My favourite Korean food - Sam Gyup Sal

I have finally found some Korean food that I LOVE! We went out for dinner with our friends Corey and Paul this week, bumped into another EPIK teacher called Ben from South Afria and we all headed downtown for some tasty Sam Gyup Sal. We found a great little restaurant just off 5th St (the main pedestrian area) and set about cooking our dinner.

Sam gyup sal = three stripe bacon

Tasty little blighters cooking away.

So, sam gyup sal is basically really thick rashers of streaky bacon - you sit around a round table and in the middle is some form of cooking plate (this one has a flat plate but some are griddles over a bucket of hot coals). You get your bacon along with various other veggies including lettuce leaves, spicy green onions, garlic cloves, chillis, bean sprouts and anything else they feel like serving. Oh, and of course, kimchi. You cook your bacon and as it cooks you cut it in thin little slices across the grain leaving bite size pieces of delicious meat! Then you take a lettuce leaf in the plam of your hand, put some bacon in (dipped in spicy red sauce if you like), put in some onions, garlic and chilli, fold it all together and then stuff it in your mouth. Amazing.

Happy campers munching away with all our dishes

And its really cheap, costing only about 5,000 Won per person (£2.50). You get served mineral water for free or beers which are about £1.50 for a big bottle. Can you see why I like it?

Empty dishes = great meal!