Its all about the food

I know why you are reading this blog. It’s because you want me to tell you about Korean food. And now that you have been patient and read through some stuff about my life here I will oblige you. Let’s talk about ordering food. It is dirt cheap people. Dirt cheap. They bring the food to you in regular restaurant plates and bowls and when you’re done you leave them outside your door and they come and take them away. So I have ordered bibimbap, which is rice with cut up veggies, sometimes ground pork, and an egg on top of it. You add sesame oil and chili paste to it and mix it all together to make an insanely delicious fried-rice-on-crack type deal. Then there is kimbap. Which is essentially Korean sushi. Like sushi you can order it based off of what the main meat or veggie inside is. Unlike sushi it has a bunch of other stuff that gets rolled into it. It costs like 2.50 a roll. And we are talking like 12 pieces in a roll. Two is a large meal. And now I will tell you about the market. It goes for about four blocks and has a whole lot of delicious food. Amanda introduced us to the butcher and produce people there that she likes. The veggies are all from small farms in the area and they are absolutely amazing. And dirt cheap. We bought eggplants, peppers, onions, garlic, and peaches. When we asked from the eggplants she told us the price for a kilo and we thought it was the price for one. A kilo was 3 won. We had 9 eggplants. I kid you not. And the garlic was 5 won a kilo. We have probably fifty cloves of garlic. Not kidding. We are excited to go back and get all sorts of things, crab, fish, beef, veggies, Korean pears. Its all pretty awesome. Ciao for now, and I will inform the interwebs when we have a connection at home.