Seoul Part 2

So continuing on our 9 hour food tour...

The next stop was for some Korean Fried Chicken (way better than KFC).  I only got a picture of the lady making the chicken as it disappeared before I could think about getting the camera out.  Imagine the tastiest chicken nuggets you have ever had in a sweet spicy sauce.

 Next up was some knife cut noodle soup and dumplings.  The soup was amazing.  They had all of these little spicy condiments on the side that you could add and change the flavor that made each bite different.

With the dumplings in the frame.

 Luckily between each of these meals we got to walk some to burn off some of the calories and to make room for the next meal.  This gave us the opportunity to see some amazing streets.

 Stop number 4 was a small coffee shop to take a brief break from eating.

 The coffee shop was inside a traditional Korean house (which is tiny) so it was cool to see the old style architecture.

 Stop number 5 was at this little shop for a Korean donut.  The inside was filled with honey, nuts, and awesome sauce.  I was joking about that last ingredient, but it was really good.

 Stop number 6 was for some red beans and ice cream.  Yup....red beans and ice cream.  Their version of ice cream is finely sliced ice (think like a snow cone, but smoother) covered in sweetened milk.  Then you add these red beans on top of it.  I can't say it was awesome, but it wasn't bad.

 Stop number 7 was a dive bar that like a lot of dive bars serves amazing food.  Instead of beer, we drank Makgeolli, which is a type of Rice wine. It was cloudy and smooth with a slight citrus taste.  Imagine the color of Smirnoff Ice without the awful taste.  It was served with a seafood pancake that was a perfect complement to the beverage.

 This was the location of the dive bar....behind those green plastic covers and through a kitchen.  Good luck finding it...

 From there we went through a fresh market and a meat market to pick out the meat for stop number 8.

 Stop number 8 was a traditional Korean BBQ.  You can see the meat that we are about to cook.  It was incredibly marbled and tasty.

A raw beef dish with a egg yolk and asian pears.  It was delicious.

 But not as much as the steak that was fried up on the grill.  Just a few seconds on each side and you had a tasty little steak to roll up in some lettuce with some spicy sauces and chow down.

 This was our guide, Daniel Gray for the trip with our dessert.  The tour was amazing and I do not think I have ever eaten so much in one day (but loved every bite).  I really wish I had not been working out before the trip so that I could have expanded my stomach muscles more and fit a few more bites in.