Below is a picture of a pretty standard traditional Korean barbecue meal. The big silver circle in the middle is a grill pit in the table with hot charcoals underneath. Strips of raw meat (in this case pork) are placed on it. We are then responsible to cook and cut it up (with scissors!). The other dishes scattered around the table are various side dishes and sauces that all come as part of the meal. They vary from restaurant to restaurant and season to season but are almost always delicious. We can always count on some type of kimchi (vegetables fermented with spicy red pepper paste) being served and some type of tofu or seaweed soup. Both are pictured below, the kimichi is the red stuff in the white dish on the upper right hand side and the black pot in the bottom left hand corner has some spicy tofu soup.
I'm pretty sure that working as a dish washer here has a lot of job security, don't you think? :) Although with all the dishes on the table it's ironic that there are no actual plates belong to each individual person, everyone just eats straight from the serving dishes. And if you are not that great with your chopsticks (like myself) you sometimes end up accidentally dropping your selection in another dish while it is en route to your mouth. :)
*A common way to eat the cooked meat is to wrap it up ,along with some rice and sauce, in a lettuce leaf and then pop the whole thing on your mouth. Soooooooo good! Hubs is demonstrating the proper roll up technique below. :)
Its would be way more fun to show you the food in person rather than in pictures though, so come visit and the Korean barbecue is on us! :)
* Editors Note: I can't believe that I overlooked this perfect opportunity to pass on the nickname that Americans (and other English speaking foreigners here) refer to this type of meal as: beef and leaf! Ha, doesn't that make you giggle!?
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