Frozen Seafood at Noryangjin Seafood Market
Products of Noryangjin Seafood market are not limited to fish but almost every kind of seafood is available at the Noryangjin Seafood Market.
Compared with local retail markets, even the retail markets of Noryangjin are about 10~30% cheaper. All types of frozen food including shrimp, pre-made sushi ingredients, frozen tuna, frozen uni(sea urchin and all kinds of frozen food are available
Jeotgal(젓갈, fermented salted seafood) at Noryangjin Seafood Market
Fermented and salted seafood, Jeogtal is available at Noryangjin Market on the second floor in the middle of the retail area. Jeotgal could be utilized as banchan(Korean style side dishes), flavoring agents, seasoning instead of salt, condiments etc.
Ohjinguh Jeot(squid jeotgal) is one of the most popular banchan(Korean style) served with rice. Saeu-jeot(shrimp jeotgal) is one of the most important ingredients as seasoning instead of salt for Korean style soups and Kimchi that gives both umami flavor and salting seasoning.
Youk-jeot is the most prime saeu-jeot as the akiami paste shrimps are the largest in size.
Youk-jeot means jeotgal made in June as Youk means six, which is the month that akiami paste shrimp that are used for saeu-jeot are the largest as it is their spawning season. Jeotgal are never meant to be consumed alone.
Geon uh mool(건어물, dried seafood) at Noryangjin Seafood Market
Geon uh mool is dried seafood in Korean and on the second floor, there are specialized retail markets that sell them.
Dried squid and pollock are one of the most popular geon uh mool, dried seafood in South Korea as they are great ahnjoo which means supplementing food when served with alcohol.
Geon uh mool, dried seafood is very important in South Korea cuisine as many dried seafood such as dried anchovies become the base ingredient for Korean style soups.
Geem seaweed also known as nori is also a very important dried seafood in Korean style cuisine.
Live seafood at Noryangjin Seafood Market
Whether seafood is fresh or not is not an option in South Korea because standards of freshness in South Korea are much strict because much seafood are distributed alive.
By the Fishery Products Distribution Management and Support Act of South Korea, all seafood must be listed on Suhyup(National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative).
Thus, all seafood whether alive or not must be listed and go public. To increase the survival rate of alive seafood, South Korea businesses inevitably developed many systems to keep seafood alive.
The Noryangjin Seafood Market has both the wholesale market and the retail markets within to increase such efficiency and many retail stores in Noryangjin Seafood Market have good quality fish alive.
Most retail stores are also business partners and customers of the wholesale market and many of the greatest quality fish distributed in the wholesale market are distributed alive in the retail market and sold to the public and ordinary customers.
Other utility stores and shops at Noryangjin Seafood Market
There are many utility stores and stores at the Noryangjin Seafood Market that customers could use.
Knife-sharpening – Han Kal(한칼) at the 3rd floor parking lot
Operating hours: 08:00AM ~ 15:00 PM on week days & 08:00AM ~11:00 AM on Saturday
The knife-sharpening store Han Kal(한칼) also takes order of custom made cooking knives and provides knife-sharpening services. This store has an old history with famous knife-sharpening and knife producing masters.
Seafood buffet – 노량진 101 Noryangjin 101
The Viking Group of Korea that operates Vikings, Viking’s Wharf and Crab 52, different types of seafood buffet at Korea opened Norayngjin 101(노량진 101) seafood buffet.
Cooking Tools – 신명 칼 상사
On the 2nd floor, cooking tools such as sashimi knives could be purchased at the Noryangjin Seafood Market.
Food Ingredients and various frozen products – 영신 씨푸드
The real jewel of the Noryangjin Seafood Market is the Young Shin Seafood store located in the basement of the Noryangjin Seafood Market.
This Young Shin Seafood store isn’t limited to seafood ingredients but all sorts of condiments, seasoning, vegetables, sauces for all cuisine Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Western, South east Asian are all available.
How to eat food at Noryangjin Seafood Market – Cho jang jib Guide
Cho jang jib(초장집) are restaurants where customers bring their seafood as raw ingredients and cook them for the customers and rent a location where customers could eat.
Cho jang jibs are the unique restaurants of Korea where you could order your seafood to be processed or cooked in any kind of traditional seafood market in South Korea.
After purchasing seafood from the blue sign 활어 stores or other stores, you could go to the second floor or ask the retail stores if they have a partner cho jang jib to enjoy your purchased seafood.
Cho jang jib will cook your seafood as wished either raw, with stew, boiled, steamed etc and charge you the cost per kg or per every unit.
The Cho jang jib will have a basic set up cost per each person as well. Honestly, cho jang jib do take a lot of budget because the rent cost is very expensive at the Noryangjin restaurant and it would cost at least 1/3 of the cost of the purchased seafood in general.
Consumer Complaint and Consumer Recall System of Noryangjin Seafood Market
The Noryangjin Seafood Market runs a recall system for retail store customers only. However this recall system is only limited to the retail store consumers.
Products bought from the basement fish storage facilities and the wholesale market are excluded from this consumer recall system.
However the consumer would have to immediately show the seafood of matter along with information of where, when the product was bought and the quantity such as weight or number of items.
Internet link to the consumer recall guidelines of the Noryangjin Seafood Market https://www.susansijang.co.kr/nsis/miw/ko/common/cstmr/miw4550?bbsCode=13
노량진수산주식회사 : 고객센터 - 고객의 소리 안내페이지
고객의 소리 고객의 소리 문제점이나 불편사항을 함께 고민하고 빠르게 해결해 나가겠습니다. 노량진수산물도매시장은 2002년부터 도매시장 최초로 소비자 리콜제를 운영하고 있습니다. 구입하
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List of stores with violations and penalty of Noryangjin Seafood Market
The Noryangjin Seafood Market posts a monthly list of excessive solicitation activities, cheating on the country origins, violation of rules, violation of hygiene standards, violence and other inappropriate actions. Below is the link to the lists of such penalized stores.
https://www.susansijang.co.kr/nsis/miw/ko/cstmr/bbs/list/15#
노량진수산주식회사 : 불공정거래자 - 게시물 목록페이지
불공정거래자 명단 불공정거래자 명단 노량진수산시장의 건전한 상거래 질서확립을 위해 호객행위, 원산지위반, 규정선위반, 불친절행위 등 위반업소를 안내해드립니다.
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