Superwomom: Seoul-searching (The Food Chronicles)

For cheap good food, we always turn to the streets. Street food hunting is always a favorite activity when we're in another country. We save a lot of moolah this way and we discover a wealth of palate-pleasing food finds. Let me share them with you.

1. Deli Manjoo
It's a small, corn shaped cake that is filled with premium custard. We downed two packs of 8 (If my memory serves me right).

2. Crunchy Rice cakes
Crunchy, airy and empty calories. But they're good. It's saltiness-sweetness won S over.

3. Paris Baguette Breads
Your friendly bakery that serves fresh, delicious and cheap breads. Their pizza, cheese and multi-grain breads were my favorite.

4. Green Tea Ice Cream and Cake (From O'Sulloc's)
It tastes like real green tea. The sweetness is subdued and the creaminess blends well with the green tea flavor.

5. Burgers from Lotteria
I love the fact that they have chicken burger. For a non-pork-and-beef, this is huge. Enough said.

6. Pulbbang
It's a Korean pancake dumpling, usually stuffed with sweetened red bean paste. The filling tastes like our "buchi," while the outer shell is similar to that of a soft "hopia."

7. Korean Pipe Ice Cream
The corn-flavored cone is shaped like a letter J. The ice cream is piped into both ends. One end has vanilla, the other has chocolate.

8. Tornado Potato

Fried potato twirl drizzled with seasonings.

9. Taffy

Sweet cobweb-looking delicacy made from honey and rice flourand filled with peanut butter.

10. Beondegi

Literally meaning "chrysalis" or "pupa" in Korean, are steamed or boiled silkworm pupae which are seasoned and eaten as a snack. Surprisingly, me and my daughter liked it. We finished one cup. It tasted like small shrimps.

11. Steamed Buns (mantou) with sweet potato filling and Steamed Dumplings

We saw this small eatery near Cheonggyecheon Stream and they serve steamed buns and steamed dumplings with pork and kimchi filling. I just had the steamed buns but my brood enjoyed the dumplings. It was the first time that we had both and we're glad we stumbled upon this little hole where Koreans just pop in and out to have any of what we've sampled.

12. Poppgi

Made of melted brown sugar squares, and fried in a rectangular pan, it's sugar candy made on the spot. And you can make your own shape too.

13. Schneeballen
These are sugar-covered pastry shaped like a snowball or schneeballen in German. You need to smash this with a mallet before you can enjoy it. It tastes like cornflakes covered in chocolates.