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| Korean Cuisine |
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| Korean cuisine comes in two varieties. You can buy it on the street or you can go to a restaurant. Restaurants too, differ in style. From the classy style to simple tables set out under a tent outside, they come in all shapes and sizes. |
| Here's an example of buying food at a street stall. This was in Jinhae during the 2003 Cherry Blossom festival so the vendors were doing quite a good business. Kendra is buying some sweetened hollow flat bread that's a popular snack here. Kind of surprising because Korea is not normally a bread culture. |
| Another type food that the street vendors are happy to dish out for you. This silkworm larva is popular with kids and adults alike, but it smells something awful! |
| From the street stalls to a quaint outdoor establishment. Ms. Hong is pouring rice wine for Ms. Kim. Notice that both are using two hands. Using one hand to pour or receive is rude for anyone but close friends. On the table is a common bowl of soy bean soup and the side dishes that accompany it. |
| And lastly, an example of an expensive resort restaurant. These are the side dishes that preceded and accompanied our main course of duck. In the foreground is the lettuce in which you wrap the cooked duck. In the large dish behind it you can see little oranges, peanuts, yams, and quail eggs. To the right of that is the dish of hot peppers and garlic along with the soybean sauce (also for the duck) and hazelnut jelly. |
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| When we go to a restaurant these are some of the things we try: |
| Dave's favorite: bibimbab. In other terms, rice mixed with vegetables and lots of red pepper paste. |
| A very popular post-hiking snack/meal. This is pajeon, one of Kendra's favorites. It's flat, like a pancake but loaded with green onions, veggies and often squid or oysters. Goes very well with beer. |
| During Carolyn's visit we decided to try a variation of perhaps Korea's most popular summer snack, potbingsu. This was actually called gwa-il bingsu, and was a mixture of fruit, candy, cornflakes, condensed milk and ice-cream on ice. It was...interesting. |
| The meal is finished. Your hands are sticky, you have a bit of something around your mouth and your nose is running due to the extreme spicyness of the food. What do you do? Why, you reach for the toliet paper of course! Usually there is a roll on the end of each table but this owner got innovative and hung it from the ceiling. |
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