Seoul Street Food

5 dishes in South Korea

5 street foods from Seoul, South Korea: Bindaetteok, Mayak Gimbap, Tornado Potato, Yeopjeon Dosirak and Namdaemun Kalguksu. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Seoul

Gwangjang Market · Mung Bean Pancake Bindaetteok (Mung Bean Pancake) Vendors grind the mung beans fresh at stone mills parked right at their stalls — you can watch whole dried beans turn into batter just a few feet… Soaked mung beans are ground into a thick batter with pork, kimchi, and bean sprouts, then ladled onto a griddle and fried into a thick, craggy pancake, crisp outside and soft within… Gwangjang Market · Bite-Sized Rice Rolls Mayak Gimbap ('Narcotic' Gimbap) 'Mayak' means narcotic — a joking way of saying the rolls are addictive — and the same nickname has since been attached to other Korean foods, such… Finger-sized rolls of rice, carrot, spinach, and pickled radish are rolled thin without fish cake or meat, sliced small enough to eat in one bite, and dipped in a sharp mustard-soy sauce… Myeongdong Street Stall · Spiral Skewered Potato Tornado Potato (Hoe-oh-ri Gamja) A single potato is spiral-cut into one unbroken ribbon, then skewered end to end on a long stick and stretched out so it deep-fries into one… A whole potato is spiral-cut on a hand-cranked corer into one long ribbon, threaded onto a skewer, and deep-fried until golden, then dusted with a topping of choice — cheese powder, honey… 🍱 Tongin Market · Coin Lunchbox Cafe Yeopjeon Dosirak (Coin Lunchbox) The currency isn't real money — shoppers first trade cash for old-style brass yeopjeon coins, Joseon-era replicas with a square hole punched through… Visitors buy an empty metal tray and a set of replica brass coins at the market entrance, then wander stall to stall trading coins for scoops of banchan, japchae, or grilled fish to fill… 🍜 Namdaemun Market · Hand-Cut Noodle Alley Namdaemun Kalguksu Many stalls in the alley throw in a small bowl of cold naengmyeon or barley rice with each order of noodles. Wide, hand-cut wheat noodles are boiled in a simple anchovy-and-kelp broth and topped with fried tofu, crumbled seaweed, and sesame seeds, served at long shared tables in a narrow indoor…

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