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Hotteok 호떡 - (Korean Food)
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1. Ingredients for Hotteok


-Primary ingredients: Flour and sugar
-Secondary ingredients: Nut products as neeed




2. Taste evaluation


-Spicy:☆☆☆☆☆
-Salty:☆☆☆☆☆
-Sweet:★★★★☆
-Sour:☆☆☆☆☆
-Toasted flavor:★★☆☆☆




3. Introduction to Hotteok (Korean pancake)

Hotteok is popular snacks for Koreans that you can easily spot on streets. It is baked wheat flour batter with sugar inside it.

Barbarians used to be called Orangkae(barbarian) by Koreans during the wars to despise the Chinese.

Hotteok means it is Tteok (rice cake) for Orangkae (胡), which means that Hotteok is not Korean traditional food but was introduced to Korea from China.

Hotteok was introduced in Korea during the time under the rule of Japanese imperialism.

The Great Qing sent their troops of approximately 3 thousand men to Korea along with Chinese merchants who started to sell stuff to their soldiers.

Among them, some cooked and sold Chinese Hotteok. Koreans saw Chinese people eating it and called it Hotteok, which means Tteok for barbarians.

Chinese Hotteok uses garlic chives and pork in it or makes it hard like yóutiáo. The people who could not go back to China after the collapse of the Great Qing stayed in Korea and made variations of their Hotteok according to Korean people’s taste using honey or grain syrup.




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Hotteok is made from wheat flour batter with sugar in it and simply baked with oil. Hotteok that’s just baked is crispy, chewy and sweet from warm sugar.

It’s cheap and big enough for a meal. So anybody can enjoy as snacks.

You can’t miss Hotteok shop while you travel in Korea. It tastes like cake, bread or donut so I want you to try it for once.

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4. Kinds of Hotteok

As Hotteok could be good snacks for kids as well as adults, you will see many variations cooked in different ways for each generation.

Among many, I’ll introduce you a few famous variations that have been aired on TV.


- Regular Hotteok: Korean pancake made of flour batter with sugar in it and baked with oil.

- Ssiat(seeds) Hotteok: Seeds (sunflower seeds) are put in the regular Hotteok and fried with magarin(artificial butter). Originated in Busan and very tasty.

- Japchae(glass noodles) Hotteok: Glass noodles are put in the regular Hotteok and baked with oil. Famous in Namdaemun, not so sweet but rather tastes like Tofu.

- Nokcha(green tea) Hotteok: Sugar is put in the flour batter mixed with green tea and baked with oil. Smells like green tea







5. How to enjoy Hotteok even more

Tourists love Hotteok even if it’s their first try.

You’ll find people enjoying Hotteok mostly standing in front of old carb bars on the street because it’s one of most popular street foods.

If it’s uncomfortable for you to eat it standing, you could also go to a pretty café and enjoy it sitting on the sofa.

It’s even sold at a dessert café because it’s THAT popular. There are a few fancy Hotteok shops in downtowns of Seoul, especially in Insa-dong or Samcheong-dong.

Why don’t you sit down at a cute café and relax from your trip with this sweet Hotteok?

Oh, I almost forgot! You have to be careful when you eat the filling consisted of hot brown sugar. Hotteok also means you have to blow on it like ‘Ho~ho~’ with your mouth to cool it down before you eat it.

Even if it’s cool outside, sugar remains hot for a long time so you should enjoy even if it takes time to eat it.













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