24 Hours Eating Chinatown STREET FOOD in Seoul South Korea! 100 Foods to Eat Before You Die

100 foods to eat before you die I've been traveling and eating all around the world and here are the 100 foods You need to eat before you die and these are in no particular order So add them to your food bucket list number 53 Chinatown is so South Korean Hi, good morning, welcome to Chinatown. Well, it's not the official Chinatown So that's over by Incheon, but make no mistake This is the real Chinatown of Seoul. This is Daeram. If you take a look around you're gonna see something different There's mainly Chinese characters everywhere and Chinese businesses like hot pots and Chinese supermarkets And if you listen people here are gonna speak more Mandarin than they would Korean Anyway, I'm really excited to be here because I miss Chinese with all the time. Let's go eat some stuff. I got a couple of food items here. This is called a mahua. I haven't had this in years This is a very very popular Chinese food item, especially in the north and it's basically like a like a Chinese pretzel You can see look. It's like a braid, right? I used to eat this when I was a kid I really haven't seen this in so long. It's one of my favorite things Especially we eat it with something called youcha which is like an oil tea soup kind of dealie and you would take this and you would dip it this thing kind of unbraids itself Look at that Wow Seriously all the years after I left China. My first time having this would be in South Korea. Oh, it's so good Slightly crispy outside a hint of sweetness inside and just all airy fluffy bread Perfect for any type of soup. Oh This is so good. They nailed it too. That is perfect Also had to get a bun That place, classic Chinese food absolutely nailed it It's so good It is amazing Meaty and juicy. They put a little peppercorn in here to get that little peppery flavor All that juice is soaked into that perfectly fluffy bun This is ridiculous. Only thing I'm missing right now hot oil vinegar and a bowl of soup. I've actually never seen this dish before. She made this with like couple sheets of flat noodles Onions, scallions, cilantro, little bits of hot dog. This looks bloody amazingly delicious. I mean this whole thing is just covered in chilies. There's a fried egg in this thing as well. Oh my god, I love this. I don't know whether this is a Chinese dish or a Northeastern dish Some kind of Chinese Korean hybrid dish, but I don't care. This could be the child of Dr. Frankenstein and I would love it to death The little noodles have so much as the Chinese would say Chewness to it. Such a great mouthfeel and a chewy texture Every single thing here I love from the egg to the little bitty hot dogs to the sauce, which is a little sour The sauce definitely has a lot of Chinese vinegar. The little garnishes and onions gives it a nice crunch. I absolutely love this. One of the most unique noodle dishes I've had here. Get your butt here and try this out So far three for three. Everything I've had in this Chinatown has been beyond delicious. Alright, I'm gonna finish up Let's see what else we can find They got their soup dumplings and they actually have a difference between soup dumplings and a xiaolongbao. Look at the soup It's like a little dumpling volcano ready to erupt Look how pretty that is. You just want to like kiss this thing That is a perfectly kissable lovable little soup dumpling Let's see what's in here Already took a sip of the soup from the top. Oh Look at all the soup that's inside This one's kind of a sacrificial dumpling because I want to know how much soup is in there. The answer quite a bit Super meaty dumpling. The skin is actually pretty thin looking With the hot oil and a broken up dumpling kind of looks like a homicided dumpling crime scene Wow That's great. Now I want one in it's full juicy glory I'm gonna one bite this baby Mmm skin, over there. Tons of juice inside Extremely, extremely meaty This is delicious. The filling is just out of this world Massive meaty fatty flavored extremely well, especially with a touch of vinegar and a splash of hot oil When you take a bite prepare yourself for a porky explosion. Don't be like me Don't don't don't talk with this thing in your mouth because you might splash your neighbor. I love this area. There's only been I haven't made it one block yet I've just been continuously distracted because there's food everywhere. We gotta keep exploring. I might have to come back here I might have to spend a second day here So walking around the Chinese food here seem to be predominantly Northeastern Chinese food which makes sense because northeastern China borders Korea a lot of dumplings a lot of dough. What is this? Check this out This is what I call a massive pancake This will be my dinner or it could be my blanket one of those two. I'm taking this baby home a Little less fun when it's cut into slices, right? Still like this looks like a slice of a hand pizza crispy Flaky, this is great because you need to take it home and freeze it. You got stuff to eat for the next two years Roasted sunflower seeds. I haven't seen this forever Had to get another fun fresh pork buns three for one dollar. Oh, that's my found a great delicious deal laugh. Oh piping hot fresh pork buns Three for a dollar I'm moving here to this neighborhood Just a little hot oil Would be fly also got a little tea egg If you never had a tea egg before it's like the ultimate of all eggs Who's umami flavor Especially the yolk. I love that so much. Ah No idea. I could be this happy when I woke up this morning Completely unexpected. I didn't know how much stuff there's gonna be here and how great almost everything I tried was Unfortunately, I have to go meet a friend for dinner, but I'll be back tomorrow Well, I want to see and I haven't got started on the noodles yet tons of noodles here. I'll be back Chinatown I am back. It's raining. Oh, it's raining so hard. Oh my god. Okay, this is ah Chinatown I am back Much better. Huh? I mean I do like rain, but my camera sure does not this place is way more Crowded than when I was here on Friday. Oh, it smells so good Like I told you guys this Chinatown is mainly Northeastern Chinese food which involves a lot of flour based like buns and dumplings and noodles and Also, it's a very very meaty part of China a lot of root vegetables a lot of lamb a lot of beef So I got a lamb soup because I'm on a cold day like this Lamb soup is gonna feel really really good Also, I got a beef noodle soup because freshly made noodles is a specialty in Northeast China. I gotta give that a try All right, I Forgot this is Korea Sometimes when you get meat soup in Korea, they don't put any salt inside It lets you salty yourself, which I find kind of kind of weird, but a little pepper chilies salt I'm getting there Way more salt. Oh Yeah, now that great lamb flavor shines through even better It just warms your whole body up it's really smooth almost creamy lamb soup. There's a lot of lamb innards inside intestines liver Stomach and when you bite into that intestine the song play that funky music comes to mind because There'll be some funk in here But not horrible overall. This is delicious. Just a great light meaty soup Especially like the kidney in the stomach. I like a little organic flavor That is great, I gotta try these noodles Freshly handmade noodles the guys making it outside Well, this is delicious heck. Yeah, baby Wow, this place is awesome. Come here and get some lamb soup and get some beef noodles Satisfaction guaranteed the noodles soak up the flavor really really well ingredients wise. This is pretty simple. It's beef broth Little scallions a little meat the combination of the chewy texture and a flavor the noodle just intense Let's do more chilies and Chinese vinegar This place just smells like how I remember a noodle shop in China was smell just fill with that great lamb and beef aroma A little white pepper so glad I got these two dishes again when I was trying to order I was mocked by the people working here. They're like you can't order those two at the same time They're both soup dishes and I'm like, let me order what I want, please Chase it with a little pickled vegetables again, you can tell this is hand pulled because the noodle shapes and textures are different and That's where all that great mouthfeel and chewiness comes from. This is truly Authentic Chinese beef noodle soup I mean for those of you who've had Taiwanese noodle soup the noodle soup in mainland China is completely different The broth is not gonna be as heavy and as thick it's gonna have a more of an aroma to it And the flavor is really unlike anything else you will ever have. Oh, this makes me so homesick It's a rule in China If you're eating either lamb soup or beef soup If you're not sweating the snot running down your nose crying a little bit After you're done with it, you didn't have a good enough experience and from the taste to all this This is as authentic as you can get. The guy beside me. Yeah, this guy right here This guy uses about 50 napkins to wipe the sweat and snot and tears off his face I mean he had an authentic experience as well These guys make their own mochi. So one is red bean and one is another like a string bean grind something like that I have to try it. Freshly pounded mochi Wow, that texture is so good. Soft and chewy Not overly sweet. My mochi is as fresh as they come. The white one does taste like a soybean powder Buy some of this stuff, take it home, toss it in with some ice cream. Oh Yeah One last thing I gotta eat There's these skewer shops all over this area and another very very popular food item in the northeastern China is skewers. Actually, it's popular all over China And here you get a griller yourself This was one of my favorite things to eat growing up in China like I remember going to the night market back then the skewers Was not there wasn't like actual skewers so people took like bicycle spokes and they made those into skewers and this would sell for about 20 Chinese cents per skewer and Me and my friends would go and literally order hundreds of them. And here what they do is they created this little mechanism So you put your skewers here and it just rotates for you It's super cheap too because here it's a dollar a skewer and this is fresh If you go to Chinatown in the US This is gonna be about 150 per skewer and it's not gonna be as fresh as this because sometimes they pre-cook the meat Little guy needs some help. And the seasoning is typically a combination of cumin, chili peppers Salt and sesame and you can just go ahead and spray this on and once the cumin Hits the charcoal it gets a little smoky and the aroma is absolutely intoxicating And this is so fun because you can hear the sizzle of the lamb And this is best when you're cooking lamb Whenever the lamb fat just drips onto the coal it creates this like little smoke and little flame and aroma It just punches you in the face. When this has been cooked in China, you can smell it two blocks away So imagine how great this is sitting right next to it and when they're cooked you can just Move the cooked ones up here so they stay warm and when they're chilling up there just throwing a little more spices their way When it comes to these skewers you always got to get lamb because the fat is very necessary There's nothing in the world like a crispy piece of fat The lamb is the only skewer where you can have enough fat You can afford to cook this a little longer and the meat stays juicy This is such a cool experience for me coming to this Chinatown because out of a lot of the Chinatowns I've been to not many are specifically very northern Chinese. Most Chinatowns in the world There are more Cantonese people, maybe Wenzhou people, Fujianese people and this one Is almost entirely focused on northeastern Chinese food, which is one of the greatest cuisines in China There's a lot of meat, a lot of dumplings, a lot of potatoes, this whole area and all this stuff I've had It's pure comfort food for me and it's a feeling and flavor I don't even get in New York. For those reasons, this has been one of my favorite Chinatown experiences in the world. That was one solid piece of crispy fat. Hey, if you know, you know, that was the best part This has been an amazing couple of food days in this Chinatown I can't express how much I enjoyed everything This feels like home to me. If I lived in Korea, if I lived in Seoul I would be here all the freaking time. As always, thank you all so much for watching and until we eat again See you later