good afternoon good afternoon guys greetings from sunny Seoul South Korea
today we've got a super special episode because we are visiting not only the
biggest but the oldest market in Seoul it's the longest running continuous
market it is called Namdaemun market (남대문시장) a fantastic place people watch to shop and
also to eat Korean Street food we're going to be doing all three of those
activities especially keying in on Korean Street food Street food in Seoul
is amazing wait till you see what we get up to today let's go check it out
alright did so you did a little research about the market yeah so this is the
biggest and oldest there's 10,000 stalls and it dates back to 1414 it's actually
the oldest and biggest in the entire country not just Seoul and yeah the
hours of operation are basically every single day yeah from 10 a.m. to 5 a.m. I
mean it scary thing at night I don't come here in the morning and eat street food
but oh my god I want to eat in the morning doing some shopping yeah as you
can see I mean food right there yeah that's right they're backpacks souvenirs
there's a cafe behind you I mean this is endless and this is just like a fraction
a fraction right fraction of the flavor
all right guys we are trying the first item on our seoul street food tour this
is a manteoki hotdog (핫도그) basically like a hotdog that has kind of like if you can
imagine french fry bits potatoes dipped in a batter and then again deep-fried so
it's super greasy it's very thick and dense it's actually heavy in the hand
and what I'm gonna do first is I'm gonna just take a bite try it on its own and
then we've got four different kinds of sauces if I put all the sauce
is on at once Oh Nichelle's will mention its 2000 Won so about a dollar 75 US bucks good
price it's on one let's try it
okay I'm so hungry I'd like a small tractor a thumb drive who tastes good to
me I mean if you like deep fried food this
will be right up your alley I'm tasting more of the french fries and I am the
hot dog supremely greasy you know what I'm going for the more special I'm yeah
super yeah it's called super spicy which means
long johns mailman so man is spicy let's try a little bit of that spicy sauce
look at that just like so so I put on a bit of the spicy sauce now it's time for
a little ketchup and I think on my next bite I'm also gonna get mustard like one
arm trifecta of ingredients here look at that
yum-yum-yum-yum-yum mustard mustard let's try that oh yeah my sauce it you
gotta have it with the sauce really enhances the flavor so much a spicy
sauce is awesome yeah guys I mean this is like super fast food style Korean
food it's greasy it's not healthy but it tastes really delicious so I fear in
namdaemun I recommend trying these Korean hot dogs guys
so in namdaemun market you can find just about anything you ever want or
don't want there's clothes there's shoes there's t-shirts there's eyeglasses
there's purses there's socks hey anything you want and if you notice
a really busy stall with a lot of people that usually means that they're having a
flash sale and so if you want to get something really inexpensive go check
that out I usually buy stuff for my nephews yeah I'm thinking buying them
one of these shirts that just says curry on it they had mean goop that means
that's a full name of Korea they've got the Korean flag and then yeah you have
other Korean things that's you tabali gonna anybody got it yeah
so the second item I'm having today is a tteok stick (떡) it's basically a Korean rice
stick it's been grilled on the outside it should be gooey in the middle
cost 1000 Won so about 80 or 90 US cents it's clean there's no sauce with it let's
give it a try now crunchy on the outside gooey in the middle
very dense very filling a little bland I'd like to have some sauce with it
definitely some gochujang I prefer this kind of tteok (떡) in the tteokbokki game for
instance but for 1000 won it fills you up a little bit who wouldn't go out of
my way to have that again but yeah that's okay and yeah I'm also trying it
basically just tteok right up rice cake I mean I think you need some salt oh
yeah unfortunate she does that have any all she has is worms so little larvae
yeah I'm not having again so we are heading down down the stairs here into
it's a kind of an underground area so thing about Namdaemun (南大門市場) is that it's not
just all on ground level you also have you have an underground section and you
also have buildings where you can go into like the second third fourth fifth
level so we're gonna go down here and see what we can find
so next up we have Mayak kimbap (마약김밥) and the funny thing about this is that I
actually came here with Audrey several years ago and I was
if we were find this little underground shopping area and then we did and then I
came down here and at first I didn't see this little store and I was wondering oh
this is there a still a little store that sells this kind of gimbap and yes
there is and very friendly service here the ladies brought us water she's just
like told us sauce just spicy at simple soggy sauce and so it's nice to find
friendly vendors here as well I find in Namdaemun one you get a real mixed
reaction you need some really friendly vendors some vendors are a little jaded
well those are just as friendly as if they were selling to you for the very
first time you're the first customer of the day so it makes experience coming to
namdaemun I just want to warn you guys of that I tried one of these
delicious rice rolls with David earlier on and these are
incredible these kimbap these tiny little pieces
we've got seaweed on the outside a little bit of sesame we've got carrot
cucumber egg and also the Korean yellow radish which is called pan Muji
delicious super fresh very potent resolving mmm tons of flavor when you
dip it in really fresh ingredients this fantastic gimbap come to the market sort
of come down this little little round plane and come visit is this little
vendor at the very end and I should also mention it was only two thousand won
each on one about a dollar seventy-five u.s. outstanding value I think you'd get
eight or ten pieces I'm pretty amazing this is my favorite thing in the day
it's so good oh man it's so spicy hit you really hard in the game but that
goes away it;s like six ten seconds yeah I'm in love with this man I can do
this all day long I am a big sushi guy so I ain't have a roll rice roll I never
like rice roll with seaweed I love it man it's just like I can do it
every single day I think coolest thing for me is that it's not like always big
stream of fake crab right they actually have like vegetables and yeah it's
really good out of all the Korean Street food we've tried so far that's been my
favorite the only my favorite food but my favorite service people that were so
friendly the owners came to chat with us a little
bit and they gave us some complimentary water and things like that makes all the
difference having friendly service so guys like I explained before there's
different levels to this market this is a ground level we just took you to the
basement level and now we're on the second floor of a building and
apparently they have Korean folk items for sale
kind of like arts crafts souvenirs so let's go take a look I'm a narrow alley
for big guys like us we can't even turn around with our backpacks on we knock
down half the merchandise the funny thing is that there's 10,000 of vendors
but in all the buildings like this one's one yeah but it still has everything you
ever want you have pillowcases we have some souvenirs arts and crafts smells so
good here and over here we have Korean masks you already bought two of them huh
how many you want how many must you have at home I have like 40 already oh yeah
already from like from everywhere from at least like 20 countries in some
places I used to buy one you have like a rumor you keep them all now I have a
wall a 20-foot wall it's full now though so we're like starting to move them
around let's see the cool pretty David go yeah where am I where's David I
didn't see myself very nice of 40-thousand for that one I bought this
from my assistant Brendan bring traditional Korean masks yeah man looks great it
deserves it works hard there's also actually I like
it a lot yeah I might keep it sorry Brendan and the huge one this one $150
here is a pure k-pop section all kpop
anyeonghaseyo what up so we were looking around for tteokbokki and we saw this
nice little lady she was pushing like kind of a makeshift cart stall on the go
and she's selling rice cakes I believe there there might be songpyeon (송편) that
just might be a kind of tteok kind of rice cake I have no idea until I bite into
them ones green ones white so we got four four one thousand won
pretty amazing deal so next up we have rice cakes and I'm not sure if they're
filling inside they're very dense very heavy in the hand and yeah just to four
and imper just so I'm excited about this let's try it mmm okay very spongy rice
on the outside a little bit of what I think of some peanuts in the middle turn
up there it's not quite as sweet as I thought it would be it's more of a it's
more powder in the middle still interesting a very very thick rice on
the outside sticking spongy because here the green
one has a bean in it mmm wrong the green one is even victim
was a slightly different filling not Ian a bit rich out of the two I like the
green warm mix it
next up we have four mandu 만두 and use as freshly-made if such a cool stand very
friendly ladies and we got kimchi and Gogi so I'm gonna try one each versus a
kimchi you can tell it's kimchi because it's
red let's try the kimchi mmm oh but filling the throttle there now GM team
of course also has pork and it has juicy vegetables on the side too
onions some flotsam tools mmm dude this the best thing we've had all day
hence the helm so the other one is Gogi which means meat the best part about
this is they're freshly made oh my gosh this is piping hot freshly made I can't
even I can't even handle the guys I gotta put on the plaza freshly made
freshly steamed piping piping hot let's try this
mmm super juicy mmm oh yeah tasting meat vegetables one's a little juicier but I
like the kimchi one more that has a bit more spice and flavor this is still
delicious though I mean really tasty huh guys if you haven't tried Korean mandu 만두
before Korean style dumplings you definitely have Tim there's several
different kinds these are the steamed kind and there's also the fried kind the
gloom and different all kinds of different flavors but my favorite is
gimchi try the game team on dude they're the best so we got four of them for
3,200 so typically actually sell them at five for four thousand so they're all
less than one thousand one supper tasty best thing we've had so far today in my
opinion this is kind of fascinating jars of ginseng very popular in Korea there's
a couple different kinds I think there's Hong salmon in sound come some ago so
we're going with the all-time classic the Korean tteokbokki (떡볶이) Korean spicy rice cakes
everyday in Korea is a tteok-bokki (떡볶이) day for us I don't think how many days have
we gone without tteokbokki (떡볶이) maybe one maybe one eighty ninety percent of time
eating tteokbokki will be here so this is fantastic so I'm grabbing gonna go in
for the first piece screening rice cakes with the spicy Bootsie Jeong sauce mmm
delicious in spicy memoir bump very very tasty
love that now I'm going to try the oh dang just take part and look at that big
ol thing think about odeng is that absorbs the gochujang the red pepper
paste soft even more than the rice kicks so delicious the best thing honestly if
you take clothes Oh ding and dong mmm awesome and they're kind enough to give
us some of the odeng gook which is the soup that the oh dang cooks them on the
skewers no it looks like this mmm super hard but refreshing it kind of kind of
resets the palate from the gochujang sauce it's a very light raw bit salty
mmm absolutely delicious guys when you come to Korea got out doctor it's number
one it's the king of the street food in Korea we are ending the namdaemun
street food tour and the Namdaemun market (남대문시장) tour with a green tea milk chai
latte it's probably the classic Korean tea that you can get in terms of a
refreshing drink oh it's gonna be good Polly has a bit of sugar added a little
milky let's try that mmm oh my gosh super sweet they put a insane amount of
sugar in here it's very frothy it's really good though it's it's it's
basically like a green tea milkshake like a match a milkshake it's not
thinking good it was fun coming back to Namdaemun market ( 남대문시장) it's a place I've come
over the years when I lived in Korea and also when I traveled in Korea but it's a
good place to come people watching it's a good place to get some street food
it's also a great place to go shopping so if you come to Seoul definitely have
to check out now I'm doing market you guys if you enjoyed this video please
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