Singil-dong Hongeo Street영등포 신길동 홍어거리

About

In Singil-dong, Yeongdeungpo, there is a street lined with restaurants specializing in hongeo (skate) dishes. The first hongeo restaurant opened in the early 1990s in Singil 4-dong, near the Usin Elementary School intersection. As more hongeo restaurants opened one after another, more and more fans of the dish began to visit. Dishes that no hongeo lover can pass up began to win regular customers. These include hongeo hoe (sliced raw skate), hongeo muchim (spicy seasoned skate), hongeo jjim (steamed skate) and aetang (skate liver soup). At the time, the area also had other businesses, such as Chinese restaurants and ordinary eateries, and restaurants serving menus completely different from hongeo. As the hongeo restaurants thrived, these places began switching over one by one. That is how today's Singil-dong Hongeo Street came to be.