Cafeteria Food at a Korean School

It's a long post today! I'm posting pictures of my school lunch from the past week and a half.

I don't need Sam Ryan's Thursday Rib Night since I got my ribs at school today!

 

Thursday, April 4th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish):
barbecue ribs,
cucumber kimchi (오이부추무침),
Asian pear (친환경배),
mussel seaweed soup (홍합미역국),
and brown rice (발아현미밥)


My favorites were the okonomiyaki and the bean sprout japchae. It was a deliciously spicy version of the japchae I'm normally used to. And it was nice to see a Japanese dish on the menu.

Friday, April 5th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish):
tofu okonomiyaki (두부오코노미야끼),
bean sprout japchae (콩나물잡채),
kimchi,
melon,
dried prawn and curled mallow soybean paste soup (건새우아욱된장국),
and sweet potato rice (고구마밥)

Monday, April 8th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish:
stir fried udon with seafood (해물볶음우동),
baby potatoes boiled in soy sauce (알감자조림),
kimchi,
grapes,
beef and radish soup (쇠고기탕국),
and corn rice (찰옥수수밥)

 

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish):
chicken steak (닭다리스테이크),
jellied food kimchi (묵김치무침),
cucumber kimchi (오이김치),
oriental melon (친환경참외),
dumpling and rice cake soup (물만두국),
and rice (기장밥)

Thursday, April 11th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish):
bibim mini mandoo (꼬마비빔만두),
dried fish fried in sweet sauce with nuts (명엽채견과류볶음),
melon,
potato and pork rib soup (감자탕),
and rice (찹쌀밥)

Friday, April 12th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish):
lettuce, cucumbers, chili pepper,
ssamjang, samgyeopsal, fried onions and potatoes (삼겹살구이양파감자),
kimchi,
soybean paste soup (근대된장국),
rice (찰흑미밥),
bean sprouts marinated in spicy sauce (매운콩나물파무침),
and cherry tomatoes

We had 4 different kinds of greens to wrap the samgyeopsal.

Cafeteria Food in Korea

My mom usually flavors spinach with sesame oil and soy sauce, so I tried spinach with a soybean based sauce for the first time in Korea. And I really like this flavor.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 (clockwise from top left dish):
squid and samgyeopsal dish (오삼불고기),
spinach (시금치무침),
cubed radish kimchi (깍두기),
potato soup (감자국),
and rice (차수수밥)

A Typical Tuesday

I'm really really going to try to keep up with this. After all, it's not like I have tons of money saved up to show for my 3 years in Korea. Yes, I have pictures, but those are getting fewer and fewer too. I just read my friends' blogs and got motivated! So...here I am, sitting alone in the office...blasting my Jango Christmas Pop channel...and writing in my blog. It's rare for me to be the only one in the office and I'm not complaining! I enjoy this "me time." L is at the teacher's yoga club meeting. J is ... probably in a meeting with the 5th grade teachers. C is always popular: she's like superwoman and other teachers know it. S is teaching his after-school classes. On a typical Tuesday, I am happy. Why? I see my 2 most difficult classes on Monday and Tuesday, then I don't have to see them again until next week. Typical Tuesdays can also be Tiring Tuesdays, but they're nothing compared to Monster Mondays; Seriously, these kids can bring out the monster in me. The Monday blues probably don't help either. ;)

Last Saturday, I visited my uncle's new apartment and stayed the night. I went out to a pizza and pasta dinner with him and his family on Saturday. They took me to a hipster restaurant somewhere close to Hongdae. It was called Ci Vediamo and I tried my first ever samgyeopsal pasta. The sauce tasted like a mixture of olive oil sauce and dwenjang (even the pasta sauce was a fusion of the West and Asia). It was delicious and not greasy like samgyeopsal normally is! I'll have to remember that dish when I'm craving samgyeopsal and pasta, but am too realistic to eat both. >.< Here are some pictures stolen from someone's Naver blog.

We also ate a salad pizza and a gorgonzola pizza. Am I the only one who didn't know honey is sprinkled on gorgonzola pizza?! The salad pizza was my favorite of the 2 pizzas though. It was a good mixture of deliciously greasy pizza and fresh salad. Here's a picture, but ours included radicchio. Yum!

 It's 4:37. As a foreign teacher, I should have been out of here 7 minutes ago! S is going to help me shop for a padded winter coat. Happy shopping and happy Tuesday!