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Egg bread to roasted sweet potatoes: Korea’s cold-weather snacks

Gyeranppang with a whole egg, fish-shaped bungeoppang, hotteok with a sweet filling and roasted sweet potatoes: four snacks Koreans reach for when the weather turns cold, each with its own shape and texture.

Gyeranppang

Gyeranppang is pancake-like batter cooked with a whole egg. The bread is soft and lightly sweet, and the egg adds richness; the yolk can be moist or firm depending on how long it cooks. The Korea Tourism Organization describes it as a Korean winter street snack.

On CNN’s bread list

According to the Korea Tourism Organization, gyeranppang appeared in a past CNN list of 50 of the world’s best breads.

Bungeoppang

Bungeoppang is batter cooked in a fish-shaped mold around sweet red-bean paste or custard, a winter staple.

Fish-shaped pastries line the front of a stall, with a seated vendor behind them.
Fish-shaped pastries line the front of a stall, with a seated vendor behind them.

Hotteok

Hotteok is a chewy filled pancake cooked on a hot pan. A common filling combines brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts. As it cooks, the sugar melts into a syrup inside the dough.

Round hotteok cook on an oiled griddle while a hand holds one with tongs.
Round hotteok cook on an oiled griddle while a hand holds one with tongs.

Roasted sweet potatoes

Gun-goguma means roasted sweet potato. A Korea.net winter-food feature published on January 20, 2017 describes sweet potatoes roasted in wood-fired barrels, paper packets that warmed the hands and soft golden flesh split open to share.

Roasted sweet potatoes on a white plate, including two split pieces with yellow flesh.
Roasted sweet potatoes on a white plate, including two split pieces with yellow flesh.
Sources & context

2026-10-14T01:04:59.290Z

Korea Tourism Organization · VISITKOREA ↗Korea Tourism Organization · VISITKOREA ↗Korea Tourism Organization · VISITKOREA ↗Korea.net ↗Encyclopedia of Korean Culture · Hotteok ↗
Photo credittragrpx / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0

Gyeranppang on a hot tray. Archival photograph taken in Seoul on December 14, 2010. tragrpx / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0. Unmodified. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/