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Ok Kidding. It’s Live Octopus. I swear it. Nothing but Octopus. When you are trying to swallow the little fucks they use their SUCKERS to stick onto the walls of your mouth… along your esophagus.. in your rum tum tummy. I mean goddamnit you’ve got them all sliced up into subatomic pieces and the monsters are STILL ALIVE!

Right. So then.

Just Pork and Cabbages. And lots of Kimchi. A lot of hot pots too. Steamboat-ish things. I’m not sure if that’s what Koreans eat ALL THROUGH THE WINTER, but during our 5 day tour, we had mostly that. Pork. Cabbages. Hot Pots.

It’s quite deelish actually, especially since you’re walking nonstop from morning till the night in the freezing ass cold of -11 degrees Celcius. A warm meal with lotsa meat and rice is like HEAVEN SENT. Yum. Thinking about it makes me TOTALLY hungry now, since I didn’t have a good breakfast this morning.

Nah, show you suckers some pictures lah.

Yum. Hot pot. Dong Fun. 2 types of mushrooms. Cucumber. Pork. Cabbages. Carrots. Leeks. Pork Soup I think. Served with a bowl of short fat rice. Am loving the rice here. Can see the kimchis on the side. There were 5 types. Every meal is served with Kimchi. And It. Tasted. Like. Shit. The ones we buy from Jusco which is supposedly imported from Korea tastes better, or so the Kimchi expert (mum) said. The irony.

The Kimchis on the side. Fact - Did you know that there are 200 over types of Kimchis? The ones they sell at Jusco are just a couple of molecules off the tip of the iceberg. Kimchis essentially means Pickled Vegetables. The slimy dark greenish things on the top left were seaweeds. Crunchy and YUM!

They are always almost too happy to top up your kimchis and rice and MEAT GLORIOUS MEAT YEAY I’M IN HEAVEN in most of the restaurants we makan-ed in. MORE? MORE? MORE? YOU WANT MORE? YES PLEASE TAKE! Maybe we looked too much like a hungry pack of hyenas or something.

We had Meat BBQ at night. I’m not really sure if it was pig or cow. But I think it was pig. So the BBQ pit is in the middle and heated. We’re given a bowl filled with RAW seasoned meat. Dump it into the pit. While it’s half cooked, cut the meat up into tiny pieces. Eat with rice. I must’ve had about 49275 pieces of it. Divine! And there’s NO RUNNING AWAY from the side serving of Kimchis imploring you to just EAT THEM of course. Just ignore them, like I usually do.

Close up of pig in pieces. I’m like, salivating now. Argh.

Basically fried mix vege and meat on a hot plate. Later part of the meal they mix in rice, pieces of seawood, taugeh and some other stuff in. It’s spicy. Meh, this one is NOT my favourite.

There is an option of wrapping up the mixed stuff from above into some vege which looks like …..URGH I forgot the name of it (it’s the vege we Chinese people use to wrap meat up to eat during CNY.. yeah ok I know I suck at the whole NAME THE VEGETABLE game thing), together with garlic and a mint leave. It tastes…… odd.

"AAAAAAOUMMM!"

We had this on the night at the ski lodge. and OMFG I LOVED THIS SHIT. I’m not sure if it was because I was just COLD and hungry but OH MY GOD IT WAS SO ON! It’s like LOTSSSSS OF MEAT with some cabbages and onions on the infamous “Korean BBQ plate” thingy, and the sauce is just orGASMIC. I ate and ate and ate and ate like I was once upon a time a wodden girl and was brought to life by a blue fairy and this was my first meal EVER. And then we had to ask for extra MEAT. Which they gave. And then I looked over at the other table greedily because they were ALL full but they did not FINISH the meat! BLASPHAMEY! A lady caught me staring at it and was like, come here give me you bowl, and proceeded to give me EVERYTHING on THEIR PLATE! I wolfed down THREE BOWLS OF RICE THAT NIGHT! HAPPINESS!!!!!!! *BuRp*

This, boys and girls, is GINSENG SPRING CHICKEN STUFFED WITH GLUTINOUS RICE AND A ROOT IN A MOTHERFUCKING HOT BOWL. It’s absolutely postively fanFUCKINGtastic. Especially after a full day’s worth of WALKING and battling with the crazy freezing whether. The black bowl is made out of the same material as our local black sizzling plate. So they fire it up. Make it as HOT as HELL. Then they pour the chicken ginseng soup and the already cooked stuffed spring chicken in, and SERVE. When you’re seated, they offer you 2 bundles of “sian mian” to add inside. ALSO a shot of GINSENG wine is given to you. So you either drink that down, or you add that into your black bowl of happiness. I hate the strong bitter taste of Ginseng so I poured mine in. Since I’m an alcoholic and everything, I poured 3 shots. And drank. Every. Last. Drop. Of. The. Damned. Soup. Tummy bursting with soup and chicken. Cheeks all rosy from the heat and alcohol. YUM.

Fact - Korean Ginseng is NOT heaty. So you can have it everyday and it will not cause your nose to bleed. Or so the tourguide says.

In the background you can see 2 sorts of kimchi. Both are picked white radishes. The one on the right is spicy. The one of the left was YUM. And the shot of ginseng wine is teasing us in the picture on the side.

Soupy mixed vege hot plate and there’s the HOT AS HELL black pot again! This time filled with a combination of rice, some vege, taugeh, seaweed and mata kerbau. When you sit down, the hot plate’s already there, boiling, and they serve the black pot to you. You’re supposed to IMMEDIATELY start stirring it up because otherwise the rice would burn till HANGUS ABU. MIX MIX MIX. STIR STIR STIR. DON’T LET IT BURN. EVAR. Contents in blackpot VERY bland tasting though. But the Soup in the hot plate was OH SO GOOD. I suspect MSG. My sister couldn’t stop till the very last drop. And wanted to go curi from the neighbours for more. Ooh! can you see the seaweed kimchi? Yum!

Last meal in Korea! UDON! With half an egg, some flaky fake meat stuff. YUM. I’ll NEVER forget how That FUCKING Bitch of a tour guide made us ALL wake up at 5am but that’s a story for another day. But, Slurp slurp SLURPPPPPP munch munch gobble GOBBLE SLURRRRRRrrrrrrrppppp. BURP. AH! Best breakfast EVER!

See those chopsticks and spoon? They use that in ALL the restaurants here. It’s NOT the rounded tip type, it’s the flat type. It’s HELL to use if you’re not one who hold the chopsticks the PROPER way and I’m one of THOSE people who DON’T hold the chopsticks the PROPER way. Sian.

So there! The more excitinggggggg Korean food stuff I had! Hope you had fun reading it as much as I had fun talking about it!

I’m hungry. LUNCH!