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edinatlanta 
I remember you recommended, or at least alerted me to his site. It was...wow. Some places I wanted to go to but ended up not getting a chance to (and I'll be going to S. Korea more in the future so I'll have more opportunities to go). right behind my hotel was one of the supposedly best korean bbq places in seoul it was great.
Question--what's the flat pancake like thing that's filled with that sweet kind of cinnamon-like stuff served hot, that everyone eats from the carts? Also, that red soup everyone sits around eating at the carts...what is it, what's the process for that?
The pancakes are called hodduk - filled with melted sugar, cinnamon, and peanuts.
The red soup isn't so much a soup as it is a heavily sauced snack food. It's called dduk bok ki - rice cakes, fish cakes, and cabbage. Sometimes served with instant ramen noodles, hard boiled egg, and hot dogs or other tubed meat. The sauce is open to variation but typically made with red pepper paste (gochu jang), red pepper flakes, sugar (almost in equal part to the gochu jang), minced garlic, onions, soy sauce, and thinned out with water.
