Bi-Bim-Bob

I found a restaurant in Myung-dong where i can eat Jeonju Bibimbob. There are many restaurants which sell bibimbob in Seoul. But Jeonju(city) Bibimbob was special. How? See the pictures below.





The restaurant "Go-gung," which means an old palace.





Nak-ji (Octopus) Dolsot(hot stone bowl) Bibimbob . This was a bit spicy, but i liked this a lot.




Dolsot Bibimbob
many vegetables....i can see zucchini, mushiroom, devil's tongue jelly (i didn't know the name in eng before. it's such a weird name), white radish, the yolk, seaweed, etc.
i heard they make a steamed rice with a bone broth, and the hot spicy sauce also has a secret.



Haemool (Seafood) Pa jon (pancake)



before it gets to our table



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From here, you can see many kinds of Ban-chan (Side dishes)
If you go to Korean restaurant, you can expect to be served many side dishes with your main dish. All of the side dishes are usually (almost everytime) FREE!!
Also, if you finish some of your side dises, you can even ask them for more!!!!!

(WARNING: when i went to korean restaurants in other countries, they usually charged for Kimchee or Namool(vegetable side dishes). So u should ask whether it is free or not. :p)

One more thing i complained about in other countries was that i always have to order something to drink in the restaurant. Here in Korea, water or Tea (not special tea like Jujube tea or citron tea) is always available for free. (Of course, posh restaurants charge for a bottle of still water or tea) We don't usually drink Soda when we have a meal (typical korean meal, which is rice).


bean sprouts soup




pickled squid




sweet potato fried in batter



white Kimchee


Normal(?) Kimchee


roots of baloonflowers (not quite sure this is the right name)



spinach with mashed tofu ( yummy!)



fried seaweed with sticky rice glue

We,5people went there and ordered one Bibimbob for each of us. One Pajon (pancake), we shared. All together, we paid about 10,000won each. (1 us dollar = 1,008 won)
worth to visit, right?



Jujube tea

(actually, they served plum tea after the meal, which was free of charge, but i forgot taking a picture of it. This is what we had in the cafe after that)

Dak - gal- bi

I've been crazily busy over last several weeks. So these are what i had in 1 or 2 weeks.
Dak(chicken)- gal- bi is one of the food you probably will have if you visit Korea. (Actually, i don't really enjoy this. But I went there for my japanese mates who visited me to Seoul) We went the restaurant called "Chun-cheon dak-gal-bi." This restaurant is one of the chain restaurants. Chun-cheon is the city where dak-gal-bi is from.





it wasn't spicy at all to me. But my friends almost cried while they were eating this. u can usually expect sweetpotatoes, rice cakes, peril leaves, cabbages, of course chicken in hot spicy sauce. we also ordered some noodle in it. The secret of the sauce is that you put little bit of instant korean curry powder in the hot sauce.





Since i posted several pics on this blog, I realised that we korean people always make fried rice in the end. hahahA :))






this is what we call "Bing-soo." We usually enjoy this in summer time. In a big bowl, put everything you like and ice flakes. Ice cream, fruits, some snacks, chocolate, small rice chewy thingy....etc.