Korean Food of the Day -Tak Galbi

  Stealing from my own Myspace blog today as I'm going to check out the latest episodes of Fringe, The finale of Supernatural oh and I'm going out in a moment to a playstation room, I'll start from scratch with the blogging just to fill people in with the whole story of my life in Korea soon. Think I need to go back to Gutho IT classes though as my computing skills suck, to be fair they didn't teach us much in the way of making websites, editing code so I'm doing my best!
Current mood:  sleepy

Yes today's Korean food of the day is Tak Galbi (I'm saving my favourite sam gyeop sal for tomorrow)

I think Tak galbi  could be a hit in Britain, I'm just not sure how folks would handle the shared pan as to a seperate dish all round, but hey you've gotta try something new sometime right!
The reason I say this is that Tak Galbi is a pretty spicy dish, and comes with the customary 1-4 pepper chart to increase the spice if you so wish, perfect for the lager louts on a friday night! (I can't imagine them wearing the aprons provided by the restaurants here though, it may save their clothes gettin stained, but doesn't do much for the male bravado)

It's actually quite sweet at the same time as spicy though which is why I don't mind it, We'll eat it most weeks in spite of the dodgy stomach which usually results from it (damn my blasted weak stomach/digestion to hell)

The place we usually frequent bring out the marianted chicken first. The marinade consists of (stolen from eatsomethinggood.com) brown sugar, soy sauce, garlic (minced), grated onion, chili powder and gochujang. (the same thing mentioned in the bibimbap article)

The waiter or waitress then chucks in some leeks, potato, mushroom (if Adrian is around for servic-eh) sometimes some noodles or dok (a kind of korean rice cake, although calling it cake is a little strange as its more like a chewy marshmellow than a cake)

They mix it all together in the pan until its cooked, and away we go, dig in everyone!

After munching away almost all of the pan (not literally) , you then have the option of having some rice thrown in, also if you like some mozzorala like cheese too, its all bloody lovely and highly recommended :-)

Again in Suwon where I'm residing the typical cost per person is around 7500 won so about 4 quid nowadays, not bad at all. You also recieve the usual salads as a sidedish, genyip (sesame leaf) and a kind of lettuce leave, plus usually some guk (soup) of somekind, so it should be more than enough for most stomachs as Adrian will attest to :-)