2011.11.08_13_Korean Trip_Food

Korean food is unique, full of sauces, pickles and multiple side dishes. According to our tour guide, the reason Korean not being attack by SARS disease was probably Korean eat a lot of Kimchi. Kimchi is general term for all the vege marinate with varied seasoning. My fav kimchi is white radish that marinated become yellowish.

I believe most of the Korea kampung / village got all the urns beside its backyard. All the runs contains their daily consume sauce, most of the beans will keep in the urns and let the fermentation works, all the bacteria can live in it happily. Well, it's smelly when u open the lid.

My fav kimchi.. dunno n forgot to note its korean's name.

Typical cabbage kimchi, each Korean has his/her own secret recipe in making kimchi. It's a new experience and taste to try kimchi at respective places.

Eh.. dislike its beansprout/tauge soup... Miso soup is better...

Marinated black bean side dishes taste was very similar with china made can food ( 豆鼓鲮鱼) The seafood kimchi pot soup very thick.. to much tapioca powder.

Can u see the dark noodle on right top? It was mince pork noodle with dark sauce, taste similar with Taiwan mince pork rice ( 鲁肉饭）。

Beef steamboat: we dumb everything in to one frying pan...

Again , seafood steamboat: we dumb everything in to one frying pan... In certain way, feel like Koreans is less creative in preparing food esp on dressing segment hahaha

Fav Chicken BBQ, our lovely tour guide is hilarious. To avoid any conflict, she keep remind us that rice will be served at the end after BBQ. Love the BBQ ingredients: cabbage ( it a MUST in Korean food, beh tahan!!!), fillet chicken ( good for those hate bones), Korean Spicy Rice Cakes (韩国年糕）。The leftover after BBQ will be fired with beansprouts, sweet corn and cabbage.

While we visit one of the famous seafood market, we have stopped and buy ' goreng pisang'. 10 pieces of fried sweet potatoes n fried prawn cost us about MYR15. Have u see the price tag was double layer? Digit 5 is mainly for foreign tourist, local is applicable in digit "1"

The night before we left, our tour guide brought us to Pakistanian Food Restaurant. It was damn weird tht eating roti nan, 'dial soup', samosa n indian curry. Some of our tour mates were overwhelming with 'homefood".

Lastly, a must eat meal: Ginseng Chicken Soup. Apparently, only contains a 2 yrs old little ginseng in this big pot. Korean tradition in eating Ginseng Chicken Soup style is pretty strange for me. They prefer take this meal during SUMMER: a Heating day for a HOT soup ??? Unbelievable. Since I went during autumn season, no local will go for this meal except us. Korean believes that Ginseng can rejuvenate stamina and energy, they will eat this meal at least 3 times during summer: the beginning, mid , and end of summer.

In a nutshell, I did enjoy Korean food.