14+ Popular Korean Street Food Recipes
Korean street food is a cultural icon around the world with their eye-catching snacks. From savory to sweet, these popular recipes will help you create delicious Korean street food easily at home reminiscing the flavor from the Korean street food vendors.
Korean street food has brought to the world a trendy sensation recently along with other Korean cultural influences; k-pop, k-drama, k-movie, k-beauty, and k-fashion.
How Korean street food began
Street food is an important part of Korean people’s life. It started during the Korean war in the 50s, to provide affordable meals to people in a lower standard. The menus were limited back then: tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes), boiled fish cake skewers, and hotteok are the most commonly seen dishes.
However, over the time the popularity of street food has extended to all classes of Koreans regardless of their economical status. The number of street venders have increased and even retail outlets specializing the street food had emerged.
These days, street food has become an important part of Korean food culture. You can find popular Korean street foods not only on the major streets in the cities, many markets, school districts, and town events will host street food fairs and festivals in all parts of south Korea around the year.
It’s entertaining to watch street food vendor’s hands moving very fast making their signature dish right in front of their customers. New menus are constantly being developed and draw attention from people to try out.
Here are 18+ popular Korean street food recipes that you already have tried before when you visited Korea, or never had but intriguing you to try out.
All of these street food recipes are easy to recreate at home and will bring the nostalgia of Korean experience you had or want to have.
Popular Korean Street Food Recipes
Simple Hotteok Recipe (Korean Sweet Pancake)
Dakgangjeong (Crispy Korean Chicken Nuggets)
Homemade Mandu (Korean Dumplings)
Korean Scallion Pancakes with Seafood (Pajeon)
Korean Street Toast (Korean Breakfast)
Kimbap (Korean Seaweed Rice Roll)
Mini Seaweed Rice Rolls (Mayak Gimbap or Kimbap)
20-Minute Authentic Tteokbokki (Spicy Korean Rice Cake)
Gimmari (Korean Fried Seaweed Rolls)
Dalgona Candy (Korean Sugar Candy)
Rice Cake Skewers, Tteok Kkochi (떡꼬치)
Root Vegetable Tempura (Yachae Tuigim)
Sweet Potato Rice Donuts
Korean Mung Bean Pancakes (Bindaetteok)
14+ Popular Korean Street Food Recipes: Korean Street Toast
Ingredients
- 1/4 cabbage, thinly shredded
- 1/2 carrot, thinly shredded
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 4 eggs
- a pinch salt
- 4 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 4 tbsp ketchup
- 4 slices deli ham
- 8 slices sandwich bread
Equipment
Instructions
- Beat eggs in a large mixing bowl and add the shredded cabbage, carrot, green onion, and a pinch of salt; mix well.
- Melt 1 tablespoon of butter on a skillet over medium low heat. Spoon in a portion of egg and vegetable mixture, and spread it around to about the size of your sandwich bread. (You can make two egg pieces at a time)
- Cook the egg omelette 2-3 minutes on one side and flip. Cook until golden brown. Transfer the omelette to a plate and repeat the next batch.
- Heat ham slices briefly, about 30-60 seconds; set aside.
- Melt remaining tablespoon of butter and toast the sandwich bread until golden and crisp.
To assemble the toast
- Put a piece of egg omelet on the toast. Sprinkle about 2 teaspoon of sugar (or however much you desire), and squirt some ketchup on top. Place a slice of ham and a cheese on top and top with the another toasted bread.
- If you like your toast crunchier, add shredded cabbage between the layers of the condiments and ham.
