Gilgeori Toast (Korean Street Toast) 💚💙🌏

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This veggie-packed Korean street toast is easy and delicious! Experience the streets of Korea with a few ingredients you most likely have in your fridge.

https://www.koreanbapsang.com/gilgeori-toast-korean-street-toast/

Korean street toast, known as gilgeori toast (길거리 토스트 ), is a popular grab-and-go egg sandwich that’s delicious and filling. Gilgeori means street in Korean. Whenever I’m in Seoul, I enjoy one of these from a street cart to go with my morning coffee as often as I can.

There are infinite variations created by street vendors and fast food joints. The classic street egg toasts, however, typically include thinly sliced cabbage and other vegetables and are topped with sugar and condiments such as ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard. Often, a slice(s) of ham and/or cheese is added or offered as an option.

Famous Halmeoni Toast (grandma toast)

I’ve had several different ones, but my favorite is this veggie-packed egg toast by famous Halmeoni Toast (할머니 토스트 ) in Changdong neighborhood of Seoul. Halmeoni means grandma in Korean. Years ago, I saw a TV program featuring this 84 year old halmeoni who had been cooking up gilgeori toasts for 20 some years, and was still running the business because she wanted to stay active and interact with people. How inspiring!!



Her street toasts were highly popular for being very big and loaded with veggies for 2,000 won (less than $2) each at the time in 2018. She would sprinkle a heaping spoonful of sugar on top of the veggie omelet, followed by a good squirt of ketchup. Sadly, Halmeoni passed away in February 2021, and her street cart was eventually closed down by the local government. Recently, her Vietnamese daughter-in-law, who used to help the aging mother-in-law with the business, reopened it at a different location in the same neighborhood. It’s wonderful to see the legacy of Halmeoni Toast being continued by her daughter-in-law. I can’t wait to visit the place next time I go to Korea.



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