Korean street food stall at night with tteokbokki rice cakes and eomuk fish cake skewers at a pojangmacha

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Steam curling off a paper cup of fish cake broth. A griddle of hotteok turning golden in the cold. The red glow of tteokbokki sauce under fluorescent strip lights. Korean street food is best understood from a pojangmacha (Korean street food tent) on a cold night, when you are hungry and everything smells good and…

Assorted Korean tteok rice cakes on celadon plates — songpyeon, garaetteok, injeolmi, and baekseolgi on a wooden table with pine needles
Tteokbokki in a pan — glossy gochujang sauce coating chewy rice cakes, fish cake triangles, halved boiled eggs, spring onions, and sesame seeds on a wooden table
Dolsot bibimbap served in a black stone pot with carrots, spinach, bean sprouts, gosari, a raw egg yolk, and gochujang over steamed white rice