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One day last week, I was walking my kids home from school/daycare when my daughter decided that she wanted to have some odeng. Odeng is a popular snack food that you can buy on the side of the street. It is also used as a side dish in some restaurants and in some soups.

It’s essentially a fish hotdog – all the leftovers from processing fish pressed together and sold, just like a hotdog is leftover cow parts. In any case my kids love it. I don’t mind it, but I do know several foreigners here who think it is disgusting. Fortunately I had my camera and took some pictures.

Buying food on the street is cheap. One odeng is 500 won which is less than cdn 50 cents. One picture here and the rest in the extended entry.

The odeng tent from across the street

Odeng, Mandu (dumplings), Dukbokki, Tempura, Kimbap, and Sundae

The sticks on the left have odeng on them and are soaking in a hot broth. Next we have mandu a kind of fried dumpling. Behind that is Dukbokki (red) which is rice cakes cooked in a spicy sauce, though usually the street version is more sweet than spicy). Next is various tempura, in Korea this is called twigum. Beside that the small black and white rolls are kimbab – rice and salty seaweed wrap. Behind that is Soondae – a really disgusting and foul smelling blood sausage. My stomache rolls whenever I even smell it. Fortunately this time around it wasn’t cooking yet.

My daughter

My son

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