Jeolla (Jeonju) Street Food

6 dishes in South Korea

6 street foods from Jeolla (Jeonju), South Korea: Moju, Jeonju Choco Pie, Kongnamul Gukbap, Damyang Tteokgalbi and Jeonju Bibimbap and more. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Jeolla (Jeonju)

🍯 Hanok Village · Herbal Rice Drink Moju Its name is written with the hanja for 'mother' and 'liquor' — legend traces it to a mother who boiled down rice wine with medicinal herbs to make a… Makgeolli is slowly simmered with ginger, jujube, cinnamon, and licorice (among other herbs) until it reduces to a thick, sweet drink with little alcohol left. Cafés and gukbap houses… 🍫 Since 1951 · Handmade Choco Pie Jeonju Choco Pie PNB stands for Pungnyeon Bakery — pungnyeon means 'bountiful harvest' — and it has been in business in Jeonju since 1951. Two rounds of firm cocoa cake are sandwiched around strawberry jam, whipped cream, and chopped walnuts, then dipped only partway in chocolate so a ring of bare cake shows through. PNB… Morning-After Classic · Bean Sprout Soup Kongnamul Gukbap A 1929 magazine already described Jeonju locals making a bean-sprout hangover soup called 'takbaekiguk' — the dish's roots go back roughly a century. Bean sprouts are simmered in a broth until it turns milky, then poured bubbling-hot over rice with a raw egg cracked in at the last second, served with a side of shrimp-sauce seasoning… Royal-Court Legacy · Grilled Rib Patties Damyang Tteokgalbi Damyang is also famous for its bamboo forests, and tteokgalbi restaurants there often serve it with daetongbap, rice steamed inside a bamboo stalk. Minced short rib meat is seasoned with sweet soy sauce, hand-shaped into thick patties, and grilled over charcoal until the edges caramelize. Damyang, a small county in South Jeolla, built… Jeonju Signature · Rice Bowl Jeonju Bibimbap Jeonju's version piles on more than a dozen separately seasoned vegetables — far more than the handful found in a typical bowl elsewhere in Korea. Sticky short-grain rice cooked in beef stock is topped with a wide spread of seasoned vegetables — bean sprouts, bracken fern, mung bean jelly, and more — plus raw beef or a fried egg, all… Hongeo Street · Fermented Skate Naju Hongeo The fish is deliberately left to ferment unrefrigerated until it gives off a sharp ammonia bite strong enough to clear your sinuses — locals treat… Skate is left to ferment for days, a process that breaks down the urea in its flesh into ammonia and gives the sliced raw fish its notoriously pungent smell and tongue-numbing bite. It's…

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