Food

Today is a foggy, damp, and dreary day.  While I love this weather I am afraid I have gotten used to the sun shining the majority of the time so I want it to come back! The good news is that my meal I had planned for tonight is perfect for this type of weather.  I made my spicy chicken and potato soup and it was absolutely delicious!

This recipe didn't come from Korea (or at least my variation of it), however, so I will talk about the different types of Korean food that I absolutely love.

One of my new found loves that I have discovered is seaweed.  I absolutely can not get enough of this stuff.  Whether it's in a soup, wrapped around rice, or just plain, I love it.  It's also low in calorie, naturally salty (so yummy), has an amazing amount of vitamins and other good things for you, and is all-around a great thing to consume.

My favorite are the ones cut into rectangular shapes.  I eat them like chips as they are so salty, crunchy, and delicious.  Whenever we are served seaweed soup at school I get super excited.  It is a good thing seaweed is so healthy as it would be a very bad thing otherwise.

Another favorite of mine would be mandu, or dumplings.  I like them boiled or fried (more like grilled--fried just sounds far more unhealthy than what it actually is) although I prefer the more crisp taste of it being grilled.

Fried Mandu

Boiled Mandu

The school lunches, for the most part, are always really good.  We have the serving of rice (of course), a soup (which if I don't like anything it will be the soup--you never know what will be floating in the bowl), kimchi, a meat of some sort (always good), and then a variation of different vegetable side dishes.  Apparently Wednesdays will probably always be my favorite lunch day as they try to have a kid-friendly menu on that day.  Last week we had corn dogs! We have also had pizza in the past and other delicious and not-so-healthy foods.  The other four days of the week are all relatively healthy (far healthier and tastier than the school lunches in the states, although I just can't imagine a single student eating these lunches there), so I am eating well.  It is very easy for me to find something that I like to eat.        

Another favorite of mine is the bacon cheeseburger and fries.  I mean, I can't be healthy all the time, right?  There is this amazing place semi-on the way home from the school.  For only 8500 won I can purchase the bacon cheeseburger, the fries, and the coke.  A little bit of heaven on a plate.  This thing is ridiculously delicious and even just writing about it is making me want one.  While this definitely isn't a Korean dish I feel as though it should be mentioned since it's so utterly amazing and I eat it a lot.  ;-) 

It pretty much looks like this minus the egg on the burger.

So there you have it.  These are just a few of the things I find myself eating a lot of. I will actually probably really miss Korean food when I leave.  For the most part it is always a very tasty and flavorful experience!