Korean Cuisine

Korean food is hot and spicy. That is true but there are more varieties of dishes to choose from Korean cuisine. When you go to a Korean restaurant and order some dishes, they will almost always bring a small plate of kimuchi, Chinese cabbage pickled in red hot chili pepper paste. However, you can ask a white pickled cabbage in vinegar or slices of yellow “daikon” radish which you can also find in Japan. They have a mild taste. Of course, to do that, you need have some knowledge of Korean to explain it properly.

First dish I present is grain flour noodle soup with dampling.

This photo was taken at the restaurant called "Myouhhgdong Kyoja". It does not contain any chili. So, Both Nuno and Linda can enjoy. In case that you can not manage to change "spicy" kimuchi to the mild pickles, here is a tip: Make sure Lu and Tso Lin order one of noodle "soup". Then, before you taste spicy kimuchi, you bathe and wash it thoroughly in their soup (not yours). In this way, you don't eat spicy pickles nor sip a spicy soup! So, as I said, there is always a way to avoid spicy food.
Anyway, this noodle shop is highly popular. You should avoid going there at lunch unless you want to quere. In my case, I first went there between 18-19 hours, I didn't have to wait. But next day, I went there again for lunch, since I didn't have kyoja (dumpling), there was a long quere. I didn't wait and I went to another place to look for something else.



Here I explain one interesting story about Korean customs. In Korea, dishes are normally served with silver or stainless chopsticks and spoon. Korean do not use a pair of wooden chopsticks. Rice bowls are also made of metal. This is related to the customs of serving dishes in the Korean Court. In order to avoid chances of possible assassination by poisoning, kings, royal families and court officials used silver kitchenware as the metal reacts to poison which could be visible to anyone who take a meal. Since rice bowl was served in hot temperature, they could not hold it in hand. Nowadays, Koreans still use metal kitchware to serve meals. By this reason, they do not hold a rice bowl in hand and use metal chopsticks. So, be wise to bring your own managable wooden chopsticks.


Name / 名称：Myouhhgdong Kyoja / 명동교자(명동1호점) / 明洞餃子（ミォンドンギュザ）
Address / 住所：서울 중구 명동2가 33-4 /ソウル市中区明洞2街33-4 / Myondon
行き方：地下鉄4号線明洞(ミョンドン)駅8番出口
電話番号：+82-2-776-3424
利用時間：10:30～21:30
ウェブサイトhttp://www.mdkj.co.kr (韓国語)