last time and delightful travellers we arrived in Korea for the very first time
we checked out the massive city of Seoul and we were completely blown away in this video
we're going to be diving into Korean street food we made our way over to a local market
to see how much food we can possibly eat I'm Anna and this is Trevor in this series
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hello everyone and welcome back to another video here in beautiful Seoul Korea we hope
you're hungry today because we're going to be eating yes we've come to Gwangjang Market
probably one of the most famous markets here in Seoul and yes we're gonna be eating a lot
of Korean food today definitely one of the things we were most excited about coming here to Korea
was the food especially the street food we've tried for Korean food here and there especially
over the last couple of years we've kind of got a little bit familiar with that with it
however this is our first time trying Korean street food it's gonna be a lot of fun and I
think it's going to be really delicious I can't wait so we're here in the middle of the day and
there's so many people around we didn't expect that and but there's so much food way more food
stalls than we thought I know so it's going to be hard to pick are you in the mood for
anything specific well I have a list of things that we want to try today and I have one in mind
to start off with I think I think it might be in this area all right we found the first thing we
want to try today and you can see them frying it up right in front of us and is this golden
crispy pancake this is among being pancakes so we're watching other people around us and they
seem to be kind of cutting it like this so you can see all the steam coming out so the idea I
think is to use the Chopsticks not with two hands in a minute we'll use it properly yeah
I'm just using it as a knife basically to cut it off at the moment all right enough
talking let's actually try this I see I think scallions and maybe bean sprouts in here [Music]
so good we're off to a really really great start it's a little bit crunchy
on the outside because you know it is fried in that oil not the healthiest but definitely
delicious it might be a little bit of like a potato pancake if you cut them in other
parts of the world you get a little bit of oniony flavor it almost tastes like potato
but I don't think there is actually potato in there the next thing we're gonna try are
these amazing little rice cakes the reason we ordered these is because well there's a big
pile of them right there somebody said why not now I think it's called I don't know the Korean
word I think it might be called something like that but let's try they're all covered in this
like red sauce I'm probably gonna make a mess of this but we're gonna go for it
so wow these things are spicy and I did not expect that at all but if you're new around here and you
don't know we're on team spice so it's all good but the really really chewy and very dense but
I like the red pepper sauce on top of these but there's one thing I'm not a huge fan of it is I
think there's an anchovy sauce in here as well and if you don't know we're not huge Seafood lovers
now I'm sure all the Koreans are like what what on Earth are you doing in Korea if you don't like
seafood you guys have lots of other great food we like some seafood but not all and this is one of
those tastes where I find it's a little bit too fishy so probably not going to be my favorite of
the day but we'll probably finish the whole thing let's take a brief break from eating because we're
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we're off to a really great start definitely the mung bean was my favorite we'll see if it's going
to be the top thing of the day but there's lots more to try if you guys are excited to see us try
more things if you like this video and help us out we have found the most popular stall in this whole
place there is a ton of people here and the reason why is because this stall has been on Netflix but
more specifically street food Asia and I believe it's known for its dumplings we were gonna try
this place out of course there's just a long long wait so we won't be today but you might want to
check it out if you are coming to this Market but don't worry there are dumplings everywhere
in this place we found another Booth here that has a very very famous Korean dish this is Korean
Fried Chicken we actually have this in our last video which you guys might recall if you watched
it so it's it's a common thing here to get fried chicken and beer we skip the beer although it is
an option at this kiosk as well this chicken is actually a little bit different than what
we tried in the last video this I believe is Boneless and it's covered in like a sweet sauce
sweet garlic sauce I think I think it is you can definitely smell that garlic [Music] so I'd say
a sweet garlic sauce is like the perfect way to describe this it's really really sticky almost
like it's made with honey or something similar the garlic itself is kind of crunchy I think
they like fried it in some oil first to get that crunchy consistency to it so it's nice because
the chicken itself has the crunchiness from the batter and then also the crunchiness of the garlic
it's super garlicky if you're on a first date maybe not the best option so Anna just said in
the last video we tried this but it was totally different than this little guy it actually had
bones in it there was like a plane with kind of like a crispy coating and there was a kind
of like a spicy one smothered in this kind of red sauce so if you want to watch that go back to the
last video for sure because it was just as good as this so we just hopped over to another stall
here and uh yeah there's like dumplings at this place there's also some soups so we're trying to
figure out what uh what to get like chopped noodle soup sounds kind of good and uh yeah there's a
whole bunch of other things that we're not sure of what the names are yet one of my favorite things
about being at these stalls just seeing all the action happening around here so we can smell the
delicious food and we have two dishes right in front of us it's gonna be hard to see this one it
is a massive amount of soup yes so funny enough when you sit down at these places they actually
want you to order two or one dish per person so we try to split the one but they said no we have
to order more so we ended up getting basically a bowl of soup it's got nice Cut noodles in there
and some dumplings and then we just ordered some dumplings on their own as our second dish
so we're gonna have lots of dumpling but it's a lot of food and we're only two people like
how are we gonna do this today all right here we go I got some noodles here so I'm just gonna try
that these are fresh pan cut noodles we saw them cutting them over there so let's just go for it
oh mmm those noodles are just just exceptional you guys oh man we don't get to have fresh
noodles like that very often now I have to try this broth as well hmm whoa the mixture
is so fresh it's nice and light it's a little chilly outside today so this is exactly what
we are after it's like salt and peppery there's also seaweed on the top and there's some onions
in there too it's like a gourmet like chicken noodle soup it is so good all right let's try
these dumplings just on their own so they are in the soup there's two types one is kimchi and the
other is pork I think I might try this before look at that baby wow I'm very curious if the
outside of the wrapper of The Dumpling is the same as the noodles or everything yeah good question
so good so simple there's really just like pork and scallion in there I feel like I have it in my
teeth but it's so good I'm also some dipping sauce there that I feel like would go really
well all right I got some of that extra sauce there I'm gonna try this I'm using a spoon this
time just because the Chopsticks are a little bit difficult there's like metal Chopsticks yeah metal
Chopsticks are always tricky look I got a I got a whole bunch of noodles here I'm just gonna go for
it while you're doing that because that one that's probably better with the sauce I imagine so good
hmm oh it's delicious here's the thing question for you guys I think it's okay to like slurp
noodles and make noise over here when you're doing it I don't know if that's part of the
fun but I don't know of another way to eat it but from what we can tell a lot of people
are just sitting around mouth right over there shovelling it in their mouth and just like um
slurping away so in between all that eating you can take a break right now we're in uh
well it's the same location but really we're just in this kind of little shopping strip
there's so there's clothes yeah there's like textiles like a whole lot of different fabrics
and things I know like look at this for for example like you can come here and just get
your Fabrics so there's so much you can do at this Market you can also get some beautiful
Korean costumes like the traditional costumes I think they're called hen box
they're so gorgeous yeah you do see people walking around the city and I think like tourists I think
you can actually rent them and like go around so cool one thing we haven't had yet is any desserts
of course or not much to drink I know there there are quite a few um Korean alcoholic drinks that
we have yet to try one is like Soju Soju seems to be very very popular maybe we'll find one around
here somewhere there's also sometimes I don't forget the name of it some sort of rice wine
it's very very popular here I just don't know if this is the place to try it we managed to go to
a bar or like some place like that to do it but if you see it we'll do it but maybe dessert we'll
see there is just so much food here you guys look at this so lots of different seafood I think that
might be squid if we go this way yeah different uh different veggies lots of fermented veggies
man the food there's so much food here I know you just mentioned the squid I know some people
are probably gonna call us though for not getting one dish I forget what it's called that you can
get here at this Market I think it's really really famous it's like live squid or something like that
that nothing like can't do it sorry all right we found another uh another stall here look at these
cake I think it's called honey potiac I'm sure I'm saying that incorrectly but we started off
with a Savory pancake and now we've moved on to a uh sweet thing yeah they like their
pancakes here in uh in Korea huh so good nothing better than like fried hot sweet bread right
too hot first tastes really really good it's just that how did you describe that like deep
fried bread almost like a donut flavor to it not very sweet but I'm trying to figure out
if in the middle if there's actual honey or if it's just slightly honey flavored we'll figure
this out because we get farther into it all right well she sold me I'm gonna take a big old bite it
looks like there is kind of pockets in here so I'm thinking that's where all the good stuff is
um oh man oh so sweet oh it's so good this might be my favorite thing today in a very strange way
this reminds me of a beaver tail in Canada so we have a dessert that's kind of like this this
is definitely a different take on it but there are similarities all the cinnamon all the sugar
the dough is nice and hot and then there's like you can see trickles of Honey on that this is so
so good I didn't expect to eat so many different styles of Pancakes here today and uh in Seoul but
I'm glad we are devouring them we were so into that last dessert we decided to find some more
take a look at what's going on at this stall you can see these little guys which I like the shape
of walnuts I think you call you pronounce it like hodorwaja or kwaja or something like that so it's
a walnut cake and inside these there's well we have two different kinds I don't know which one
this is there's custard and there's cream cheese so let's just try it out [Music] yeah oh there's
like a little donut but for all you Canadians like a Timbit this little guy is delicious I'm pretty
sure it is the custard one but it's just so fresh I mean you could see them back there making it and
yeah gold and crispy on the outside you can see if I squish it squish it it's nice and soft it just
screams like eat me doesn't it it's funny because I made a list of things that I wanted to try like
by doing research in advance and this was on the list but I kind of walked by them without really
realizing what they were they look like little balls and I had read they look like little walnuts
so I didn't really know what to expect and Trevor was the one that actually picked them up uh he was
we were just saying we should get another dessert and I said I have something on Melissa looks like
once he's like oh I did see them so let's try them according to Trevor they are delicious
the fun of them is trying to figure out what's on the inside oh look at that that's the cream cheese
we did get three and three so it's so good that cream cheese flavor is so good Trevor
wasn't entirely sure that his was custard but I think you'd know that this cream cheese is very
cream cheesy very dense sticks to the top of your mouth I love that the cake is quite flaky so it's
similar to a donut but maybe a little softer than that but this is the perfect way to end
this video wow all the so to be completely honest with you guys one of the reasons we came to Korea
was to eat we had high expectations we did for the street food specifically and I think it's safe to
say it definitely did not disappoint hopefully that came across today because we definitely
I think I enjoyed pretty much everything that we tried did you have a favorite oh I
oh the food was so good you guys put those little desserts at the end yeah and pancakes
the beginning pancake the Savory pancake and the sweet pancakes both so good the thing is like you
guys that watch us uh the watch every week know that we're not huge dessert people right we're
not we don't often actually get desserts anything I've always love them when we do get them but like
it's just not a common thing but honestly all the food is so good we want to thank all you guys for
watching thanks for everyone to everyone that is new around here we love that you're commenting
and give us giving us tips on what to do around Seoul here it's we're having so much fun I think
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