Mum suggested that I write something about Korean food. It is very delicious and cheap so I'll tell you about a few of my favourite dishes in Korea. The food eat have eaten the most is Samgyupsal or Galbi. This is BBQ pork bacon or marinated meat. Many restaurants specialise in these types of food. You simply sit down at a table with a grill in front of you while your meat cooks to perfection. Pork is the cheapest meat here and it BBQ's really well. On occaision we have splashed out and had beef which is good too.
All Korean restaurants give you side dishes. The primary side is 'kimchi' which is a fermented chilli cabbage. It's really spicy and takes a little getting used to! Other sides may be soy bead products, marinated peanuts, pickled radish, seaweed,eggs (pickled, omlette) etc. There is a huge variety of sides. The side dishes are always served in odd numbers and traditionally the more sides provided the more fancy/formal the meal. So 3 sides is Jo Bloggs dinner while 11 sides would be very fancy.
The BBQ meat is eaten with lettuce, raw garlic (though I prefer to grill it!) and a red bean sauce. We also order mushrooms to BBQ which complement the meal really well.
Delivered food is also easy to get in Korea. Clare and I have spent many a freezing night comfy on our couch eating delivered food. We simply call our local restaurant and they deliver everything as it would be in the restaurant for no extra cost. Once you finish your mean you can put the dirty dishes outside your door and the delivery man takes them away. Brilliant for if you don't like to do dishes!
The dish below is Kimchi Chigae. It is a local dish which is essentially a mix of Kimchi, meat (pork)and tofu. It is very spicy but is very cheap and tasty. As you can see it is served with short grain white rice. Clare doesn't really like this dish. Here is a recipie if you want to make it. Good luck finding kimchi though! http://www.trifood.com/kimchichigae.html
This link is very useful if you want to know about more Korean dishes!
All Korean restaurants give you side dishes. The primary side is 'kimchi' which is a fermented chilli cabbage. It's really spicy and takes a little getting used to! Other sides may be soy bead products, marinated peanuts, pickled radish, seaweed,eggs (pickled, omlette) etc. There is a huge variety of sides. The side dishes are always served in odd numbers and traditionally the more sides provided the more fancy/formal the meal. So 3 sides is Jo Bloggs dinner while 11 sides would be very fancy.
The BBQ meat is eaten with lettuce, raw garlic (though I prefer to grill it!) and a red bean sauce. We also order mushrooms to BBQ which complement the meal really well.
Delivered food is also easy to get in Korea. Clare and I have spent many a freezing night comfy on our couch eating delivered food. We simply call our local restaurant and they deliver everything as it would be in the restaurant for no extra cost. Once you finish your mean you can put the dirty dishes outside your door and the delivery man takes them away. Brilliant for if you don't like to do dishes!
The dish below is Kimchi Chigae. It is a local dish which is essentially a mix of Kimchi, meat (pork)and tofu. It is very spicy but is very cheap and tasty. As you can see it is served with short grain white rice. Clare doesn't really like this dish. Here is a recipie if you want to make it. Good luck finding kimchi though! http://www.trifood.com/kimchichigae.html
This link is very useful if you want to know about more Korean dishes!
This is one of Clare's favourite dishes. It's called Don Gas. This is a picture of her half eaten Don Gas set we had delivered. Don Gas is crumbed shallow fried pork fillet. Typically eaten with short grain white rice and specialy BBQ sauce. The set that Clare gets also includes a fruit salad, kimbap (Korean Sushi) Tang Su Mandu (crispy dumpings) Korean style coleslaw (cabbage and mayo) and to top it all off a Udon noodle soup. It is big meal but it goes together very nicely. Sometime when we feel like pigs we get one each!
I haven't learned how to make any of these dishes. I blame it on only having a 2 burner gas hob...then again it is just so easy and cheap to eat out alot and cook easy things like eggs on toast or ranmeyon(noodles).
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