Posts tagged Korean food

Korean-Style Steak

1 month 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.

New Rice

Hattiesburg Korean barbeque Korean food Lil' Butcher Shop samgyupsal. 삼겹살

Korean Trip Photos

4 months ago

by JR in Travel

Since I have pretty much caught up with my studies for the weekend, I thought that I would try to finish finish posting photos from our Korean trip, but I still have about a hundred photos to convert to JPEGs. Here are a few that I got processed:

We spent the night we our friends Joanne and Troy and got to meet Paxton for the first time. When we left Korean, Joanne had just announced she was pregnant so we were excited about meeting the little one.

Go Eagles To The Top

JJ and Paxton

Man...Do I miss real Korean food.

We also met up with Adam. I hired Adam to work at his first hagwon in Dongtan. He singed on with another school last year but found the time to hang out with us in Seoul.

Met up with our good friend Adam.

Samgyupsal

Our nephew Jin Sol

Song and JJ worked at the same Math hagwon for a few years. We went up to Incheon to hang out with him for a night. Another great night of drinking, eating, and sharing stories.

We also met our good friend Song-Sam for tuna sushi

I could eat this everyday.

Ox Neck Soup 해장국

Galbi Korean food 해장국

A Day Out in Jeju-shi

6 months ago

by JR in Korea and Culture, Travel

JJ, her sister, and myself took off one day to do some shopping and visit a Chinese restaurant. I love being in Korea, but really love the atmosphere in Jeju. The people are not the friendliest, but there is something about being surrounded by tourists on vacation that gives the place an easy going feeling which is vastly different from other areas of Korea, especially Seoul.