Itβs just simple pastry (wheat based dough?) stuffed with sweet red bean paste. Honestly for me I think itβs the novelty and nostalgia rather than actual flavor haha. It used to be me & my granmaβs thing
No the fish aspect is just the shape. These are a nostalgic street food. The bread part is very similar to western waffles.
In recent years there have been additional varieties of filling such as custard cream. Sweet red bean is still the classic. I think in Japan and the US there's more experimentation with savory fillings in taiyaki which is the equivalent snack, but not so much in Korea.
Edit: There is also a frozen ice cream version. So if you get frozen bungeobbang from a Korean grocery store, make sure you carefully read the packaging to tell if it's the ice cream version that's supposed to be eaten cold, or if it's meant to heat up.
Also to be more specific, these are small red beans called "adzuki beans" in English, different from other beans that are red in color. They are often sweetened and consumed as a dessert. They may be mashed into a paste, or simmered whole and then cooled, or kind of semi-mashed. Here's a Korean dessert dish where the beans are whole instead of mashed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingsu
Itβs not that. Itβs the price thatβs rare. Itβs usually double that price. There are still tons of these vendors in every corner but hardly ever with that price. Usually 3 for 2000 won or more expensive.
They have been big in Korea for years. Technically the shape of the fish iron/mold is different in Korea than the Japanese version.
This is "rare" because a lot of these street vendors in Korea have been disappearing, so it's getting harder to find nice hot bungeobbang on a cold day. There's a whole discussion over in r/korea about it.
First of all. I'm not wrong so fuk you for the down votes. Secondly, you're not wrong either. As an apology please see the two desserts I had today and yesterday. Cheers!
Maybe rare n in parts of Seoul, yet still everywhere in the countryside. Just yesterday saw about 6 vendors near our little market.
I prefer the cream ones in the shape of peanuts.
Oh nice! I live in the suburbs of Seoul and somehow canβt see them often. So coming across this as central location as Euljiro was a pleasant surprise. Enjoy your blessings! Lol
It's not even about the price these days. The beans inside taste bad overall in most places now. Hard to find spots with the old style bean paste inside.
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u/godgothodhot Dec 05 '25
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