today we're at Gukje Market in Busan, South Korea and we're about to embark
on a massive breakfast tour
Busan is South Korea's second-largest city and there is
a ton of local food to eat here we've picked out heaps of food for this
breakfast tour at Gukje market so let's get eating
Korea has an amazing street
food culture and you have got to check out all the delicious Korean street food
in this video
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, we hope you're
hungry, let's eat
we've found noodle alley in Gukje market and you can see
that all the stalls are lined up in this alleyway
you basically just choose the store that you like the look of, grab a stool, sit
yourself down and tuck in
"annyeonghaseyo"
"bibim hangmyeong?" "bibimdangmyeon" "bibim nangmyeon" [trips over words] hahaha
okay so the lady has just told us that this dish is called bibim hangmyeon
so the hangmeyon [*correction- dangmyeon] are these noodles and they look to be like a cellophane or
glass noodles and what she did was she just popped them into her strainer and
then warmed them up in her big pot of broth and then we've got on here some fish
cake, some shredded cabbage [*correction- carrot] shredded and pickled radish some green leaves here
and then a dollop of what looks to be a gochujang which is a chili pepper paste
or sauce with some sesame seeds and some spring onions what I'm gonna do is just
mix it all up, it's super cold here in Busan today so tucking into this hot
bowl of noodles is going to be epic all right let's give these a go
Wow the noodles are really slippery and they've just been coated in that
beautiful gochujang sauce which is a little bit spicy, a little bit sweet, very
savoury it's a really simple dish but the flavours are really, really distinct so
you can really taste that sesame seed that's coming through from that sauce I'm
gonna get a bit of this fishcake and also some more noodles
Wow the fishcake is a little bit chewy it has a really subtle fish flavour
those noodles- they're divine they're really, really slippery have a
little bit of chewy texture and then you've got those really crisp
vegetables, this is a winner of a start to our breakfast food tour
while we were sitting here eating these noodles the lady at the next stall dropped this plate
in front of us, so it's banchan which is like side dishes so it looks like some
gimbap which are these seaweed rolls with just white rice inside, so just a plain
gimbap and then we've got this one here it looks like fishcakes with gochujang
sauce all over them which is red pepper sauce and that has some sesame seeds
these might be some radish some big chunks of radish and then this looks
like some sort of green maybe a mustard green and some chives all in that sauce
as well, let's just try some of this stuff I'm gonna have one of these plain
rice gimbap so it's just rice inside a seaweed roll a dried seaweed roll
really plain because it's just rice and seaweed
there's nothing hiding inside that's good because the noodles are quite
flavoursome with the the sesame and that spice, that's a good little side
let's try um one of these fishcakes here there's a fishcake that there
looks like another style of fishcake let's get those two down, mmm mmmm cold but full
of flavour that gochujang sauce is just bursting with spice or hot chilli
spice but nothing crazy, it's a little bit sweet, a little bit tangy and just
the perfect chilli spice, these sides are gonna go really well with these noodles
and these noodles are absolutely incredible it's a great way to start
this breakfast food tour
so it turns out that this dish here is actually a
local specialty called Chungmu gimbap so it is these gimbap which are the seaweed
rice rolls served together with spicy radish which is here it is super crunchy
and tangy and boiled squid which we eventually discovered in amongst this
spicy fishcake and it was so tender, it's so great to be sitting here on the
street sampling some of the local traditional food of Busan
next up we've got a sweet little treat this is hotteok which you will find all
over South Korea and it's something we love, this outside casing is made up of a
rice batter this inside the sticky brown substance you can see here is sugar and
cinnamon which they stuff inside it's then cooked on a hot plate covered
in oil except this one was cooked in butter which is gonna give it a really
amazing taste, there was a thick layer of bubbling butter on that hot plate and
the smell coming off that was incredible, normally in South Korea these
have some seeds and whatnot inside them but in Busan check out how many seeds
they have in this one so here in Busan it's called ssiat hotteok and that is
because of all of these seeds going on so we've got some pumpkin seeds,
there's crushed up peanuts, there's even some raisins in there there is so much
going on inside this, I've just gotta have a bite, give this a go oh and those seeds are
toasted as well so they're gonna be a little bit crunchy
oh wow, wow the butter flavour is so strong when you have these cooked in oil
the texture is quite different this one's really soft, in oil often
this, this outer this rice batter skin which you can see has gone all golden
normally it's kind of bubbly and much more crispy, this one is very soft let's
have another big bite mmm that sugar and cinnamon mixture is perfect the cinnamon
is punchy, the sugar's not too overpowering it's not actually too sweet
and all the nuts are full of crunch and those seeds, like the pumpkin
seed is just incredible this is such a good snack and I love that this one is
cooked in butter that's a really good twist on something you'll find all over
Korea
next up on our breakfast tour is a Korean street food favourite and that is
tteokbokki so these chewy rice cakes that are cooked and coated in this amazing
brilliant gochujang sauce we've also got some fishcake here so I'm gonna give a
piece of this teokkbokki a try
mmm mmm mmmm
whoa they say in Busan the tteokbokki is especially chewy and this one sure is
it's got a great texture, it's just sticky, chewy and that gochujang sauce
is a little bit spicy but it's mainly sweet that is really tasty let's
try some of this fishcake next so it's been fried, fishcake is really
popular in Busan because it being a port city, let's give this a go
mmmm it's really soft it's just got a really subtle fish flavour and that gochujang sauce, it
is such a favourite for good reason it is so addictive this stuff great street
food snack
I'm having another favourite street food snack here in Korea, this green onion
pancake so you can see it's a very thin batter which has been cooked into a big
pancake and then broken up to be put on our plate so lots of greens in here so
the green onions obviously which are these bits here like spring onion we've
got some carrot I can see little bits of lettuce they're very small the way
they're cut up but little bits of lettuce hiding in there so it is filled
absolutely filled with greens it's unbelievable it's pretty much batter
being used as a glue to hold together all those greens, there's a little bit of
a sauce here so I'm gonna grab some of this sauce to go with it, it looks like a
sesame maybe vinegar sweet soy we've got some big chilies and some big bits of
raw onion and raw spring onion in there so let's grab a bit of that we'll get
some chilli, some onion and a little drizzle of that sauce to go on there
righto let's give this a go, we'll grab a big piece filled with greens give it a
dunk in that sauce
mmm mmmm oh it's so onion-y those spring onions have just such a fresh burst
they're not all tangy like a white or brown onion, they're just so fresh
tasting, look at these pieces it's just amazing how green they are I'm gonna try
this big one here with this big bit of chilli on top and I'll try and get it
into that sauce
the chilli's just really sweet, not spicy the sauce is like a sweet soy and then
has a bit of a tang as well so there must be some vinegar in there
this is so good, so warming and I love this setup you're standing in these
little laneways and everyone does the same thing in each spot so like the
first place we went with the noodles that was all those noodles, this spot it's
all this and what Sheena had, so the same foods in each little spot and you stand
you quickly eat and then you move on through the market this is great fun
our next
stop is sweet red bean porridge alley so this alley is lined up with stalls
selling one thing sweet red bean porridge, let's go and grab a bowl
we've got the steaming hot bowl of patjuk in front of us so it is a sweet
red bean porridge and the lady has chopped up some pieces of rice cake so
or mochi which is glutinous rice cake which is covered with a toasted rice powder [*correction- soy powder]
now look at how thick this porridge is so it's made up of red beans and red
bean porridge is really common in a lot of Asian cultures I remember my mum making
a big pot of red bean porridge and then the freezing them into ice blocks during
the summertime let's try it and see what this tastes like, perfect for the cold
weather
the red bean is really earthy and it's quite a thick almost gluggy porridge
it has a little hint of salt as well, they say that the red colour of the porridge
actually drives away evil spirits so I'm happy to be eating this bowl if that's
the case, let's give it another go oh it's really hot but it's really satisfying
it's quite rich, it's thick and it really is the perfect thing to warm us up on
this cold Busan morning the mochi which has been sitting in that hot porridge
has actually started to melt a little so it's looking quite sticky let's give it
a go mmmm mmmmmm
it has, it's gone all sticky and it's sort of melting in my mouth, that is really tasty
this is just a really simple, homely satisfying bowl of sweet red bean
porridge
what better way to end a massive breakfast street food tour than with a
giant ice cream we love these things you'll find them all over Korea this is
a frogen hahaha it's too cold for ice cream this is a frozen yogurt one
it's amazing, a little bit sour it just goes really well on top of all
that sort of fried heavy food, that's a great way to end
what a way to finish
that was a brilliant a breakfast tour around Gukje market it is a great way to
experience local Korean street food so make sure you pop by when you're in Busan
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we'll see you next time, annyeong