More Korean Street Food that you can find in Hongdae

We are back in Hongdae, Hongik University, which is a student campus area that is really popular for everybody. Tons of things like busking, bars, hookah places, although the best hookah place is still in Shinsa, in Garosu-gil. Korean lesson time! Street food in Korean is ㄱ꼬리 음식. Well today we're going to be eating a lot of street food not found at regular street food carts. Everything else that you can find in Hongdae, except for things that aren't really Korean, like takoyaki. Takoyaki is Japanese. Go to Japan to eat it. Since Hongdae is known as a cheap, cheap place, we're going to be filling our stomachs with street food without emptying our wallets. We're at the Hatba Woman. This is a stall that pretty much sells all the hatba you can think of. A hatba is made of fish cake, which is basically mushed up fish flesh wrapped around something and fried. Korean lesson time! This is how you would order pretty much any kind of food anywhere. Something 하나 주세요 or something 하나만 주세요. That's if you want to order one thing. 하나 means one. 만 means only or just. Adding 만 to it is just a kind of local way of saying it. You're not wrong if you don't say it, but you will sound more local if you do. If you want to order one of each thing, you would say 하나씩 주세요. 식 being of each. So 하나씩 means one of each. Let's try them out. Let's start with the most basic of basic hatbas. The tteok hatba. Tteok is the Korean word for rice cake. It's that little white thing in the middle right here. And you see wrapped around that is the fried fish cake. There's really not much else to a hatba. It's something wrapped with fish cake. So let's go. It's less crunchy than I would think something deep fried would be. Almost kind of bready. If you see on the inside, there's a little orange and green flecks. That's like carrot and some sort of green herb or it's like a green pepper. It tastes healthy for something that's fried. Let's move on to something I really love. Sausages. The frank hatba or frank hot bar. It's pretty much all gonna taste around the same except for the middle part. Here we go. You got that cheap sausage taste wrapped again in this fish cake batter. Let's move on to the third one and see if it's better. This one is a Korean favorite. The perilla leaf or kkaennip hatba. Since the perilla leaf is just wrapped on that outside part, I'm only gonna bite that part. Oh, I see. There's crab meat in the middle. It's obviously not real crab meat. So it's kind of like a fake crab meat you would find in like cheap California rolls. You know what I'm talking about? Which I personally love. I like this the best. So Korean people, you know your taste in hatbas. Next up, we have something that I'm very deathly afraid of. Spicy chili pepper hatba. The spicy chili pepper hatba. I am not going to enjoy this. In the batter, you can see there's peppers all in that hatba. So here we go. Oh god. Oh god. Oh, that's hot. That's so spicy. Oh god. I was wrong. Oh god. It wasn't wrapped around a Korean chili pepper. They've chopped up the cheongyang gochu and sprinkled it all over the fish cake. Why would you do that? Oh, Korean people. You know what they say, dairy washes away the spicy. So we're cheese. Here we go. Oh my god. Yes. Yes. I love cheese. And this is stringy cheese. Do not eat the cheese one right away if it was just dunked and just heated up. You want to wait until the cheese is cooled down enough for it to be stringy and not molten lava in your mouth. Each of these was only 2,000 Korean won. This whole thing, 10,000 won. My favorite of them all is probably still the kkaennip with the crab meat, just because the flavors worked best overall. But cheese comes at a very, very close second. Moving on. This is one of my personal favorites. It's high class chicken skewers or dak-kkochi. It's awesome. You can find them everywhere, especially next to Exit 9, which is the most popular exit of Hongdae. It's got a few dak-kkochi places there. We're up by the park because, you know, it's the coolest place to hang out. No one hangs out at the train station. That's weird. You meet people at the train station, then you come to the park. We have two flavors today. There is actually three or four, but I don't want no spicy stuff. It's just spicy. It's not enjoyable for me. These are 2,500 to 3,000 each, depending on what flavor you've got. This basic one, which is literally just salt. You can't go wrong with salt, really. It's 2,500. This is the so-gum-gui flavor. You get chicken, really nice chicken. It's really awesome. And also, that kind of green onion, long onion kind of thing. You know what it is. But really, really nice. Meat, salt, little bit of vegetables. Can't go wrong. Oh, wow. Those hot dogs were not, like, savory. They weren't, like, there's no real flavor. It was just greasy. I love salt. Salt is so good. And these little vegetable things. So flavorful. Really good. But if you think, oh, I can have salty chicken anywhere in the world, why would I want to have that? Well, we have a different flavor for you. It's the cheese flavor. And look how much cheese is on there. There's so much cheese, I can barely tell where the chicken is. It's just a plate of cheese, really. This is the 3,001 cheese mat, cheese flavor. And apparently, it tastes very cheesy. So we'll put that to the test. We'll put it to the test. I think I left it a little bit too long, and the cheese has settled. What's really cool is that at the front of the stand, on display, the cheese ones look different. And we were looking at these, like, immaculate, like, covered cheese, like, taco cheese. They're plastic models. It's amazing. It looks so lifelike. I thought it was a real thing until she started putting cheese behind and putting it under this little hot plate. Because she cooks them on the grill first, and then she puts them under this little hot plate thing and heats them up real nice, and then covers it in cheese. So absolutely amazing. I believe it's exactly the same kind of chicken, although it has got some kind of sauce on it as well, a red sauce. So it might be like a little mild spicy sauce. Chicken and cheese probably can't go wrong. It's a staple food in England, especially on a night out. It's a little spicy. It's got a little kick. But this is the real deal, this cheese. I have no idea what this flavor is. Sunanma? She said it's Sunanma, which is usually, like, the non-spicy flavor. Tokumewa. It's a little spicy. I don't think that's Sunan. But I don't know what it is. She doesn't know what it is, because she says Oppa makes it. I have no idea. You're gonna have to try it for yourself. It's right next to the park, where all the fun stuff is. If you want to try a different flavor, there is a not spicy spicy. But if she says this isn't spicy, who knows what the other one tastes like. But there are more flavors, especially more spice levels, at Exit 9. There's definitely one guy who has, like, five different levels of spice, along with the salt and a cheese flavor. So if you want more selection and you want to eat a load of these, and you don't mind dropping, like, ten dollars just on chicken and cheese and spicy sauce, go Exit 9. If you want to be fun, come to the park. Choice is up to you. So we did end up at a street cart. It's unavoidable when you're trying to eat street food, but we're not at Madam Street Food. Instead, we've come to one by Exit 1, a lesser known exit in the Hongdae area. But at this street food cart, they offer things that most of the other street food carts don't on the more popular side of Hongdae. For example, 문어꼬치, skewered octopus. It's not the whole octopus, it's just one giant octopus leg. It comes in the boiled, like, grill, so it grills and dries up. Let's see how that tastes, because Happy personally likes it the more boiled, steamed way. The octopus is served with at least three sauces. First, they'll put a chili sauce on it. When I saw that they were gonna do that, I was like, no, stop, don't do it. Next up is teriyaki sauce, and then a third one is, like, a cheese sauce. At first, I thought it was mayonnaise, but he said it was cheese. Teriyaki first. Very mild for a teriyaki sauce. It's too sweet. But that's not the sauce I'm excited for. The one I'm excited for is the cheese map. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's so white. Okay, it kind of tastes like a sweet, ranch-y type sauce, like a salad dressing sauce, rather than a full-on cheese sauce. Not the best octopus legs I've had. The best octopus legs I've ever had was in Jeonju, and I think maybe we will go back to show you the Jeonju street food, because the Jeonju street food is amazing. Now, we have a nice food that I really like, dumplings, or mandu in Korean. Now, at the store, on the price list, it says they're 3,000 won, and I asked for one, because I thought it was gonna be, like, one for 3,000 won. I didn't even really think about the price, but it actually comes in a set of four. So, if you're, like, really hungry, come over here and get some mandu, you know what I mean? There are loads of other, like, mandu chains, like mapo mandu was the one we did our mandu challenge a very long, long time ago. So, this is a gogi mandu, or a meat mandu, or a dumpling with meat inside. There is another kind of dumpling that you can get here, another kind of mandu, which is a kimchi mandu. Can you guess what's inside? Yeah, that's right, it's kimchi. Well done. You're learning Korean already, so you can thank us later. We opted to get just the meat ones, because he said the kimchi ones were spicy, and I can't really be bothered to eat spicy food today. You know what kimchi tastes like, although kimchi does come in various different flavors. You can come and try these out yourself. I don't mean to spoil all the fun for you guys. These ones are the steamed mandus, okay? If you want to get fried mandus, they're called gun mandus, and they're more greasy, where these are really soft and kind of moist and slimy sometimes, but these are really nice. Like, these are not slimy at all, so really, really good. Mandus with sauce. Can't get it in my mouth. That's really nice. It's way less spicy than I thought it was. It's more of a nice tingly spice. Not tangy, but tingly. It like tickles you a little bit. Really, really good. Love mandus. They're really awesome, and really great price. 4 for 3. Can't go wrong with that. Moving on to the next one, we have something you'll find in a lot of places, especially Myeongdang, okay? You're going to see loads of these in Myeongdang. It's the sausage-y tteok gochi thing. Little slang name, seoltteok. Seoltteok, seoltteok. No AOA? It's basically just a skewer with sausage, tteok. Sausage, tteok. Sausage, tteok. In Myeongdang now, they keep it on a stick, but here, for some reason, they cut it up, and they put it on a plate, and then they covered it in sugar, and then they put mustard on it. And the other two sauces are also on here too. But what I'm kind of really surprised about mostly is the sugar. Let's think about that for a second. Like, when it's on the stick, it can be kind of hard to eat, because you bite one half of the sausage off, and then the other half falls off. You ever had your sausage fall off? It's upsetting. It's upsetting. Let's just try the tteok first. Actually, I'm going to try both. I'll put one on both sides. Surprisingly, when it's both together, it's not that bad. But before I put the sausage in, this wasn't that nice. But then it's not my favourite food anyway, so don't judge it on my personal opinion. The sauce actually isn't that strong, so... Wow. Who would imagine sugar on a sausage would make it taste better? What's also really cool, and I'm not going to actually eat it, they gave us free... some free food. It's service. Because we have bought some other stuff from where we're filming. This is a very common thing that Koreans like to do. They like to give you a little bit of extra food, you know, for coming along. As a thank you, and also to kind of commit you to come back. Look how long it is. Way longer. Madam's street food was about half size, I'm saying. It's pretty spicy. I prefer the odeng stuff over the tteokbokki itself. On to the next place. Unfortunately, boys and girls, we are not able to find two of the most popular, most common street foods. Egg bread, and goldfish bread. Why is that happy? It's because it's not mid-September yet. We asked the stall owners around where we could find some of them. They're like, no, wait until like mid-September and after that, and then you'll be able to find a lot of vendors selling goldfish bread and egg bread. They're seen as foods to warm you up in the winter. Now that doesn't make much sense to Xander and I, because all the food we ate was hot. So it's not like we ate a bunch of cold food for the summer. We didn't eat no ice cream. Everything was either deep fried or steamed. So like, why would you have a seasonal egg bread and goldfish bread? Pizza, that's Korean culture. Culture shock for you. Remember when we talked about Jeonju just now? Well, having missed out on egg bread and goldfish bread, we thought, why not do a Jeonju street food video? So look out for that. Wow, weren't those foods amazing? If you want to see more street food videos, go check out this playlist right here. Loads of other foods. Go leave us a comment of what food you want to try or what your favorite street food is if you had the ones that were in this video. Also, leave us another comment, because we love comments. Tell us where we should go next to try street food. Maybe we should go to Jeonju, that city over there, because there's loads of street foods over there that we haven't got and we can't get here, although I don't think we can anyway. Like the video, share it with someone who loves street food. Subscribe if you haven't already and tick the notification bell, please, so you get little notifications when we go live, when we post new videos. Maybe when we post to the community tab. That's how it's meant to work anyway. Thanks for watching and as always, stay fancy.