Posts tagged Hattiesburg

Korean-Style Steak

3 weeks ago

by JR in Food, Korea and Culture

Our schedules are very different this semester, but we have made the promise that we are going to try have home-cooked dinners together as much as possible. We started this week by cooking steak on our portable grill. I broke out some leftover soju, and we had a nice impromptu Korean meal.

Our favorite restaurant in Korea serves a side dish that consists of raw onions with a dark sauce poured over them. I would go to that particular restaurant just to eat the onions, and hate that I didn’t ask them how to make the sauce. We have been struggling to replicate this sauce ever since we got back to America. The main ingredient has to be soy sauce, but it also contains wasabi and other spices/oils. You can see our attempt in the photograph in the bottom left corner above, and although our attempt was not terrible, there was something missing, but I just don’t know what it was. Thankfully, everything else turned out great.

Samgyupsal 삼겹살

1 month ago

by JR in Food, Korea and Culture

I visited the Lil’ Butcher Shop in Hattiesburg to see if they could cut some pork for us so that we could make samgyupsal. We usually buy our meat at the Asian market in town, but the samgyupsal that they stock is frozen and extremely thin. JJ and I both prefer a thicker cut, so I went to see the butcher to see if he could help. I really didn’t give him a good explanation of the thickness that I needed, and he gave us slices of pork belly that were too thick to cook Korean style. With a little cutting and trimming at home, we had the perfect pieces of pork to cook on our grill. The outer skin of the pork was left on and although it was chewy, it was quite tasty. I bought 4 pounds and paid less than half of what the Asian market charges. We will be going back to the Lil’ Butcher Shop, and I will be sure to check the cut a little bit better before leaving.

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Hattiesburg Walmart – Korean Food

11 months ago

by JR in Mississippi Life

Who Knew?

We have found this ramyeon at the Asian market in Hattiesburg, but have never seen it carried at Walmart. Does Walmart have a new Korean employee? Maybe someone requested it. There was only half a box left when we spotted it, and we took care of most of that. Our cashier even questioned us about it. She must have been a huge ramyeon fan and wanted to try it. I am going to have to start requesting them to carry other Korean items.

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Korean Party

1 year ago

by JR in Korea and Culture, Mississippi Life

Not unlike the majority of my time in Korea, I was the only non-Korean the other night at the party that my wife and I hosted. She and I had both been wanting to host some our Korean friends for dinner and drinks. The Korean community in Hattiesburg is fairly small, and most Koreans in the area attend the same church. JJ and I have made friends with most of them through our one visit to the church or through school. It was nice to see everyone, but once again I was reminded of how much my Korean language skills have diminished. I had trouble following the main idea of the conversations and was quite discouraged even though I have made some progress in the last couple of weeks.

It was a great chance to hang out with folks who I really didn’t get to see during the semester. We were all so busy with school that besides seeing them on campus we really didn’t get a chance to meet. JJ and I do not attend the Korean church so we don’t have as much contact as others in the group. JJ made kimbap, and I cooked my world famous baked buffalo wings. Our guests stayed late, and JJ and Jinju ended up cooking kimchi jjigae at around 2AM.

I am always amazed when I think that all of these grad students are attending classes, taking exams, and writing papers/dissertations in a second language. This really inspires me to continue with my Korean studies. Maybe one day in the future I would be able to take classes at a Korean university in Korean. Anyways, we had a great time, and it is a shame that it will probably not be until the end of the semester that we will all get together again.