It’s almost pronounced like hotdog, except the first syllable sounds like “ho”. -As in, “you ain’t nothin’ butta __.” This is my favorite Korean snack. I suspect its because its made from the worlds best ingredients: flour (wheat) and yeast. It beats out all the other Korean sweet snacks. Rice cakes are good but this is excellent.
I was first introduced to the hotteok by Korean friends Sook-young and Yeo-yeon on the cold November day strolling through Insadong market in Seoul. Behind a long line of eager faces were these morsels of doughy sweetness. -hot bread coated in a thin layer of pan grease, and inside…molten cinnamon and sugar. Ahhh…
I forgot about the hotteok for a couple months until a few weeks ago, when I saw a woman selling them at the bus station in Gochang. Then the other day I was at my Home-Mart grocery store and saw a hotteok premix. I thought to myself this can’t be hard to make. It turns out, the hardest part is waiting for the dough to rise. Below is the procedure (in Korean).