Other Stuff....!!!

Vietnamese Pancakes: We both really like these! Basically, you take a rice pancake, soak it in hot water, (and ignore the pain as your finger tips get steamed!), lay it out on you plate and fill it with various things, (such as veg, crab meat, egg, peanut butter sauce, mayonaise...anything goes!). Then, if you can, you wrap it up and make a tasty Vietnamese Pancake!!!

Vietnamese Pancakes

New Dolls of Korea...

Woo Dong Noodles are thick Japanese noodles usually served in soup. can come with Gimchi, Seafood, and various other things.

HaeMul BokEum Woo Dong Japanese noodles served in spicy red sauce with bits of seafood, (mostly octopus).

Rameon Noodles served in hot, spicy soup. Countless different styles. Can be bought in shops in a bowl into which hot water is added for around 1000won, (50p)!

Cheese Rameon As above served with slice of processed cheese.
Ddok Rameon Served with little rice slices.
Sae-U Tang Rameon with a shrimpy flavour.
Gimchi Rameon Rameon with a Gimchi flavour.

KalGukSu Green noodles served in a soup, usually with seafood. Very delcious! Son KalGukSu means hand made.

Snacks and the City!

DuBu GimChi at GeumSanSa Temple

DuBu GimChi is surprisingly tofu served with fried gimchi, and is Monica's favourite, especially the one served in "our" restaurant in Cheonan!

GimBab Korean Sushi. Rice, radish, ham, carrot, and other stuff wrapped in Gim, (seaweed) like a long thin roll. Delicious, and the bog standard one comes for only 1000won, (or 50 pence). You can also get:

ChamChi GimBab: Tuna
Cheese GimBab: Durr!
YaChae GimBab: Served with a little bit more salady stuff
Salad GimBab: Served with a little bit more salady stuff and mayonaise
Nude GimBab: Served with the rice on the outside.

DdokBuggI Thin rice cakes served in a spicy red sauce, sometimes with egg, odeng, (fish strips), cabbage and green onion. Brilliant after a night out on the beer, or as a little snack!

TwiGim Tempura to those who know Japanese food. Fried battered things such as gimbab, potato, egg, crab meat, and octopus tentacles. Really good mixed with DdokBuggI!

Say Gimcheese

GimChi: Spicy, hot, fermented Cabbage. Served with everything, and eaten by Koreans for Lunch, Dinner, and Breakfast...

Du-Wop, Du-wop, BiBimBab...

SanChae BiBimBab



BiBimBab: A bowl of rice mixed with spicy red pepper paste, (GoChuJang), fried egg, vegetables, and sometimes meat.

SanChae BiBimBab As above, but served in mountain villages with vegetables from the mountain.

DolSot BimBimap: As above, but served in a hot bowl, so the rice becomes slightly burnt. Normally, the egg is served in the bowl raw, and is cooked by the heat of the bowl!

JeonJu BiBimBab The most famous and delicious of the BiBimBabs: Rice mixed with vegetables, egg, lettuce, seaweed, and sometimes raw beef, served in a HOT stone bowl! The Jeonju BibimBab at HanGukGwan in JeonJu is the best!

Rice to eat you...

SsamBab Rice served with many different kinds of lettuce. You make little packages of the the rice, along with Ssam Jang, (bean sauce), GoChuJang, (pepper paste), and anything else you fancy! The best restaurant for this is opposite the fortress in Gongju, (in my opinion!).

Ssam Bab a la Sam and Monica!



DolSsamBab

As above, but the rice comes mixed with beans, veg and sweet potato in a very hot earthen ware bowl. After you spoon the rice out of the bowl, you pour in barley water to make a delicious after-dinner soup. Old Koreans love this!

DolSsamBab in Buyeo!




Bo SsamBab: Erm, not easy to describe this one. Steamed Pork with seafood gimchi and some wierd lettucey stuff. The pork was very good, according to Alan and Monica!

BoLibab: A recenty discovered favourite of mine, if not Monica's. Like BiBimBap, but you get to add the veg yourself, and it is made with healthy rice, (or WellBing... WellBeing...rice). No egg however.

BokEumBab: Fried rice with vegetables. Can come with all sorts of different things mixed in...

Gimchi BokEumBab: Gimchi Fried Rice
ChamChi BokEumBab: Tuna Fried Rice
OJingEo BokEumBab: Cuttlefish Fried Rice
YaChae BokEumBab: Vegetable Fried Rice
BolGoGi BokEumBab: Beef Fried Rice
CheolPan __________ BokEumBab: As above, but served on a very hot earthenware plate.

PaJeon Me...

PaJeon: Type of Korean Pancake, (or Pizza), ideal with MakKeoLi or DongDongJu, filled with:

HaeMul: Seafood, but mostly octopus.
GamJa: Potato.
Gimchi: Gimchi.

Pajeon in Cheonan



Do To Li Mok: Not really pajeon, but a really great complement! Lots of lettuce with acorn jelly covered in a spicy red sauce... delicious!

DoToLiMok at SangDang Fortress



GimChi BuChim: Very similar to PaJeon, but I have no idea what this is made of. It is a speciality of GangWonDo.

What I really, really, really want is a JjiGae...JjiGaa..

JjiGaes are hot soups served on a gas burner to your table, which cooks it in front of you. Served with rice and numerous side dishes.

GimChi JjiGae at WorAkSan National Park

Gimchi JjiGae: A spicy gimchi soup with various veg, and sometimes Tofu. Good breakfast dish.
SunDuBu JjiGae: Red, spicy, soup with soft Tofu.
ChamChi JjiGae: As above with delicious tuna mixed in!
DwaenJang JjiGae: Bean soup, with squares of Tofu.

BaekBans are similar to JjiGae, and then name means, (maybe), One Hundred Rice...???

BeoSeot JeonGul at Gosu Cave, DanYang



JeonGulA hot watery stew stocked to the gills with veg!!!
BeoSeot JeongGulAs above, but filled to the brim with delicious mushrooms.

Soju, MakKeoLi, and all that Jazz!

DongDongJu... Korean Rice Wine



I recently read two articles about Koreans and Drinking. One theorised about what would happen if alcohol was prohibited in Korea, while the other celebrated the diversity of Korean booze. A Korean man is like a machine. He'll work hard for long hours, and alcohol will provide lubrication for him, the first article says... He'll make business deals and friends over some soju, take out his employees for a beer, or drink DongDongJu after his hike. If he works as a construction worker, he may be seen drinking soju at 8AM on a Sunday before beginning his labour. Basically, the author of the article said Korea would fall apart without booze!

Well, at least they have a lot to choose from, the magazine article states! Despite repressive Japanese control, (they created "mega-breweries" to simplify taxes and control), Korean booze is making a comeback! From my experience, no two rice wines are the same, (this is no good thing, as I have been ill at least twice after a bottle of the local brew!). One of our favourites is MoJu, which we can only find in JeonJu, and nowhere else. This just goes to show the varieties and diversity of Korean liquor.

Of course, getting people to drink your alcoholic offering to the world is no mean feat. Most alcohol adverts concentrate on the usual fare, but one sticks out. One maker of raspberry wine, (BokBunJa), appeals to men alone. The gimmick is this: If you drink our raspberry wine, you'll be able to crack the porcelain when you pee... Make sense of it if you can!~

Makkeoli: Rice Wine, milky in colour and texture, but deceptively strong. Various different forms, but our favourite is Ssal Makkeoli. About 11 percent.

DongDongJu: As above, but more expensive and stronger taste. You can also get fruit DongdongJu, which is lethally strong, but doesn't seem so!!!

MaekJu: Beer!

Soju: Korea local spirit. Ubiquitous, drunk by many at all times of day. I even saw a couple of old dudes sharing a bottle in the local supermarket...it was 10AM!! About 22 percent strength, but the hangovers are legendary!

BaekSeJu: 100 years wine! Slightly sweet flavoured wine, served cold! Delicious. The Koreans say that if you drink this, you'll live to 100 years old, hence the name! Mixed 50-50 with Soju to make...

OShipSeJu: 50 years wine. Again, if you drink this, you'll only live to 50 years old! This stuff gives a seriously bad head in the morning, afternoon AND evening!

BokBunJa: A sweet raspberry wine of about 14 percent strength. Can be cheap, and can be VERY expensive! Delicious though...

MoJu: We've only found this in JeonJu, but wish we could find it elsewhere. A cheap, delicious sweet cinnamon drink.