Korea’s Most Popular Snacks
Ok, so the first thing I want to clarify to you all is this; THIS BLOG POST IS BASED ON MINE AND THE OPINIONS OF MY FRIENDS THAT I ASKED FOR RESEARCH. Over the past ten days I’ve been going to different convenience stores and supermarkets at the end of each day to see which products where mostly gone therefore indicating popularity, as well as surveying my friends choices and my own personal opinion on korean snacks ( my preferences). So if you don’t agree with some of the things in here, I’m sorry but thank u, next.
Anyways, let’s get started then~
Snacks in Korea are so different from what you’re probably used to. Unless you grew up in Korea or Japan, you’re not gonna be used to the taste of these sweets/ ice creams/ chips. I’ve found some of the weirdest things in Korea regarding snacks and everything I was used to back home doesn’t really exist here. I can sort of understand some people losing interest in snacks once they’ve lived in Korea a while due to the fact that maybe they lost interest while not eating them in Korea because they didn’t like the taste compared to back home in their own countries, I can relate to that.
Though you can get things like haribo’s or pringles here, it’s imported usually and higher priced that what foreigners are used to, so I don’t typically buy them, nor do Koreans that often too.
So here’s my top ten gathered list of the most popular KOREAN snacks:
Chocopie is basically just a dry cake covered with chocolate with marshmallow cream in the middle. Personally I don’t like it, but Koreans seem to as it’s pretty popular and a lot of my foreigner friends do too ( though I personally don’t like korean chocolate cause it tastes like rubber to me so this is covered in it and it’s also too dry to me). It’s pretty popular, and there’s the on going debate on whether to eat Lotte’s chocopie or Orion’s Chocopie, but so far I’ve gathered that Orion is more popular in my friendship group so I added a picture of it here~
돼지바 basically translates to Pig Bar but it’s not what it sounds like. It’s basically an ice cream lolly covered in peanut chocolate with a strawberry centre. I actually don’t hate it, but I’m not a huge fan either. It’s pretty popular with middle school and high school kids though, and it’s produced by Lotte as a lot of korean snacks are.
초코송이 is another chocolate snack that’s like pocky/빼빼로 in taste, but is shaped like a mushroom and really popular with elementary students ( but sometimes I eat it too!)
빼빼로 a.k.a pepero is extremely popular in South Korea. It’s the korean version of Pocky and comes in so many varieties of flavour that’s it’s crazy to keep up with ( even having seasonal flavours, like candy cane for Christmas or pumpkin for Halloween). 빼빼로 is so popular in Korea that they even made 빼빼로데이 ( Pepero Day) which is like another Valentine’s Day but instead of chocolates or flowers you exchange 빼빼로 with your lover or friends with a cute message on it as a sign of your love for them. It’s gotten bigger and bigger over the years and I’ve even participated two years in a row now, this year with my lover too ( ahhhhhh)
Honey Butter Chip is exactly what it sounds like, it’s chips that taste like honey butter. Maybe that’s totally weird sounding to you guys, and it was for me at first, but then I finally tried them, and wow it changed my world, and sometimes I even find myself craving them. I always see my korean friends eating them and they’re pretty popular too, even having seasonal flavours added to it like 빼빼로 does.
So ok, let me explain THIS.
This is probably the most popular snack in Korea. I’m literally not joking. 바나나맛 우유 is basically just banana milk in a little cute container, but Korean’s go nuts for this shit, and have all different flavours too like strawberry ( I prefer that one), coffee, orange, honey, etc. But banana is by far the favourite and by the end of the working day at 7/11 or CU25 the banana milks are always almost gone. A lot of people like to drink them in the morning to wake themselves up with the sugar instead of coffee or tea, or after eating spicy food you drink these. Many you want to sober up after drinking, or you can give it to your child as dressed after dinner. It’s used in all these ways and more and is, without a doubt, the most popular item on this list.
So, you’re probably thinking “ what the actual fuck?” Well my child, let me explain. Seaweed is actually a huge rage in eastern countries of Asia, especially japan and Korea. They dry the seaweed and put it into little packs to eat as a snack. It’s pretty good, and I watch a lot of my friends eat it with microwave rice and pre packaged 김치 as a afternoon snack between classes.
Ramen is so fucking popular in Korea, this shit is legit crazy. In Britain, we have like two types of ramen but here it’s like they have two hundred types and there’s always more coming out. The stand out ones that most people eat are usually 진라면, 불닭볶음면, 새우탕 & 신라면. If you go to a convenience store here, you’ll often see business men or high schoolers/ college students eating ramen with 김치, rice, 김, other side dishes and 바나나맛 우유 as a cheap snack during their off times.
오징어 땅콩 are squid flavoured peanut ball chips that people typically eat alongside alcohol when at a party/ bar/ or at 노래방 ( karaoke room). It’s not typically just eaten along but it’s pretty popular for drinking and it’s not usually eaten by the younger generation but more college students and businessmen. Same can be said for the chips 새우깡
포카칩 is another type of chips that are famous in Korea, and they come in all different flavours like plain, onion, etc.
If you’d like more posts on korean snacks, or maybe you just want me to make one devoted to korean ice creams or drinks or anything else, let me know and I’ll be happy to do it.
- Rina 🖤 ( Me&MySeoul/영국여자)
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