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It is a very cold winter day today so for lunch we've decided to have some Gamjatang,
which is a hearty Korean stew.
In Korea you cut everything with scissors - forget knives - this is the way it is done.
Eat like the locals. The same with the kimchi. Let's chop that up. It looks nice and fresh.
Here is the delicious stew and these are all of the different ingredients that we have
for it. We've got some vegetables and lots of potatoes here on the side. It is going
to be lovely. I'd like to know what the white stuff is.
This is the kind of restaurant where you come to fight off a hangover by eating Haejeongguk.
In our case, if you're freezing you come for a hearty stew like this one.
Bubbling goodness. What are you eating over there? I'm just taking the meat off of the
pork spine. How is the meat? Is it tasty? Oh, yes.
Okay, it is time to dish it up. It is all cooked. You can see that the broth is a real
thick and hearty looking with the different sesame seeds and all kinds of different paste.
Gamjatang soup basically means that it has potatoes but there is also lots of other things
in there. We have pork spine, there are some rice cakes, sesame leaves, sesame seeds, mushrooms
and there was a white paste which we haven't really figured out what it was. We think it
might be a sesame based paste.
How would you describe the broth? It is a lot spicier than I was expecting but it is
very flavorful. It is really good. Let's get a close-up shot. With the gamjatang you really
have to make sure to stir it around so that it doesn't stick to the bottom. We kind of
made that mistake earlier.
I'll just add to the flavor.
This is the meat after it has been de-***. I like to dip it in the mustard sauce - it
is really spicy and it almost reminds me of wasabi a little but with a mustard-y flavor.
It definitely does have a bite and a little bit of a tang to it. Show us how it is done.
Let's grab a little bit. That looks fatty. Here is a normal piece - that one. Here you
go. You can just dip it and swirl it around. Delicious!
We're almost finished the meal and what is left is basically just a thick collection
of stew, meat and a few random potatoes and veggies.
As you can see here our feast is complete. The cost of this meal was 25,000 Won - roughly
25 USD - a little bit less. Overall, our feeling was that although it was tasty and definitely
delicious relatively compared to what we can get at other Korean restaurants it was a little
bit expensive. We probably won't try this one again.