Yes! That’s definitely it, though it wasn’t listed as such at the restaurant. Is is typically vegetarian?
Duk Bok Gi (or however you would spell it in English) is not always vegetarian but it can be easily. You can also try La bok gi, which is essentially the same thing, but with ramen noodles (cooked, not raw).
The Korean pancakes (I love it the way all these foods are described, by the way), are some sort of jeon (jun?). You can have pa-jeon (pa = green onions), haemul jeon (seafood jeon), kimchi jeon, etc, etc.
Soondooboo is just a type of tofu, so it can come in all sorts of forms. There are restaurants called soondooboo jib (jeeb, jeep, umm… it means house in Korean) that pretty much specialize in soondooboo.
With galbi, there’s traditional style, and also LA style (as in Los Angeles). LA is cut so that you get the ribs in a sort of chain like thing; traditional style is just one rib cut a bit thicker. If you order galbi at the restaurant (restaurant = sheekdang), you will get LA galbi. If you get a galbi ttang or other soup/stew with galbi, it will come in the thicker way.
Korean food is like Japanese food in that you must make it clear to the wait staff that by vegetarian you mean it contains no meat/fish/seafood as in monk food. Many vegetable dishes contain minute quantities of “fish” sauce that contains shrimp or other. Foods such as kimchee may or may not contain it!:eek:
Misleading choice of words on my part. The dishes came arranged in a triangle on the table, not stacked on top of one another. But that’s how I remembered there were 10 – only certain numbers of circles can be packed to form a triangle.
Not in Japan, or at least not in a fancy restaurant (kaiseki style). You’ll be given rice (or soba) at the end of the meal, which will consist of a million tiny dishes of astonishing variety, expertly choreographed. Perhaps tratitionally one might have said that about Japan, but now that that country is quite wealthy, things have changed. Would you say that a typical meal in Ireland had potatoes as the main dish?
The Korean restaurant you went to was probably pretty fancy, too. Maybe a Korean BBQ type place where you cook the meats at your table? We have several really good places like that around here, and they serve 10 or 15 kimchee dishes with the meal. Yum!
For lunch, you can’t go wrong with bibimbop. There’s also a beef stew dish (kind of midway between what we’d call a soup and a stew) that I can’t remember the name of. All this talk of Korean food, and I know where I’m headed tonight!!
Thanks for mentioning this to me because I still forget sometimes. After casually pointing out the waitress that she is vegatarian, I ask if the food my sister is ordering has any fish/seafood products as well.
If it is something AM-azing enough, she tends not to care if it has a little fish sauce or anything small and basically invisible.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Sadly enough we didn’t end up going because we got there too late for lunch (we are all on a budget so the dinner price was just too much for trying something we might end up hating) and there was nothing listed that my sister could eat. There was a 2 dollar appetizer and a lunch special that was vegetarian and nothing else. Sometime later this week with a bit more prep before hand, we will be trying it again. Apparently there are more than one korean restaurants to choose from as well.