Food Post!

So, my mom's tired of seeing pictures of food on my facebook, but for people like my lovely grandmother who does not have a facebook (but she might not be reading this, because I don't know if her computer is fixed yet...), I figured I'd post some food pictures.

 My first meal in Korea! This is called 떡만두국 (dduk mandu guk), or in English Rice Cake Dumpling Soup. It's great for me because it's not spicy. The 떡, or rice cake, isn't like a Quaker Rice cake. It's thick and before it's cooked it's really hard but once it gets cooked it becomes soft and takes some of the flavor of whatever it's cooked in. The dumplings have some sort of meat and vegetable in them. And then I had rice on the side.

 This is 팥빙수 (pat bingsoo). Pat means red bean and the bingsoo part is like ice cream. It's shaved ice mixed with sweetened condensed milk. This was topped with mochi too! It was delicious!!

 Breakfast at Paris Baguette. They have tons of breads and pastries. I love their cinnamon rolls!

 Caitlin and I went out for Mexican food! It was actually pretty good, but kind of expensive. We went to On the Border, which is a foreign chain, so if we were to go to a more local chain I'm sure it would be more reasonably priced. Also, the cheese was made out of velveeta. Is that Mexican?

 The picture far away is of 떡볶이 (dduk bokki) and the one closer is Udon. The dduk is the rice cake again, but sliced differently and cooked in a more traditional spicy sauce. The Udon had a light broth with thick noodles, fish cake, seaweed, and shrimp tempura. Really delicious!

More 떡볶이 (dduk bokki)! This is a specific dduk bokki restaurant that Caitlin and I have been to about 3 times because we love it! You get one big pot and you tell them what you want in it. We usually get 불고기 (bolgogi), which is thinly sliced meat, 라면, Ramyun or Ramen noodles, and Cheese. Last time we went we got hard boiled eggs too. It's really really delicious and not too spicy for me!

We got pizza at a restaurant called Pizza Hand, which is near our school. Our vegan friend got a personal veggie pizza without cheese, and then we got a "hawaiian pizza," but it didn't have any ham on it. Only pineapple. The other one is a potato bacon pizza. It was delicious! I've heard a lot of foreigners say that pizza in Korea is gross, but I really like it! I think I like it better than American pizza.

Last but not least, traditional Korean BBQ! You grill the meat at the table then cut it up and eat it right off the grill, or fill a lettuce leaf with meat and kimchi and other side dishes. It was pretty good, but there is a lot of fat on korean meat, especially since we got pork. But I solved that by just cooking to a crisp. :P This was also my first time to try soju, a type of korean alcohol! It tastes like straight up rubbing alcohol! But the taste doesn't really linger so that's good.