Mmmmm, Seoul food.

KimChee gigai for the win!


I eat it every Wed.

I miss the food in Korea. It's amazing and cheap, even in Seoul. Anyone know any good Korean restaurants in Frankfurt?

No Yaki Mandu? Biggest fail of all time.

The Goddamn Batman: 41. Kagogi

Boshintang is delicious! Once you get over the mental hurdle of eating a dog, that is.

I spent a month in Seoul this summer, and it just makes me want to go back there SOOOO bad. One of my favorite parts of the trip was going out for galbi or fried chicken, soju and beer after class everyday.

/And female Korean pop bands.
//Especially that last one.

mmm love korean food, one of the perks of living in LA

dduk bokie, jajang myun, ojinguh bokkeum, and soft tofu soup are some of my favorites.

if you want to try more than just bulgogi or kalbi, you have to at least try some of those.. so good


/my romanization of korean = fail

Kimchi Jigae! Damn now Im hungry and strangley enough Its Kimchee Ramyun for lunch. Now as far as the ZOMG THAY EAT DOGS!1 BS that will no doubt show up in this thread. Dont knock til you try it. The dog stew is amazing. Lets just put it this way if you can get past some of the smells Korean food is by far (IMHO) the best food on the planet. My Mother in Law has convinced me to eat things I would have never imagined and even though the look or smell may have been off. I have yet to eat a korean food that was unpleasing to the taste.

당신이 것을 원하는 알고

Fark Lackey, man.

I don't get the red sox reference but if you're ever in Hawaii...Salt Lake shopping center, place called Soons....get the bulgogi....holy hell that stuff is amazing.

ThisNameSux: No Yaki Mandu? Biggest fail of all time.

Agreed. I went to high school in Seoul. Mandu was equivalent to the 3 am Waffle House run. The guy half way up Itaewan-dong with the vat of oil that had been there since MacArthur hit Inchon was the man.

I can live without fried chicken and beer, but for the love of God why would I?

Korean food is my current favorite food on the planet. The best part of where I live in Anyang, RoK is that I can find every single one of those dishes (and be picky about the restaurant) within a 3-block radius of where I live and work. Hell, i just taught myself how to make my own 김치 (kimchi).

GoNDSioux: I spent a month in Seoul this summer, and it just makes me want to go back there SOOOO bad. One of my favorite parts of the trip was going out for galbi or fried chicken, soju and beer after class everyday.

/And female Korean pop bands.
//Especially that last one.

Spent a full year at Kunsan AB in the late 90s drinking Soju.

I always thought it was funny that liking fried chicken is a black stereotype. I mean, who doesn't like fried chicken? Even vegetarians have to have second thoughts when they smell fresh fried chicken.

dr.zaeus: Spent a full year at Kunsan AB in the late 90s drinking Soju.

Soju or Jungle Juice? Soju alone was some nasty stuff.

/Camp Casey 1987

Fried chicken & beerwaffles

Fixed. Though, maybe not a Korean dish.

I see this list and go OMFG NOOOOOOM :9

(Then again, people joke that if my taste buds are anything to go by I was raised by Koreans. Nope, just introduced to good Korean food very early by friends in a tae kwon do class run and attended by actual Koreans :D)

Haha, I lived in Korea for almost 2 years and made it my mission to try every strange food I could find.

I've had boshintang (dog stew) of course, beondiggi (boiled silkworm larva), dalk bal (chicken feet), san nakji (live octopus) and hongeo (rotten skate) amongst many others. Hongeo is unquestionably the most hardcore food in Korea. If anyone currently in Korea is interested in a memorable night get together with a bunch of friends, drink lots of soju and head to your nearest hongeo restaurant. Another fun trip is the Noryangjin fish market, they seem to have virtually every creature in the sea available there.

The author seems to have left off eel barbecue which I thought was one of the best foods in Korea, she listed most of my other favorites though. It's nice to see Korean cuisine slowly, but steadily, catching on in the west. There really is some amazing stuff, but it can be rather intimidating and confusing at first. Even the westerners that live there, many of them seem to stick to the old standbys of fried chicken, pork barbecue, etc. while never venturing into the vast sea of food that is available there.

There are a disturbing number of words I don't know in this Fark thread.

That being said, all that food looked freaking delicious... although I wasn't aware noodles could be made of cellophane...

kryphon: I miss the food in Korea. It's amazing and cheap, even in Seoul. Anyone know any good Korean restaurants in Frankfurt?

There is a Korean restaurant across from the Korean embassy, though I couldn't tell you whether it's any good or not. Can't remember the street name and it's not exactly downtown, but it is there.

Jjajangmyeon (#5) is awesome.

"Instant noodles" (#7) is ramen. The English word "ramen" comes from Japanese. I'm not sure if the author mistranslated "라면" as "instant noodles" because she didn't know the English word "ramen," because she didn't think her readers would know it, or if it was a "I don't want to admit that English uses Japanese loanwords" thing.

Hobakjuk (#32) is quite good and one Westerners, even expats living in Korea, may not be familiar with. Pumpkin porridge

Pat-bingsu (#40) is excellent if you don't mind the taste of Azuki bean paste ("pat" in Korean). It's comparable to fruity ice cream.

I love azuki bean paste, personally, and it's very popular in Japan, Korea, and China, but some Westerners don't care for it. It's put into a lot of different dishes. Azuki ice cream is really worth a try. Again, I don't know if the author is avoiding the word "azuki" because it's a Japanese loanword or if it's simply a lack of familiarity.

Koreans = The Irish of Asia (with excellent food)

/Soju ftw