Korean Street Food in Myeongdong during Summer & Fall

Hello friends! Right now we're at Myeongdong, which is known for shopping, but there's also a handful of options for street food. If you want to sit down and enjoy your street food, I recommend that you check out Gwangjang Market. Right after exiting 6 at the Myeongdong subway, I turn to the left and keep walking. This is egg bread. Typically, it's plain, but this one is topped off with almond, peanut, sunflower seeds. Hello! So my viewers are here! Annyeonghaseyo! We are from Belgium! Does it taste like a Big Bang style, or Girls' Generation style? The flavor. Big Bang style, because I love Big Bang! Aw, how sweet of them to catch my crumbs! They're the opposite of crummy people. That's the eggy part. Did you try the nutty part? Try the nutty part. It's bad! The flavors really camouflage with each other. I don't know. This hotel sells sausages. Do you want to try that? Yeah, sure! Heobong, this is 4,000 won. I saw the open-mouth fish at Bongdae, but I haven't seen them served with honey yet. He's putting ice cream into the open-mouth fish. Here's a spoon for you, and for you, Mr. Belgium. And for me! Wow, the ice cream is really good. It's on the rich side, that ice cream. How do you eat the honey, actually? We each take a bite. I think that's the best way, right? It's drippy! Sticky! That looks cool. Honey, I'll give you some. It's really, really sweet. Do you want to go for it? Do you want to take the next bite? Oh, take a look at that. Beautiful, liquidy goodness in there, right? The ice cream makes the honeycomb stiff. I'm curious about this bread part, the fish part. Yeah. Do you prefer this or the egg bread that we had before? This. Aha! I much prefer this during summer and hot months, because it's cool, and then when it's winter and fall. I'm going to do some shopping, so thank you so much for joining me on two rounds of street food. Thank you! Bye! I've had a taiyaki before, and since we already ate kind of two Swedish things, I'm going to go for something savory now. Cabbage taiyaki. There's a full egg on top. It's Monday night, and it's quite lively. Annyeong, chingus! Annyeong! It's okay if you appear in the video? Yeah! It's really cool how they use the clam as the dish. These are hot bars. This one I see every time I come to Korea. Classic one. As you can see, there's a lot of skincare shops surrounding the street food, and what's over here? Hakgangjeong. It's chicken. Chicken with tteokbokki. You know, tteokbokki is a rice cake. Over here we have octopus. Seafood! It takes a little bit of work to get to the other side. Oh, they just sell straight up fruit. So if you're vegan or raw vegan, this is the street food for you. Well, this is not traditionally Korean street food. Christmas lights all over the crabs. Here we have mandu, tteokbokki, japchae. Those are the more traditional Korean street food. And here we have tteokgalbi. This has been one of the trends in Seoul. Also in Hongdae, I've seen the tiramisu ice cream. And this stall sells orange juice. This street food has been around for a while. It's sausage wrapped with spiral potato. If you don't like sausages, you can just get the potato. Spiral potato. Baked cheese? I've never seen that before. That's 3,000 won. Seotugi. So you can get it plain or you can have sauces on it. Fried crab. Whoa, whoa, whoa, diabetes alert. Waffle heaven. Oh wow, it's like a waffle taco. And they put scoops of ice cream in there. It's 3,000 won and the flavor is chocolate cream, strawberry cream, melon cream, blueberry cream, cream, cream, cream. Pork belly yaki noodles. And that's 3,000 won. Where are you guys from? We're from California. You look kind of like Mariah Carey. That's good. We missed your fan meet yesterday in Hongdae. We're here today right now. Did you guys have some street food yet? I did. Oh, the steak. Yeah, it was really good. What's your guys' favorite Korean street food you've had so far? Okay, it's like the tteok, and it has a weenie inside of it or the fish cake. Oh, hot bar. Oh, right, right, right. My favorite one had to be what I ate just right now, which was gyeran-ppang. It was so good and it had seeds on top of it and the bread was sweet. Some parts of Seoul, they sell more traditional Korean street food. Here, it's more mixed. Even if you go to the skincare shops at Myeongdong, there's a lot of employees speaking Chinese and Japanese. So I'm seeing that the street food has some of the Chinese and Japanese influence. This is more traditional Korean street food. Over there, you have sundae and tteok. This is seafood, octopus, and you also have chestnut and ginkgo biloba. We have more of those potato twists covering the sausage. Here we have ice cream that's made in the shape of roses. This is definitely a trend. Looks like this street food vendor is going home. If you want to enjoy the street food at Myeongdong, don't come too early. I recommend coming more like past 4. Strawberry wrapped in red bean. Another stall selling fruit. Another fruit stall. There's a fruit thing going on around here. I have never seen so many fruit stalls in Myeongdong. However, it might be more like a summer, fall thing. When I filmed my last street food in Myeongdong video, that was like winter time. They only had one pomegranate juice stall. This one sells orange juice and egg bread. Pomegranate juice, corndog with fries on it. When I was in Korea in the winter time, they were selling a lot of corndog with fries on it. The previous street food stall we saw, it's just like you pick it up and then you keep walking. But here, we have a place where you can actually set your food and you can stand and eat. This is sundae and tteok. I got that for 3,000 won. This is dakkochi. It's a plain one and this one has sauce on it. Wow, look at that bubble. It's so beautiful. Here we have sausages. It looks like this sausage is wrapped in bacon and I love the cuts on those gills. This is kimbap. Pretty small one. Dumplings. Mandu. Fish cake. She's cutting up the rolls of kimbap in half so it's more friendly to bite into. If you need forks and spoons, forget about it. You're going to get toothpicks and you poke at it. Let's have a tteok first. It's savory. I think it's slightly sweet, but definitely not as sweet as a tteok. Commentary with my sundae and tteok. This food would be even more perfect if it was winter. This is sundae, blood sausage. My favorite way to describe blood sausage is that it's almost like you're biting into a balloon and a balloon that doesn't pop. It's just kind of squishy. If you look closely, there's leaves. I'm thinking that's perilla leaves. Let's try it to find out. It definitely tastes like perilla leaves. Oh, the lady just put tteokbokki sauce on the fish cake for her. It's good food for a shopper, especially if you don't want to take a long break and you have a limited amount of hours. You don't have to wait for the food. It's already made for you. If you're done eating, wrap it up and you can take it to go. This plastic wrapping helps the ladies not have to do dishes constantly. Tonight is pretty refreshing, but at the street food stall, it was so hot. It felt like summer again. I don't know how those ladies can work there all day. That ice cream is 32 centimeters tall. Oh, look. This man is making kimchi jeon. How much is kimchi jeon? If you want something badly, you don't care about the cost. As you can see, when you first make the jeon, the Korean savory pancakes, it's round. But he's cutting it up into smaller pieces so it's friendlier to eat. And it costs 5,000 won. He put it on a square plate. He put some soy sauce on it. This is chojang. But first, I'm going to try it without any sauces. We already have soy sauce on this. This was the seafood pancake. How to describe that? It is tasty. It's like mashed potato, but you know mashed potato because it breaks apart really easily. It's super mushy. This one is slightly rubbery. This time, let's try the kimchi jeon. That piece had a bit of crispiness on it. That was extremely delightful. This time, let's try it with the chojang. There's a gentleman who bought the pancakes and he put the chojang on it. He finished and he came back to refill the chojang. So let's find out for ourselves if we like it with the chojang. You see little bits of carrot in there. That's the crispiest piece I've tried so far. The crispiness makes the jeon so much more exciting. Koreans love to eat jeon when it's rainy and they tend to pair it with makgeolli. I was waiting for a rainy day because I wanted to eat jeon. I wanted to have a reason, but you know what? It has been raining. Why not just eat jeon for the sake of eating jeon? I'm looking so sweaty right now. It's from that one street food stall where I was eating the sundae and tteok. I learned something very important from the kimchi jeon vendor. He was saying that tomorrow he won't be here. All the street food stalls that are here today won't be here tomorrow. They skip every other day and other street food stalls will be here. I initially predicted that the kimchi jeon would taste better than the seafood jeon. Actually, the seafood jeon is tastier. When you walk on the streets of Myeongdong, make sure you be careful of vehicular traffic. Cars and motorcycles do share the roads as pedestrians. Here we have deep-fried ice cream. She's pruning the chicken. It's easy to get lost at Myeongdong. You have brands like Nature Republic and other skincare shops that are on every other block. If you have any questions, there are people who wear red and have an eye on the back of their shirt. Those are people who help tourists. I hope you guys enjoyed the tour of the street food at Myeongdong. I'll see you guys in next week's travel vlog. Annyeong!