Initially, I was a little grossed out when the food, a pile of raw chicken mixed with cabbage and other vegetables was placed on the hot plate right in front of me. I was eating out, celebrating the birthday of a fellow teacher, Kelly. But since I hadn't had any issue finding something that suited my vegetarian diet in my two years of living in Korea, I wasn't worried.
I inquired about what I could get from the menu at a popular Dakalbi place in Shin Jeju, Chun Ton Myun Tong Dakgalbi. And while the Korean women who were a part of the dinner party were busying themselves trying to find out what, if anything, was available for me to eat, I chatted with my friends.
All this time, the food was cooking at our table and it started to smell really good and every so often, a chef would come over and stir things up a bit. What was I going to do?
It took a while to sink in, There wasn't any thing on the menu that I could eat. My last meal was around 2 pm and it was now almost 9 pm and I was starved. Maybe it was the fact that I hadn't eaten anything in the last six hours. Maybe the fact that there wasn't anything on the menu that I could eat. Maybe it was the fact that it smelled so good.
But low and and behold, 'Meat Night' was born; a night when my vegetarian diet gets shuffled to side and I experience another side of Korean food, the meat.
Here's how it went down this past Saturday.
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| And so it starts |
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| Maybe ten minutes later |
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| It's smelling pretty good a this point |
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| Where's my chopstick?? |
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| The initial bite |
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| It was good, but very spicy |
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| Tried it wrapped it in some lettuce |
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| And stuffed it into my mouth |
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| All of it |
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| About an hour later |
Well, I'm back to my vegetarian diet... until the next meat night that is :) Are you vegetarian? How do you plan to survive in Korea?
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