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.
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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