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oops, forgot, bibimbap

October 30th, 2006 at 01:19 am

Bibimbap: Korean dish. Over a bowl of rice, lay a few ounces of meat grilled with garlic and chili (beef, chicken, seafood, tofu), and an ounce or so each of little piles of: shredded carrot, shredded radish, kimchi, shredded cucumber, mung or soybean sprouts, sauteed mushrooms, cooked spinach, with hot sauce on top. If you spring for the more authentic egg on top, you get an egg sunny side on top, above the hot sauce. The idea is that you mix this all together, and especially mix the egg, so that the yolk soaks into the hot rice and cooks a bit more.

I've been noticing a lot more places to get bibimbap around here in Seattle. It seems like this dish is going to be like pho was 20 years ago - adopted and co-opted. Already notice this - you have to tell them if you want kimchi, which is a shame.

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4 Responses to “oops, forgot, bibimbap”

  1. paigu Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 08:23 pm 1162239812
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    YUM I love Korean food! My favorite dish is the "seafood egg pancake"- I keep forgeting the name. I guess Imissed an earlier entry by you regarding Korean food. Sadly, I don't think Korean food is going to catch on with the masses (except in the metro areas) because not everyone can handle spicey foods and that heat is the essence of most Korean dishes. Maybe bulgolgi will catch on since people like "familiar" foods and bulgolgi is essentially BBQ..

  2. kashi Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 10:13 pm 1162246399
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    I'll take the tofu, pass on the fungus, please! Smile Neat! I'll have to see if there are any Korean restaurants around here.

  3. baselle Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 03:51 am 1162266669
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    Paigu - a commenter asked about bibimbap - so you didn't miss much. I'm actually a bit surprised on how many Americans are developing a taste for hot garlicky food. My real fear is not that the dishes won't catch on, but will be tamed down and dumbed down.

    Kashi - not a mushroom lover, eh?

  4. Dido Says:
    November 7th, 2006 at 02:26 am 1162866384
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    Ah, one of my grad school favorites! "Hur's Campus Cafe" next door to the building my department was in was mostly a deli but it was run by Koreans and served bibimbop and japchae. I got addicted to the food, eating it for lunch 2-3 times a week. Then when I left Ann Arbor and moved to eastern PA, it was a 75 mile drive to find any Korean food (to Philly). But a little Korean cafe opened up in my town two years ago, so I can indulge my Korean fetish without long-distance travel once again.

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