Monday, June 23, 2008

Old-fashioned Honey Dessert

Insa-dong is a really cool part of Seoul where you can see a lot of traditional Korean things...you can you can buy traditional arts and crafts, you can see traditional clothing, you can buy traditional food, and see it being made. This video is a couple of cute little Korean guys making an old-fashioned dessert out of hard-as-rock fermented honey. With only the help of some corn starch (and his memorized English speech), he quickly makes 16 000 strings out of the nugget of honey, and afterward (which is not on the video), he cuts the strings into short lengths and wraps them around some sweet filling or nuts. Mashisseyo! (Delicious!)

2 comments:

Cricket on the Hearth said...

The guy making it is hilarious! It reminds me of those segments on Sesame Street when they would go out on the street and explain how things work. Especially when they were speaking in unison :) Great video!
~Ruth.

Unknown said...

haha you're right! I find the young 20-something guys around here have great senses of humour, and these guys are no exception. When he was finished the rehearsed part he was like, 'Now English finishee!" Also they asked our names were like, "I - love - you...you - love - me!" and then they would all laugh. It was cute.