Gyeongbokgung Palace!

Here is a picture of Gyeongbokgung Palace! It is an interesting location in Seoul because I would have pictured it to be in the middle of a more rural area, but it is surrounded by the busy city life of Seoul. I have not had the chance to go inside yet though. We arrived too late and did not realize that you have to buy your ticket an hour before the palace closes. It was sad but we ended up having fun in Insadong with shopping and eating Poop bread. I will be going back soon though! Hopefully with my roommates!! :)

That is my friend Lauren from Central eating Poop bread in Insadong!! It is not really poop, so do not be alarmed!!!! :) It is bread that is filled with a red bean paste and the bread is in the shape of poop.

Bulgogi!

My next picture is of Bulgogi! There are a few different ways Bulgogi which is beef and there are a few different ways it can be served. The first picture is of Bulgogi Jjigae which is like a beef stew in a broth. It was pretty good! It was also served with rice and of course, what is a Korean dish without a little bit of Kimchi on the side!? Kimchi is served with every dish in Korea! The people here are very proud of there Kimchi!!

Bulgogi Jjigae:

Bulgogi:

Here is more Bulgogi (pictured above), but it is spicy Bulgogi. In the center of the dish is a pepper sauce to mix in with the beef and the vegetables on top! You can mix in a little bit or a lot depending on how spicy you like it! This dish is my favorite thing that I have eaten in Korea so far. Once it was all mixed up I took a piece of lettace and put some of that Bulgogi and vegetable mixture in the middle with some rice and rolled it up like a lettace wrap. It was so yummy!

Side dishes:

When you go to a restaurant in Korea you have a main dish and rice but you always get side dishes as well! These are all side dishes that were served with the Bulgogi! Bottom left was jellyfish, which was an awkward texture, above the jellyfish are vegetables, above the vegetables were vegetable pancakes, then there were anchovies to the right of the pancakes, underneath the anchovies, we had pickled radish, some type of  sauce, raw garlic, and then the famous Kimchi that is served with everything!

Korean Toast!

So everyone has been waiting to see some pictures of my adventures in Korea so I am going to start by posting some pictures of the many different types of food that I have been eating for the past week. So, here is my first food posting!

Korean Toast:

The above picture is of Korean toast! I went out to lunch with my roommates to the Issac for some toast! Now when they said we were going to get toast I thought of toasted bread with butter, because that is how I like to eat it in America! Korean toast is more like a sandwich with toasted bread. The toast that I ate was actually called Pizza Toast, which had pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni and pickles on it. It was so tasty! The pickles part might sound weird but Koreans always eat pickles with pizza and other foods that have a lot of cheese on it, because they eat cheese so infrequently that they actually have a harder time digesting it than Americans do since Americans eat cheese all of the time. It was an interesting fact to learn! So if you ever go to a pizza place in Korea, your pizza will most likely be served with a side of pickles, but if you do not like them you do not have to eat them!