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Pancake meets doughnut in Korea's hotteok

This delicious sugar-and-cinnamon filled street food favourite now comes in savoury versions, too.

Hotteok at Suda: served with berries, ice-cream and caramel sauce
Hotteok at Suda: served with berries, ice-cream and caramel sauce Source: Suda

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By Kylie Walker, SBS Food

Presented by Justin Sungil Park

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“It’s absolutely delicious … probably my favourite street food,” says Heather Jeong. She’s talking about hotteok, a fried, filled pancake that’s popular across Korea, at street stalls and food halls.

The traditional version is sweet, a flattish disk, sometimes like a pancake, sometimes thicker, like a filled doughnut. A mix of sugar, cinnamon and, often, nuts or seeds, is the more traditional filling, creating a hot, gooey, sometimes slightly candied centre, tucked inside the crisp-edge pancake, although savoury versions have become popular too.

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