Japchae as Street Food Stuffing

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I just noticed these in Insa-dong. Actually, I didn’t notice them in Insa-dong. We were so rushed with doing street food munching video footage for SBS that I didn’t investigate this further until I downloaded my pics at home. If I had been paying closer attention and not heeding the producer who wanted me to buy a hoddeok (in summer, have you), I woulda gone for one of these.

What are they?

They look like hoddeok with japchae inside. It looks like the same rice and corn flour mixture that’s in those famous Insa-dong hoddeok, which I call “Insa-dong hocakes.”

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Gonna have to try one next time. People love japchae. People love fried dough. Together at last!

If you’ve tried these, report, please.

Comments

8 responses to “Japchae as Street Food Stuffing”

  1. Karl Avatar
    Karl

    Evil! What if that was like a corn bread stuffed with chapchae? I noticed some burrito places in Toronto are catching on to the kogi style and including things like chapchae.

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  2. Luis Avatar
    Luis

    the street shop near my apt had them and i didnt realize that they weren’t the regular hodeok cakes (they were made round), but after i got past the initial shock of not finding the sweet filling, I found them rather good. Slightly salty for my tastes, but the crunchiness of the warm dough w/ the noodles I thought was a very nice texture combination. I would have them again.

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  3. Editor Avatar
    Editor

    Because of our general policy of not posting about food we can’t recommend, we didn’t write this one up for FatManSeoul ~ however, we can personally testify that these are completely, utterly disguisting and not meant for human consumption. Salty, dull noodles in an inedible, gut slaughtering piece of dough. Stay far, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away.

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  4. Robert G Avatar
    Robert G

    I have been noticing these – are they new?
    When will your SBS street food special be on?

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    1. ZenKimchi Avatar
      ZenKimchi

      I’d say they’ve been around for almost a year in Seoul. No street food
      special yet. They keep asking me to be on TV to talk about gochujang and
      bibimbap.

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  5. Robert G Avatar
    Robert G

    I have been noticing these – are they new?
    When will your SBS street food special be on?

    Reply
  6. Robert G Avatar
    Robert G

    I have been noticing these – are they new?
    When will your SBS street food special be on?

    Reply
  7. dore Avatar
    dore

    They are still there in Insa–dong and they are delicious!

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