out of Korea

After more than 2 years, we just left Korea last Saturday. Leaving was a little bit with mixed feelings as we left friends over there. But overall we were happy to leave. We will be facing some new experiences and challenges as we are about to move to Dallas Texas…

I still need to post the stories from our departure from Korea (so many). I will have to complete that on another time.

In the meantime, we start gathering many stories on the move to Dallas. We will be flying to Israel for about 4 weeks before we move out to Dallas, so enough time to see family and friends.

 

More to come soon… J

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My favourite chicken (Dak) restaurant in Korea

I like chicken. That is an indisputable fact. One of my favorite korean dishes is called Dakgabi. It is in fact a marinated pieces of chicken breast meat that are put on a low and wide frying pan. Usually comes with cabbage, onion and a few pieces of potato. You can add Ramyon (noodles), dogbaegi (small pieces of rice cakes), mushroom, etc. All is goes very good. Dakgabli is known to originate from ChunCheon town, therefore most Koreans will recommend you to go there and try the original receipes.
However, there is also a chain of restaurants called Chun Cheon Dagkalbi. There is one near Gangnam station that is open till very late.

Here's a picture of a common Dakgalbi dish:



Anyway, this is only one way to eat your chicken in Seoul. Another place we loved to go to is a grilled stuffed chicken. It is one of the best chickens I have ever had. They are using wood to fire the grill and the taste is so good, I can not stop eating.
They also have a Yang Nyom version which is extremely spicey - yammy :)

Here are the pictures of some good chicken places in Korea: (out of many!):
Grilled stuffed chicken - in Hannam Dong not far from Hannam station. The best!


Chun Cheon Dakgalbi restaurant - one in a chain. This specific one is found in Gumi not far from Samsung mobile factory and the Outback restaurant:


Oz.

Korenglish gems - continued ...

For those who started reading about Korenglish just now, you'd better start from the first post on the subject right here.

Here are a couple of more pictures I took here and there while hanging out in Seoul.

The first one was taken in the Lotte Mart (Seoul Station). If you look closer at the sign, you can learn there is a "beautyful store" on the first floor. Hmm, I wonder how this place looks like. I bet it looks nice...

The second picture is from a Kalbbi restaurant I just visited a few days ago as part of my farewell dinners with many friends and colleagues here in Korea. The place is very nice and with good food. These guys are very proud of the quality of their beef. You can see this from the picture. Naturally, I call this picture: "Cow of our pride..." :)

Less than 2 weeks left for us in Korea. I'll try to get more as such pictures are scattered around us every day...