Real Authentic Korean Street Food!!

Hi guys! I'm Seonkyoung Longass. Finally, the Life in Korea Season 3 has just begun! Oh my goodness! I know a lot of you were waiting for the new season of L.I.K. And the first stop in Korea will be Mangwon Market in Mapo, Seoul. Mangwon Market is known for their inexpensive, authentic, old-fashioned Korean street food, the best place for bubbling on your budget. The energy of the market is incredible, so let's get into it! The first food that caught our attention was 3001 Kalguksu, Korean hand-pulled and knife-cut noodle soup. We couldn't believe the performance of how the noodles were made and the price. The price, less than $3 for hand-made noodle soup? Yes, please! I'm really excited to eat this. This is less than $3. This is a big bowl of hand-made noodle soup. Less than $3. Can you believe it? The noodles are super thin, but thick enough, I guess. I don't know how to explain. The noodles are very silky outside, but it has a very strong chewy texture in it. And there is a little condiment that you can add. This is a little spicy sauce. So if you want your noodle soup to be really spicy, go ahead and add some. And then kimchi. Like this. I think the broth is based on anchovy. The flavor is really light, but the texture is very thick. Perfect with the noodles. That was a fantastic start of the authentic Korean street food tour. And let's move on to the second stop, Dakgangjeong, the Korean candied fried chicken bite. Crispy boneless Korean fried chicken bites toast in many different types of homemade sauce. From the traditional Korean fried chicken sauce, sweet, spicy, and tangy, to real fire spicy, or some white cream sauce. I'll have the small one, the spicy one, and the fruit. Thank you. Korean fried chicken bites that they serve on a cup like this. I cannot believe it's still crunchy. The sauce we got is one spicy, and the other one fruit flavor. It's like slightly sweet, but not overly sweet at all, which is like perfectly balanced. This is the most popular menu, and it's very close to the classic Korean fried chicken sauce. After a bowl of noodle soup and fried chicken, we were ready to take some sweet bite. So next stop is a Korean-style donut shop. There are so many donuts to choose from, but we have to be really smart about it, because this is only the third stop, and we have so many other foods to taste today. So yeah, it was our little dilemma, but I think we did it good. This is a Korean twisted donut. We call it kkwabaegi donuts. Kkwabaegi means twisted. It's a really simple donut that is old-fashioned. Plain donut better than white dough. It's very airy, and they just make twisted one like this, and deep fry, and roll in the sugar while they're hot. I think the best part is it's 3 for 1,000 won. Less than a dollar. 3 of these for 1,000 won. It's like, what, 90 cents? Less than a dollar, for sure. It's actually a little more chewy than our donut. Talking about the donut, Mangwon Market has something very, very unique style of donut to offer. We call it goroke. The word goroke is from croquette. It's Japanese way to pronounce it, and this Korean-style goroke is a bit different than regular croquette. Elastic, like mozzarella kind of dough, but it's like super airy and light. That donut is filled with Korean-style savory veggies and noodles. Yes, I said noodles. And coated with panko breadcrumbs, then deep fried. Oh, yeah. It's heavenly. This is a vegetable one. Ooh, look at that. There's onion, green onion, chive. Oh, there's actually a little pork there, too, and carrots. Oh, look at this. Look how elastic this dough is. Oh, my goodness. It's like a little mozzarella cheese. The dough. The dough-dough. After they shape the goroke, they cover this whole entire thing with panko breadcrumbs to make it extra crunch. It's super-duper crunch outside. And this is a spicy vegetable. Look at this. Oh, it's so elastic. I don't know what their secret is. I just love how crunch outside. It's ridiculous. The spicy one is pretty much the same as the vegetables. I think they just add a little kimchi and a little gochugaru, the Korean red pepper flakes, to make it spicy. But other than that, it's pretty much the same. I like this one a lot better. Mine? It's more flavorful. It's got a little kick. It still has all the vegetables in it. It's crazy how they get all that stuff in the dough. It doesn't get really soggy. The dough stays that elastic whatever. I don't even know how to explain it. I've never had anything like this before. Totally my style, though. Fried bread? Really, dude? I cannot believe that this is only 500 won. We got some of our fried food fix today. Oh, my goodness. I'm really thirsty. Somebody hand me some ice-cold drink already. Sikhye is a Korean traditional rice drink. And I love drinking this while eating street food. You probably saw me drinking this multiple times when I'm eating street food because that refreshing, sweet, cold drink. It just cleanses your palate. It's just perfect. For the authentic Korean street food tour, we definitely have to try tteokbokki, Korean spicy rice cake. It's the number one Korean street food menu. Tteokbokki to Korean people is like mac and cheese to Americans. Gimbap, the Korean rice rolls. Twigim, the fried food. Eomukguk, fish cake soup. Sundae, the blood sausage. They are the best friends of tteokbokki. This is tteokbokki. Very, very, very authentic street-style tteokbokki on a plate. And that's a $1 Korean chili pepper tempura filled up with meat mixture. Little skewer is your utensil here. No fork, no chopstick. I like to dip my gimbap into tteokbokki sauce. Ooh, look at that. Yes. When you get thirsty while eating tteokbokki or want some soup to wash the old spiciness down, just make yourself a cup of fish cake soup. They have a cup and ladle right in front of you. Don't be shy. Unless you're eating the fish cake, they are not going to charge you for a cup of soup or two. But remember, you have to order food there to have the food service. Tteokbokki is a Korean spicy rice cake. It's the most popular and common Korean street food. Let's try this glorious chili pepper. Look how big it is. Whoa, look at that, all the meat. It's like Korean version of jalapeno pepper. This one is good. Dipping in the tteokbokki sauce. Happiness right here. This is so good. I need to recreate this at home. Chili pepper is really not that spicy at all. But the filling, I taste a little tofu, a little pork, garlic. It's very well-balanced filling. Our last menu to try at Mangwon Market is hotteok, Korean fried pancake. Nowadays, every vendor's hotteoks are very different because everyone's trying to make it better with their own secret recipes and stand out from other vendors. So this kind of competition, I really appreciate it. One hotteok, please. I'm almost scared to eat it because of how hot it is. It's a little different than regular hotteok because it's like fat, it's like fat. Oh, still 1,000 won. Still 1,000 won, really great value. It's too hot. Too hot. The cinnamon. I'm so full but my mouth is watering right now. The inside, the filling is all melted like a little honey, look at that. And I love the cinnamon flavor, really warm. Sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds. Really nutty, sweet. The dough, some part of the dough is super duper thin so it's really crispy but some part of the dough is actually thick, has a more chewier texture. I love the mixture of that, two different textures of the dough. We've been eating a lot today. So good. Oh my goodness, my tummy is full, it's like stuffed, I can't even eat anymore. And we hardly spent any money. I know, how much did we spend today with all that food? I have to do the math, I don't know. We will put it as a text how much we spent today with all that food. Probably a little over 20,000 won. A little over 20,000 won? Maybe 20,000 won. And we had like five meals today in here. Geez, that was amazing. If you guys ever come to Seoul, this is the north part of Seoul, it's really easy to find this market. You guys definitely should try, come and visit here. It's amazing, a lot of things to shop, a lot of things to eat, and I love the price of this market. Balling on a budget. Alright guys, today that we ate, that hotteok is our last street food that we are eating today. And it's been amazing. If you ever come to Seoul, come visit this Mangwon market. You will never ever, ever disappointed what they have offered to you. Life in Korea, guys. Life in Korea. Bye.