Martha's Marvelous Memoirs: Korean Food

Take a trip with me through my Korean meals.

Tang soo. Koreans version of sweet and sour pork, but theirs tastes better!

Lots of side dishes with every meal. The sides are free and all you can eat. But not very good so lucky if we can get through one serving.

Tang soo!!! Now I am hungry again. It has onion, purple cabbage, pineapple, carrot, peas and deep fried pork.

Jjam Bphong (yucky!) Spicy seafood soup. Has onions, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, red chili flakes, shrimp, squid, and clams.

Jajamyeon!! Black bean paste on noodles with onions and pork mixed in with the bean paste. Oh and two peas.

Baby Shrimp!

Yikes! He is watching me eat him, his eyes and all.

Honey string candy.

Just add a ring of honey, corn starch and corny English and Korean jokes.

Honey Candy up-close.

Wang Mandu (King Mandu) Bread like outside filled with different kind of meats inside.

Many different kinds of rice cakes.

Dried beans in the front that they use to cook with and the back table is different kinds of kimchied veggies.

BBQ Pork Dimsum

This one was really good.

BBQ Pork Dimsum and Sweet corn dimsum. They are cooked by stacking the bamboo crates on top of each other and then sending steam through the slates at the bottom.

I really liked the sweet corn.

Pumpkin dimsum

This one was alright but not my favorite of the 4 we tried.

Red bean fried dimsum

Dimsum was really good but not super filling. You wouldn't think that red bean past would be very tasty but it was actually really good.

Waffle with white cream.

The waffle treats they only have in the winter because it is to hot in the summer and it all melts to fast.

Waffle on the bottom with Korean strawberry ice cream.

Just a few types of Ramyun. This whole shelve is Ramyun after Ramyun.

Ramyun is how the Korean's spell Ramon.

Honey cookie

These were good.

Cake filled with custard. They taste best when eaten hot.

These were my favorite treat of all that I tried. I liked them so much I had to find them again before I left Korea.

Egg tart. It is a sweet bread with an egg baked whole in it.

This was extremely tasty as well.

McDonald's in Korea have delivery scooters. If fast food isn't fast enough for you go to Korea and they will bring it to your front door. Talk about fast food on steroids.

Octopus at the street market

Banana milk and drinkable yogurt.

The drinkable yogurt was pretty good. They had all kinds of different flavors of mild as well.

Glass strawberries. Melted sugar with strawberries dipped in it.

These are also a winter treat because the sugar melts in the summer. These were really good as well.

Egg balls. Batter is pored into something like a waffle iron . Similar to a waffle.

Egg Balls were alright but nothing super great.

Side dishes of many different kimchied veggies and green peppers and some types of lettuce.

L to R Fish soup (polloc dried fish put into the soup), Kimchi cucumbers and radish, Kimchied spinach, Soy bean paste, not sure of the one in the front right by the dishwater. Back by Joanna's hand is the dried anchovies. The water is barley water. I told Joanna this water is dirty dishwater. It wasn't tasty at all not sure why they like it.

Dried anchovies

Front left is soup that is made of soybean paste tofu and radish. The meat is pork with red pepper paste on it. Rice and then the soybean paste in the front right side.

To eat the soup you take some rice and spoon some of the soup over it add some lettuce and then mix it together. Daejang is the name of the soup.

Korean pancake. It is some type of bread and leeks fried together.

Joanna loves the pancake but there wasn't much about this meal that I liked.

Sesame leaf with pork and red pepper paste on top.

After we left this place for dinner I was glad that I had put one of the drinkable yogurts in my backpack and it helped wash down dinner and put a good taste in my mouth.

Salad topped with corn mixed in beets.

Beef Shabu Shabu. Buk choi, mushrooms, fine sliced beef and cabbage boiled together.

Peanut and lemon dipping sauce for the Shabu Shabu.

This was a good meal I really enjoyed it. The peanut sauce was very yummy.

After you cook the shabu shabu you add noodles to it to soak up the flavor and remaining water from your meal.

I don't know what this is but it was at our neighbors table at the Shabu Shabu restaurant.

All you can eat BBQ place. Samgyupsal on the left of the grill (basically like thick bacon full of fat) rolled up thin slices of beef and more samgyupsal.