It's clearly winter again and that means its time for street vendors to bust out the Bungeoppang, those yummy sweet pastries filled with traditionally red bean paste or choux cream and served wonderfully warm.
Karrot Market, aka Daangn Market (당근마켓) the second-hand selling/buying app has a dedicated section in it helping you locate your nearest seller.
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| Daangun Market screenshots of Bungeoppang locations |
Just open the app and tap the "Explore" tab at the bottom. Press the obvious fish pastry button and the map will populate with all the known locations. Some of this is user-generated content so you can submit places you know that are selling the delicacy, good for mom-and-pop type street food stalls. You can also notify if a location is gone or wrong.
This could be a good chance to try out what is the rage on Seoul's streets this winter: mint chocolate filled fishbread (민초 붕어빵). Apparently popularized in Japan but in Korea now.
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| Mint Chocolate Fishy Bread |
Anyone dare to try it?
Update: not entirely related but one of the pains of buying street food like this has been the fact that they usually take only cash. Who caries much cash these days? So a lot of street vendors have relied on just posting their bank account details on a cardboard sign. But that's a pain to sit there, open up your banking app, manually type a long account number, and try to verify the name is right, just for what should be a quick transaction.
Luckily Naver realized this is not ideal and now lets sellers post a QR code that hungry street food fans can scan and immediately pay via Naver Pay. It will do that neat thing where the seller's phone will announce receipt of the money out loud so the seller can keep his hands and eyes on your snack rahter that dealing with his own phone. Good news all around.
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