Sobahn Restaurant Visit

Food and Culture class enjoying Korean food at Sobahn Restaurant. Our menu included Kimbap, Bibimbap, Veggie Pancake, Bulgogi and Spicy Chicken. Of course, we had the traditional side dishes - kimchi, fish cakes, spicy cucumber, bean sprouts, and broccoli/soft tofu.

Kimbap

Blue Nile Restaurant Visit

Enjoying the food at the Blue Nile restaurant - for most of the class, it meant trying something new. We had the sampler platter, which has beef, chicken, lamb, and many veggie and legume dishes, such as, cabbage, greens, green beans and carrots, mushrooms, miser watt (lentils), split peas - all served on top of the traditional Ethiopian bread, injera. 

  

One of the platters before we dug in - our group takes up most of the restaurant. We've been coming here for years with our students and always find a warm welcome and a very friendly, efficient staff to guide us.

Mango Lover

First Night of Class - Sobahn restaurant

On a beautiful Monday evening the Advantage Food and Culture students met for our first class, learning a little about food as a social and cultural marker. We experienced some Korean food while we learned about Korean social practices around eating. What a great group - people tried a wide sample of Korean items:
Bibimbop, Korean veggie pancake, a spicy chicken dish, bulgogi, tteokboki, kimchi, and various other side dishes.

Bibimbop

yachae pajeon

Samgyetang

Korean chicken soup.  A whole chicken stuffed with rice, ginseng, jujube. So yummy

Gyeongbokgung

Our tour guide - we all learned a great deal about the history of Korea at this Palace, especially about the Josen Dynasty.  Since it's a food course - a little detail about the king's food.  He had 2 royal court ladies who fed him and one royal court lady who was a taster.  Her job was to taste his food in case someone tried to poison him.  I'm sure she hoped that he was popular!  

First dinner in Korea

We are so tired from 20 hours of airports and airplanes and a 40 min train ride to Seoul, but we are here.  Checked into the hotel and walked to this little restaurant for dinner.  We all look forward to sleeping in a bed instead of an airplane seat.