The Jones' Korean Adventure

This is dolsot bibimbap. It comes in a ceramic bowl that is pipping hot! It has a raw egg on top of it, but as you stir it all together, the ceramic bowl cooks the egg...very inventive, eh! It's tasty, and FUN to eat!! This dish has rice, beansprouts, lettuce, "little brown sticks" (we don't know what they are), carrot, and egg in it. They put a great red hot sauce on it too. Very delicious!

This is kimbap...I think I've mentioned it before in other blog entries. Like a sushi roll, but without the raw fish. It has rice, egg, carrot, spam (surprisingly ok tasting), some kind of grass, and another "brown" thing that is unidentifiable. All together, tastes great! The traditional kimbap also comes with a pickled radish in it, but we always point at the radish and make a "no" sign with our hands...don't really like the taste. A roll of kimbap only costs $1!! (I also wanted to show you in this picture how good I'm getting at using chopsticks) :0)

And here's Sam showing off his chopstick skills while eating Mandu...little dumplings. The ones on the left that are more reddish have kimchi in them (the spicy pickled cabbage that Korea is famous for). The ones on the right have meat in them. We like to get a box of each for a little variety. This was the first thing we learned how to order...we had it A LOT that first week!

And here's a dish of "sides" that come with every meal. Restaurants are awesome here...you go in, order your meat (which is all you pay for), and the waitress brings you lots of free side dishes to go with your meal. Usually they include kimchi, soup, different spicy vegetable dishes, rice pancakes...actually there are too many possibilites to name here. We're not exactly sure what everything on this plate is...the yellow things on the right are pickled radishes, and the red stuff on the left is kimchi...the other two things are "mystery sides". These sides are from the cheap little restaurant we like to go to, which is why there are only four, and they're all in one dish. A more expensive restaurant will bring lots and lots of little dishes to try!

# posted by Becky @ 9:11 PM