Fantastical Fun Filled Food Frenzy

This past weekend was, as you can tell by the title, fun and focused on food. It may seems like the only thing I do but I promise I do things in between eating. The weekend started off Friday night at a restaurant thinking we were going to eat chicken from the picture they had out front, but in Korea that is a bad way of ordering food if you are a picky eater as it very well possibly be something else. After taking a seat and ordering to different varieties of "chicken" I slowly started to realize that we probably didnt order chicken and when the food came out my thought was confirmed. We had gone to a restaurant that serves intestines. It was actually on my list of things to eat here so it wasnt a big deal. It was tasty and flavorful as it was cooked in a sauce with other vegetables stir fry style. The consistency was chewy, one of the dishes more than the other which gets old after a while and makes it something you can eat a lot of as you get sick and tired of having to chew so much.

During the day Saturday I wandered around Insadong, a part of Seoul known to be slightly touristy selling all kinds of trinkets but full of art galleries, tea rooms, and food. We spent a couple of hours strolling down the street looking at all the trinkets and stopping to eat at just about every street vendor to try what they were selling.



We had chicken on a stick, balls of dough filled with red bean paste (Chalboribbang), Some other ball of dough filled with cabbage and some sort of seafood paste, bread dumplings filled with bulgogi and ones filled with sweet potato and walnuts, and the most interesting: Kkul Tarae or dragon's beard candy. It is 16,384 very thin strands of honey coated in corn starch and wrapped over 7 kinds of nut: peanut, walnut, almonds, pine nuts and some others I didnt pick up on.

I filmed it vertically so you will have to tilt your head since I am not going to take the time to flip the video.



After eating and stumbling upon a frozen park we decided to hit up a tea room to warm up from the cold.



On Saturday night we ended up in an actual chicken restaurant which was supposed to have very spicy chicken. Everyone always talks about how spicy the food is here but I think my tolerance is way above average and so I have yet to have anything truly spicy. Well I had heard about fire chicken which was supposed to be spicy and they had it on the menu so we ordered a plate. Surprise again, it was chicken this time but it ended up being chicken feet, another thing I intended on trying but was not expecting. It also tasted good but was a bit chewy as well. It was more spicy than most things but yet again it fell short on the spice o'meter.