Sambodang Hotteok is a street-food stop in Jongno And Insadong, Seoul.
Editorially verified June 2, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: 48-1 Insadong-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
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 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
Sindang-dong Tteokbokki Town is the origin neighbourhood of the modern spicy tteokbokki -- Ma Bok-rim developed gochujang-seasoned rice cakes here in 1953.
Try: Tteokbokki (various styles: original, cheese, rabokki)
