Samgyetang 삼계탕

     We chose Samgyetang (蔘鷄湯 삼계탕) as our dinner at the end of the day. The restaurant was located in Myongdong and specialized in serving Samgyetang. I had a reason to select the dish. I'd had it in Japan and wanted to confirm in Seoul whether it had been a real traditional one or not. I'd written about a Korean restaurant in my city. http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2008/06/korean-eating-h.html The result was, it was just like the dish that we had in Japan. I ate a silky fowl and Eri ate a plain old fowl. It was nice but inexpensive, I thought. When I talked about it to a friend who knows more about South Korea, however, he told me that it was the tourist price and it was usually lower in price. I was surprised to hear it and felt the influence of strong yen and weak won.
     The third picture is of Eri and the signboard of the restaurant. I took it for a memo of the restaurant's name. I was full with this dish, but Eri didn't seem satisfied enough and she bought a cake on the way to our hotel. Incredible! It might be, I thought, because of her youth. It was just a few days before White Day. I thought that White Day was the original event of Japan, but it was the same in South Korea. Eri looked like she was being pulled by the sign saying "White Day".

(Vocabulary)
at the end of the day  結局は､最終的には
silky fowl   烏骨鶏

Comments

[Sarah]

That cake looks delicious!!! It looks very similar to the small cakes sold at Japanese bakeries, though the icing form is unique. I had no idea that White Day was also celebrated in Korea. I, too, thought it was a Japanese holiday. America doesn't celebrate it. We only celebrate Valentines Day.

When we went to a restaurant in Seoul, we chose a grill restaurant, that served many kinds of clams and other seafood along with vegetables that you grilled yourself in the center of the table. It was fun, and because we were Americans, we had shouts and claps of approval when we did it correctly and managed to eat our food with the metal chopsticks without dropping it all over the place :)