A happy trip with plain oven-fired dumplings and sweet gonggal bread

It is no exaggeration to say that Incheon Chinatown is a snack food paradise. There are plenty of delicious foods such as steamed dumplings, gonggalppang, and red bean paste. These days, the most ‘hot’ side dish in Chinatown is oven-fired dumplings. These are Chinese-style dumplings that are baked in an earthenware oven at a temperature of over 200℃. Unlike ordinary dumplings, the outside is crispy. Gonggalppang, which is baked with honey on one side and puffed up on the outside, is also a representative food. I accidentally picked it up and ate it because I wanted to taste it, but I kept going for the sweet and savory taste. Hongdubyeong, a large, soft bread filled with red bean paste, and King Castella, which is a castella the size of a tofu board and sold in large slices, are also explosively popular among young people. A trip to Chinatown with both hands full of snacks is even more enjoyable. A day is short when you look around the Jajangmyeon Museum, where you can see the birth and history of Jajangmyeon, Songwol-dong Fairy Tale Village, which is decorated with the theme of world famous fairy tales, and Incheon Open Port Modern History and Culture Town, which is decorated with modern banks and exotic buildings as museums and exhibition halls. Wolmido Island, which welcomes travelers with its original appearance, also adds to the romance of Incheon travel.

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