Pojangmacha: Korean angkringan
trying to keep my promise yesterday.
okeh, today's post is about Korean street food stall, or almost similar with Javanese angkringan. before coming to Korea, I like watching Korean movies. The thing I often see in them is the street food stall. Often, characters in the movie go to one of these stalls and get a drink of soju and get drank, to confess love or messed-up feelings about love. Also, to eat fatty barbecued meat. Hahaa, what a unhealthy lifestyle! Another is when the character go for a walk and see one of the stall below, then grab a skewer or two. It seems so nice, and the way they eat it is sooo tempting. Korean definitely loves eating, and so do I!! So, when I got a chance to visit South Korea, one thing I wanted to do was to grab foods from these stalls. :D
There are two types of street food stall. One sells snack (like the pic above), for example: gimbab (look like korean sushi), fried big chilli tempura (okay, it's my own naming), rice cake (Tteokbokki or Topokki ), etc. You can find this in the sidewalks, across South Korean cities, during daytime and night time. It usually lets you sit surround the bar, but some let you stand up eating. The other one usually sells alcoholic drinks along with anju (food accompanying alcohol beverages). The drinks could be soju (distilled spirit) or beer or anything. You could find various food starting from instant noodles, fish, chicken liver (and ampela, what is it in English btw?), and octopus. They are usually served with cucumber, kimchi or fermented vegetable dishes usually made with cabbage or radish, fermented in a brine of ginger, garlic, scallions, and chili pepper, and chilli (or sambal Indonesian call it). This stall usually opens during the night time, and it usually has cover around it, not like the open snack stall. You can usually sit here.
So, one night, after desperately curious about it (blame the Korean movies!), me and my friends tried to go to one of them. I made my friends came with me. Haha...Well, it was not difficult since they were all over the city. So, we easily found them near where we stayed. So, we ordered octopus! The octopus was only boiled and spiced with salt. But it was delicious for me. My friends didn't like it though. The next day, we also managed to try the rice cake, it was really red, but not very spicy nor hot. A friend of mine bought a huge chilly, which was fried with flour, like tempura. She said it was not hot. And don't forget they also have the big chicken and beef skewers!
All delicious! I love Korean food!! :) though the octopus did cost me my butt! Ooops! A bottle of beer and one small octopus (eaten for 4) were all 20K Korean Won, can you believe it? :`(
So, til we meet again, people! More stories on food to come!
some of the pictures were taken from:
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkoM2BvGY57GT5J2rkHy-pSM9UeypU2GbVEyaCDXl174wQNYhj
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBalZ6CcUWuVKcC3kdvpU0_nDoFI-alW2yuR--W8hvSmmg7KMF5w
okeh, today's post is about Korean street food stall, or almost similar with Javanese angkringan. before coming to Korea, I like watching Korean movies. The thing I often see in them is the street food stall. Often, characters in the movie go to one of these stalls and get a drink of soju and get drank, to confess love or messed-up feelings about love. Also, to eat fatty barbecued meat. Hahaa, what a unhealthy lifestyle! Another is when the character go for a walk and see one of the stall below, then grab a skewer or two. It seems so nice, and the way they eat it is sooo tempting. Korean definitely loves eating, and so do I!! So, when I got a chance to visit South Korea, one thing I wanted to do was to grab foods from these stalls. :D
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| the lady with all the Korean delicious and spicy snack |
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| a woman buying some skewers |
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| what they usually sell (and the food the lady preparing is Korean rice cakes - delicious!) |
There are two types of street food stall. One sells snack (like the pic above), for example: gimbab (look like korean sushi), fried big chilli tempura (okay, it's my own naming), rice cake (Tteokbokki or Topokki ), etc. You can find this in the sidewalks, across South Korean cities, during daytime and night time. It usually lets you sit surround the bar, but some let you stand up eating. The other one usually sells alcoholic drinks along with anju (food accompanying alcohol beverages). The drinks could be soju (distilled spirit) or beer or anything. You could find various food starting from instant noodles, fish, chicken liver (and ampela, what is it in English btw?), and octopus. They are usually served with cucumber, kimchi or fermented vegetable dishes usually made with cabbage or radish, fermented in a brine of ginger, garlic, scallions, and chili pepper, and chilli (or sambal Indonesian call it). This stall usually opens during the night time, and it usually has cover around it, not like the open snack stall. You can usually sit here.
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| they look like this from the outside (the open type) |
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| a scene from a Korean drama, this pojangmacha is bigger than other pics above (and it's closed) |
So, one night, after desperately curious about it (blame the Korean movies!), me and my friends tried to go to one of them. I made my friends came with me. Haha...Well, it was not difficult since they were all over the city. So, we easily found them near where we stayed. So, we ordered octopus! The octopus was only boiled and spiced with salt. But it was delicious for me. My friends didn't like it though. The next day, we also managed to try the rice cake, it was really red, but not very spicy nor hot. A friend of mine bought a huge chilly, which was fried with flour, like tempura. She said it was not hot. And don't forget they also have the big chicken and beef skewers!
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| the instant noodles, too bad we didn't try one |
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| a bottle of beer, sambal, cucumber, salty sauce, and octopus! |
All delicious! I love Korean food!! :) though the octopus did cost me my butt! Ooops! A bottle of beer and one small octopus (eaten for 4) were all 20K Korean Won, can you believe it? :`(
So, til we meet again, people! More stories on food to come!
some of the pictures were taken from:
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkoM2BvGY57GT5J2rkHy-pSM9UeypU2GbVEyaCDXl174wQNYhj
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBalZ6CcUWuVKcC3kdvpU0_nDoFI-alW2yuR--W8hvSmmg7KMF5w
wondering if u also drank that alcohol stuff... ??
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ReplyDeleteyoo dicoba lah, enak kok *wakaka*
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