LOCAL Korean STREET FOOD Tour of Mangwon Market | Seoul, South Korea

Korean barbecue is so freaking good. Look at that. Just as you can see. Oh my god Picture. Yeah, no problem. No problem. Oh, thanks. It's it's really hot right now. He just like put it on the on the grill He cooked it And here we have it man. You guys have to come to this stall It's right in the center right next to like the intersection in the center of the market All right It's good, right? We love it. Phenomenal. We love it. Oh my god Good afternoon, everyone. This is david hoffman from david's been here in beautiful seoul, south korea today I'm taking you to a super hidden gem called the mangwon market. This place looks incredible We're actually on the west side of the city We left seoul station on the light blue line connected on the brown line and we went to mangwon station Soon as we came out we walked like five minutes and we're here inside. Whoa Crazy, we're inside the market now as you can see lots of vendors But the thing about this market is that there's no tourists absolutely no tourists lots of vegetables lots of street food I'm, really hungry. So today what we're doing is a street food tour slash exploring. Let's go explore the mangwon market And as soon as we walk in you can see the butchers on the right We have a bar on the left a souvenir shop we have more vegetables And this is like a little supermarket right here. Check this out Wow, everything is local This is super nice, bro. This is like really authentic like really really authentic Yeah, it certainly is aside from just street food. You also have people selling produce you have people selling groceries There's even a stationary shop. Like it's kind of an all-purpose market in many ways The first thing we're starting off with is a hot bar Which is basically a cheese stick that has been wrapped with fish fish cake from the olden So the like basically hot pot fish cake wrapped around the cheese and then they nuke it in the microwave Looks amazing. And we also have like five different sauces here. I'm gonna try the spicy one. Let's dive in So it's basically artificial cheese in the middle super thin layer and the rest is the is the fish cake Wow very spongy Pretty good. Not that bad, dude. Let me put some of the spice Uh-oh, it's spicy the spice in korea spicy spicy whoa It's very spicy Whoa Very spicy dude, i'd say that's like a 15 out of 10 man and through the spice Oh my god Really nice I mean, it's basically fast food, right? They have like 20 different varieties here. They have with cheese They have hot dogs. They have with shrimp. We wanted to go with cheese to try something different And uh, yeah, I mean pretty cheap 1000 won. So like 90 us cents Good deal All right, so we haven't left the spot because this lady offered us something called cheapo Which is like a dried fish super thin what she does is she puts it on this stone grill She flips a little bit heats it up then cuts it into bite size, you know bites, right? And then you get a hojuju sauce a gochujang. Yeah gochujang sauce You grab it. Oh, man, it's super dried fish. Look at that. Get some of that sauce Salty chewy goes well with the sauce Sam was saying earlier that it reminds him of like an octopus same thing, but this is way more edible Oh, I like that feels like it has a glaze inside too That's a little bit sweet a little bit sweet. It's a little bit sweet, but the sauce pairs really well with it Oh, yeah for 2001 like a dollar 80 or 90 us I highly recommend it cheapo So good I think we just found out it was puffer fish, right? Yeah. Oh It's so good Incredibly good. Like I can't stop popping it. I'm actually surprised we haven't tried it yet because i've seen it all over the place in busan Throughout seoul and we were like, oh, what is that now? We know cheapo if you like fish dried fish. This one is sweet. It's nice and yummy and sam is uh He finished it all I killed it. You don't have last piece. No, you have it Wow, the cheapo really hit the spot and right when we passed the cheapo spot we got to this place and uh, Yeah, a lot of a lot of good fresh fish got squid octopus those crabs are alive Hey, don't don't put your finger in there It does it does yeah, I mean I love this because as you can see I mean it's just pure locals here people are here with Their families and the width. Oh sam next three food items right here What is this next up we have tomb say john we have four different pieces here We actually had eight sam already ate his half. It costs 1,000 won for eight pieces super deal looks amazing. Basically. This is like a vegetable tempura I think this is also fish here. We have like a shish kebab. There's like four or five different things here. There's like carrots Green peas looks like maybe pork over here. We have a fish I think This one I don't know exactly what that is Minced pork, that's what it is Oh, dude, super juicy Nice minced pork. I love how the egg around it is a super light batter Very eggy Oh, it's really nice Very very good. Um, I would give this. Um I would give it some more sauce like I would need some spice on it That's the only thing I would say about this and it's obviously not salty at all Next up we have the cucumber. Whoa The freshest vegetables in the world come from korea That one had a lot less batter so you really got an explosion of the vegetable Whoa, that was good, dude That's the way the fish You're right this is maybe like cod so it feels like a fish and chips type of uh, like, you know haddock and chips Really nice. This is actually my favorite so far Very filling Here we're gonna have a lot of different flavors So i'm gonna start from this side Okay Felt like a green bean a radish And pork and now this side has a lot of pork. I think it also has like a like the fake crab right there More green beans some batter. I don't know what the bottom thing is, but i'm sure it's good Wow, it's almost like a pasta in there Oh, man love the egg batter I don't know what this lady's doing in there, but It's phenomenal for 1001 Can't beat this. It's probably the best deal that we've had in korea so far Seriously, we're both full after that. Yeah, it's not very healthy, but whatever Wow, we've been eating so much fried fast food that I need to get a little break And yeah, we're gonna keep exploring the market and right here we have this vendor that has Every single type of kimchi you can imagine. I mean, it's over 200 in the country Here's easy 25 different ones this dried fish Everything is so good as radishes But as you can see everything is super super red like it's all spicy Kimchi is always spicy. No, it's okay. It's okay So we're passing by a place that has all kinds of different chicken White cream chicken cheese mustard fruit chicken gangjeong Sweet chicken spicy chicken all the chicken in the world all fried all spicy But here they have the best kfc in the world korean fried chicken. I don't know if sam you don't want some I mean the fruit chicken the sweet chicken The sweet i mean, let's take a break. Let's take a break. This vendor's super nice. Oh, oh, oh, you okay? She's giving me some korean rice wine Oh, wow Tasty it's wine Rice wine, but it's alcohol alcohol makgeolli. Yeah, okay And she has this like fish spicy you think it's spicy Bone bone a little bone too many bones And yeah, so this rice wine is called makgeolli. It's a very cloudy Ricey milky drink, but you have a big kick of alcohol Whoa It's good Man, i'm good right now. This market is extremely diverse like I showed you before Grocery stores you have like shoe vendors that you have right here You have food stalls then you also have like a seafood market with some of the freshest seafood you can get in the city Look at this you have clams you have oysters you have crabs octopus Everything's so fresh. You have live fish right here. You have even oh my god. He has so many tanks back there Whoa, I didn't even see that. It's extremely diverse and really amazing. Wow. Oh my god, even look at this more rice cakes I'm good with rice though the land of rice, but i'm good next up We're trying some samgyeopsal which is pork belly korean barbecue pork belly This guy just uh made us some delicious samples right here. Sorry. What's your name? Alex. Alex american american korean Sorry, dude, whatever comes first, all right, let's try it. Oh, I love this Oh, wow, isn't that good? Mm delicious dude super tender the burst of fat explodes super juicy Oh, it's like korean barbecue. It's so freaking good. Look at that just as you can see Oh my god Picture. Yeah, dude. Yeah, no problem. No problem. Oh, thanks. It's really hot right now. He just like put it on the on the grill He cooked it And here we have it man. You guys have to come to this stall It's right in the center right next to like the intersection in the center of the market All right It's good, right? We love it. Phenomenal. We love it. Oh my god, dude. Okay. So how much for the big piece? we sell them for About 500 grams or metric grams or ten thousand one. So around like nine dollars. Oh, that's amazing Yeah, it's a lot cheaper than a restaurant a little bit more than your you know, your your your meat place But then like, you know, we're doing all the work. We're putting it in the oven. We cook it about 80 Okay, so we refrigerate it and you can actually take it home and just cook the rest of the 20 It's kind of like it's not a big thing But just that small detail like where people don't have to cook as long and you know, it's not as greasy You know and the smell it's like, you know, that's our that's our selling point. Perfect. Yeah, dude. It's amazing Absolutely amazing amazing Oh, wow, so we came to the end of the market and there's actually another market so it extends even longer and it's called like the World cup something like the world cup market. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean this this place is really endless I mean so much action right now people are coming here buying fruits buying vegetables. Somebody came in on her bicycle She literally bought some fish live fish in a bag put it in her bike and rode off. It's amazing man It really is you get people watch here all day long and there's just so many there's so much variety in terms of the shops Here you've got it's so random. You've got street food. You've got fruit. You've got stationery You've got I mean there's someone selling shoes right behind. No, I know it's amazing. Everything's here I mean the coolest thing for me is just seeing like the you know, the differences, you know fruit right here Yeah seafood right here. It's almost never like that. It's just like a fruit market Yeah, a vegetable market a seafood market, you know meat market, whatever it is Yeah, and you were saying how many markets are here in seoul? Oh my gosh So I think basically in every neighborhood there's a market like this So that's one thing to keep in mind if you're traveling here Maybe you don't have to seek out the more touristy ones check to see if you have a market in your local neighborhood Exactly always try to go to where the locals are that that will be the better experience for sure. Absolutely 100 Let's go eat some more. Let's go chicken. Yeah chicken Oh That's amazing. That's for you. That's for you. You're gonna eat it. Wow. So nice. We got service duck a sweet chili Yeah, so what happens in korea is when somebody likes you they usually give you service which is like a gift Oh, man I like that one more man that rice cake with the sweet better than the spice. Oh way better than spice All right, so we couldn't leave this market without trying some kfc korean fried chicken This is by far the best fried chicken on the planet. I'm, sorry to everybody kentucky Sorry to anybody in america, but this is so good and this guy right next to us the vendor super nice guy He actually gave us some free dogs some free rice cakes. He has eight different variations of chicken right here You got spicy you got sweet. You have some other sauces, but we decided to go with a spicy sauce. All right Wow, it's a big chunk Oh my god super juicy crunchy Oh my god, the flavor in here is so unreal It's sweet. It's sour and spicy. It's not crazy spice It's spicy for korea, you know Oh my god, this is so good it's like if I live in korea, I have to eat this at least once a day Sorry mama So good come to this vendor nice guy Our adventure here at the manhattan market has come to an end right where it started at the very entrance We walked the entire market. We tried so many delicious things I gotta say though between the pork belly and the deep fried chicken This country is blowing my mind with this food. I mean, I thought pork belly was good in texas This like destroys it Like straight up. It's so good here. It's just different There's something, you know, the marinade with is so unique and then the deep fried chicken I mean kfc all the way korean fried chicken every single day. It's so different It's it just has a taste that i've never tasted before The difference in the chicken is that it's super fresh and the sauces are really like mouthwatering They're so good either spicy or sweet. You can't go wrong with either one. And yeah, I mean the market's really incredible Super friendly locals everybody wanted to talk to us They wanted to know what we were doing and they really enjoyed having us film So guys next time you come to seoul south korea come to this market extremely local and you will love the experience If you love this video thumbs up comment below subscribe to both our channels and we'll see in the next child food adventure in seoul south korea You