Yeouido tteokbokki spot 30 minutes before the fireworks: Hyeonseonine
Hyeonseonine Premium IFC Mall Branch is a wheat-rice-cake tteokbokki (spicy stir-fried rice cakes) and bunsik (Korean snack food) restaurant on a corner of IFC Mall's second basement level in Yeouido, Seoul, right by the exit toward Yeouido Station. Thirty minutes before the fireworks festival, the writer took an outdoor table and ordered the combo set of tteokbokki, fried snacks, sundae (blood sausage), gimbap and odeng (fish cake), which arrived faster than expected even on a packed day. The chewy wheat rice cakes and the moist intestine sundae with no off smell make Hyeonseonine the top tteokbokki pick in Yeouido, a neighborhood with few of them.