To start, Leo started with hae mul pa jeon, an enormous double pancake made of rice, stuffed with scallions, and served with egg custard, five kim-chee and vegetable condiments, and a peppery dipping sauce. It was certainly big enough for a complete meal! And that was just Leo's appetizer! Meanwhile, I had a simple tossed green side salad, but it turned out to be huge and topped with lots and vegetables, accompanied by a big bowl of ginger-sesame-soy dressing.
Here's the pancake (the plate is oversized, by the way) with condiments and then in the next picture is the custard.
Ordering his usual Korean favorite, Leo got the dolsot bi bim bap. This is a classic, popular Korean dish that really is rather unusual. They take a big serving of rice in a big stoneware bowl and pile all kinds of chopped vegetables (but think more oriental vegetables) and stuff I don't know what is....I'm thinking maybe seaweed or some type of mushroom....on top, then they top it with a sunny-side up fried egg. It comes with a fiery hot pepper sauce.
I had a dish called man doo guk. It was very interesting. They made a bunch of demilunar beef dumplings they put in a beef broth along with some very thin slices of beef. There were a few cellophane noodles there as well, plus a lot of scallions and a little beaten egg drizzled in. The thing that made the soup so different, though, was the presence of seaweed in the broth. When I first tasted the soup, I was a little taken aback by the pronounced seafood flavor in a beef dish, but then I figured out it was because of the seaweed, and then I got used to it. They also brought me a little container of steamed white rice to go along with my soup.
After dinner, they brought us little cups of a cold ginger punch that was delicious and quite refreshing.
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