KOREAN STREET FOOD - Gwangjang Market Street Food Tour in Seoul South Korea | BEST Spicy Korean Food

What's up and welcome guys! We're Luke and Sabrina with ChopstickTravel.com and today we're at the legendary Gwangjang Market here in Seoul, South Korea. Let's go! So this is our first time ever here in South Korea and we arrived extremely late last night and didn't get a chance to eat, but we heard that this is the spot in Seoul, Gwangjang Market, to have some of the best food. So we woke up bright and early for breakfast today. First impressions, there's a lot of delicious looking food here. I'm really excited to try. Alright, we're sitting down for our first snack today and this is called bindaetteok and it is a mung bean pancake and it's kind of like shallow fried in quite a bit of oil and I'm just going to try it out here. It looks like there's quite a bit of ingredients, maybe some green onions, some bean sprouts, and it's just golden crispy on the outside. It's almost like a hash brown. It's really hot and those bean sprouts inside are really good. Kind of has like an earthy taste. It's nice and crispy too. Wow, that's really good. Yeah, this is good. It's like a gigantic hash brown, almost golden crispy on the outside. This time, I'm going to dip it in a little bit of the sauce. I've got a nice piece here. Let's put that in. The onion as well. Right in that sauce as well. It's nice and sour and those onions go really well with it. Wow, this is really, really good. Actually, our first little bit of Korean food. Definitely a good one. So, I'm going to have my piece now. Dip it in a little bit of sauce. It's really hot. It's actually such a cool stall. We're sitting right at the counter side. Alright, this is blowing my mind. Our first Korean street food experience and it is really, really good. So, the bindaetteok is actually made with a mung bean batter and then they kind of shallow fry it in quite a bit of oil and you can actually see them grinding up the mung beans over there and there's tons of good little ingredients in here. We're just getting to the end. This was 4,000 won, so about four dollars US and this sauce really does a good job soaking into the Korean pancake here. It's delicious. So crispy. Final thoughts, that was awesome. A little greasy but it tasted really good. Okay, sitting down at our second stall today and we just ordered up two awesome looking foods. So, the first one right here, this is tteokbokki and it is a rice cake, Korean rice cake, in a red pepper sauce. So, I'm just going to kind of smother that in sauce and take a bite. This will also be my first time trying this. It's gonna be hot. It's kind of like a more firm version of mochi and that sauce is actually a little bit sweet but quite spicy and it's definitely piping hot and oh man, that sauce is where all that flavor is coming from. So, our second dish we ordered is this. This is the mayak kimbap and these are kind of like, they're not sushi, they're just filled with vegetables. It looks like some carrots, some radish and rice and then served with a sauce here. So, I'll dip it in a little bit of sauce and try that and it's just topped with a ton of sesame seeds too. Oh, extremely crisp and that radish, pickled radish on the inside is a little bit sour and that's a wasabi sauce, maybe with something else mixing it but super sesame and sesame oil flavor. Oh, that's awesome. So, like Luke said, these are called mayak kimbap and mayak actually translates to narcotics so these might be a little addicting. Sesame seeds are awesome. It's so good. So, these are awesome. I've already had a few of them but they're really spicy and my mouth is on fire but I can't stop eating them. Okay, just finished eating at this stall right here. We had the tteokbokki and the mayak kimbap and both were awesome. Those little kimbap rolls were my favorite and the stalls here, the whole atmosphere is so cool. You're just sitting right bar side at every spot and the service is so friendly too. This is awesome. We just ordered up a drink after that spicy tteokbokki and this is called and it's a traditional rice drink and you can see right here there's some spinning around in the jug. So, I'm going to try this. It's my first time. Yeah, kind of like has like a very faint rice flavor, I guess. A little bit sweet and almost like a little bit fruity too. That's actually really refreshing and there's actually bits of rice down in the bottom. So, that's pretty cool. At our next stop here and we have ordered up two new dishes. The first one is this. This is sundae which is the Korean blood sausage. So, that looks really interesting and over here we have a big plate of japchae which is the Korean like glass noodles with a lot of sesame seeds on here and then of course we've got our kimchi over here. So, this looks like an awesome little feast. I'm going to start with the japchae. These are a sweet potato starch noodle and they're a glass noodle and she's got some vegetables in here, some carrots and tons of sesame seeds and sesame oil. They're really smooth like super slippery and almost like a little nutty from that sesame oil and she dunked them in a fish cake broth and man that's really good. We weren't sure if we were going to try it today but we've decided to go with it and that is the Korean sundae which is a blood sausage. So, there is some mung bean noodles in here and then some I believe it's pork blood and also over here she's given us a little bit I believe it's just some salt and some chili powder so I will dip a little bit of that and try that out. It's quite a big bite actually. Mmm okay wow it's really bouncy like really really bouncy kind of hard to chew so I guess there's like a faint kind of blood iron taste there and I'm going to chase that with a piece of kimchi. Oh yeah that looks a nice piece of kimchi there just coated in that Korean chili powder or chili pepper sauce. Oh man yeah. Crisp, sour, spicy. Perfect kimchi. All right I'm gonna try the sundae now. That's really chewy but it has a nice light flavor. It's really unique. It's pretty good. All right going for the japchae. Okay another spot with some awesome food and this sundae, the Korean blood sausage, is really interesting. There's this huge one sitting here steaming and they have a really interesting bouncy bouncy texture and flavor. So I'm gonna go for another bite here and this looks like a good one. These are huge. So this is such a cool market here the Gwangjang market here in South Korea and they have everything you could ever want from live seafood to fresh produce and of course tons of food. There's lots of things we wish we could have tried but we just need to save our stomachs for the rest of the trip. Okay guys that's it for our Gwangjang market adventure today. So much good food and definitely a great start to our South Korean trip. We'll be here for the next seven days so make sure to stay tuned for lots more videos and if you did like this video give it a thumbs up. Let us know how we did and subscribe for more videos like this. I'll see you next time. Bye guys.