big william's world

One of the main contributions to world cuisine from Korea is kimchi - which appeals to an Englishman about as much as sauerkraut or (for that matter) the cabbage he was made to eat as a kid. It is (for the fortunate ones who haven't tried it) raw cabbage, and other barely edible vegetables, pickled in red chili paste and other things to give it flavor. Unfortunately it is still as hard, crunchy, cold and sour as raw cabbage.

Anyway they have, fortunately stolen some Japanese dishes to eat with it - like Shabu Shabu - which is what I just had which is very thinly sliced beef, cooked very briefly in boiling vegetable broth - with tiny mushrooms, green leaves unknown, pumpkin and unknown other things.

Cooked at the table. Unlike the picture I did not have beer but Chianti.

For thoughts occurring during dinner see "a whey with words" clickable to your right - or is it the left?

Which I have always believed means "The truth you tell when you are drunk"

I just had my second dinner alone - the other half is earning the money to pay for it!