🔥There's a fried snack in Jeolla that half the locals have apparently never heard of
Found this on a Korean board tonight and I can't stop looking at it. The post was just titled "the fried thing only Jeolla people know" with one photo.
It's 오리날개튀김, fried duck wings, and they look like little lollipops with the bone sticking out as a handle. The comments turned into the cutest local argument. One person said they're a Mokpo native and had no idea what this was. Then another Mokpo native showed up like "you've never been to Yongdang Banjeom??" and said they buy these for every friend who visits and take them to Pyeonghwa Square with beer. Someone who moved to Seoul for college said nobody back home ever mentioned duck wings once. Another said they used to see them at the five-day markets (오일장) as a kid, so maybe it's more of a market snack than one famous shop. The reviews were split too. Lots of "how do you not know this, it's so good," one person who tried it once and said chicken is better, and one who thought it was 상추튀김 (lettuce twigim), which is a totally different regional thing. All my trips have been Seoul-heavy and now I want one just to eat my way through Jeolla markets. Would you try the duck wings, or is fried chicken undefeated for you?
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