Samgyeopsal, Samgyetang, Pizza, Beach, and more things!!

In the past few days we have accumulated ALOT of photos, knowledge, and a couple funny stories. Starting with food. We tried the famous and awesome Samgyeopsal (삼겹살). It's basically super thick bacon on a grill---oh, and the grill is built into your table. That thing in the picture? It's a grill. Some places actually put hot coals under it. 
I don't know if you're suppose to do this whole process yourself, but we could NOT figure out the grill. Thankfully the waitress lady saved us. We found out a majorly important piece of info: Kimchi is WAAY tastier grilled, and put on a piece of fatty thick bacon with some garlic. You can wrap it in Sesame leaves, lettuce, put gochujang on it, or do whatever you want. We were pretty happy.



Then there was Samgyetang (삼계탕).  We were staring at the menu outside of a random restaurant trying to figure out what sort of food they served. Then the manager came and held the door open for us in a "You know you want to come in and buy things" sort of way. So, we did.

 It was  awesome. Do you see what's in that pot of boiling broth?? It's a cornish hen-sized bird. IT FINISHED COOKING AT THE TABLE. We had to pull out the bones.Apparently Samgyetang is a ricey-porridge sort of soup with a HUGE hunk of meat,  ginseng and veggies. There was a mussel, too.  Oh, there was also a chesnut in that soup. I guess they threw it in for good measure. On the way out, they gave us a bag of ginseng candies, too. I don't really know why.



Then there was Korean pizza. We had been seeking pizza for two or three days now. I had seen two or three by my school, so we knew it was relatively common. We set out on a quest to explore the city and stop only for pizza --we prepared to stop even at a Pizza Hut if necessary (they are VERY different in korea). However, two nights in a row we found...ZERO. On the third day we decided we would just go to the one by my school. After long deliberation, we decided to go with Bulgogi (something we know is delicious, and could actually pronounce). When we ordered, the lady told us it was only available in the winter. WEEELL....We went with "Shrimp Gold," instead. Why? Only because Simon & Martina mentioned it on EatYourKimchi when they got pizza. I don't even remember if they liked it, but they ordered it--so it must be legit! 

And it was! It had shrimp (as the name promised).  And I mean, Busan shrimp--whole, straight from the ocean mothers. They were grilled with the tails on. 
The pizza also had gold, as in there was sweet potato. That part was a little weird, but we enjoyed it. As you can see, there was also pickles. I can't explain that. They made no sense. 

This isn't even all the awesome food we've had thus far!! Rice porridge = AWESOME! I got some with little bits of octopus in it!