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Outside of the restaurant with the moon in the upper right hand corner. Tonight I went out with Jeong Woo and his High School English teacher (Mr. Kim) to a restaurant that specializes in pork. That's one of the interesting things about Korea. The majority of the restaurants here don't have lots of variety. They pick one main thing and that's what the serve. This place served pork...3 second pork to be more exact. That means they take the pork slices and place them on what I would call a skillet on a metal pole and slide it into an "extremely" hot stone oven and hold it there for 3 seconds! Then it comes to your table and you continue to cook it to your preference on the burner that is the middle of your table. We had a few choices...normal slices (that look like thick bacon with bones), spicy slices, and nice tender lean cuts that turned out to be the neck area of the pig. Tasted great but sounds not so great. Speaking of not so great, I've found two dishes I'm not so fond of so far. One was what I can only describe as kim chi iced radish soup. See why that one is not so good? The other one is silkworms. They were served as one of the numerous side dishes and and, of course, I had to try it just so I could say I did. It tasted quite strong and abrupt and the insides were crunchy. It just didn't sit so right with me so I'll put that on my list of things to not do again. What I learned today about Korea: 1) I ate a silkworm and I didn't like it.
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