OP, fusion is great, but you really need to go to a straight up Korean BBQ. Spicy pork, bulgolgi. Etc
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So I Discovered Korean BBQ
- Thread starter Culex
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The fact that you used the word "discovered" . . .
As you "columbused" Korean food when it was actualy Vietnamese. (Or at least it probably was Vietnamese with some KBBQ options.)
Edit: To clarify, I am indeed kinda breaking your balls, OP. :P
I don't appreciate when people say they "discovered" something, because that implies that it hasn't been previously found, which is false. I'm clearly being picky.
I usually say, "I just experienced/tried/tasted . . . for the first time." Especially, since discovery has that Columbus conotaton that I avoid.
As you "columbused" Korean food when it was actualy Vietnamese. (Or at least it probably was Vietnamese with some KBBQ options.)
Edit: To clarify, I am indeed kinda breaking your balls, OP. :P
I don't appreciate when people say they "discovered" something, because that implies that it hasn't been previously found, which is false. I'm clearly being picky.
I usually say, "I just experienced/tried/tasted . . . for the first time." Especially, since discovery has that Columbus conotaton that I avoid.
How does it compare to Chosun Galbee?
maybe It's a regional thing? I've eaten at 15-20 different Korean restaurants in the seattle area and there has never been any pho.
Ok but OP enjoyed Pho, and not Korean BBQ.
Pho is a Vietnamese dish:
Here is a vid of Korean BBQ:
If you want Vietnamese, get
- Summer Rolls or Spring Rolls
- Rice Vermicelli with Pork or whatever meat they have. Shrimp is good too@
- Pork Chop with Rice
If you want Korean, try- Bibimbap (mixed ricebowl goodness, google it)
- For BBQ get Pork Belly or Bulgogi, or if you wanna get fancy good restaurants have prime rib
- Kimchi Chigae (their soup)
- Korean food is known to serve side dishes (Banchan) that comes in every meal so expect that when you order
- KOREAN FRIED CHICKEN (brands like Pelicana, Bonchon or BBQ chicken are the best) and make sure to eat this with beer.. preview:
This is just a start there are so many more foods like Korean Corndogs, mandoo, Kimbap etcENJOY!!!!!!!
Midwesteners do eat fish. More fresh water, though, so you're looking at cat fish, trout, walleye, perch, etc.
Not eating fish until your late 20's would make you an outlier anywhere in the Midwest. I was born and raised there, and fish was a regular mainstay. If you bought lunch at grade school instead of bringing it, fish was more common than pizza.
You're not talking to people who grew up in the Midwest then. That convo sounds like someone who is a transplant, and is making a lot of assumptions.
I'll keep this short as I can, since it's not the topic of the thread (if you're curious about anything I say, feel free to start a thread about Midwestern stereotypes, or just shoot over a PM).
Fish is a common dish in the Midwest. What's not common are good sushi restaurants. They exist, but they're not as solid as what you'll find on the West Coast. Part of that may be cost (average income in the Midwest is a LOT lower), and part of that may just be cultural. But cooked fish? TAKE YOUR PICK. :)
Trout, salmon, bass, catfish, walleye, etc. (and versions of each) are easily found in both restaurants and stores. If you order fish, you're usually ordering a specific kind of fish. And you can cook it up however you like. Filleted, fried, fish sticks, chopped up in soup, sandwich, seared, salad, breaded, grilled, smoked, steamed, tacos, etc.
You also have a number of ethnic groups with fish as part of their traditional dishes, (not to mention the large Catholic population) and you're overlooking the fact that fishing is both sport and recreational in the Midwest. Because travel can be expensive, it isn't uncommon for family vacations (or weekend trips) to include camping on a river or staying in a cabin by a lake. As you noted, there are a LOT of lakes, rivers, streams, etc. in the Midwest (not the least of which are the Great Lakes). Getting a fishing rod and tackle box as a kid is a common thing, as is learning how to fish and gut/fillet a fish. If you caught more than you could eat, you'd just put them on ice and bring them home.
If you still don't believe me, feel free to google "Midwest fish fry" for an example of what's considered a traditional Midwestern comfort food dish. There's plenty more where that came from.
I will admit, as someone who grew up in the Midwest, I didn't try sushi until after I had moved out to the West Coast. Not because I thought it was "foreign", but because I naively thought it had to be a scam. From my (at the time limited) PoV, sushi was just fish that had been chopped up. They didn't even bother to cook it, and were charging a premium! ;)
Needless to say, I was schooled (by a very kind sushi chef in SF) and shown the error of my ways.
I don't really know. If that's a K-town place, probably comparable.
Also, here's my home hot pot tonight.
Base is turkey stock, thanks to Thanksgiving.
When my friends visited from FL I took them to Oo-Kook. It was life changing for them lol. They constantly reminiscence over it and are desperate to come back just to try it again.
I'm in the UK. I live in a rural area. Korean food is not a thing here. I cook a lot of SE Asian, Japanese and Chinese food. Never Korean. During lockdown, I discovered bibimbap. I cook it every week now. It is truly delicious, the best comfort food ever. I also love that my five a day is one bowl. Gochujang was a real revelation. I slap the stuff on everything now.
I'm craving this so badly now and it hurts that it'll be... a long time before I can have it again, given enough of my friends are vegetarian that the next chance would probably be with family over the holidays, in a literal year.
I wonder if there's at least a Korean restaurant near me I can order lunch from...
I wonder if there's at least a Korean restaurant near me I can order lunch from...