02. Hotteok & Hotdog-Korean street food(2)

Besides Tteokbokki, there are some other street food with long history.

Let’s see what they are.

Hotteok[ho:ttək]호떡) – Korean sweet pancake

It pronounces like hotdog but has nothing to dowith hotdog.

It’s a Korean style pancake but is different from normal pancake the dough-wise, the filling-wise and the cooking method-wise. Recipe here.

It is a fried one rather than baked, with the filling of brown sugar & cinnamon powder in the center of the dough made from sticky rice flour & wheat flour. The dough is very crispy, crunchy and chewy. During frying the filling melts, caramelized to fragrant brown syrup.

As we eat it very hot, we have to be careful of hot syrup. Hotteok sold on street comes in a paper cup, which makes you eat it very convenient and easy by dripping the extra syrup to the bottom of the cup.

Traditional filling is brown sugar mixed with cinnamon powder but several years ago some seeds and chopped nuts added one to the filling that a merchant developed got famous by a Korean singer’s reaction and it has spread to all over Korea. It is called Ssiat Hotteok[ssi:αt ho:ttək], 씨앗 호떡) meaning “Seeds Hotteok”. It originated from the city Busan and it is still one of the “must eat” to all people planning to travel to Busan.

And in Namdaemuon market in Seoul we can find one that sells it with the filling of Japchae(recipe here) instead of sugar filling, which is also very good and could taste similar to spring roll.

Nowadays Hotteok has been upgraded and considered as a nice dessert by decorating different and various.

It’s very interesting and amazing to see the non Koreans’ reaction on Hotteok’s flavor.

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Hotdog[hαtdog], 핫도그

This is one of the street food that we can see along with Tteokbokki, Eomuk, etc in the stalls.

Korean Hotdog is not the shape that we normally know.

It is not the sausage & vegetables stuffed in between the bread cut in half but is a sausage covered with fried dough on a skewer.

No need to care about stuffs falling.

Today we can find Korean hotdog not only on street but also in franchise stores. They have various fillings and various sauces. This is the sign and the menu. The price range is USD1~2. You can enjoy 6 sauces and 4 seasoning powders to your liking.

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