Strawberry Nights & Street Bites: A Spring Walk Through Myeong-dong

Strawberry Nights & Street Bites: A Spring Walk Through Myeong-dong

Spring transforms Seoul’s Myeong-dong into a lively night market filled with bright lights, street food, and fresh strawberries. Vendors line the streets from late afternoon until around 11 PM, selling strawberry tanghulu, cream-filled waffles, and skewered meats. Dessert cafés and cat cafés stay open late, offering a break from the crowds. Seasonal strawberry treats are especially popular from March to April.

And with six Olive Young K-beauty stores, there’s plenty of health and beauty products to shop for too. (Pro Tip- use your home-country Costco membership to get K-Beauty products even cheaper than Olive Young.)

In-season Korean strawberries
Myeongdong Street with two rows of food carts
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Strawberry season in Korea.

Peak strawberry season in Korea is January to March though they start to hit supermarkets and restaurant menus as soon as December and as late as April. Strawberries are an ideal fruit to grow in Korean greenhouses hence the winter harvests.

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Easy to Learn Korean 1497 – Buying seasonal fruit (part one).

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Easy to Learn Korean 1088 – Seasonal fruit.

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Food & Drink review – Shak-King Light (protein shake)

Shak King milk shakeAlways curious to try something new, I picked up two 300mL Shak King Light strawberry & banana milk shakes for 1,400Won. They’re made by Seoul Milk, the largest and oldest dairy company in Korea (since 1937). Continue reading

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