Korean Street Food 101

To experience the real taste of Korean cuisine go and explore each street and corners of the city. They offer exciting and mouthwatering food. Here are the list of most known Korean street foods you may want to try when you visit Korea.

Korean Street Food 101

Mandu 만두 (Korean dumplings)

are usually served with kimchi and a dipping sauce made of soy sauce, vinegar and chilli. They are often filled with minced meat, tofu, green onions, garlic and ginger.

is a Korean dumpling consisting of minced meat and vegetables wrapped in a thin piece of dough. Popular meat fillings include shrimp, ground beef, pork or fish. And popular vegetables ingredients can include bean sprouts, green onions, shredded kimchi and much more.

is usually enjoyed as an appetizer or as a snack but almost all Korean families prepares this dish on the first day of any New Year by simmering mandoo's in a beef stock to make mandu guk.

Ddeokbokki 떡볶이

also known as teokbokki, ddeokbokki, topokki, and dukboki is a popular Korean snack food made from soft rice cake, fish cake and sweet red chili sauce. It is commonly purchased from street vendors or pojangmacha.

                       Bungeobbang 붕어빵

is made like waffles in the shape of a fish and is filled with red bean

Gyeran bbang (Korean Sweet Egg Bread)

popular Korean winter street food

Egg bread, or egg muffins, is old-fashioned street food in Korea. It is especially popular in the cold winter. Freshly baked steaming egg muffins will melt your heart. They are sweet with a slightly salty whole egg inside.

                              Odeng 오뎅

is one of the gems of Korean food. It scores top points in three important categories: it tastes great, it’s filling and it’s cheap. Basically, odeng is seasoned fish paste that has been formed into cakes or strips and then cooked. These are then mostly threaded onto wooden skewers for serving.

Some Koreans may tell you that you should refer to “odeng” as “eomuk” (어묵), since the former is derived from Japanese and the latter is a native Korean word.

Hoddeok

is basically a cinnamon and brown sugar pancake, fried on a griddle. This sweet delight is usually eaten during winter, although some consider it a summer dessert. The “nuts and seeds” version of ho-tteok is popular in Busan, while some vendors include green tea flavoring in the ho-tteok.

Dakkochi 닭꼬치(Korean Skewered Chicken)

are a common street food in South Korea. The chicken is marinated and basted in a sweet soy glaze.

                              Kimbap 김밥

is a popular Korean dish made from steamed white rice (bap) and various other ingredients, rolled in gim (sheets of dried laver seaweed) and served in bite-size slices

The literal translation of the word gimbap is seaweed rice. These two things are the most basic components of gimbap. From there, you can find many variations on the filling, including fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables, whether pickled, roasted, or fresh.

Corndog

While traditional hot dogs never really took off in Korea, one street food that has thrived is the corn dog, which Koreans call a “hot dog.” Confused? You may be even more confused when you see the improvements they have made to the corn dog by encrusting French fries all over it. The fried monster, called a gamja dog, is particularly popular with young people, who eat it with ketchup and sometimes sugar.

Tornado Potato

this spiral-cut potato skewer has been gaining street food fans these days. One whole potato is placed in the special machine which cuts it into its twister-like shape and it is deep fried and then dipped into a cheese or onion powder.