Korea is not only a home to k-pop, but more than that, it is a home to many super yummy delicious food. So I just stuff lots and lots of good food everytime I am in Korea, without ever worrying how much I would gain by the end of journey.
My all-time favourite food is none other than hot oden, or omuk in Korean, spicy or not. It is always delicious wherever I eat it, whenever. Of course, it is better eaten in cold windy days, but hey, I always travel in April to Korea so oden is never a wrong choice. If I have to choose a great place to eat oden, my choice would be an overcrowded oden stall in Suwon market. Just a 5-minute walk from Suwon market, the oden stall offers both normal and spicy oden broth. It is not common in Korea for a stall to offer both so this stall is special. Sorry if I don't remember the name, but if you really want to go, just find the largest and most overcrowded stall in suwon market. I bet you are in the right place.
In all honesty, the best food in Suwon market is actually not the oden. It is the famous Korean chicken! Suwon chicken alley in Suwon is a heaven for fried chicken lovers, cause it offers lines of chicken shop ready to serve our hungry stomach. When I went there, my friend decided that we should all went to one of the most favourites - of course full of visitors - called Jangan Tongdak. We ordered half half, BanBan in Korean where we will get one plate of spicy fried chicken and half garlic fried chicken. IT WAS A BOMB!! Soooooo deliciooouuusss.... Four of us finished the first serving in a heartbeat and decided to go with the second one! hahahahaha.. It is that good that I just wanted to eat this chicken forever.
Another food that I always get is the famous One Chicken Soup(닭한마리) in Dongdaemun. The shop is again in the small narrow alley, but the spicy soup is just so so so good with the whole chicken. Yes, you hear me right, they serve us a whole freaking chicken. But don't worry, I once went with only one friend and we finished it completely. We even added rice cake Tteok and noodle inside of the soup. Highly recommend!
My culinary journey continues as I indulge myself in a sin of eating piles of 'mayak kimbab (마약김밥)'. The kimbab, aka rolled rice, is so addictive that Korean literally calls the food mayak kimbab or drugged rolled rice. Since I want nothing but the best, there is only one place in Seoul to get it, Gwangjang Market. To find the shop that sells the best mayak kimbab in Gwangjang market is not necessarily easy because many shops sell it. But if you are big 'Running Man' fans, just find a shop in the corner with a cute oppa selling mayak kimbab non-stop just next to pictures to Lee Kwang Soo and Yoo Jae Suk. Find your treasures, detectives!! kekekekeke....
I want to write more about food, but I know I should stop before I have to force myself to press order button to the closest Korean restaurant at the moment. That's because my next Korean food I always love and enjoy eating is the famous toppokki with gimmari (김말이) aka Korean deep fried seaweed spring roll on the side. I know that all I need is to dip the crispy gimmari in the spicy toppokki (떡볶이) sauce and I can smile for the rest of the day.
more posts on Korean food to come!!
