My last weekend in Korea, like every other one I've spent here, was filled with trying new and delicious foods. Let's get right to it!
My language exchange partner, Sunmi, took me to an area called Shindang, where they have a street called "tteokboki city", famous for their spicy rice cake restaurants, and little else. Usually you get tteokboki from a street stall, or some little place, but these were huge restaurants, especially for Seoul, and our place even had a live guitarist (playing songs from one of my fav bands, Busker Busker) and fake celebrity signatures on the wall.
This is a special kind of spicy rice cake dish, translated as boiling tteokboki, because you put a whole bunch of ingredients in a shallow pot, and it boils on a burner right on your table.
Before...
It had rice cakes, noodles, hard boiled eggs, fish cake, ramen, cabbage, carrots, rice filled dumplings, green onions, and spicy seasonings. Also a little sugar, to be sweet and spicy.
After...mmmm...so good...
Another day, I went with some friends, Delilah from Mexico and Veronique, to their favorite dessert place nearby.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...
Pancakes with Nutella and bananas...oh gosh...
And now for the piece de resistance...may I present Oreo Bingsoo:
On the walk back, we saw another restaurant that was used in the filming of the drama "Beautiful Legacy", which had one of my favorite actors, Lee Seung Gi, in it, so I took a minute to fangirl it up a little. It doesn't take much for me to be happy...
2 comments:
You sure have had some interesting foods over there. Have you figured out how to make them at home? I hope that it took all 3 of you to eat the Oreo Bingsoo. Your Waffle Truck needs to do Nuttella and banana waffles--it would be good wouldn't it? Glad you got to "fangirl" it. Was that the only place you've seen a picture of Lee Seung Gi? I'd have thought that his picture would be all over Korea.
Mama, Lee Seung Gi is everywhere all up on a bunch of ads, and this was the second filming site for this particular show that I've seen, the first being in Insadong. He is called the "ad king" here, and for good reason!
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