Hongdae Street Food Strip is a street-food stop in Hongdae And Yeonnam, Seoul.
The Hongdae strip around Hongik University generates dense street food every evening: chimaek, takoyaki, and Korean corn dogs from the university exit.
Address: Yeonhui-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul
Sambodang sells only one item from a maroon-awning stall halfway down Insadong-gil: a fist-sized hotteok stuffed with brown sugar, cinnamon and chopped nuts, fried to order in front of the queue.
Try: Hotteok (brown sugar and nut filled pan-fried pancake)
The Itaewon strip around the main road and the side streets toward the Hamilton Hotel is home to Seoul's most international street food scene: halal kebab.
Try: Halal kebabs, falafel, Thai street food, South Asian snacks
Noryangjin Fish Market operates 24 hours but the pre-dawn hours -- from 01:00 when the auction floor runs -- are when the market is most viscerally alive.
Try: Live seafood: raw abalone, sea cucumber, crab; sashimi sets
The bindaetteok stalls in Gwangjang Market are Seoul's most legitimate street food: mung-bean pancakes fried on cast-iron griddles alongside mayak gimbap.
Try: Bindaetteok (mung bean pancakes) and mayak gimbap
The Myeongdong pedestrian strip turns into one of the densest street food corridors in Asia after 16:00, with stalls selling tteokbokki (spicy rice.
Try: Tteokbokki, corn dogs, egg bread (gyeran-ppang)
Namdaemun Market hotteok stalls fry thick dough discs filled with brown sugar, cinnamon and crushed peanuts on flat irons in the market's main food lane.
Try: Hotteok (sugar-filled fried pancakes) and kalguksu
