Does everyone know about Korean snacks? What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word 'snack'? Tteokbokki is probably the first thing that comes to mind! But in fact, there are so many different types of food besides tteokbokki! Shall we dig together about snacking today?!
Bunsik literally means 'food made with flour', that is, food made with flour. Snack food became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, the United States exported a lot of agricultural products to Korea in the form of aid, and a large amount of flour came in. However, the taste buds of the people who are accustomed to rice do not change easily, so the government tried to promote the consumption of wheat rather than rice through the 'mixed meal promotion campaign'! In this way, the concept of snacking has spread widely.
Nowadays, snack food refers to foods close to snacks or convenience foods rather than a single meal, so there are usually a lot of snack food shops in front of schools. In fact, you can say Bunsik is a Korean fast food restaurant, so it consists of food types that can be prepared quickly and easily and are relatively cheap! It can be said that it is a characteristic of a snack bar that the price is cheap and comes out quickly!!
If you broadly categorize the types of snacks, there are rice cakes, fried foods, skewers, and noodles! Tteok-ryu is representative of tteokbokki, and there is also tteok-skewers.
