hello everyone welcome to gwangjang market one of the cultural and central food hubs here in
Seoul and we're going to be sharing an epic food tour with you here today everything you
want to eat in Korea is right here at gwangjang market let's go gwangjang market is one of the
largest and oldest traditional markets in korea this market is flourishing with curious tourists
and hungry locals it's filled delectable street foods from blood sausage on a stick
to squirming octopus oh my god the one thing is for sure you're going to leave full and happy
all right so this place right off the gate is full of banchan so everything you can imagine
here banchon this place was also on the netflix special you guys haven't seen it it's amazing
i think i might try some some soft shell crab i've never had it before so let's give it a go
oh so crunchy i think it's like a fried um
little tiny little tiny crab look at that thing it's so cute i don't want to eat it here we go
cool oh
that's actually really good i mean the shell just kind of melts away
in your mouth it's still crunchy
spicy oh squid some spicy squid
so these are mung beans they get put into this grinder here and it all comes down into like a
slurry which is then put into the fryer and fried crispy goodness okay let's eat this is a basically
a mung bean pancake that they have fried the crispy goodness but look at the inside of this
oh it looks good really crispy hot they break it so inside it looks like we have some veggies
some onions maybe some bean sprouts but i think we take it and we dip it in here
so we have like some sauce here let's go man
that's hot very crispy very crunchy on the outside it's delicious all right we
have a lot of food to eat guys let's go to the next stall we didn't make it far
i don't know uh they say when in Korea try the chicken feet so these are deboned chicken feet
uh looks like they're in a spicy sauce looks like maybe some pig skin pretty blobby chicken
feet here we go do i eat the whole thing like one bite you one bite it let's one bite it
okay um that is cartilagey
oh my gosh it's actually not terrible it's very cartilagey spicy sesame seeds give a
really good flavor too but that is a big floppy chicken foot bouncy we'll give another one go
oh good it's pretty good i've never had this i know a lot of Koreans love this
okay let's go
that's very interesting texture
i think it's good at least like there's like a spicy sweet and spicy sauce on it definitely
helped gross time all right that's so bad would we order it again i don't know we got more goodies
to eat so we have some mayak gimbap which is a little bit of rice wrapped around some veggies
radish pickled radish and of course the seaweed and then it's served with this sauce which is a
wasabi sauce so it's really spicy and mayak gimbap it actually means narcotic so it's like crack
gimbap is what it's called so we give it a little dunk in the wasabi sauce let's see
that's so good i love this stuff i make it extra wasabi
the veggies are crunchy the rice is cooked perfectly in that wasabi sauce
so good all right one of korea's most well-known street foods it is everywhere this is duck bookie
huge rice cakes here look how big these are i've seen this on the street never
rice cake's quite this big that's just slathered and cooking in this
red pepper paste sauce i really want to try it it smells so good
yeah delicious spicy flavor and just the rice cake
the texture of the rice cake is so good i love it mashisoyo
had to get something to cool down it's going on about 85 degrees here
and it's so hot in this market so this is like a traditional rice
drink but i wanted to give it a try it's really good you can see in the bottom there's like rice
that you kind of suck up so it's a little gives a little bit of texture it's sweet icy
cold that rice is actually really good you get a little bit of chomp in and then there so good
this place is really famous it was on netflix they showed a whole big
story on this woman and uh she has now this huge line the longest line in the marketplace for her
hand-cut noodles we'll have to try next time let's go
one of these lucky octopuses is about to become our lunch so let's go give it a try
oh i gotta shake this thing up so this is like a if you look at the bottom here
we're drinking some more rice alcohol
give it a little shake mix it on up makgeolli
cheers
nice and cold and refreshing it's kind of a rice flavor still a little sweet oh and our food's here
oh my god you guys see this moving octopus so this is live octopus they literally take it out of the
the case and they they just start chopping it and now it's squirming on my plate
so we really wanted to try this never had it before with the raw beef
along with of course the sunny side egg so let's get some food poured
look at the octopus
i want to try this oh so i'm going to dip it in some salt and sesame oil
it's still moving around in your mouth it's actually really good
oh this one's suctioning to the plate
all right so i'm gonna dip it in this here we go
the suction cups itself to your mouth your tongue oh my god
it's really good though it's very clean tasty chewy make sure you chew it all up or else
this thing will suck things up in your throat all right now i want to try some of the beef
it's really good that egg yolk makes it so rich
that's actually really delicious
yum oh my god that beef and the raw octopus were really really good you guys definitely
have to try it our our stuffo meter is like all the way full but we're doing
this for you i'm gonna go home with the meat sweats so let's find some more food let's go
look at this so this is sundae which is like blood sausage has some blood and some
rice and stuff in the middle it looks like it was deep fried some sort of sauce and
then they put additional sauce on there with some sesame seeds looks really good smells delicious
wow that is interesting it's really good i don't know how to describe it though it's like very soft
very soft crispy on the outside because it's been fried the sauce is actually relatively addictive
too let me give you another go put some glass noodle in there
watch me though at first i thought it was really a little weird i like it mashisoyo
hello i'm i'm back here i'm back here
we're like 100 people deep yeah oh my god i didn't expect it to be this long
but it's the best so we gotta go we gotta try it freaking birds are fighting for this
are you kidding me you gotta wait i gotta wait i was told to wait on the cutoff point
what it's almost our turn and i'm just shocked i still have a room to eat this in my stomach but
keep it going oh sorry we get to move up we get to move up oh boy moving on up
the fresh ones are coming out it is almost what makes you fun
what you got look at this hot and fresh
we're gonna try smell so good so their fresh just came out of the fryer they roll in the sugar and
cinnamon taco do not love this this is supposed to be the best place in kongjung market so let's try
good worth the weight oh i think so hot fresh crispy outside
soft gooey inside and using a paper cup in the genius
it's not so good it's not like a traditional american donut and it tastes like um it has
like rice flour in it so it's like a ripe mixture of like a rice cake the texture is very very good
it's covered in cinnamon and sugar luckily i don't live close to this place i'd be eating
it all the time i just had money fall out of my pocket and someone ran up and gave it back
the people of korea are just so nice you can leave anything anywhere
are we going on another line we're going on another line
we're getting the red bean with cream cheese as you saw he is currently making them so we have to
wait a couple minutes we finally got it finally i think that took 20 minutes all right let's give it
a go oh it's nice and hot you have some cream cheese coming through there fishy fishy fishy
let's give it a go oh wow you want the head or the tail tail for me cheers
it's like crispy like a waffle cream cheese in it the red bean is um
sweet she has a little sweet little savory inside of a waffle
chunk of cream cheese who would have thought cream cheese wow
all right guys that is gonna be a wrap we are stuffed we are tapping out we are so full
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