I never learn -- Korean Food Edition

[xraytheenforcer]

Went to the wonderful Woorijip (Korean cafeteria/grovery with tasty food) for my lunch today. I was going to get broiled eel (unagi) over rice, but then fell prey to the pancake sampler.

Well, in addition to the standard scallion pancake, there was half a fried fish in that sampler (yum), plus a filet of salt-cod (also yum), and then two pancake egg things with Pink Foam meat on them? Imagine the inside of your foam mattress -- that is the texture of these meaty matchsticks. I can't say I'm really crazy about them. I think it's the spongy texture that's gettin' to me.

Still, they HAVE to be better than moth larvae.

Comments

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but "better than moth larvae" isn't saying much. It's like being kinder than the Lannisters, lol.

And why is the meat like foam anyway? Sounds waaaaayyy overprocessed and therefore suspect. *gives strange mattress meat the side-eye*

I'll stick to the fish and pancakes, tyvm.

[eefster.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be lung, would it?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm don't think so. It's more in the vein of "highly processed meat product" like "fish cake" or whatnot.

[eefster.livejournal.com]

Okay.

(I'm still trying to work out whether it's better that way or not. Lung might be offal, but at least you know what it is.)

[meh-of-munich.livejournal.com]

Spam and hotdogs are very popular ingredients, apparently due to american army presence in the 50s. Might it have been one of those?

I could go for some spicy rice cakes right about now.

[rudbekia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to suggest Spam. One of the Korean workstudies in the library said that is very authentic Korean home cooking.

When we lived in Baltimore we had some great Korean restaurants. Good food, lots of it (mmmmm, panchan... ), and open all the time.

[fenryng.livejournal.com]

I would have though moth larvae would do it, but, no, you continue to frighten me with culinary concoctions.

The word "pancake" and anything you listed are not supposed to go together. Not, not, not.