ever. Let’s go for a meal with a grandmother that nourishes the soul~
An autumn gastronomic journey where you can taste a meal magically prepared with seasonal ingredients while listening to the stories of the old women who have stayed in one place for a long time to protect the village. As time goes by, the aged landscapes turn into long-term experience and wisdom, giving you a deeper and stronger taste of life.
This week (September 30th – October 4th), the 5-part episode ‘Will Grandma Eat’ will be broadcast on EBS 1TV’s current affairs and culture program.
Lee Sang-hee, a culinary researcher and photographer, has been studying Tongyeong’s food culture for over 40 years by touring Tongyeong’s markets and visiting every corner of nearby islands. I visited Seoho Market, where there is a grandmother’s restaurant where he stops by every day and eats breakfast.
Seoho Market, located in front of the Tongyeong Ferry Terminal, is Tongyeong’s representative market where good food ingredients brought by mothers from various islands in Tongyeong are gathered. You can find fresh seasonal fish and vegetables all year round along the busy market road from early in the morning. Lee Sang-hee says she stops by Seoho Market every day to buy groceries.
I visited Grandma Yeonwoo’s restaurant for breakfast. Grandmother Kang Nyeon-woo, who has been running a restaurant in Seoho Market for 23 years, is responsible for providing a hearty breakfast to the merchants who work in the early morning dew by making different soups and side dishes every day with fresh seasonal ingredients. When it’s meal time, grandmother Na Bok-hee and the nearby merchants from the side dish store gather at grandmother Yeon-woo’s place one after another.
Grandmother Kang Nyeon-woo says her food is old-fashioned. Lee Sang-hee says that although the food always tastes like what her mother made at home, the taste is anything but ordinary. Above all, it is a restaurant that you keep coming back to because you feel comfortable while eating.
Yeonwoo’s grandmother’s restaurant has been a regular for 20 years, where customers prepare their own side dishes and even if they don’t deliver, they come with their own trays and take care of it! Everyone who comes to eat tastes the warm and friendly breakfast of Grandmother Kang Nyeon-woo, who treats everyone as a ‘family member’ rather than a ‘guest.’
Reporter Park Yu-mi Photo = EBS Korea Travel
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2024-09-30 16:24:18