The Street food guide in Korea While there’s a tantalizing restaurant every few meters throughout the entire city, it’s street food carts and tents that fill all the open spaces. Walking through Seoul is like having to walk through a slot canyon of culinary goodies all calling your name. If you like to snack, you’ll have lots to do in South Korea! Instead of wolfing down bowls of rice and full dishes, Korean street food is often reserved for things that can be eaten standing up, especially catering to Seoulites that are running from subway to subway. Stuff on sticks or things can can be eaten with toothpicks are common. - Gimbap 김밥 As a beloved South Korean food, you can be assured gimbap is available in restaurants and on the street too. Packed onto street carts, often accompanied by tteokbokki, gimbap begins with a sheet of seaweed that’s filled with rice, a few pickled veggies and a slice of egg. The street version is normally pre-made and wrapped in plastic to remain moist and soft. A portion, consisting of about 4 – 6 bite sized rolls goes for 1,500 Won - Jjinmandu 찐만두 (or just Mandu) Korean mandu is eaten both in sit down restaurants and also on the street. These particular dumplings were resting in the warm outdoor air, just asking to be devoured. In Myeongdong, there’s no shortage of modern trendy and tasty street food treats to taste. This plate of deep fried dumplings was sliced with scissors, piled with sliced cabbage and drenched in tomato chili sauce and teriyaki sauce. - Twigim 튀김 (Korean Deep Fried Vegetables) Deep frying is one of the world’s favorite street food cooking methods – crunchy, greasy, and packed full of tastiness. Korea has lots of deep fried goodies. - Tornado Potato It seems the trendy shopping district of Myeondong, where some 2 million people visit per day, is kind of a Korean street food pioneer in testing out new delicious snacks. One of the popular items that kids and supermodels munch on the is the tornado potato. This impressive potato swirl is a potato cut into a spiral, spread out on a long stick, deep fried until crunchy and sprinkled with addictive MSG cheesy tasting powder. Cost – 2,000 Won ($1.75) - Korean French Fry Hot Dog Do you enjoy the duo of hot dogs and French fries? Well the South Korean street food scientists decided to wrap a hot dog in French fries and deep fry the entire thing. Though it looks more like a medieval war club, it’s much tastier. - Tornado Potato wrapped Hot Dog A long skinny hot dog wrapped with the same spiral cut potato, deep fried in the same oil, and served for only the purest deep fried fanatics. - Hot Dogs South Koreans have more than an obsession with hot dogs. These lardy bite sized hot dogs were stuffed with a variety of things, some were wrapped in bacon, and they were cooked in their own grease and then skewered to be served. - Deep Fried Dumplings (Hotteok 호떡) Deep fried dumplings are almost always delightful. These things are a little like Korean street food samosas, tasty filling with a crunchy outer layer. These deep fried dumplings are served straight out of the oil so they’re extremely hot. They are place in a little cup and you sort of eat it like an ice cream cone. Cost – 1,000 each ($0.88) - Soondae 순대 (also spelled Sundae) This South Korean dish may not be for everyone, but those who indulge in the finer pleasures of blood sausage will be delighted with Korean soondae. Mixed with fluffy, spongy, and packed with lovely piggy flavor. Cost for the entire plate – 6,000 Won ($5.26) - Tteokbokki 떡볶이 One of the staple Korean street food dishes is known as tteokbokki. From the moment you step into any busy place in Seoul, it’s impossible to not notice these bright red rice cakes smoldering away like hot lava. Don’t worry, these rice cakes often look a lot spicier than they are. They not that spicy, but they sure are flavorful! Cost – A plate of tteokbokki should cost around 2,500 – 4,000 Won per plate ($2.19 – $3.51)
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 07:55:47 +0000
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