Tag: lunch

  • Marinated Crab Lunch

    Marinated Crab Lunch

    Here we go again with the marinated crab.

    This was a restaurant that specialized in SundaeGuk 순대국­, and I was going to order it. Then I saw on a handwritten sign “Marinated Crab Lunch” (Kei-jang Jeong Shik 게장 한정식).

    Had to try that. I know my mom would die over it.

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    We started off with the side dishes and a bowl with nothing in it but some dried seaweed, chopped green onions, sesame seeds, and a raw egg yolk.

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    Then the crab came out. Soy Sauce Marinated Crab this time with a special device for picking out the meat.

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    I was also given some rice to put in the big bowl to be mixed with the egg yolk and whatever crab meat I could dig out.

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    Freakin’ amazing! You’ve never tasted anything like this. Salty, strong sea taste with the seaweed, and very strong umami flavor with the crab meat and egg yolk.

  • Korean Lunch Adventures: Raw Marinated Crab

    Korean Lunch Adventures: Raw Marinated Crab

    That “I” in the title stands for “1.” Roman numerals are dandy.

    Whenever I have a good meal, I tend to take pictures of it. Yet many meals are just general Korean “Han Jeong Shik” 한성식, which is code for “Whatever we have today,” or “Lunch du Jour.”

    So I’ll just recap some lunches. This one I had last week in Suwon, near the Gyeonggi Province Courthouse (read ZenKimchi Adventures for the details).

    Despite being in an area full of wealthy lawyers, the restaurants there are dour, depressing, and downright stinky. Yet we gave the place one last shot and went to a basement restaurant that surprised us. For one thing, the thing they had on the menu that made me decide to go there was off for the day. So we both went for the basic Jeong Shik. Here’s what we got:

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    Of course some rice, a good Doenjang Jjigae, little veggie panchan, including some fried squash.

    Some good salty grilled fish.

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    And some Ganjang KeiJang (간장 게장), raw crabs marinated in a soy sauce base. These were to die for. I know my mom would love these.

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    After sucking as much as we could from the shells, we stuffed them with rice.

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    Then we stirred and scooped out the new crab infused rice.

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