Yesterday I set off to meet up with a friend and to grab
some Bulgolgi for dinner in the French District of Seoul. I never imagined that
the night would turn out to be as magical as it did and it reminded me to
appreciate the little things. Finding myself fully immersed in the culture and
history of this crazy land of Seoul did wonders for the Seoul.
The group I went with are seriously into their food and I
later found out that one has his own Food App available on I tunes and the
other has his own website where he video blogs about all the food he tries and
all that he experiences in Korea.
I want to give both of these guys credit because I think
they are both amazing people and so passionate about their work. I also am
overwhelmed with the number of brilliant people that I am meeting while
travelling around, this is living the dream.
K food is available through
This is a beautiful app which shows you how to prepare and enjoy
Korean Cuisine. Recipes and methods are
shown through magnificent HD videos and photos.
Noe’s website is
Noe, the sole creator of this blog inspires me to see more
of this country. His video blogs are both informative and funny and I found myself
getting lost in his videos for most of this morning. I invite you all to check
out his work and soon I will publish his video of this night. Yep as Noe said “I’m
going to be famous on you tube.”
The Restaurant we went to was called Seorae
Bulgogi 서래 불고기 From what I understand from the conversation last night,
this Restaurant is one a kind and serves two varieties of Bulgogi, which is
simply thin cuts of beef marinated in a variety of spices and herbs.
Photo courtesy of Noe http://www.no-kancho.net/
The food was amazing . We tried the two types of bulgogi,
one that was grilled over an open flame see left and the other which is Seoul
style that was cooked over an inverted metal dish on top of coals. We also had
a dish of Yuk Hoe (the middle bowl with the radish and cucumbers) which is a
seasoned raw beef dish, I guess it is similar
to what we would call tartare. On the table were a selection of side dishes
that complimented the meat. The lettuce and perilla ( thanks Julia for
repeating that name over and over so that I finally remembered it ) leaves are
used to wrap up the meat , noodles , veges and sauces to be eaten as one. The
green peppers are dipped in the sauces and eaten as is. The black bowl to the
right is ox blood soup. This is the only dish that I didn’t try as it was just congealed
pieces of blood in a broth. Noe tried it and said it tasted like old pennies. I
had to get him to explain this to me and realised he was referring to old copper
coins. On the grill next to the bulgogi you can see a sliced mushroom, I
noticed that it has been stamped with some kind of mark and found out that it
was the name of the restaurant scorched into the flesh of the mushroom. I
thought this was really a really neat and unique idea.
All of this was washed down with Makgeolli and cider. Makgeolli
is a Korean rice wine and cider is actually what they call lemonade here! I
know it’s weird when I heard we were having cider I got all excited until I
remembered that cider is not that magical crisp alcoholic drink that we have at
home. So the Makgeolli and cider are mixed together in a tall teapot with a
long spout and is poured into cute little wooden bowls. It was fantastic to cheers this local drink
with new friends over a magnificent feast.
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