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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Big Korean Bowl of Noodles

Our Korean Tour guide for this segment of our Korean Trip is Shin Miae. We do not have to look for our own dinner, she will source for a place for us!!!

After a full day of touring, she is bringing us for dinner.
She brought us walking the streets looking for a suitable place and there are only 3 of us!
See, she is our personal tour guide!
This place is too packed, look, there is even a queue outside the restaurant!
So we take selfie while she scouts around again
The locals always look busy and they mind their own business.
See our guide in red? She walks very fast!...we linger around street corners taking photos!
Must take photo with the locals who walk very fast and try to give us the wide berth!
Finally she found a cute place!
This is the exterior of the restaurant and as usual, I cannot decipher the words....so I stand here to remember the place. 
We were presented with this huge plate of stewed chicken! Steaming, hot, aromatic, the pieces of chicken looked juicy simmering in the soya sauce packed with chili, ginger, carrots, spring onions, onions and zuchinni.

It was served with purplish rice, and no side dishes this time. except for pickled radishes.
Since she is our personal guide, she even eats with us!!

After eating the chicken pieces which are ample for 3 (you can see that there still so much chicken still) Miae told us that at the bottom there are see through flat noodles that are silently soaking up all the gravy and juices from the chicken!

The noodles are so long, a pair of scissors are provided for you to cut them!
Look at the transparent noodles...by itself it is bland but under all those chicken and gravy, it is now so yummy!

We continued eating the chicken, zuchinni and noodles.....but there was still a lot left!
So Miae "ta-pau"ed it for the driver!
Once again, the restaurant with the Big Bowl of chicken Noodles!

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Korea: Palace Hotel ane Backlane BBQ Dinner 20 October 2016

We stayed at Palace Hotel and walked out in search of dinner for the night.
 We found this place: aiyah, we can't read Korean and there isn't any English equivalent so here's the pic: the name of the eatery is on the menu.  We had the beef for W12,000 and squids for W2,000.
 and soup for W8000(just point at the picture lo)
 So, here's the squids, laid out on the wire rack to be barbecued...OUTSIDE the restaurant!
 
He's waving at me taking his photo,,,! and yes, he's on top of the drain with a mini bbq set and he's grilling our squids which gave off a heavenly aroma!
 closer look at how he is doing it and note the gigantic chimney-like smoke sucker!
 The wife gives us the beef which she will fix on our rota table top bbq (below)
 The coals are reduced to embers...
 Another helper fixes chimney (extensions) that goes up to the roof. while he watches, mouth agape!!! he is mighty impressed!
See, how cool is that?
 Now we can grill the beef (actually they are self rotating and we do not need to do any grilling)!
 and of course the side dishes!!
 The squids are done, our soup is here, and our meal is complete!

Grand meal right? Fluffy white rice, beef, sotong, soup and side dishes!
 So nice!!!
 A view of the tiny shop, the assistant is watching TV right behind us!!
 The friendly shopkeeper is walking down the back alley and telling us where to find fruits, and other stuff down the alley.  Guess, it is still very safe to walk around alleys and not afraid of getting mugged or your bag snatched, unlike back home.
 We stand in front of the shop with the name on it, so you can go try this wonderful place is you like!
 We are now back in the hotel in one piece.....we feel very carefree and safe and we just had the most satisfying dinner.
 Palace Hotel coffee shop
The lobby, well, it is now late at night.....See ya next post!  I promise to be on time!