Comments on: Roly poly fish heads eat them up yum

By: Bird

Bird — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:55:27 +0000

I fell in love with red-bean filled rice cakes (soft things, not what we call a rice cake here). As someone who can’t eat wheat, Korean food was a delight. And yes, candied lotus root, kimchee, the ubiquitous spicy seafood miso soup, Korean pickled radish, barbeque where they come around and snip the long slices of meat with scissorsâ€”so much of my Korean experience was about food.

I’ll also never forget picking oranges at Yakchun temple (on Jeju) and eating them right there. Being from the Canadian prairies, I’ve never experienced anything like that before. The smell of citrus trees will forever linger with me. Fruit that fresh is like a miracle.

By: roxannelamorte

roxannelamorte — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:07:31 +0000

Dear Twisty,

I feel deeply in awe of your vocabularic prowess. Dictionary.com did not have a definition for “pisculent,” but I managed to determine that it means “abounding in fish.” I love this word. I think I might start to suggest that people read your site before taking standardized tests, so that they may improve their verbal scores.

Sincerely,

Rox

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:13:01 +0000

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpN9ce_qF0

in the evening, floating in the soup.

By: Otter

Otter — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:50:58 +0000

I believe the term is “omakase”
I had the opportunity to go to Japan last fall and loved the food… had some really amazing meals, and I wish I could find someplace here to have a meal like that.

jealous.
but glad you got to experience it…

By: Patti

Patti — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:45:05 +0000

Bird - I lived in Korea a while, many many years ago. I’d forgotten about soju - yeeks! I had friends in the Peace Corps that I used to go out with, to the really cheap places, where the soju was in big washtubs and they dipped it out with gourds. I still love kimchee and black beans and yakimandu and that candied lotus root stuff. I could never bring myself to try the silkworms sold as street food.

Antoinette, thank you.

By: Bird

Bird — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:38:24 +0000

mali, I must add that my partner preferred to shoot his soju with a chaser of Chilsun Cider (a soft drink that tastes like a cross between Sprite and ginger ale). He managed to get a number of other people in our group drinking it the same way, much to the amusement of our Korean hosts. But he’s not the sort to get hung up on social pretenses.

As for fish, Korean kimchi-wrapped baked mackerel was quite the hit with our bunch. However, I found the candied minnows we were served on Jeju Island to be a bit odd.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:30:13 +0000

KTMberry, they do have a bar, but you’re right, you can’t get a Mai Tai there. It’s mostly sake. Which Stingray had, but, as I am an eccentric old bat, I kept to the grape.

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:10:34 +0000

Eat ‘em up. Yum.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:53:11 +0000

Sorry, Patti, I knew I was being a jackass even as I hit the “Blame” button. But for the record, my sister is 63, and I’m on the dark side of 47, so we ain’t exactly young ‘uns either.

By: KMTberry

KMTberry — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:58:27 +0000

And they don’t even serve spirits!! I mean, the crowd there is so CLEARLY a bar-hoppin’ cocktail drinkin’ crowd, all young and hot and in the IN CROWD or sumpthin, and there IS no bar. It made me think that maybe it is a DATE place, you know, the best restaurant in town so she’ll be impressed(?)

I have heard that you can go for the tasting menu the SECOND they open , and it is much much much more subdued. I think they open at 5, but it could be 6.

The CHef IS A G*E*N*I*U*S. IT’s true.