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[twg]

It cant be all that good for you, but I find I've been "dining ala stick" recently due to all of the winter street vendors opening up this past month. You know odeng, dok pokki, sausage onna stick, steamed mandu, and so on.

Anyone have any idea about the calories these things are packing? They're certainly salty.

[candide]

Yuck! That stuff doesn't compare to the street food in S-E Asia.

Don't you have a Korean girlfriend that you can ask about the calories? They usually know these things.

[Homer]

Depends what you eat....

I eat from street vendors sometimes. I like the dokboki and the odang. The buchinggae is also good to eat.

I avoid the hotok (sugary pancakes) as they are a pound of fat with sugar on top....

[ajuma]

I allow myself 2 hotoks per winter...love the darn things, but yeah...tons of calories!!! I'm looking forward to my first one soon!!

[Qinella]

[mindmetoo]

I remember seeing someone selling "well being sausage". Fuk.

[ajgeddes]

Now that I have been up in the Jongno region lately, I find that I have been often dining on the 닭꼬치. I love it. I don't touch that other stuff though.

[twg]

Thanks Qinella. Think I'll stick with the steamed mandu.

[KumaraKitty]

One of my adult students who is a diet doctor(not sure really what to call him) told me that one piece of song pyeong is worth 500cal and to avoid it at all costs. I should ask him about 떡볶이 because I love the stuff although I do try to eat it only once a month. Mainly I ask them to give me some harboiled egg with the sauce while my hunny eats his soondae. Ugh, that's one thing I'll never learn to like!

[Novernae]

[Qinella]