Seoul food

Another trip to Seoul this week. I wrote about my last trip in May, under the pithy title of "Seoul mates"; definitely worth a read  if you haven't yet seen this post.  This time, I had the pleasure of making kimchi - pretty much the Korean national dish.  Kimchi is basically pickled vegetables, the most common form of which is cabbage kimchi (see picture).  Kimchi is also used as an ingredient in other Korean dishes, like kimchi stew and kimchi fried rice.  Koreans love their kimchi, and so did I before I learned how to make it!

Kimchi is everywhwere - so much so that the Korean Aerospace Research Institute developed a space kimchi to accompany the first Korean astronaut to the Soyuz space ship. Kimchi is served at almost every meal, and few Koreans can last more than a few days without a fix.

On the subject of national dishes, I came across this website the other day and I'd like to share it with you.  The website is devoted to stuff about Aberdeen, where I lived for many years before moving to London, but the Whack The Haggis game cracked me up.  I'm not much of a gamer, which probably explains my pathetically low score, but if you've a few minutes to spare on a rainy afternoon, give it a go.

http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/whackthehaggisgame.php