Korean Fried Dough

This afternoon we attempted to make fried dough! I wouldn't necessarily call it an "epic fail", but it was pretty close. A few nights ago we encountered this street vendor making fried dough with cinnamon sugar in the middle. It was delicious, and quite cheap, only 500 won, which is about 45 cents. We all bought some and raved about how good it was but then when we went back to the same location the next day, the vendor was no longer there!

This afternoon Rosie, Felix, and Jason and I walked a few blocks to Grand Mart, which is the big grocery store/department store in Sinchon. We bought the ingredients to make fried dough and started cooking it in the kitchen in our building. It was going pretty well, although they didn't taste nearly as good as the ones we had on the streets. While we were cooking, a few more friends came down and we had a very fun, messy time. The best part was when the cleaning lady in our building (who was cleaning the other side of the kitchen at the time) came over to help us. She didn't speak any english, so it was really difficult to communicate with her. After a few minutes of her speaking korean to us and attempting to take over the frying pan, we just couldn't help but laugh at the situation. We finally realized that she did indeed just want to help us. It must've been quite a sight, us foreigners, covered in flour and attempting to cooking Korean fried dough. I've attached a video of the cleaning lady trying to help and us failing pretty miserably at our fried dough endeavor. Just one more crazy adventure in Korea, and tomorrow we're off to the beach!