korean street food

now, i wrote everything and was ready to post last night, but the site was down...
and it didnt save my post =__=
siiiigh hope i remember everything i saiddd

i've done a post on food already (oct. 2010 post), but it was very brief..
so here i am to talk about my favorite topic again!
street food in korea is very common (especially around shopping districts and schools) and inexpensive way to fill your tummy with delicious snacks :)


on left: 떡볶이 (ttukppokki) on right: 오뎅 (odeng)
- the basic and the most known street food. ttukppokki is round (unseasoned) ricecake, cooked(?) in a special spicy sauce with odeng (fishcake) and other ingredients such as leek and onions. spiciness varies from bearable to super spicy (to my taste) and it goes hand in hand with odeng. these odengs in the picture are put on skewers and kept in the broth, and its really good on a cold night :)
prices: tpk=~2000won/serving (~$2); odeng=~500-700won



꼬치 (kkochi)
- literally means skewers. filled with many goodies, from fried chicken to hot dog to mixture of rice cakes and veggies, these treats are covered with sauces ranging from sweet to spicy. stay away from extra sauces if you cant handle it!
prices: ~1000-3000won



튀김! (tweegim)
- fried food! these are best with tpk and if the ahjumma (/immo) is nice, she'll cut your tweegims and pour tpk sauce on top of it! yummm usually there are fried... calamari, potatoes, kimali (seasoned clear noodles wrapped with dried seaweed), motnani (pancake-like thing made with shredded potato, carrots, etc) and so on. some places sell shrimp as well but is cost bit more than others. i <3 fried food too much and thats probably how i gained so much my first week in daegu :x
prices: 2-3 for 1000won


호떡 (hotteuk)
- made with pancake-like batter, filled with brown sugar and nuts (and seeds), fried to goodness. theyre really hot once they are ready (dur) and can get pretty messy, with sauce dripping down the napkin or the paper cup. very sweet though :)
prices: 1-2 for 1000won



붕어빵 stand!
- i went to the korean market the other day and got these in a pack :D not ask crunchy and more work, but still good :) these are fish shaped snacks, filled with sweet red beans. smaller ones are called inguhbbang at some places, and sometimes, they have different fillings (custard, cream, etc). japan also has these, called taiyaki, but the batter is thicker so the filling cannot be seen in the japanese version.
prices: 2-3 for 1000won



@공주떡볶이 (gongju tpk)
- street food is sold by vendors on the streets (dur) but there are many stores that sell these treats as well! there are even cute cafes and they tend to have better decor and some will use better(?) ingredients to charge bit more. gongju tpk is a chain specializing in tpk and fried calamari :) pictured above with the two is 납작만두 (napjakmandoo), a daegu specialty dumpling with almost no filling. sighh im really getting hungryy D:

woo, i didnt steal any pics for this post!
glad i had them from food presentation in CLiK :)
ooh, like the napjakmandoo, different cities have their own unique treat. busan, i know, sells 떡오뎅 (ttukodeng) which is a white big rice cake on a skewer, soaked in the broth with the rest of odeng. i remember eating them as a kid :)
do you have any favorite?