some sort of BBQ

Saturday night we went to a restaurant that serves Korean BBQ. There are various restaurants that serve it with different items like ribs, pork and chicken. However, this restaurant served thin slices of marinated beef - bulgogi.

Ken invited 2 other couples to come with us. Mike and Wendy are from Maine. He is taking a sabbatical from teaching to work on this project and Wendy is a nurse. They have been here since August. Norman and Brenda arrived in Okpo the day after us. I have met them before - they are from the Houston area. We had reservations, so the table was all ready for us when we arrived. It was a long table with 2 little fire pits cut into it. And there were lots of little dishes with some sort of items in them (mostly unrecognizable).

I could have chosen to eat octopus, some sort of mussels, kimchi, some sort of pureed items, etc. But I mainly stuck with some shredded cabbage in some sort of sauce, some sort of vegetable pancake and the green salad. The server comes and puts the meat, along with mushrooms and cloves of garlice, on the grill. She periodically returns to either take it off the grill and put it on your plate or to add more meat. You are supposed to take the meat, along with other condiments, put it in the lettuce leaves, wrap it up and dip it in sauce. It really is quite good. And it was fun.

I also sampled soju, which I really didn't care for. I later read that is a popular drink in Korea. It is inexpensive and quite potent. It is mostly made from sweet potatoes, which explains why I didn't like it!