Thursday, November 23, 2006


Restaurant Review!

Mapongalpi l Ahyeon l Seoul


Do you like Korean BBQ? Me too! Do I like the way I eat it? Well, I was wrong. You know all that sliced garlic at the side of the table? You’re supposed to grill that first before you put it in your wrap. I learned that when I went to this fantastic BBQ restaurant specializing in fatty pork.

Thankfully, Koreans still care more about taste than their weight so we get to have 3 layered fatty pork for dinner. The 3 layers stand for the 3 layers of fat. In fact, they have a 5 layer variant as well from new improved breeds of pigs. The first thing you do is you take a piece of lard and you rub it on the grill to keep things from burning. Then you plaster on that fatty pork, liberally sprinkled with kosher salt. It came up juicy, succulent and tasting like actual pork. In our desire for more healthy pork, we’ve bred all semblance of flavor out of them. Wrapped in lettuce, sesame leaves and grilled garlic, it was so warming in the rapidly cooling evening.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Baaaaaaaaacon! You lucky guy.

Do you feel like you are gaining weight or losing weight on this trip?

Leung Man said...

Usually, you really don't eat that much meat, contrary to belief. You have a lot of veggies with your food so it's fairly ok. I think I've a little bit of weight but not much really.