[Closed] Korean food...

There's much more to it than that.

The fermented cabbage is actually quite nice once you get used to it. I'd actually eat that again.

There's also the butterfly pupae, which taste pretty much as you would expect, i.e. mothy. Have some beer handy to wash away the taste.

There's the weird white circles of gristley stuff, I think this is cow intestines, lightly poached, but I could be wrong about that.

There's the weird grey slightly crunchy stuff which I later found out was some kind of liver, specially prepared in a way to make it particularly nasty.

And there's the thin slices of raw liver which is quite nice if you're really really hungry.

A friend of mind had dog, but I don't know what that's like.

The desserts are really good though if you can find one of the posh European cafe places.

I was there in 1988 for the seoul olympics. and it was all kemchi (very nice but blows your insides out if not used to it) and spam , and dog.
probably irrelevant but - vietnam on the other hand has fabulous food

A mate of mine lived over there for many years. His wife is Korean. He says fish is the main staple of their diet, I guess he'd know.

Pa jeon and bul gol gi mmmmm! Our favourite local restaurant used to be a Korean. Done well it's lovely, one of the benefits of living on south west London is the great amount of Korean restaurant

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these are korean. hot pot noodle. i love em

My favourite cuisine. If you are near Edinburgh or Bristol there are some good places.

Dolsotbibimbap is my favourite - rice stir fry with meat (pork/beef) but BBQ (Bulgogi). Traditional 'starter' is very like tapas, but with octopus!

My experience is mostly Gyeongsangnam-do; coastal, so lots of seafood (including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urechis_unicinctus) but I've been over there for a few months and not starved (and am regarded as a fussy eater). I have never eaten dog but been told it's not that nice. There are 'western' restaurants in the cities (Ulsan/Pusan) if you really must.

Just remembered Bibimbap in Soho - £7 for a good meal. Living in the sticks I try to find Korean food when forced to visit some sort of metropolis.

A friend of mind had dog, but I don't know what that's like.

Mate of mine was on a Korean Air flight in the late 1980s and the flight attendant asked him, in her heavily accented English, if he'd like the duck or the pork. He took the duck and when it came he thought it tasted off so asked the fight attendant how they had cooked it.

"Duck?" she said in surprise. "No, no duck - quack quack. Dog - bow wow."

That's how he used to tell it anyway.

listen to your wife

My favourite cuisine. If you are near Edinburgh or Bristol there are some good places.

Near enough halfway between the two...

There might be other good Korean restaurants in the UK but I have not yet had the opportunity to review them.

I had some nice stuff when I was there, the BBQ type stuff and pancakes stood out. Nothing outstanding, but it there was plenty tasty food that was enjoyable to eat.

Lol! It's really good! This is a good place to start http://www.maangchi.com

Bibimbap is there national dish and really tasty but is a lot of work. Korean pancakes are great savoury snack. Hoddock, japchae, crispy fried chicken are all lovely but my fouvourite is jjinnpang mandu, if you get them fresh they are amazing! They don't eat dog anymore lol!

Baekdu in Manchester is good. Love the earthenware pot rice dishes. Not sure if it is authentic but great range of tasty food. One of my new favourites.

ratherbeintobago - Member

Can someone convince me (or more accurately Mrs RBIT) it's not all fermented cabbage and spam?

I had Kimchi and chicken sandwiches this afternoon. I like!

Yes, Kimchi is good so is “Sempio” Korea’s oldest and most renowned commercial brand of soy sauce available from Tesco but I got mine from GeordieLand Chinese Supermarket. However, the Korean "miso" paste from Tesco might be a bit too salty as I prefer the Japanese ones.

As for the rest of the Korean food ... no idea as I only like Kimchi. 😀

Oh ya ... when I first tasted Kimchi several years ago I like it instantly. Delicious!

There's a Korean restaurant on Low Friars chewkw.

Delicious but spicy and laced with garlic, needs mouthwash and mints

Love Bulgogi too

Used to go to Seoul restaurant at Aldgate. Lovely food but work colleagues hated the smell when we came back!!

Can someone convince me (or more accurately Mrs RBIT) it's not all fermented cabbage and spam?

I've heard it's the dogs bollocks.

Igmc

Drac - Moderator

There's a Korean restaurant on Low Friars chewkw.

Ah I see, my S.Koren friend has gone home to Soul so I doubt I know what to order.

Also I rather like curry so my current favourite is this very good buffet style curry house behind the court house at quayside. This branch serves India curry while the other branch serves more of the middle eastern food.

[url= http://aneesas.co.uk/ ]Aneesa's - Indian & Punjabi Buffet Restaurant (this is in GeordieLand btw and Not Korean food)[/url]

🙂

edit: Apparently Kimchi is good for health ... yes! I will consume more now. 😀

Tomhughes...

I'm in edinburgh recomendations please!

My neck of the wood has loads of Korean restaurants, plus two huge Korean supermarkets.

But I do live in a town with the largest Korean community outside of Korea.

Sonor - Member

My neck of the wood has loads of Korean restaurants, plus two huge Korean supermarkets.

But I do live in a town with the largest Korean community outside of Korea

Where is that?

[b]tomhughes46[/b]

My experience is mostly Gyeongsangnam-do; coastal, so lots of seafood (including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urechis_unicinctus) but I've been over there for a few months and not starved (and am regarded as a fussy eater). I have never eaten dog but been told it's not that nice. There are 'western' restaurants in the cities (Ulsan/Pusan) if you really must.

Where abouts in Gyeongsangnam-do? I'm currently living in Meongji Ocean City, but I work in Gyeongsangnam-do.

I love the food over here, there is so much to try. I liked Kimchee when I first tried it, but the thought of it fermenting in a bottle buried in the ground has put me off somewhat.

Obvious choices are the Korean BBQ and Bulgogi restaurants as mentioned above. There are large numbers of seafood restaurants which have live fish, squid, octopus and other creatures in tanks in the front street. You pick your food and they cook it for you (or not if you prefer it raw).

I am trying to experience all the different types while over here. There is a 50% restaurant (well that's what the English call it) where a stew with seafood and vegetables is cooked at your table. The spice intensity ranges from 30%, 40%, 50% all the way up to 100%. 50% is hot enough!

I've also been to a ribs and cheese place. Food is cooked at the table on a skillet and consists of a tray full of mixed cheese and very spicy ribs. Tasty but very messy!

My favorite is 'road-kill' soup. Its is a pigs backbone stewed with cabbage, tofu and chilli and one whole potato. The place we go to has a pot this size of a cauldron and you get a hearty bowl full and a side bowl of sticky rice.

One thing that is a culture shock is the supermarkets. It takes me nearly an hour to fill a single basket as its all in Korean and I don't have a clue what I'm buying sometimes! That said, the price of meat at a supermarket is relatively expensive, so it is often cheaper to eat out.

Korean food is good.
It's not all Dog.
Korean BBQ is very good, with good selection of meat, which you wrap up in Fresh Lettuce leaves, and munch on.
Bimbibap and Bologi with quite standard food, and is very easy on the pallet.
Kimchi is really nice, and can be quite spicy if your not used to it.

Talking of spicy, if you can find this
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Try it... Spiciest thing I have eaten for a long long time.

You can see people eating in here

I'm in edinburgh recomendations please

cafe andamiro on buccleuch street is very good.

You need to go to K-town (New Malden).
Koba was quite good.
On a complete side-step anyone ever been to Saravanaa Bhavan?

There's a Korean restaurant on Low Friars chewkw.

Do you mean Nudo* or is there another along there that I've missed?

*Which much as I like it, I'm not sure I'd call Korean

Kinda OT but I love this:

If you think its funny keep watching it to 2.01....

We had a very attractive Korean business visitor at the office last Friday. She admitted that she has eaten dog but I coudn't find that in Manchester, only hot dog, so I took her to a posh fish 'n chips place near Bury for some traditional English food. I couldn't help wondering if she liked, er, doggy fashion.

I took a gap year and taught English there in 2010. I really love sauerkraut so took to kimchi straight away although I preferred the younger, fresher stuff to the 6 month old pungent special, unless it was cooked into a kimchi jjigae (soup). These are the other dishes that I remember liking;

Kimchi Jjigae (spicy kimchi soup with tofu and either pork or tuna meat. the spice level differed from restaurant to restaurant but the hottest one I had was on par with a decent hot curry)

Kimbap (basically just like the Californian rolls you get in sushi places, lots of different fillings and cheap as chips)

Chap che bap (chopped fried veg and noodles)

Tonkatsu (breaded fried pork cutlet with that sticky Korean bbq sauce)

Samgyetang (chicken soup made with a whole chicken, ginseng, ginger and what tasted like a kind of juniper berry)

Naengmyeon (cold noodle soup mixed with slush puppy ice)

Korean sashimi (pick your fish from the fish tank outside the restaurant. Eat the sashimi then enjoy the vindaloo-strength fish soup made with its carcass and innards)

Bi Bim Bap (every region had their own take on this simple rice / veg dish but the best one I had came in a hot dolseot stone bowl with a raw egg on top. You mixed the rice, egg and veg together and the intense heat of the bowl cooked the egg. An absolutely delicious breakfast especially with the addition of spicy gochujjang sauce).

Squid / octopus (didn't fancy the 'live' octopus a la Old Boy although the cooked stuff was excellent)

I never got round to eating dog. As a dog owner / lover it didn't really appeal to me although I'm definitely of the mindset that unless you are vegetarian or vegan you can't really criticise what other cultures eat.

Do you mean Nudo* or is there another along there that I've missed?

Not sure. I've never been so would have to check.

Not sure. I've never been so would have to check.

Boom, thread resurrection to say I was pootling down that way today and you're quite right. The Korean's call Mannaza and is on Monk Street. On the list for next week.
http://mannaza.co.uk/