What is this korean snack/food? (From webtoons “tales of the unusual”)

by FinnishTomato

6 Comments

  1. FinnishTomato

    I keep seeing this in the webtoons but I don’t know what it is?
    Some sorta lotus root?? How come it’s individually wrapped?? Or is it a type of biscuit?

  2. Cereal_Chicken

    Could be cooked/caramelized/fried lotus root. Could be 약과 like the other comment said.

    Tbh they look like 연탄 to me.

  3. Snow-Kafe

    Could be cross section of yeot (엿) enlarged.

  4. timbomcchoi

    All wrong, that’s 번개탄.

    It’s similar to 연탄, but thinner and made with sawdust, starch, charcoal powder, etc. to have a lower ignition point. It’s designed to help you *start* your fire, because normal 연탄 is made of anthracite and difficult to ignite sometimes. Think briquettes.

    On a much more depressing note, it’s also used for suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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