Korean Cuisine - Ssambap

On Tuesday I was lucky enough to try 'ssambap'(쌈밥) for lunch with my salsa teacher. 'Ssambap' is this...




You get a selection of vegetables that are used to wrap the meat etc into a parcel. You can use lettuce, bokchoi, cabbage and gyenip (a heart-shaped furry leaf, serrated edges) to make the parcel. Inside you can add any combination of ingredients as long as you put in some of the meat, which is quickly marinated before being cooked.

There are many types of sauces that come with the meal. My favourite is probably toenjang, a type of salty soybean sauce. Also, it's slang for someone that puts on airs. Example, someone that eats really cheap instant noodles for dinner but makes a show of spending money at expensive cafes, buying one expensive brand name item, etc.

After lunch, we grabbed a coffee from what I thought was Starbucks. I was wrong.





Apparently, this is a small chain in Korea. There is also a place called "Stardaks" which sells chicken. 'Dak' is Korean for chicken. SO, my mission is to find where this place is and try their chicken. Maybe it's Seattle-style...