South Korean Street Food in Oakland

Street food in South Korean is one of the most famous parts of Korean cuisine. Vendors sell finger food and fast food on the street or in a market, and preparing time is usually short [1]. The traditional South Korea street food is Chapssal-tteok (glutinous rice cake), Bungeo-ppang (fish shaped bun), and Hotteok (pancake with brown sugar filling) [2]. Those food are commonly served in winter, and people more like ice cream in summer. It’s an attracting activity for foreign visitors to visit street food markets, such as Busan, Myeong-dong, and Noryangjin. For people in Pittsburgh, I will introduce some South Korean street foods that are available in Oakland.

Korean Style Fried Chicken

The concept of fried chicken is from the US, and people in South Korean adjust the receipt to meet local taste. Chicken is stirred with salt, pepper and ginger powder and placed for hours so that fragrance of spices soak in the meat. In Korean, people like to eat fried chicken and beers. You can eat it in Chick’n Bubbly, a cute Korean restaurant in Oakland. There is no much seat in Chick’n Bubbly. One two-seat table, one four-seat table, and a long pub table with ten chairs. Chicken is fried nice, and it’s my favorite in Pittsburgh. There are sweet and spicy sauce, soy garlic sauce, and spicy sauce. If you can eat spicy food, I recommend spicy sauce. Chick’n Bubbly offers plastic gloves. The serving speed is somehow low, and I don’t recommend going at noon. The average waiting time is above twenty minutes.

Recipe: How Korean Fried Chicken Is Made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP6FWizMJDQ

Tteoknokki

Tteoknokki, so-called spicy stir-fried rice cakes, is eminently favorite street food in South Korean. It’s made by the spicy sauce and chewy rice cake, with fishcake, seafood, and cheese. Rice cake is freshly made, or it is dry and crispy. A fresh-made rice cake is cooked with spicy sauce, and recipe of the sauce is various. Commonly, the spicy sauce is a combination of gochujang and gochugaru [3]. Gochujang is Korean red chili pepper paste, and gochugaru is Korean red chili pepper flakes. You can eat Tteoknokki in Chick’n Bubbly. They don’t add seafood, but you could add cheese in. I think it’s more delicious with cheese. Also, I recommend eating when Tteoknokki is still warm. Otherwise, the sauce would curdle on the surface of rice cake and rice cake is no longer chewy.

Reference:

[1] “List of Street Foods.” 2018. En.Wikipedia.Org. Accessed October 28, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_street_foods.

[2] “Street Food in South Korea.” 2018. En.Wikipedia.Org. Accessed October 28, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_food_in_South_Korea .

[3] “Tteokbokki (Spicy Stir-Fried Rice Cakes) – Korean Bapsang.” 2018. Korean Bapsang. Accessed October 28, 2018. https://www.koreanbapsang.com/tteokbokki-spicy-stir-fried-rice-cakes/ .

[4] “Korean Tteokbokki.” 2016. Wandercooks. Accessed October 28, 2018. https://www.wandercooks.com/korean-tteokbokki-spicy-rice-cake/ .