Today's Valentines Day in Korea and instead of stuffing ourselves with copious amounts
of chocolate we've decided to come and have a Korean traditional set lunch.
So Korea has a lot of lovey dovey holidays for couples and we've actually managed to
miss most of them, so there was kiss day in June I believe and hug day in December and
we were unaware of these, so we've got to make up and celebrate Valentines Day this
year.
So by Korean set meal, what it is called locally is Hanjeongsik, and what that means is basically
it's a set meal built around rice dishes (such as the dolsot stone pot rice set).
What we expect to have is a lot of different side dishes and soups, so it's going to be
a really big meal.
Mmmm....I'm starving so I'm looking forward to this.
Yes, me too.
First off, they brought us juk, which is kind of like a soup, so take a look in here.
And this black.
I wonder what it is made of?
Good question.
I'll take a sip and let you know.
Any guesses?
I have no idea.
Hahahaha!
Is it good though?
No, it's good - it's really nice.
Oh, and there is jeon too.
Little jeon.
Gamhasamnida.
Neh
Background music
So our feast has arrived.
It's a pleasant surprise.
We really didn't know what we were going to get, so we'll give you a bit of a tour here.
Over here we've got something called Bulgogi, which is marinated beef strips.
Down here it looks like we've got a normal salad.
Jeon, which is a Korean style pancake, which we both love.
This looks like a sort of mini kind of Tonkatsu, mini cutlet and another kind of salad and
chapchae.
We've just been brought one more dish here, which is called Bosam, a kind of steamed meat.
So the Bulgogi is finished cooking now we're going to dish it up.
Let's get some veggies in there too.
And the Bulgogi is known for having a sweet sauce.
What it is being marinated in is actually quite a sweet sauce.
How does that look?
That looks awesome.
It's steamed up.
Time to try it.
MMm...it's awesome.
The meat is really tender.
Really nice....soft....MMMMMM.
What do you got there?
This is the most delicious Pa Jeon I've had since I've been in Korea.
Korean pancake?
It's a little Korean pancake with lots of green onions and this one also has seafood.
It looks like octopus maybe.
And it's so good.
Very crispy isn't it?
MMMMMMhmmmm.
Flavorful?
There are so many side dishes to choose from that it's a little difficult to decide what
you're going to eat next.
Music playing in the background.
So I really thought the meal was over after the first set of dishes came out but behold
there is even more to eat.
All kinds of goodness ranging from fish to soup and here is the dolsot, the stone pot,
rice.
What we're going to be doing right now is we're actually going to be scooping out the
rice from the stone pot and then adding water to burnt sides of it.
And what that does is it creates a rice soup.
So Audrey is scooping it out.
So at this point we scraped out all of the rice from the main part.
As you can see we've put it in the bowl and now we've just got the rice on the side.
We're going to add some hot water and turn it into a soup.
Sizzling water boiling sound.
Cover it up.
And we wait.
Water boiling sound.
Steaming
Looks like we've put a little bit too much water in here.
It's actually bubbling over.
That's my rice just bubbling next to me on the table.
So here is my whole fish.
I'm just trying to get some meat off the bone, so I have to take out the spine.
It's kind of difficult.
A morcel.
It is time for the official unveiling of the stone pot.
Da da dun da dun.
So now we have a little rice soup.
It's kind of a murky looking soup.
Audrey will try it.
Hopefully not burn myself.
It does look very hot.
Mmmmm, it's very sweet.
Is it sweet?
It's like a sweet tea with rice in it.
It was a great meal.
I'm personally stuffed.
And there are still so many dishes I never got around to trying.
It was just very very filling.
So much food.
Would you come back again?
I would definitely come back here.
Definitely feel the same way as Audrey.
one of the better value meals I've had in a long time.
It's just awesome.