Craig has interesting relationship with foods - he does not like cheese but loves pizza. He does not like fish or seafood but he likes fried prawn wanton. Emily loves Japanese food so she has been introducing some Japanese food for Craig to try. Craig had never been to Far East until 9 - 10 months ago when he visited Japan for the first time with us and he liked Japanese curried sauce and rice and ramen noodles. Now, he is in Korea for the first time for business. By now he has mastered the art of chopsticks and have already impressed his Korean colleagues!
He has just sent us another photograph of Korean food he tried the other night. This is Korean dumplings called Mandu. According to Craig, there are different kinds of fillings - pork, vegetables and thin egg noodles and the batter is seasoned with some spices. He was told that this is traditional Korean evening snack. He said, "they were very very tasty indeed!".
These look like the Chinese jiaozi or the Japanese gyoza (see my earlier blog, Japanese Ramen). According to Wikipedia, mandu are usually served with a dipping sauce made of soy sauce and vinegar or with kimchi (Korean spicy pickled cabbage) and chilli-specked soy sauce. I wonder what kind of sauce he had with mandu.
I look forward to more food photos from Korea. Craig's food adventure continues.....
