Myeongdong Street Food for a First-Timer in Korea

It was our 1st time in Korea, I put this in our itinerary as our 1st activity the moment we arrived in Seoul.  We arrived in Seoul around 7:00pm so just in time for dinner.  Well actually since we're already so hungry upon check-in at our Airbnb, we ate at a nearby restaurant a little first since we'll be taking the subway to Myeongdong from our Airbnb.

Just a brief background of our trip, we went November 27, 2018.  It was beginning winter season already and our conversion rate during this time was: 1Korean Won = Php 0.048.

So here were a few of the streetfood we ate at Myeongdong.

1. Egg Bun (GyeRan Bbang)- KW 2000

This is like a hard boiled egg wrapped in pancake batter with sesame seeds and sunflower seeds on top.  This is very fragrant, and when you eat this I especially love the pancake side. Below is a picture of the inside of it.  There's the hard boiled egg at the center and the pancake bread is enveloping it.  If you love hard boiled eggs you would love this.

2. Cheesy Lobster - KW 15,000

I find this too expensive for a streetfood.  But hey this is lobster... and you'll only buy one anyway.  With the price I was kind of expecting more from this, but this kind of tasted like lobster, topped with cheese then they torch this.  So the saltiness of the cheese with the fragrance of "grill" kind of like a topping to the lobster.  I cannot say it blended well but it's a so-so for me.

3. Cheesy Scallops - KW 10,000

Well this was eye-catching, and kind of unique in a sense.  You can see they prepare and cook the scallops in front of you.  They put this in a clam, and the cut the scallops into pieces and top them with cheese and then grill the thing.  I was disappointed though with this dish, since it was so chewy and difficult to chew.  Not for senior citizen with dentures.

4. Grilled Shrimp - KW 6000

Here there are 6 pieces of tiger prawns in a skewer.  We especially like this one since this was fried in butter and there was a touch of torch I think to give you that smoky smell and taste.  The shrimps were sweet which blends well with the saltiness of the butter and grill.

5. Gluttinous Rice Cake (Hoddeok)- KW 2000

I like this also and this I think is one of the streetfood you must try also.  This has a chewy outer cake (they say it's a pancake but for me it's kind of more of gluttinous rice cake).  The center filling is sweet with crushed peanuts.  The fried salty cake blends really well with the sweet filling inside.  This is served in a paper cup.  I think this is 2nd to the grilled shrimp for me.

If I'll rank what we ate:

1. Grilled shrimp

2. Glutinous rice cake

3. Cheesy lobster

4. Egg Bun

5. Cheesy Scallops

So here were just a few of the streetfood we tried in our recent trip to Myeongdong, til our next food adventure.