The lady in this video goes around and tries many common South Korean street foods. She sees hotteok, waffle ice cream sandwiches, bread with red and white bean paste in the middle (which is sweet), Korean fried chicken, kimbap, mandu, dried squid, rice cake filled with red bean, seaweed, and tteokbokki. While she is looking at food an elderly woman gives her some food and she accepts it politely and explains how you should always accept food and eat it from an elderly person because if not, "feelings would be hurt" she says. In South Korea, people always refer to very elderly women as "grandmother" even if she isn't your grandmother and you don't know her. In addition, she says that vendors love to sell their food to foreigners, especially westerners because then they can get an idea of what Korean food is like and also because the vendors are proud of their food. In the video she also visits an outdoor fruit market, a street bakery, and a street butcher. (Street Food in South Korea).
This lady and her mom are out buying and tasting different types of street foods. There are many variations of the same type of food. There are very traditional foods like kimbap which is the picnic food of South Korea and there are foods that look American like the french fry corn dogs. She does a good job explaining all the foods she sees. This video also shows how a lot of the street foods are sold and at one place where you grab what you want and then pay at the end like you buy tapas in Spain or in an American buffet (28 Korean Street Foods (KWOW #142).
This video shows a bunch of girls going around and trying South Korean street food. The first thing they see is how Gul Tare or Dragon Beard Candy is made, which I wrote my poem about. Gul Tare is made from fermented honey which is honey that is boiled for three or more days and then fermented for seven days. The fermented honey is stretched out to over 16,000 stands, then some of it is cut from the rest and is filled with a mixture of peanuts, chocolate, almond, or sesame. The makers of Gul Tare normally have a chant they sing while making it but in this video the man is explaining how he makes it instead of singing. Then the girls move on to see lots of sausage links, odeng, tteokbokki, clams, snails, large ice cream cones, potato tornadoes, fruits, meat skewers, meatballs, fresh squeezed lemonade in a bag, egg bread, sugar cane juice, dried squid and octopus chips, and bbokki (Korea Trip Vlog Part 2 of 10: Street Food Galore).
Works Cited
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<http://youtu.be/j_js3thNHHk>.
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<http://youtu.be/j_js3thNHHk>.
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28 Korean Street Foods (KWOW #142). YouTube. YouTube, 22 Apr. 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2015. <http://youtu.be/FXVBYdUefQk>.