Hi everybody, this is Marie.
Today, Cory is going to be behind the camera.
We're here to check out the street food, specifically the
vegan options that are available in this neighborhood.
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This pomegranate offers a pretty good sugar boost.
You can see, he's crushing it fresh right there.
We have some sweet potato here.
And that's always a great option for vegans.
They're selling theirs, one for 3,000 Won.
So it's a lot more expensive that what you'd find
in residential neighborhoods.
But, if you only have one chance to try
roasted sweet potatoes, it's still a great option.
This stall here is doing something a little bit more traditional.
We have roasted chestnuts.
Even some Ginko seeds (nuts).
And steamed corn as well.
I decided to get some Ginko nuts.
They're being roasted right before our eyes.
And for this much, it's 5,000 Won.
She's rubbing the glove over the top to brush off the charred pieces.
Ooooh~
She just gave us a few extra chestnuts
as a special gift.
In Korean, they call that "seobiseu"(service).
You can see there's the chestnuts on the top.
And underneath...
oooh it's so hot! hahaha
Underneath are the Ginko nuts.
Mmmmm!
Yummy!
There's no oil involved in the roasting process so
it's just chestnut.
So you feel... I feel like I'm getting healthier just as I eat them.
You can't say that often about street food.
Mmmm, delicious
Let's get into those Ginko nuts.
This is what they look like.
Ahhh, it's burning my fingers!
hahaha
Alright
Mmmm
The Ginko nuts... it's hard to explain.
They almost look like a grape.
But the inside has a lot less moisture than a grape would.
It's not like there's any water bursting in your mouth or anything.
It's kind of uhhmmm
Almost a little bit chewy.
A very unique taste.
This is a mung bean pancake
which should be vegan, but
in this case, they're putting
I think they're putting seafood in it.
Let's see.
So here, there is an option to just have
the mung bean pancake all by itself with nothing added.
But it will be grilled on the same grill as seafood.
So if that kind of thing bothers you, you might want to pass on this.
So in this case, there's a pancake which should be suitable for vegans
but it has seafood in it.
So
Just to let you know, if you want to order it
You can say "Hae-san-mul Bbae-jusae-yo"
"Hae-san-mul Bbae-ju-sae-yo"
And you can get a nice vegan mung bean pancake.
This place is so packed.
If you're going to come here, you definitely
need to be OK knocking into people.
And don't expect them to say sorry. hehe
So this is another really good option.
It's called Mayak Gimbap, it's uhhh
seaweed rice roll, and it only has vegetables in it.
so it's definitely suitable for vegans.
If you have a sweet tooth, why not try a traditional candy
that you can find on the streets of Seoul
less and less these days...
but here in Myeong-dong, they still do have it.
It's called Bbobgi, and what they do is they take
sugar and baking soda, once it's all liquified
they pour it out, they stamp it, and it becomes this yummy toffee.
It's like a hard toffee.
Now we're going to try one of my favorite desserts.
This is a mochi, a rice cake
wrapped around red bean and a strawberry.
I'm definitely going to grab one of those.
It would be quite easy to mistake that brown stuff for chocolate
but it's not chocolate, it's actually red beans
so if you're a vegan, it's a green light on these.
This is the mochi, let me just take a bite.
Woah
The texture in this is really amazing.
It's the chewy rice cake
The kind of sweet and sort of liquidy red bean
And then a nice juicy strawberry right in the middle.
If you're looking for something to warm you up in the winter
I just found the perfect option.
This is traditional porridge
made from rice, and this one is called Hobak Juk.
It is a pumpkin porridge.
So this one is made from red bean.
This porridge has rice
pumpkin
and if you look hard enough
you can find a little treat
Where is it? Where did it go?
Oh, it's there.
A little bit of red bean, too.
This is the perfect time for a nice warm treat because I'm freezing right now.
Let's give it a try.
Mmmmm!
If you are a squash or pumpkin lover
you're going to adore this porridge.
It's not too sweet
a really nice strong pumpkin flavor
and a nice, thick consistency that sticks to your ribs.
Mmmm
These are some nice dried persimmon.
A local specialty here in Korea.
Definitely worth a try.
And, oddly enough, even though it's winter
strawberries are in season in Korea.
Here we have some pancake, which can
easily be confused as vegan.
Most kimchi is not vegan.
So if there's kimchi in it, you can pretty much assume you can't eat it.
In theory, this can be made vegan
but the batter is already mixed, and it has squid inside.
So in this case, it's not possible.
But in some cases, if you ask
it would be possible to make this pancake with just vegetables.
And make it vegan.
So we have potato chips here, and they've
They've taken potatoes, and cut them in a really unique way (spiral cut).
I think they're vegan, as long as you avoid the
cheese and onion powder.
This is fried in soy bean oil, so that should be no problem.
The liquid that we just saw is
corn starch and water.
They say there is no egg or anything in it, so it should still be vegan.
Alright
Typically, you can roll it in powder.
But it's a really big pain in the ass for me to
figure out what's in all those powders
and I like the taste of potato by itself
so I'm just going to eat it like this for safety. hehe
It's nice and crispy and fresh tasting.
Yummy
Great option if you like French fries or potato chips.
This is fried sweet potato
it looks like it's coated in some kind of a sugary syrup.
There is a chance that it's not vegan because
I bet it's probably fried on the same grill as the mandu.
But there is no animal product inside.
This stall offers three different styles of grilled corn.
You can see he's rubbing the butter on the grill there.
I mean, technically you can ask for him to
not rub butter on it, but it's still going to
get exposed to the butter while it's on the grill.
I suspect that it would be possible to
just get the steamed one, and ask them not to grill it.
These kinds of fur pom-poms and scarves
seem to be really in fashion these days.
And I think many people assume they aren't real fur.
But they actually are.
It's actually less expensive to just use real fur
than it is to use artificial fur. So...
I always try to avoid these kinds of things.
While we're here in Myeong-dong, I wanted to come into
the Olive Young and show you some of the plant-milk options they have.
There's Almond Breeze, which just came, quite recently, in to Korea.
But from what I've heard, the fortified nutrients
that they add into this are actually animal-derived
so they're not vegan, even though many people think they are.
I recently found this oatmeal milk and this oatmeal milk
only has oatmeal milk and water in it.
So it's absolutely 100% vegan.
I'm too full to eat anything else.
I think we're going to have to wrap it up here.
So this concludes our Eating Vegan in Korea: Myeong-dong Street Food Edition.
And if you're interested in coming here and trying things out yourself
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