Food contains culture. 뻥튀기 is one of the things contains Korean culture in it. It is a kind of Korean snack made by a machine that swells corn and rice with the heat and the pressure. The taste is mild –it can be crispy- and savory. You can easily see it as an appetizer with drinks in the Korean pub.
There are many kinds of 뻥튀기. Some of them are quite sweet, -my favorite one- others are a little bit bland.
As you can easily know, all the ingredients are grains and they add only a few amounts of salt or sugar, it is much better for your health than other snacks.
The most interesting is the moment when the truck-guy who makes 뻥튀기 with the machine on the corner of the street, shouts ‘뻥이요’. In common, it is not okay to yell on the street, but these men have the right to do so because it’s the biggest moment of making 뻥튀기. Since the sound that the machine makes when the grains are ready to swollen is so loud, the 뻥튀기man have to shout before it to make people unsurprised. Little kids tend to stand all day beside the 뻥튀기 truck and wait for THE moment to come and they giggle which is a peaceful picture that you might want to keep in the album.
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