24 May 06
Kalbi
Eating Korean bbq is wonderful. Especially when the man weildng the tongs and explaining to you what to do happens to be your favorite sushi chef. However we ate tons of beef (raw* and cooked), cleared almost all of the little plates of kim chi (which I think is Korean for very tasty), and still had room for the birthday cupcakes someone brought.
But we walked home, hoping that the steady pressure in our gut would subside, but it didn’t. I woke up several times with weird dreams and an odd uncomfortable feeling in my gut. It’s decreased a bit, but its still there. It’s not pain, more just a feeling that I’m full, even when my stomach is growling.
So to counteract the several pounds of beef that I think I consumed last night, I had a veggie sandwich for lunch and a salmon salad sandwich for dinner. My coat still smells like beef smoke and I have no desire to eat meet for a long, long time. And I’m afraid that if I sweat, I’m going to smell like pickled zucchini, or marinated mung beans, or dried seaweed salad. But all of these things don’t take away from the fact that it was worth it to go there. It was a wonderful dinner and I’m delighted at the prospect of doing it again sometime.
*The raw beef: Apparently there is a small muscle in the neck of the cow that is very tender. This muscle was chopped very fine and tossed with sesame oil, scallion, garlic (lots of garlic), sesame seeds, sugar, salt, and I think a little chile paste. It was so tasty, so fresh, and so rich that I was glad we split it among several people. But after having this experience after eating a raw beef dish with Brandy at Ethiopian Diamond, I have to admit that there is something about eating raw beef that gives me vivid and odd dreams and keeps me from sleeping deeply.
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