we're on one of the best food streets we have ever visited, there is tons of good
food on this street, we are in Busan, South Korea
get ready for some insanely delicious Korean food
we are taking you on a
massive Korean street food tour of some really local spots make sure you watch to
the end of this video because there is going to be some incredible food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, we hope you're hungry, let's eat
our first stop is for a bowl of kalguksu knife-cut noodles and some mandu or
dumplings, let's head inside
this restaurant makes all of their noodles fresh out the front so it's
really spectacular to watch them making the noodles and all the steam pouring
out from the mandu being made
my steaming bowl of kalguksu has arrived and this is the perfect breakfast to be
eating on a snowy day, so kalguksu are these noodles and
they're a wheat noodle and out the front you can see the team rolling out that
dough and then just roughly chopping it with a knife and they're just so thick
and beautiful looking, they look really bouncy, the noodles are just a
languishing in this anchovy broth which is quite watery, there's a few spring
onions, some dried seaweed in there and also a sprinkling of toasted sesame
seeds, let's just give this broth a go because it looks really good
that is so tasty, it is so flavoursome, it's got a real depth to it
quite a um strong fish flavour but overall it's just the perfect savouriness let's just
give some of these in noodles a go, god they look so good
alright, it's time to slurp them up
holy moly they are some good noodles, they have a great bite
they're really slippery and they just are an excellent texture, this is such a simple
bowl of food but it hits the spot in all the right ways you've got the crunch
from the spring onions, that flavour of the dried seaweed has infused that
broth and then those toasted sesame seeds just add a really subtle aroma whoa this
is one bowl worth eating
I have a tray of mandu or dumplings now these
will be pork dumplings and look how beautiful they are
they actually remind me of little croissants the way they've been rolled
together, they're such pretty dumpling so a wheat dumpling skin and then I think a
pork inside but we need a little bit of vinegar to go with that so we'll get a
little container we've got the vinegar right here, let's get a nice dollop of that and
then we will dunk one of these beautiful dumplings into that vinegar, right a good
dunking to get that tangy flavour
oh my god, mmmmm
the skin is so light and perfect there's actually a glass noodle in there as well
that you can see, it's a pork filling it has a very peppery taste and then
there's a green which I'd say is a chive so a very simple filling, I'm gonna
give that another dunk to get some of that vinegar inside the dumpling now that
I've eaten into it, let's have another bite
these are unreal, wow they're good, they're so light this skin is not
gluggy, it's not squishy, it just breaks perfectly apart, the filling it's quite
loosely packed so it's not a dense rubbery meaty filling, it's a very loose
perfect filling because it's got the greens and that pepperiness so looseness just
works so well, not being all jam packed like a little rubbery ball like you sometimes
find with dumplings, these are just so good and they're just so pretty to boot, what
an awesome start
there's a pot of chilli paste on the table here so it's made up
of chillies and there's some spring onions in there, I'm gonna add a dollop
of this to the bowl of kalguksu to liven it up, give it a bit of heat, just
gonna mix that all around, the colour of the soup is changing so it's got a
really nice deep red colour to it let's just give it a go see what it tastes like
ohhh yeah that chilli has added a really nice fiery heat, it's not overpowering, it
doesn't overpower the flavour of the broth itself it just adds to it, that's
really good
this street also has a market right at the end so we're gonna head into the
lane ways of the market for our next snack
this market is incredible to explore there is so much going on here
fresh meat, fish, fruit and vege there's also food you can buy and we've stopped for
a roll of gimbap, this stand behind me is just incredible to watch they have one
heck of a production line going on, now gimbap is a seaweed wrap rice roll
filled with all sorts of vegetables, some pickled, some meat, all sorts of things
going on inside and standing here watching these ladies and the guy make
it, is insane they're just churning out these giant rolls of gimbap but let's
get into this one that I've got in my hand, so it's been wrapped in tin foil
and it's still a little bit warm to the touch from the rice coming out of the
the hot rice pot oh look at that, it's all been cut for us, oh and the vegetables sticking
out the end, it's amazing, so you can see poking out you've got a big piece of egg
there's some sort of green in there maybe some pickled chives, there's some
carrot, some ham, some burdock root let's just rip it in two cause there's more in
there oh look at that cross-section that is gorgeous, so you can see all the
things I've explained plus I couldn't see before, there's some radish and some
crabmeat in there as well or some surimi that looks like everything that's in
there and then of course the rice and that seaweed roll wrap on the end
let's grab a piece off it's just so pretty
let's go in
that was a big mouthful, one minute, okay I got that down, that is amazing the, the
pickled vegetables have a little bit of a tang and they're really crunchy like
just one pop crunch in your mouth, the rice because it's just a tad warm, just a
touch warm it's the most perfect texture because of that, it's still light
and fluffy, it's not too sticky, the seaweed is really nice, a very subtle sea
salt flavour and really easily breaks up it doesn't get all sticky and clumpy in
your mouth like I can find sometimes with seaweed rolls like this, that is
great oh and I forgot about the egg, the egg is a really soft light sort of almost
creamy texture, just everything in there works perfectly together and what an
awesome environment to be able to eat this in so as we said this is right at
the end of the street we're doing all the filming on today and it's a tiny
little street, so this market is part of this incredible food street that we are
on
it's stopped snowing so we're back out on the streets and our next stop is for
some of the best fried chicken we have ever eaten
this chicken place is great, it is right on the street front and the chickens are all
lined up ready to go, but it's been fried once when you pop into the restaurant
and order they will refry the chicken to give it this ridiculous amount of crispiness
I can't wait to get into one of those birds
our plate of golden fried chicken has arrived, check it out so it's one whole
chicken that has been ripped into pieces and it is just begging to be eaten
so the meal of chicken and beer is called chi-maek so we've got our fried
chicken we've also got a bottle of Cass here to wash it all down, I cannot wait
to get into this so a bottle opener is always on the table waiting for you
because I mean you just have to drink beer with your fried chicken feast so I'm
gonna open that baby up and then it's customary in Korea to not pour for
yourself, someone always pours for you so thank you Thomas and with this restaurant hahahaha
I'll just mop up the beer that Thomas poured into the pickle, working a camera
as well as pouring beer does not go together, so this restaurant is super
local and it literally just serves fried chicken, beer and soju so this is chimaek
at its finest, look at how crispy the skin on this chicken is and that is
because it's been twice fried so you saw all those chickens out the front they
grab a raw chicken, they rub it very lightly with a spice mixture then
they dip it in batter and fry it for the first time and then when you put your
order in they grab the fried chicken and then
deep-fry it before they serve it to you, once it's done that ajumma literally
rips it up with her hands puts it on a platter and there you have it, it's in
front of you, so I've just got to get in I'm gonna stop talking and just grab
this drumstick and thigh and just give it a big ole bite
mmmm, mm mmm mmmm
that is the crispiest, most tender fried chicken ever, you crunch through that
batter and it is so thin and then you hit that meat which is super tender and
it has just a tiny, tiny spice, it's a really small bird but the meat is so
tender and juicy and honestly that crunch of that batter and that skin it
just is the perfect mouthful, we've also got a little packet of salt and pepper
seasoning mix here but honestly it doesn't need it
and then some cubed pickled radish, actually I'm gonna try a little cube
and see what it tastes like, oh it's really sweet and really tangy because it's been
pickled and it just cuts through that deep fried flavour that's in your mouth a
glass of cold beer and a plate of this fried chicken this is my idea of heaven
I'm just going for one more bite
mmmm, oh! I'm just lost for words this is so good
there's nothing tricked up about this if you want sauce you can buy little
pottles of sauce out the front but this is just perfect as it is
next up we're
gonna have a Korean favourite which is Korean Street toast and remember
everything we're eating today is within about 200 meters of each other it is
all so close together this street is incredible and remember in the
description you can find details about where this is
we've grabbed some of the incredible looking Korean street toast so it's
basically a very fried piece of white thick, very thick actually, white bread
and you can see it's golden because it's had butter put on it and then that's
been fried on the hot plate and inside is basically like a omelette so it's a
big egg omelette with it looks like some green chives in there and I think
some cabbage and then a very, very liberal dosing of tomato sauce, the sauce
went inside and all over the top and then the special ingredient to these is
sugar, they sprinkle some sugar on the bread and they also sprinkle some sugar
on it when it's finished being put together but let's just give this
glorious looking thing a bite, I'm going to go for this big end piece so four
bits of bread in one bite
mmm, oh
oh, it is delicious
Wow the egg is super soft and light and you can see in there all the layers
cause it's bread, egg, bread, egg, bread, egg and you can see how yellow the bread
is because of the butter that's been put on there to give it this beautiful
crispy finish and the egg is so light it's such a fluffy omelette, let's take
another big bite I want to get lots of that tomato sauce in there
mmm oh, that was the saucy side it's totally all over my face, oh that is so good, this is such a
brilliant little snack, it's quite warming, it's got beautiful crunch, a tiny
bit of freshness but that's definitely not the overriding thing here it's not
about being fresh and healthy, it's about being super tasty and that is
super tasty
we've whipped back into the market to grab a bowl of one of Busan's most
famous winter foods and that is a bowl of dan patjuk or red bean porridge, let's
go and grab a bowl
there's a lineup of porridge vendors in this corner of the market we just chose
a random stall and we have got our steaming hot bowl of patjuk in front
of us, so it's a red bean porridge and it's actually got grains of rice or
cooked rice in it as well as what I think are rice cakes so let's just give
this a go, this is the perfect thing to be eating on a really cold day like this
in Busan
mmmm wow that's so interesting I'm really used to eating red bean
porridge in a sweet version but this one is actually very savoury, there's just a
touch of sweetness, the overall flavour is a savoury flavour, let's go again, let's try
some of this um tteok or rice cake
hmmm that rice cake is sort of a little bit gooey and it's almost melted in the
hot porridge, this is really hearty, really filling, let's try some more
mmm it's quite a thick texture it's
really interesting because it has that savoury flavour, I'm just so used to having the
sweet version, but what's gonna go really well is this kimchi so we've got some
radish kimchi on the side which has got some chilli and then I think maybe a
raddish soup, it's cold, let's just give it a go, it's like a chilled tangy soup
that's really good and that's gonna cut through the thickness and heaviness of
the porridge
all of that like I said was within about 200 meters of each other, so amazing, unreal it's
such a good street to eat on, we had the best time filming this one and trying all
these foods so close together, thank you so much for watching we really hope you
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