Choryang Ijumin Town (Texas Street Hinterland)
Everyone knows Texas Street in Dong-gu as Busan's Russian merchant district, but three blocks inland is Choryang Ijumin Town — a neighborhood of Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants, Korean-Chinese (joseonjok) hair salons, and informal import goods shops that looks nothing like the rest of Busan. It developed organically around Busan Station as migrant workers settled in the 1990s. The restaurants here serve hand-pulled lamian noodles and lamb skewers that taste markedly different from the Korean-Chinese food found elsewhere in the city because the cooks are from Yanbian, China. This is also where to find Korean-Uzbek and Korean-Kyrgyz food, a legacy of Soviet-era Korean deportees who eventually made their way back east. Walk here from Busan Station in under 10 minutes.
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