#5 : Korean Food in Myondong

So, I really think that korean people like sausages because I saw yesterday in Myond Dong district numerous sausages stands. There's a great choice like sausage stuffed with rice cakes or cheese, regular sausage, bacon wrapped sausage ...

Sausages are just barbecued so they look really nice, like little bit crispy and golden.

On the right of that picture are set Tteokbokki. Tteokbokki are rice cakes wich are cooked and seasonned with soy sauce (the red thing that looks like tomato sauce). That's probably the most popular street food in Korea but I have to say that's not quite easy to eat standing in the street. You'll  feel more comfortable if you seat somewhere to taste it.

Mandu are korean famous filled dumplings. They can be cooked in lots of different ways : they can be boiled, grilled, fried or steamed. They're usually served with a sauce made with soy sauce and vinegar. Most of them are just boiled and filled with a mixture of ingredients, including ground pork, kimchi, vegetables and cellophane noodles. 

Mandu can also be used in a korean soup : Mandukuk

These cute fishes are Bungeoppang, that's litteraly the translation of 'crucian carp cake/bread'. I didn't taste it yet but that looks really nice. At first I didn't know how cooks did to give cakes that incredible form, and now I know : they are using an appliance similar to a waffle iron and they pour the batter into a fish-shaped mold. So, contrary to what we might think, these cakes are not sweet : they're made with red bean paste and fish paste. Some sweets bungeoppang also exist (they're filled with ice cream for instance) but they're not sold by open-air food vendors (only produced and sold by retailers)

Kimbap are also very famous here, they're cost between 1500 krw & 2 000 krw so that means that you can eat for 1€ ! On the picture on the left you can see small Kimbap, usually they're bigger that that (one standard kimbap is 3 of these little kimbaps). So concerning what's in that 'sushi' : this is steamed white rice and other various ingredients (fish cakes, eggs, cucumbers, spinach, carrots, radish and so on) rolled in a kim sheet (dried sheet of seaweed). It's served for lunch or pic-nic in bite-size slices.

These kinds of pancakes are Hotteok and I really have to say that's probably the best street food I've ever eaten. That's actually like a pancake but cooks put inside a brown powdered sugar amazingly tasty. I made some researches and I finally find out what's in : the sweet mixture usually contains brown sugar, honey, chopped peanuts and/or cinnamon. As you can see on the pictures (unfortunately) hotteok are cooked in a pan full of oil so that's not the most healthy korean food.