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03 augustus When in Korea . . .I would like to let you all know that I have an addition to my ever growing list of “weird foods that I have tried and actually liked”. There is no physical hard copy of this list as each of these delicacies has been quite memorable. My most recent adventure involved my friend, Pamela, two bottles of red wine, two adventurous and hungry bellies, and the BBQ restaurant on the first floor of my building. Pam came over to my place so we could grab some dinner and have a couple of drinks before we went to the Latin Asia All Night Dance Party in Olympic Park. We were considering ordering pizza, but at the last minute we both decided that we didn’t need all the carbs and settled on BBQ. I had been wanting to try out the restaurant in my building for a while, so this worked out well. Korean BBQ consists of meat that you grill on the table in front of you, a variety of kimchi (fermented spicy cabbage, onions, radish, etc), spicy sauces, carrots, cucumber and hot peppers. In most cases you are given a plate of lettuce leaves that you can wrap your cooked meat and other vegetables in. Normally we order bulgogi (beef) or samgyeopsal (pork). The restaurant on the first floor of my building is a special one however, where you cannot get bulgogi or samgyeopsal. The only options at this place were yohm tong (a dark meat that smelled like liver) and mahk chang (a chewy white meat that resembled pork fat). It was quite good, even though we had no idea what we were eating, and the owners of the restaurant seemed to be very impressed with us. Pam and I finally got the translation of what we were eating from a Korean friend today. Turns out the dark meat was cow heart, which I don’t consider to be too daring considering people in Newfoundland eat animal hearts all the time. The white meat however was slightly more adventurous . . . cow lower intestine. I’m the type of person that will try anything once, and I have to say that even though I now know what I was eating, I would it do it again!
I have special entry in the works for next time where you will get to see another side to my neighbourhood. It’s not always innocent and peaceful in sleepy little Songpa-gu. ReactiesMeld je aan bij Windows Live ID om een reactie toe te voegen (als je Hotmail, Messenger of Xbox LIVE gebruikt, heb je al een Windows Live ID). Aanmelden Heb je geen Windows Live ID? Maak er nu een aan Links naar je weblogDe URL voor de link naar dit weblogitem is: http://mtchurchill.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C00BC30F2484CFBD!1711.trak Weblogs die naar dit item verwijzen
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