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I've now traveled to over forty countries and I've yet to experience street food that
can compete with Korea. Known locally as Pojangmacha, you can tantalize your taste buds with spicy,
savory, salty and sweet street snacks. Two of my personal favorites include tteokbokki
and hotteok.
The following is a guide to some of our favorite Korean street -- warning -- I hope you're
not hunrgy while watching this.
And we are going to show you the different kinds of food you can buy in this alley.
So that looks pretty appetizing. What do you have there? It sure does. Well we found some
food on a stick here. Different kind of battered food objects. So if you want to take a look.
We've got what appears to be a rice cake, kind of a lobster roll and as we go down a
bit lower sort of like a hotdog/sausage thingamajig. And this is our first little snack food of
the day. It looks tasty. Let's try it. Okay, I'm going to have the rice one. Very classy!
Mmmmmm. Nice. Alright, now you are up. What are you going
to have? I'm going to take a bite of the hotdog. Scarf it. Mmmmm. It's nice and spicy. Is it?
This is really good. Yeah. You'll have to try this one.
호떡? 얼마 죠? 1000 원입니다.
Okay, so we have got a delicious treat here called Hotteok. And it's a fried kind of sweet
treat. Inside it's filled with cinnamon, honey and sugary kind of goodness. You bit into
it and it's really warm. Perfect for the fall or winter. So I will take the first bite here.
So we've found ourselves a nice little back-alley to enjoy it. We're going to feast on the hotteok.
It's delicious. Show us how it is done. It's hot. It's hot! Oh nice! The gooey-ness.
It's made of honey. Malt. M A L T. Actually honey is liquid right? We boil this for one
week. We make it solid because I have to show you a performance. It's hard. This is corn
flour. Make a hole. Like this. Like this. Stretch. Stretch. Little by little.
I have a clump of candy in my cheek. Nice. We just bought some sticky rice taffy and
it is all natural. It is very sweet. It is kind of like a chewy candy.
This would appear to be ice cream in some kind of cane.
Look at what we've got here. Nice. Big enough? Go take a bite of that. Take a look at this.
I think it is big enough to share. Well, good.
Is that the biggest ice cream you've ever had? Yeah, that is really good.
If you're looking to try Korean street food Insadong is one of your best bets in the entire
country let alone Seoul.
Speaking Korean.
When traveling to Korea don't be afraid to sample as many Korean street food snacks as
you possibly can -- your taste buds will surely be rewarded.