It is one of the books that blown my mind. It's very well written and would probably relate with a lot of people who are in their journey to find themselves. So many people are talking about it but I did not buy it until a few months ago where I read the preview on the first pages. Easy for me to see if I want to buy the book or not. When the first pages hook me right away, I don't need to think twice. This book is one of them. This contains spoiler of course. Nora, the main character, like many of us, fall into depression and decided to kill herself. But she's not dead right away. She went into a kind of limbo between life and death. In that library she met a librarian, this librarian is a kind of a guide. Our guide that probably tasked when we were born. The librarian shows her lives that she could have had if she wants to. She is so depressed and thinks that no life will makes her happy enough to live it. I can totally understand her state. I was there....
Ssam (쌈) also meaning wrapped. Typically Korean wrapped stuff to eat.
I remember I post about my experience of eating kimchi for the first time got the highest view of all time here. It's kind of weird but it is.
H never wanted to eat K-foods. He said that it doesn't look so appealing (how can he said that? 😣). I kept trying to lure him to try out K-foods. That when he wanted to eat some meat and then we chose a Korean bbq restaurant. He surprised that it came with so many side dishes and more importantly is the way they eat the meat with green leaf, mixed with kimchi and ssamjang.
Boy, look at the odeng and other side dishes! Ssamjang is the one next to the garlic. It's kind of similar to sambal but different. Japchae is the one that looks like bihun goreng.
The first day we ordered galbi and japchae. I really like japchae but it was very big for one person. We thought that the barbeque set will be less big for two, but it didn't. It was just enough for both of us. So, unfortunately, we ate only half of the japchae. But that japchae taste, remind me of my Korean teacher, ê³ ì„ ë¯¸ when she made it for us back then. I miss her.
BBQ set with bulgogi thin sliced meat.
Another day we ordered bulgogi meat because it is thinly sliced and perfect for the combination to make ssam. We fell in love with bulgogi meat for the barbeque. It has a sweet flavor of bulgogi sauce, mixed it with sour kimchi and spicy garlicky ssamjang. It pops out as a fantastic taste in the mouth. Especially when we got a different set of side dishes every time we go there.
Meat, garlic, kimchi, ssamjang, wrapped in one big leaf.
These side dishes are not my favorite but still tasty.
Seaweed soup in one BBQ set. I can say this restaurant is serving you an authentic set of foods you order.
Turns out, he loves it more than I do. So as expected, we went there 3 times in a row for Korean barbeque. It was the last day of staying in Dubai and the last soup was seaweed soup. As many people know the meaning of seaweed soup for Korean is a special soup for birthday. He got it two days before his birthday. And oh! We got a 20% discount on our third time there. No idea why.
Restaurant name: Shogun Restaurant (Korean, Thai, Japanese foods).
Loc: 3rd Floor, Al-Ghurair Center Tower #2 - Al Rigga Rd - Dubai.
aku selalu tertarik dengan habit makan korean dish yang bagian sayur digulung gulung itu kak, yang dalamnya diselipin daging...look so yummy :D
ReplyDeleteCobain di rumah mbak. Ini bisa banget bikin sendiri di rumah. Tinggal cari resep ssamjang-nya aja. kayaknya bisa lebih puas kl bikin sendiri, porsinya bisa buanyak :D
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