Bulgogi

My love affair with the Japanese and Koreans continues yet for another day. I went to a Korean Restaurant in Desa Sri Hartamas for dinner. The last time I had a proper Korean meal was in Korea itself back in 1999 and a smaller scale one in the States 2 years back. The little small meals of my glass noodles and kim chi in Ampang Point were tiny treats.

K and I were chatting on MSN about our usual Korean and Japanese dramas when we suddenly got onto the topic of Korean food. K mentioned that there's this good place for Korean food and since Friday was a holiday, we decided to have a Korean dinner on Friday night. We had already planned to order bulgogi while we were chatting online! Bulgogi is a popular dish in Korea (usually first timers order this, I was told). It's thin strips of marinated beef cooked with glass noodles, spring onions and onions. So, tonight, we made our way there and ordered the bulgogi. As usual, appetizers are brought to the table while we wait for our beef to cook, there were about 10 tiny bowls in all (unlimited servings).

The appetizers surrounding the cooker was a meal itself!
You take a lettuce leaf, put some bulgogi on it, add a slice garlic and a dash of chilli paste.
You can take a bite of the green chilli if you want to kick it up a notch!

The cooked bulgogi ready to be eaten! The sweet gravy is delicious!
I can take it as a beverage! LOL!

K had also ordered her favourite kimchi chigae which is kimchi soup. This is poured onto the rice and eaten just like that. It's really thick and spicy but I found it just okay whereas K likes it a lot.

Steaming hot kimchi chigae (and spicy too!)

I felt good walking when we left the restaurant. I could use the extra exercise since I was feeling so full. It was an enjoyable meal and I wouldn't mind going back another time. Thanks for introducing me this place K!

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