Success! Seoul Eats Meet-up in Insadong

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We started with a group of 15 for lunch at koong in Insadong for Tteok Mandu guk.

Some of us had a little Baeksaeju to start the day.

The tteok mandu guk (rice cake dumpling soup) is quite famous at koong. Why is it famous? They have excellent broth, the dumplings are packed with awesomeness, and the ricecakes look like 2 little pearls smashed together.

Kimchi and Turnip Kimchi

The ricecake from Koong

The Mandu from Koong

Then we headed off to find Hotteok. Hotteok is a common winter street food. It’s basically a fried rice donut with melted cinnamon, peanut caramel in the center.

Here the dough is crispier because they use corn meal. Yum.

Melissa is double fisting her’s because it’s just that good.

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About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.