We had Korean street food last night, it was been a long time since we had them, way back in downtown we have street food every week but since we moved here we always have BHC chicken.  Anyway I went to the nearby canteen where street foods are sold, there are already plenty of customers most of them are students buying their snacks before heading home.  I waited for my turn to give my order, with the help of a tong I am able to add the food I like when the owner can’t figure out how many I wanted.

Cheese sticks are my husband’s favorite, we usually buy bags of cheese sticks in supermarket and we cooked it ourselves but when I discover that cheese sticks were also sold in the street and they taste better than the cheese sticks in the supermarket we stopped buying bags of cheese sticks and if we are craving for it we just head to the nearby canteen. I also bought 2 sticks of fried tteokboki.

Aside from cheese sticks I also bought fried sweet potato, stuffed peppers and dumplings (mandu) as it was already getting late only few are left in the tray so I took them all, my husband told me not to get over board but dunno if I did.

There are times I feel hungry for Korean food so one fine day and I went out to buy some items for our kitchen, I bought Tteokbokki worth W2,000 (plastic) in some of the mini-canteen just in the school vicinity.  Instead of buying to my “suki” I bought to the other stall owner which is a little farther just to see if who cooks Tteokbokki better.

And to test it, I bought another set of Tteokbokki to the woman I called “suki”, W500 each cup and I also bought the round snack, and if you’re gonna ask me who cooks better my vote goes to my “suki” as her Tteokbokki  has a sticky sauce that taste spicy and sweet while the other one is not that sticky and kind of sour (vinegar taste).

I called her “suki” as I always buy Tteokbokki to her and she always put more than the amount I bought especially when I buy in large container, and since she put a lot it came to the point I feel tired of eating Tteokbokki. Lol!

Tteokbokki, also known as Ddeokbokki is a popular Korean snack food which is commonly purchased from street vendors or Pojangmacha. Originally it was called tteok jjim and was a braised dish of sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning. Tteok jjim an early variant of modern tteokbokki, was once a part of Korean royal court cuisine. This type of tteokbokki was made by boiling tteok, meat, vegetables, eggs, and seasonings in water, and then serving it topped with ginkgo nuts and walnuts. In its original form, tteokbokki, which was then known as gungjung tteokbokki, was a dish served in the royal court and regarded as a representative example of haute cuisine. The original tteokbokki was a stir-fried dish consisting of garaetteo ( cylinder-shaped tteok) combined with a variety of ingredients, such as beef, mung bean sprouts, green onions, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and onions, and seasoned with soy sauce.