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[kimchi_pizza]

One of the best things about winter in Korea is the hot food from vendors. I hope thats one tradition that doesn't disappear like the pojangmacha tents.

Whenever I pass a vendor selling those hoduk cakes I have to buy at least two every time. I guess they're fried rice or flour dough cakes with melted brown sugar in the middle. The really good ones have chopped nuts thrown in and I devour'em in seconds and grin at the ajumma's jaw-dropp'n stare.
I've never cared for red beans so those fish-filled-red-bean-paste thingies can take a deep dive in the Han river.

[SuperFly]

It's the pollution that provides the good taste

[HapKi]

car exhaust and o-dang mul really does hit the spot on a cold winter's day.

[crusher_of_heads]

Street vendors is the Korean Russain Roulette of the Bowels.

[kimchi_pizza]

[polonius]

[ruffie]

Hepatitis on a stick.

[Atavistic]

I've never gotten sick off of street food. Now, school food, that's another matter...

[sojourner1]

yea, they should limit car traffic in small city centers where there are street vendors.

I like those little cakes with a whole egg in the middle. Those big tubular rice things in red sauce are sometimes good. Those ribbon noodles on a stick in broth can be good, but it could be a health risk of not hot enough.

There tends to be very little if any risk with fried foods unless they are sitting cold for many hours and salmonella develops. I don't buy fried foods on the street since they let it sit cold for many hours.

[Ilsanman]

Fat chance of that. Most of those street vendors are illegal.