The first pic is of the traditional soup eaten on hot days: ginseng chicken soup, 삼계탕, samgye-tang
The next picture is of a very commonly eaten snack called, 순대, sundae. It is rice noodles in a sausage of pig intestine maybe and the noodles are soaked or cooked in pig blood! It's complimented with either liver or lung. In this picture you see lung. Surprising at first but, overall really tasty.
Then there is me eating samgyetang.
And then there is a familiar looking dish which is basically just tempura. I'm not sure the Korean name but I'm thinking it's definitely not tempura. Ahaha. However, there is definitely not your average deep fried foods either. They batter and fry dumplings, pumpkin, squid, octopus, and other allotted oddities. Either way, another tasty snack.
The next picture is of steamed or simmered fish cake, folded in an accordion fashion and speared onto a very long skewer. It's usually served with some sort of boiling broth. No really my cup of tea, but folks love this stuff.
The red noodle looking dish is pronounced Dok Boki 떡볶이. It is rice cake stir fried in a spicy red chili sauce. Addicting! Similar to how hot Cheetos are addicting to some!
The last picture just shows a common spread of all the snacks served together. You sit at your table with your friends and everyone digs in. Family style everyday, even during a casual snack nom-session.
Hope you enjoyed a tour in common snacks and traditional dishes. I will add more as the seasons, and thus, menu and diet changes.
Here's lookin' at you, Korea!!
