Dinner tonight was yummy!
We got paid today and we always try and go out to eat somewhere we haven't tried yet when we get paid. It isn't expensive, just a little treat for us.
We paid 40,000W which is about $35 USD. Again, all of the sides are unlimited but we didn't need that because it was just us two. If we had 4 or 5 people we would have needed more of our side dishes.
After our spectacle filled trip home (
river), we thought we would take ourselves out for dinner.
We parked our bikes in the apartment then walked down the street about 500 yards from our building.
Our first choice was duck but as they were out of that (common at duck restaurants) we got their second best dish: pigs feet. Now, I threw a bit of "I'm NOT eating pigs feet" at Joseph but he reminded me that I need to be open minded and that the pigs feet won't actually look like their hooves. I told him if it did I'm not eating it and he said okay. Everyone else had pigs feet as well and it wasn't in the shape of their hooves.
We realized we had eaten this before and just not known what it was called. It is delicious and the fat/skin around each piece is traditionally, "good for your skin by providing collegan to your body" which is why women eat it like candy. It was a bit too salty for me so I ate some but not all of the fat/skin.
It is called, "Jokbal"
족발, and more information can be found
here.
We really enjoyed our dinner but we were so full we brought the rest of the huge plate of meat home.
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| about 500 yards from our apartment |
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| we had 5 to 6 types of salad on our table. This one has dried shrimp, onion and soy sauce |
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| pot of home made kimchi--delish! |
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left: sweet potatoes right: onion pancake
both to die for |
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| "help meeee!" says Mr. Dried Shrimp |
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| pork feet |
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| pot O' kimchi, pot of soup and various salads |
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| "salad" soup: greens, anchovies and soybeans. Super yummy |
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| rim of collegan |
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| super stuffed |
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| quite normal to eat your soup with chopsticks |
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| so full! |
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| check please! |
