fgnuva wrote:
Hello sisters! Am happy to read the posts here. For a while we ran out of things to discuss in this forum...am glad someone brought up the recipes. Thanks to sisters @yummijeu and @DOH for engaging us in his exchange of recipes. Wasn't this the intent of the variety show anyway?
I wonder are the recipes from 3MAD posted somewhere sisters? We can actually start annotating them. We can go by episode and work out from there. I think it's a good idea to exchange thoughts and swap variations or alternatives.
Am not into the meat dishes but I like the veggies. Just curious, is it Korean style that you wrap food in lettuce or any leafy veg and eat it that way? I think it is certainly a healthy way of eating.
Another thing: About how many "side dishes" are normally served per meal?
Also are meals served for breakfast lunch and supper the same? Or is it like there are dishes that are kind of breakfast options and different sets for lunch and supper?
Hi sis@fgnuva, with regard to the "side dishes", restaurants commonly offered of course the cabbage kimchi, pickled radish, pickled lotus, sweet anchovies with nuts, egg roll, blanch spinach and other green leafy vegetables to wrap the meat in. I so love the samgyupsal or the pork belly BBQ dish which you need to sprinkle with a bit of fine-grained salt and wrap in any green leafy veggies and Koreans also eat it together with garlic.
I observed that most Korean restos only served one specialty dish. If the resto is a chicken joint, it only served chicken, different types but if I remember it correctly, the chicken restos do not provide side dishes because they serve beer to accompany the chicken. The galbi restos ( or grilled or BBQ restos) are everywhere some offer both beef and pork belly ( samgyupsal) and they serve various side dishes, I consider these restos as the traditional restaurants because most of them still require you to remove your shoes. I remember when we ate in one of the hole in the wall galbi restos, they even served two medium-sized fish as a side dish, I even told my friends that if we knew fish would be served, we should not have ordered the meat
But if you want, an instant Korean fare, just buy the instant Korean ramen ( the spicy or hot one if you can like) and then put cheese in the soup, it is quite good and was even one of the more popular fares in the modern restaurants where we dined which offered both Korean and Western food.