Wandering Browns

I used to be a very picky eater. Austin has helped me to get over many of my aversions to yogurt and peppers and tomatoes. Korean food has given me many opportunities to try new things. We live in a hotel so we go out to eat at least one meal a day, so we have had everything from McDonald's and Jamba Juice to traditional meals. Here are some of my favorites: Learn more from Wikipedia! - BBQ meat: One of the more popular food options here involves picking different cuts of meat  (some marinated, some not) off the menu and cooking it over hot coals that are put in the middle of the table.The important utensils here are tongs and scissors- to make the meat chopstick friendly and to make it cook faster they cut the meat with scissors into smaller pieces. With the meat, there comes a delightful parade of side dishes- some to cook over the coals and some to be eaten raw. We have had different shredded vegetable salads- usually with shredded green onions and other things with a se...

Our last night on Jeju I had a hankering for cooked fish. The boardwalk and harbor were very close to our guesthouse, so we wandered over that way to find some broiled/grilled/otherwise cooked fish. We only had pictures to go on as most of the restaurant owners did not speak English. We found one that looked like it had cooked fish and ended up having a delicious dinner. We got a fish that they sliced in half, rubbed some salt and other spices in the middle, and then broiled it. The skin on the outside was wonderful and crispy and the fish itself tasted great. There were also some interesting sides that we tried and enjoyed. They had the customary kimchi, but also an edible seaweed kimchi that was really tasty. Along with that there were these sheets of fresh seaweed that you could dip in a spicy sauce, and a soy sauce mixture that we dipped the fish in. We ordered rice for Landon and the ladies at the restaurant chided us for giving him balls of rice because it was so sticky and mess...