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Street food will bring forward home cooks and small businesses with immense talent. Using home recipes and creative new ideas home cooks can make a living. Bringing forward a sense of a commuinty since these cooks tend to partner with each other. This is the case in South Korea where it feels like street food is part of their culture and is often popularized by western media.
Details
- The most popular sauce is Gochujang.
- Korea is one of the largest consumers of garlic!
- In some cases some Koreans will use metal chopsticks.
- Dessert cuisines tends to be more about fruit then sweets.
- During the 1300s food stalls began appearing.
- Popular locations are Busan and Myeong-dong.
- Food is sold from stall, trucks, and bikes.
- Street vendors served to U.S. troops after the Korean War.
- 1990s is when international foods brought forward diversity.
Common Entrées
Tteokbokgi
A popular street food which is made up fried rice cakes with spices which is often paired containing boiled eggs and scallions. It is known to be a comfortable snack that can be offered in a different variations which give the home cooks the ability to stand out.
Korean Fried Chicken
Of course fried chicken will be a popular food that can easily be made and is an easy comfort food. The option of having a sweet or spicy option will gain the attention of a wider audience, since fried chicken is so easy recognizable this could lead to a higher popularity with international customers.
Shrimp Tempura
The seafood option that seems to be a popular choice in foodstands would be shrimp tempura. It is a lightly battered and fried to have a certain crisp. It is often paired up with other seafood, rice, and vegatables along with a dipping sauce called tentsuyu.