School Food Update

Friday, November 30th, 2012 (from bottom to top, left to right): rice (보리밥), seaweed radish soup with clams (다시마무국), yaki udon (볶음우동), folded egg  (계란말이), kimchi (김치), and a tangerine (귤) for dessert!

Korean School Lunch Update

Thursday, November 29, 2012 (clockwise from top left dish): 

rice and honey cracker (유과),

seasoned bean sprouts (콩나물무침),

radish kimchi (깍두기),

fried mackerel (고등어카레튀김),

dumpling soup (만두국),

and rice (율무밥).

The rice and honey cracker was such a nice treat! It's one of my mom's favorite traditional Korean crackers. It's a good mixture between bland/traditional and honey! 

School Food Update

Wednesdays are exciting because the lunches are always special and better. Lunch is good and it's a shortened day, so the kids are happy.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012: burdock bibimbap with sauce (우엉밥, 양념간장), radish soy bean paste soup (열무된장국)*, pineapple pieces, fried chicken kebab (닭꼬치), and kimchi (김치).
Guess what the kids wanted seconds of?

*Note: 된장국 and 된장찌개 are different types of soup. What I had for lunch today was 국, so the taste is a little more diluted compared to 찌개.국 can also translate to soup and 찌개 to stew.

School Food Update

I forgot to take my camera down on Monday, but here's Tuesday's school lunch. Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 (from bottom to top, left to right): brown rice (현미밥), army soup (부대찌개), potatoes and fishcakes  boiled in soy sauce (알감자어묵조림), ㄹfried and marinated sesame seed leaves (깻잎순볶음), radish kimchi (총각김치), and kiwi jello for dessert!

School Food Update

Friday, November 23, 2012 (from bottom to top, left to right): rice (밥), radish and fishcake soup (무 어묵 국), meatballs, potato pancakes (감자전), kimchi (김치), and pineapple pieces for dessert.

School Food Update

Today marks the introduction of my school food blog updates. I live alone in Korea and the Korean kitchen is not as big or as supplied as I'd like it to be, so nutritious home-cooked meals are, sadly, hard to come by. It's a good thing I work at a public school though because my school food rocks my socks off! They're really cheap too (about 2,000 Korean won for each meal). Cheap, delicious, and nutritious? Yes!
Thursday, November 22, 2012: rice (밥), seaweed soup (미억국), pork bulgogi (돼지불고기), acorn jelly (도토리묵 무침), kimchi (김치), and a kiwi for dessert.

These are teacher-sized portions, which is A LOT of food. Korean teachers eat so much and so fast. How do they digest everything so well and stay so skinny?