We ate dinner at a restaurant that serves Samgyeopsal. This is a popular Korean dish which consists of thin slices of pork belly meat (similar to uncured bacon). It is flavored with garlic, salt and sesame oil and cooked on a grill at your table. A slice of the cooked meat is placed inside a leaf of lettuce along with some gochujang (red pepper paste) and eaten by hand. Ours was also served with slices of raw garlic and a spring onion salad. Here is our table before we cooked the meat:
and more of our table...
The city at night......
We found these photo-op magazing cover boards and they told me to make my best "model face"...
Some cool people:
Me and a big rose
We went to an authentic Korean Tea Room in Insadong (the cultural district) this afternoon. I had a cup of cold quince tea. A quince fruit is a sour, hard-fleshed Asian fruit resembling a small yellow apple. The tea is made by pouring boiling water over a syrup formed by cut up pieces of quince fruit and sugar. It comes warm and cold. Mine was cold and the taste was both tart and sweet. The cup of tea cost a little more than $6. Here is our table:
The inside of the tea room:
Isaac, trying to decide what to order...
Me and Joanne...
We went to an authentic Korean Tea Room in Insadong (the cultural district) this afternoon. I had a cup of cold quince tea. A quince fruit is a sour, hard-fleshed Asian fruit resembling a small yellow apple. The tea is made by pouring boiling water over a syrup formed by cut up pieces of quince fruit and sugar. It comes warm and cold. Mine was cold and the taste was both tart and sweet. The cup of tea cost a little more than $6. Here is our table:
The inside of the tea room:
Isaac, trying to decide what to order...
He is Korean and but he has lived in the US, Thailand, and Australia
Sarah and Me at the tea room - Sarah is a Korean American and she is studying abroad in Seoul
Ryan and Sarah at the Tea Room....Ryan teaches English here
A random cow in the street...
The crowded streets of Insadong
Cool shot - behind me are the skyscrapers, in front of me are the mountains and a pretty temple.
Cool building!...
Strange vehicle which gets around by the driver pedaling...
The pretty city....
Sarah and Me at the tea room - Sarah is a Korean American and she is studying abroad in Seoul
Ryan and Sarah at the Tea Room....Ryan teaches English here
A random cow in the street...
The crowded streets of Insadong
Cool shot - behind me are the skyscrapers, in front of me are the mountains and a pretty temple.
Cool building!...
Strange vehicle which gets around by the driver pedaling...
The pretty city....
JoAnne and me in front of the pretty bridge...
Pretty waterfall downtown...
The girls under the bridge...
Me...
More pretty city...
Another cool building:
This I love! You can buy so many different kinds of foods from street vendors. Here is a woman selling roasted chestnuts. She stands there all day and shells them and you buy them warm with the shells already off! MMMMMmmmmmm!
Sarah and Me with a strangely cute, marshmallow thing....
Walkin' along....
Another cool building!...
Trying to decide what to do...Hmm....
Dave eating a weird bean he bought from a street vendor:
Here they are up close. They taste....funny. The vendor said you should only eat about 10 at a time or they could be bad for you. Hmm...
Vendors making food. Here they skewer slices of raw potatoes and then fry them in hot oil. Like a home made potato chip!
The group posing for a picture.
Some live jazz in Myong-Dong...
More street vendors...
Some of the store fronts in the city are so unique. Like this one:
And this one...
Pretty waterfall downtown...
The girls under the bridge...
Me...
More pretty city...
Another cool building:
This I love! You can buy so many different kinds of foods from street vendors. Here is a woman selling roasted chestnuts. She stands there all day and shells them and you buy them warm with the shells already off! MMMMMmmmmmm!
Sarah and Me with a strangely cute, marshmallow thing....
Walkin' along....
Another cool building!...
Trying to decide what to do...Hmm....
ANOTHER cool building!...
Elevator Picture...
Dave eating a weird bean he bought from a street vendor:
Here they are up close. They taste....funny. The vendor said you should only eat about 10 at a time or they could be bad for you. Hmm...
Vendors making food. Here they skewer slices of raw potatoes and then fry them in hot oil. Like a home made potato chip!
The group posing for a picture.
Some live jazz in Myong-Dong...
More street vendors...
Some of the store fronts in the city are so unique. Like this one:
And this one...
A street in Myong-dong...
Ok so one of the MANY weird foods in Korea: Pasta Cones. No kidding, this restaurant serves various types of Italian, pasta concoctions in ice cream cones. Below is one of their signs:
It was a great day!
Ok so one of the MANY weird foods in Korea: Pasta Cones. No kidding, this restaurant serves various types of Italian, pasta concoctions in ice cream cones. Below is one of their signs:
It was a great day!
1 comment:
Hi Kayla,
We had that same dish (with the Gojujang & the thinly sliced meat) when we got invited to the Lee's one time, but they called it Korean Tacos. We (Mishael & I, Courtney was at a friends house)loved it. We have made it once or twice since.
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