DELICIOUS STREET FOOD! Myeong-dong Night Market | Seoul, South Korea

Me, Mai, I don't know. This district is supposed to be filled with tons of things to do. Lots of good street food. So we're just going at school.

Do you think you put the whole thing in your mouth?

Don't shake it. Good start to the street food.

It's happening. The carts are rolling in.

All right. It's almost five o'.

Clock.

The food stalls are in full force. They're cooking. It's getting louder. We're gonna make like one pass down this big road and like feel them all out, see what we want and then come back and actually eat.

Oh my gosh. I like, am already getting anxious that I'm gonna be too full to try everything. Every single stall had something delicious.

There were easily over 100. That was like five blocks.

What are we going to do?

I know one thing for sure, we're going to go poor buying food tonight.

So, like, what's our strategy? Do you want to, like, eat in order, like as we see things or are we going to, like, jump around? I feel like we should just go down the line. But then I'm scared we're going to stop at every single one and then get full before something like, really good. What look the best to you?

Spicy. Most spicy. Spicy. Spicy.

Yeah.

That was amazing.

Thank you. Thank you. This is what looks the best. It's like thinly sliced pork belly all shoved on a skewer with green onions in between and some delicious looking sauce. He also used a blowtorch to finish it off at the end, which was fantastic. I think this is going to be so good.

Oh.

Yeah.

That is so good. It tastes like the Korean version of barbecue. Like, it's got like a sweet, almost barbecue sauce taste to it, but a lot of spice like you would expect in Asia. And it is so, so good. It's basically like a giant piece of bacon put on a skewer with incredible sauce. What are you gonn.

You're splitting that with me?

That's so hot though. But so spicy.

It's like just enough spicy too.

Cara's version of just enough spicy means that my mouth is on fire and my nose is sweating. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to taste anything else the rest of the night.

I always know when something is extra spicy because it gives me the hiccups.

Like every time it's so hot, my.

Lips are on fire.

The kimchi at lunch gave me the hiccups too.

Since our mouth since our mouths are on fire and I still have the hiccups we thought the bread with the egg on it looked really good. I don't know if there's anything else to it, but look how pretty it is. I've seen them everywhere.

Oh, hot.

It's like cornbread or.

Kind of tastes like a cake with an egg on top. The bread is sweeter than I prefer, but it's nice after this spicy meat.

Too sweet for me. You can have the rest.

So I know we had dumplings for lunch, but these are totally different. They've been seared, and so they're, like, kind of crunchy. And it came with this onion sauce with soy sa. Hi.

Hello.

Hi.

Where you guys from?

Tennessee.

What are you doing here?

Eating. Not the first random conversation with an Australian I've had. I love Australians. They're just so friendly. Like, we're sitting here filming, and then he just comes up and starts talking. Next we might see Charlie and Jill. Okay, so back to the dumplings. I love the ones we had for lunch, but there's something about the ones that have been fried and have that little bit of crispy in them. And the insides of these are just totally different. There's, like, these noodly things coming out. And green onions with the soy sauce on top.

Dumplings are my favorite. Anyways, these are going to be hard to be.

So multiple people have suggested that we get these black noodles. We've heard that it's basically a Chinese dish that the Koreans have made their own. It's like a black bean sauce with these really thick noodles and a little bit of spicy on top.

Have you had this one yet?

You have? Is it good?

Everything is good here. Yes.

It smells kind of weird. I don't know.

Just introduced to the spices.

Black bean noodles.

Beautiful. Oh, I bought.

I've never had anything like this. It's a very strange flavor. It's not as good as I thought it was gonna be. I'm a little disappointed. Like, I thought it was gonna be super, like, soy saucy.

I had low expectations to begin. Noodles just did not sound that good.

It's not bad, but honestly, it tastes like spicy spaghettios.

Yes.

Like, it tastes like spaghettios with an Asian spice with some really thick noodles. It's like, if you like spaghettios, it's just way too sweet for me to be, like, a good Asian noodle.

I'm so glad you agreed with me. And I'm not just weird. I, like, wanted to like it so much.

You were trying earlier.

I was going to be, like, angry at you if you liked it. And I Didn't.

I mean, it's okay, but. No, I think we have similar feelings about it.

Dumplings are still my number one.

My hair is on the chest.

There you go. You can finish it.

We are four dishes in. There's another walking street on this side, so we're going to switch up the scene, see what they have going on over here.

I'm a little upset. This road is, like, so much longer with so many more food stalls. We've already had four things. I'm gonna get full. Which way do you want to go? I think this way. Or no, this way. Let's go this way.

Turns out the street is mostly closed vendors, so I don't feel as bad about eating poor things on the other street. So for lunch, we had dumplings. For dinner, we had dumplings. And now for dessert, having a dessert dumpling. It has a strawberry and chocolate inside. And this really adorable girl is making them right here. And we just had to try it. It's super soft.

The chocolate is not chocolatey. Might not be chocolate smell heels.

I actually don't think it's chocolate. I'm a little bummed it's not chocolate. I should have looked closer before I bought it, but it's still pretty good.

So I asked the lady who was making these what was on the INS side. She spoke a little bit of English, So I figured out why Karen didn't like chocolate. Because it's red bean paste. So it's like dumpling, red bean paste, and a strawberry, which is probably, like, the weirdest combination I've ever heard of. But at the same time, it's really not that bad.

Thank you.

Will you help me open my chopsticks?

Teamwork. Teamwork.

It's like a wishbone.

Oh, turn it around. Sorry. This is gonna be our last street food of the night. One, because we're getting full, and two, because we're running out of cash. But this is a special one because this is actually the only Korean food I'd ever had before actually coming here. I tried it at a restaurant in Nashville one time. It's like a Korean seafood panc.

This was such a good one to end on. The dough is a lot like the dumplings that we've had. I thought it was going to be, like, crispy and, like, kind of dry, but it's like super moist, doughy pancake and savory, just the way I like them.

This was the perfect first day in South Korea. We just walked around, got lost, ate a bunch of stuff.

One of my favorite kind of days.

Some of the best days are days where there's not, like, one big thing that, like, makes it an awesome day. It's the days where, like, a bunch of little things just add up to.

Make a really good day with really good food. And the best part is, we got to try seven new things today, and we still have at least 25 things on our list to eat in South Korea.

Normally, when we go to a country, we have, like, five things. We're like, we have to try these five things before we leave. But here, the list is just so.

Long, adding, we keep learning about new foods that we have to try. It's like, my dream, this place. And we have six more days.