When in Seoul, you will see lots of street side stores selling fish cake, sausages, pancakes, tteokbokki, squid, fried food and many more delicious, aromatic finger food!
Here are some of the street food in Seoul that you need to try if you are here in Korea:)
Deep-fried street food
Gongdeok-dong Jeon Alley
Getting there: Gongdeok Station, Lines 5 & 6, Exit 5. Head straight on for about 150 meters, then head left into an alleyway of your choice.
Gwangjang Market
Part of a traditional market outside Gongdeok Station is lined with eateries selling jeon, metal plate-fried pancakes containing various ingredients such as green onions, kimchi, seafood, abalone and more. Jeon goes well with a bowl of makgeolli (rice beer).
Deep-fried prawns, chilies, mushrooms, and other morsels are also available. Perhaps because of its reputation, this alley is not cheap compared to other isolated street vendors.
If you don't feel like having fried fare, the adjacent alleyways specialize in jokbal (pig’s trotters)
Frying bindaetteok
Gwangjang Market / Ryu Seunghoo(Kwangjang Market)
Getting there: Jongno 5-ga Station, Line 1, Exit 7.
Bindaetteok, a fried mung bean pancake, is the best-known food here: on a cold day, it makes the ideal snack and is even better when drunk with makgeolli. Chungmu gimbap, a bite-size, thin version of the well-known snack, is also a specialty here.
Besides eating, search the second floor of the market for some great vintage clothing stores.
Pimatgol
Bukchang-dong
Getting there: Jonggak Station, Line 1, Exit 3.
In the old days, commoners used Pimatgol, or “horse-avoiding alley,” a narrow street running parallel with and a few meters to the north of Jongno( richer class in society). Despite recent redevelopment of the area, restaurant-lined alleyways remain between Jongno Tower and Insa-dong’s popular main street. Head into the narrow alleyway between A-Shin and Gallery Sin-Sang near the bottom of Insa-dong to find “Ssarypmoon,” a place specializing in traditional Korean alcohols and teas, where you may just catch the owner giving a performance on the daegeum, a large bamboo flute. Alternatively, enter from the alley just to the east of Jongno Tower, by Pizza Hut, and enjoy exploring.
Spicy fried octopus
Bukchang-dong
Getting there: City Hall Station, Lines 1 & 2, Exit 8. Cross over the main road toward the SK telecom shop and Outback Steakhouse. Head straight on, then take a right to enter the Bukchang-dong restaurant area.
Jayang-dong Lamb Kebab Street
This small neighborhood of eateries occupies a triangle of land that spread out southward from the back of the Plaza Hotel. The large variety of restaurants around the pedestrianized street to the west of the area makes it worth visiting for any undecided, hungry person. Tuna sashimi, barbecued meat, Chinese, gulgukbap (oyster stew with rice), octopus, and abalone restaurants are prevalent here.
Sinchang Sanghoe, a Chinese grocery store on a corner, is a great place to stock up on sauces, tinned lychee and rambutan, jasmine tea, woks and plenty more.
Lamb kebab with Tsingtao beer / Ryu Seunghoo
Jayang-dong Lamb Kebab Street
Getting there: Konkuk University Station, Lines 2 & 7, Exit 5. Turn right at the corner, pass the SK gas station, then take the next right.
Though lamb is generally a rarity in Korea, this long street in northeastern Seoul, near Konkuk University, is lined with Chinese-style lamb kebab restaurants. Grill the slender skewers of lamb meat over red-hot charcoal at your table, dip them in the addictive mixture of dry spices provided, then enjoy them with Tsingtao beer or erguotou liquor.
Pig trotters
Jangchung-dong Jokbal Street
Gettingthere: Dongguk University Station, Line 3, Exit 3. Head straight down the road for half a minute.
Pig trotters cooked for a long time in a mixture of water, soy sauce, sugar, leeks, garlic, ginger and rice wine, these trotters are then thinly sliced and served in the form of a dish known asjokbal. Head to this street near Jangchung Gymnasium to find a collection of jokbal restaurants. Dipped in fermented shrimp sauce and wrapped in lettuce leaf with raw garlic andssamjang bean sauce, the jokbal delivers a pig-kick that seems to cry out for a soju chaser.
Tteokbokki
Sindang-dong
Getting there: Sindang Station, Lines 2 & 6, Exit 8. Turn left immediately and follow this road for a couple of hundred meters to reach a blue archway: the entrance to Tteokbokki Town. For Jungang Market and Seoul Art Space Sindang, come out of Exit 1, turn left at the top of the stairs and head along the sidewalk for 150 meter
The bland, chewy rice cakes served in a sweet-and-spicy red sauce at roadside stalls across Korea comes filled with ingredients such astteokbokki, mandu (dumplings), noodles, onion, green onion, odeng (fish cake) and more.
While you’re in the area, it’s worth checking out traditional Jungang Market, and Seoul Art Space Sindang, a collection of artists’ studios located directly beneath the market.
Seoul has many different variety of street food and cafes so do remember to check out these goodies on your trip to Korea!
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