Korean street foods that you would like
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Today we are talk about Korean street foods.
There are a lot of street foods in Korea. Most of these foods are inexpensive and easy to carry, so you can eat them while walking or sit on a park or bench.
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Street snack foods
The meaning of street snack foods is foods which are made of powder. Usually, it is said that food made of flour, and even if it is not made of powder, it is also called snack food.
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Tteokbokki
It is a dish which is made of rice tteok and fish cake. And it is also made of red seasoning made of red pepper paste, sugar, and soy sauce. In some cases, you can add a lot of vegetables or glass noodles or sausages.
It is the street food that Koreans eat the most. Especially, girls like it a lot. A restaurant that sells tteokbokki, ramen, and kimbap is called a snack bar.
The snack bar in front of the elementary school sells tteokbokki in paper cups. The tteokbokki in the paper cup is called 'cup tteokbokki'. Elementary school students usually buy it after school class, and because of the young children have little money, cup tteokbokki is sold at a low price.
Tteokbokki actually couldn't be the top of the street food by itself.
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Tteokbokki has a friend. It's soondae and fried food.
Sundae which solds at snack bars are different from traditional ones and is more simplified. Traditional sundae is a food which boiled with pork intestines such as seonji, glutinous rice, various vegetables, and tofu, but the main ingredient of sundae in snack bars is not glutinous rice and vegetables, but glass noodles. Sundae is usually eaten with salt or dipped in the spicy, red sauce of tteokbokki.
Sundae is a dish made using the intestines of pigs, so it is usually served with organs such as pigs' liver, lungs, stomach, heartache, and ears. There are also people who don't like it in Korea. If you don't want to, you can say this. "Naejang jae gu haejuseyo."
The second colleague of tteokbokki is fried food. Fries include fried pumpkin, sweet potato, and squid with a thin dough, fried vegetables with chopped vegetables, and fried seaweed rolls with dried seaweed. Usually, Almost people dip it in soy sauce or dip it in the sauce of tteokbokki like sundae. The greasy taste of fried food goes well with the spicy taste of tteokbokki sauce.
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Fish cakes
Fish cakes are also popular in snack bars.
If you get fish cakes at a cart bar(called pojang macha) on a cold winter day, it is fantastic to eat in a cart bar and drink fish cakes soup.
Fish cakes are food that is hardened by mixing crushed fish flesh with flour, rice powder, and small amounts of vegetables and heating them. Most of the fish cakes sold at Korean snack bars are in the form of thin, square fish cakes, cut long and sewn on skewers.
When you eat fish cake at a cart bar, you can eat it standing up, but the way you pay is a little unique. Eat as much fish cake as you want first, and then calculate the number of fish cakes you ate. At this time, the amount of fish cakes eaten is judged by the number of skewers, so you should not lose your skewers. You can also drink the soup that contained fish cake while eating fish cake. In this case, you can scoop it with a paper cup and ladle provided. However, if you eat one fish cake and eat the soup several times, the boss can glare at you.
Sometimes there are radish crabs in the soup, and if you try to eat it, the boss may get angry. It is an ingredient that keeps the taste of the soup while continuing to boil.
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Pul-bbang
The dough made by adding a lot of water to the flour is called Pul, and the food made by baking it on a full plate of flour is bbang. Red beans are usually used as filling ingredients. It is good to eat in winter. Because it is warm food, and it is mostly small, so it is good to eat while walking on the street.
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Bungeo-bbang
It is also called eing-a-bbang. It's a kind of pul-bbang. It is a food that is baked by pouring a thin liquid-like dough onto a fish-shaped mold and putting red beans or custard cream on it.
Ironically, it is no fish goes inside. Usually, custard cream bungeoppang is more expensive than red beans bungeoppang. Recently, the ingredients inside have been diversified, so it's inside has the chocolate, sweet potatoes, kimchi, and cheese are included.
It is crispy on the outside and sweet on the inside. In Korea, there is a debate about whether to eat fish-shaped buns from the head or the tail. It's not a question of what's right, it's just one of the small conversations.
It is a seasonal food sold only in winter. As one of the most popular snacks in winter, a few bungeoppang served in white paper bags are welcome snacks everywhere. Uniquely, it is not a fish, but it also counts a unit called "Marie," which is a unit for counting animals.
Recently, as there are a few places selling bungeoppang in Korea, people cannot eat bungeoppang, so some people make it at home using a domestic bungeoppang mold, and it is also used as a dessert in cafes. In some cases, bungeo-ppang is also popular among the Korean military, so there are cases where soldiers are briefly ordered to bake bungeo-ppang in winter.
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Walnut-cake
It is expensive than other Pul-bbangs. There are many stores that pack walnut cakes individually and serve them. Recently, they sell walnut cakes with butter.
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