A lot of Korean meals involve work on behalf of the customer, such as grilling your meat or boiling your meat. Even the buffet, which is supposed to be a lazy mans meal, involves some effort and waiting, no instant gratification like we have back home.
You get a giant pitcher of broth and a metal pot which is placed on a heater, then go to the buffet line to get all your vegetables, noodles, fish and meat, throw it into the pot, cook it up and go at it. Here's what the menu looks like....
Seafood...
Meat...this would NO DOUBT be a health or safety violation in the US. This is about, I don't know, 20 lbs of raw meat just out in the open. But somehow nothing bad happens in Korea and no one complains either...
Vegetables and Noodles....
Sides...
Not sure what the thing on the left is.............The balls of rice with seasoning packed inside lettuce
The thing on the right is gross.........................are delicious! Dip em in some hot sauce. Rice bombs!
Finished product....
My friend and I were skeptical at first upon seeing all that disgusting fish out in the open and the giant glob of raw meat, but we enjoyed our meals and will no doubt be doing this again.
6 comments:
It's call hotpot (or steamboat in Singapore,which is where I am from).
I guess what you had is the Korean version of hotpot.
It is a custom for Chinese to have this with their family on every Chinese New Year (called reunion dinner).
By the way, I do enjoy reading your blog. Stumbled upon it from Korean blog list. =) Keep up the good work!
-cindy
oh yea, and this is the wiki for what you had.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot
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Good looking out Cindy. Hope you keep reading and keep commenting :)
also if you have a blog let me know..
Nice hot pot buffet you have there.
Enjoy your blog and keep up the good work.
Elisa.
thanks elisa...loving the food in korea and will have a lot more to share about it..in vietnam now, so im on break for another week, but ill be back soon and blogging a lot..thanks for checking it out..hope you keep it up!
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