KOREAN STREET FOOD VLOG #3 | Jeju 5 Day Market

So we are now at Jeju's traditional five-day market. So it's called five-day market because it opens once every five days. So it opens on every second and the seventh and serendipitously our travel dates overlap with the market's opening days. So I'm very very hyped to show you guys because this is one of the best markets I've ever been to in my life. Okay so right now I'm in front of the tempura batter, tempura stand here in Jeju City. I got how much was this? Yeah all together this was 7,000 won. This is around six dollars USD, 6.50 USD, 6.70, 6.50 USD and it is a lot of food. We get this amazing tempura batter and it has a I think that's pretty much it and it's all been coated together in this wet batter and it's fried as a whole. So I'm gonna try the fried just as is, the tempura just as is and then I'm also going to dip it in the tteokbokki sauce because I personally love it when it's like slightly crispy and like soggy on the inside. That's like my personal favorite. So I'm sure you guys can hear the crunch also. It's very sweet because you get like the sweet potato, you get the onions, you get the scallions and when it's been deep fried it has this like caramelized sweet texture so I really love that. I'm going to dip it in the tteokbokki sauce and enjoy it as well like that. So the tteokbokki here is incredibly good. This is called gimmari and this is sweet potato noodles that's been wrapped with seaweed and then battered and then deep fried. The thing is just as itself it doesn't really taste like anything but it's a perfect medium to really absorb any of the tteokbokki sauce so I would recommend you guys to try it with the sauce not just as is because it's just been like a bunch of noodles that's been kind of like bland but together with the sauce look at that it just absorbs every part of the liquid and it's just a great medium. Honestly perfection. Next I'm gonna go with some deep battered right here. The batter is quite thick which I don't know how I feel about but okay so inside it's a little bit soft because the squid exudes out the liquid. I'm gonna try this one just as is. The squid is incredibly soft and tender. Out of all the ones that I've tasted so far I think the squid is the most notable. It's sweet, succulent and the batter I thought it would be too thick but it's just the natural like water that's exuded out from the squid that kind of makes it a little bigger than it is so squid is incredible. Next I'm gonna try the deep fried pepper. So this is pepper that's been stuffed with pork, some vegetables. Let me see what's inside. Kind of hard to see here but so this has some tofu, some scallions. It also has that sweet potato noodle, the tapioca noodle I was talking about. It has pork, it has garlic for sure and you get that really big pepper. So these peppers are actually not spicy at all. They're very sweet. I would say that this is very similar to like a jalapeno popper and instead of like you know cream cheese this has like the pork and tofu filling in it. All the fry has a very like thick coating of batter. I much prefer like a very thin crispy batter but I guess this place has like more like of a cakey like thick batter. I'm not a big fan of that but let me try. It all is just way too much batter and the batter is undercooked. Now for the tteokbokki. So the tteokbokki comes with three large rice cakes and when I say large just to give you a perspective on how big this is this is like literally the size of my head. Okay I don't even know. This is not gonna... I do not want people to see me like eat this but whatever. I like this sauce a lot. I don't know how I feel about this king kong of a rice cake. It's chewy, it's really good but it's just too big and this is fish cakes, my favorite part of tteokbokki and this is yaki mandu. Yaki meaning like it's like fried and then mandu is just like dumplings so it's fried dumplings. Again very shitty filling but still very good. This is sweet potato that's also been deep fried in batter. Really good in tteokbokki sauce. I don't really like it as is because it's a little bit too like starchy and it's like a little bit too thick but very crispy, very good. Okay this is end, the end. I'm gonna show you guys more street food and let's see what else is good. I kind of like really want some dessert but not something like too heavy just because I've had like so much fried food and like pork and it's like too much but I want to have some sumo tangerines maybe some hallabong that's really famous here. Something citrusy, something bright so that's like exactly what I'm craving now so so this is a Jeju varietal called hallabong and in the west it's commonly known as a sumo orange but like this is like where it's like really like originated at least in Korea so whenever you come you definitely want to try this. Think of it as like a tangerine on steroids. It's incredibly juicy like if you have a sumo orange or like a hallabong and you go back to eating oranges you like cannot it's like not sweet enough no like the smell is like incredibly captivating also like it's citric you have that sweet juiciness coming up it's honestly like it smells a lot like lemony just from the aroma. It's just juice it tastes like orangina like that's how it tastes how that's how sweet it is incredibly good so I'm gonna get a few so that we can eat some in the car so yeah that's good yeah quick segue I really need some like coffee because I'm like literally so sleepy from all the fatty food that I've been eating so I'm gonna get an iced americano I feel like I'm getting a lot better at vlogging also so I'm very proud of myself fashion bitches be like okay I might honestly get something because I really don't have I didn't bring any clothes from London so I don't know what are you thinking today? so I would say that is like a very Korean knife it's like very rustic it's also like heavier so it works as like kind of an in-between like a santoku and a cleaver because it's so heavy it can be very versatile and it can you can like chop through anything I personally like don't already have a cleaver so I don't have one but I might invest in one I might get one like soon because it's like very Korean and I think it's like rustic like i-q-u-e I think it's cute um but yeah what an experience that was yeah my farts are like smelling really bad right now so we've now arrived at Jeju beer for a brewery tour but we have 30 minutes to spare so I'm gonna enjoy my kind of looks like a boobie today