Saturday, 2022-11-12
What is Korean BBQ
Korean barbecue (Korean: 고기구이, gogi-gu-i, 'meat roast') is a popular method in Korean cuisine of grilling meat, typically beef, pork, or chicken. Such dishes are often prepared on gas or charcoal grills built into the dining table itself. Some Korean restaurants that do not have built-in grills provide customers with portable stoves for diners to use at their tables.
Source: Wikipedia
One of my favorite places and styles to eat is Korean BBQ. There are plenty of restos in Jakarta that offer this kind of dining but only a handful has pork on the menu. The way of eating Korean BBQ is to wrap the grilled meat with lettuce or perilla leaves topped with condiments accompanied with some side dishes like rice, kimchi, and salads.
When I go to Korean BBQ resto, I never touch the raw vegetables just to be on the safe side. I don't know how they wash and clean the vegetables, but one thing I know is that tap water in Indonesia is not drinkable and I know resto won't wash them with drinkable mineral water to cut costs. So I normally have my grilled meat with rice and an assortment of kimchi.
At home, my wife has been making all sorts of kimchi to complement her fresh veggies business. We had all the ingredients to make the dipping sauce. We had fresh lettuce, and perilla to wrap our grilled meat in our chiller, and all we needed was meat. We ordered our meat online; some pork, beef, and squid, and we had our own Korean BBQ at home with our own homemade kimchi.
We used a pan to grill our meat on the stove. First, we placed the pork slices to get the fat out and next was the beef and squid added last.
We also added slices of onions and cloves of garlic.
Flip the meat to make sure they were cooked evenly and nothing got burned.
Ready to be served and they were all cooked perfectly.
Fresh and properly washed and cleaned romaine and butterhead lettuce and perilla leaves. Napa cabbage kimchi with slices of radish and our own dipping sauce.
A piece of pork and beef dipped in soy & sesame dipping sauce, kimchi, and a clove of grilled garlic wrapped in perilla leave and lettuce – a mouthful of joy and happiness!
So, that was our simple to make and delicious Korean BBQ lunch at home. We completely skipped the rice, and we got full just by eating meat and veggies only. This is what I called a proper Korean BBQ! The cheapest all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ we had been too was still more expensive than the meat we bought online earlier. We only used a third of the meat we bought. The quality of the meat we bought was also much better. Another important factor when eating out was the cleanliness of the vegetables. You never know whether they wash and clean the vegetables properly or not. See you in the next episode, Bon Appétit, and stay healthy.
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