Market

There's a traditional market just down the street from our apartment. There was one in our old town, but it only came every five days. Vendors are at this market every day, and it 's really busy in the evening... The market's the best place to find fresh, cheap produce.

These are all different kinds of snacks. Most of them are fishcakes
(thin patties made from ground up fish.) People can buy them and stand there and eat,
using the sauces in the bowls.

Grains and garlic. (Onions too!)

The bottom row are squid - very popular here.

Crab and other sea critters...



These are usually translated as rice cakes. They're made out of glutinous rice,
and are a traditional dessert. They're not very sweet,
and kind of remind me of a dense, extra chewy noodle.


Most Korean meals are served with a variety of pan-chan (pronounced pon-chon loosely side dishes in English.) The pan-chan are mostly vegetables, and sometimes seafood that have been seasoned/marinated. They're delicious eaten alone or with rice. This vendor sells a huge variety of them, I can't imagine who makes them all!
The same vendor sells kimchi, and it's so popular, it's made in even bigger portions.

Dried roots and mushrooms. The things that look like sticks wrapped in red ribbon
(up and to the of the red bowl) are cinnamon.

A women mixes a huge dish of ddeok po ki. Ddeok po ki is made with rice cakes (shaped like long and thick noodles) and a sweet chili sauce. There's also usually green onions, fish cakes and a hard boiled egg mixed in. It's really popular with school children.

These women are enjoying some ddeok po ki at a street stand in the market.