Chuseok Adventures!

Last week was a Korean Holiday known as "Chuseok" (pronounced as "chew sock" with a extra hard "K" sound at the end).  I have heard it described as the Korean Thanksgiving or just a time to enjoy the Autumn Harvest and honor their family.  It is a BIG deal here (probably their second largest holiday of the year, with New Years being the first) and results in VERY congested roads as most people travel to their childhood home or to where their oldest living relatives live.


In honor of the holiday Mark and I decided to attempt to cook an authentic Korean meal at home.  We had beef bulgogi (a common dish here, basically just thinly sliced, Asian marinated, grilled beef), rice, radish kimchi (kimchi is a Korean staple. .served at pretty much EVERY Korean meal including breakfast and consists of various spicy, fermented vegetables.  So far we have tried, cabbage, cucumber, and radish kimchi with radish being our favorite.), and pork and vegetable dumplings.


Here is a pictures of our feast!

The bulgogli is on the back left, dipping sauce in the middle, rice on the back right, kimchi on the front left, and dumplings on the front right.  Now don't be too impressed because we did buy the kimchi and the dumplings already made.  Maybe next year we will try to make it all ourselves.  Anyway, the meal was DELICIOUS. We really have loved all the Korean style food we have had so far and this was no exception.  So yummy!


However when it was time to eat we discovered that we didn't have chopsticks anywhere in the house!!  So much for our "authentic" meal.  Hubs tried his hands at substituting forks for chopsticks, but it just wasn't the same.

Don't worry, in an attempt to avoid this ridiculousness in the future, chopsticks are now on my shopping list.