8 Best Milmyeon in Busan

Milmyeon in Busan, a cold wheat noodle dish perfect year-round, ranges from ₩7,000 to ₩12,000, with Naeho Naengmyeon being our top recommendation for its original 1953 recipe. This Busan culinary staple is a regional obsession, with shops on practically every corner. We've curated a list of the best based on Reddit threads and local recommendations.

Milmyeon (밀면) is to Busan what deep-dish pizza is to Chicago — a regional obsession born from necessity that became the city's culinary identity. When North Korean refugees flooded into Busan during the Korean War in the early 1950s, they craved their hometown naengmyeon but couldn't find buckwheat flour. So they improvised with US relief wheat flour, creating something entirely new: chewy wheat noodles in cold broth, topped with cucumber, boiled egg, and fiery gochugaru sauce.

Seven decades later, milmyeon shops are on practically every corner in Busan. We dug through dozens of Reddit threads from r/busan, r/KoreanFood, r/koreatravel, and r/korea to find the spots that Busan locals and serious food travelers actually swear by — from the original 1953 shop to the one endorsed by BTS's RM.