Eat, Drink, and Be Married

Now that I'm back on US soil, I badly miss the amazing food I ate in Seoul. The great thing, too, is that most of these items were really cheap! Allow me to share a few gems that I did not include in previous posts ~


Jjam bbong with mussels. So much seafood! This place has a wall of fame similar to those places highlighted by Man v. Food, for those who eat the extra large extra spicy bowl within a time limit. You can see on the polaroids their sweaty faces and pepper stained mouths haha:

Black bean noodles with overeasy egg. Simple addition that takes it to another level:

Pyong-yang style stew with king size dumpling:

Fried pork cutlet and shrimp tempura in kimchi stew with rice cakes and mozzarella:

Shave ice with sweet squash, candied fried dates and injulmi rice cake. The ice had amazing soft texture. I had this in a quaint French district of Seoul, where 500 or so French reside. Only the best restaurants survive here because of the French-inspired passion for flavor, creativity and execution:

Though there are Paris Baguette stores in the US, many of the PB stores in Seoul are enormous and upscale looking, with about 5x the variety of pastries than the ones I saw in LA. This spread is only one of about 7 similar looking counters!

When it comes to churros or boyfriends, Seoul women choose churros. How can I compete with that??:

Jai, Leslie, the kids, Yun, and I went to Noryangjin Fish Market to eat crab. If you click on the pic below, you will see a glimpse of the enormity of the place. Fish stalls as far as the eye can see. It was awesome! And the restaurants upstairs cook whatever you purchase, so we bought blue crabs, large prawns, and ordered flatfish sashimi. Later, the servers gave us spicy stew to put any leftover sashimi into for the most amazing fish stew.

This is not food related, but just wanted to point out that for a mere $24,000, you too can have the latest and greatest LG smart tv. Yun and I got a little motion sick standing in front of it. It was pretty great.

Also non food related, but Koreans really do take care of their customers' dire needs. For example, if you go to the cinema and just happened to forget to wear socks that day, BOOM. Socks vending machine. And of course, the vendor company is "I Hate Monday." Yeah, I don't get it either.

My vacation in the motherland was fabulously good. I ate, drank, hiked, ate, took pictures, met friends, wore a sheephead towel, and ate. Alas, I did not meet my seoul mate, nor did I marry a Korean Air flight attendant (though I really really wanted to). Really. But I did meet someone who knows someone who might possibly know someone who knows a member of Girls' Generation. Not to name drop or anything.

Thanks for venturing with me on Koreander. See you next time!