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[LonelyAssasin]

me i like 골뱅이무침, and dry squid

[Cerriowen]

I prefer codfish with my soju...

1) clean and gut the codfish
2) find a slab of hickory wood
3) cover the codfish and board with salt, pepper, butter and other herbs of your choice
4) roast the codfish on the board for 1 hour
5) throw away the codfish, and eat the board.

Same idea w/ Soju

[jkelly80]

회. 맛있다!

[Xuanzang]

족발

[Fishead soup]

#1 A nice big fatty cut of pork cooked over hot coals no electric oven for me.

#2 With Makoli I like Bossam. A nice fatty cut of pork boiled. With a bottle of slightly fizzy Seoul Makoli.

#3 With Bopunja( Blueberry wine) smoked duck served inside a pumpkin.

#4 With Pakseju. Su Yook Kaygogi( steamed dog meat) This is also good with Oship seju. Mixed soju and pakseju in a kettle.

#5 With Dong Dong Ju Potatoe Paju( Potatoe pancakes)

#6 With Whiskey a Russian lady.

[Underwaterbob]

[Fishead soup]

[caniff]

[michaelambling]

[JongnoGuru]

For a period of nearly 10 years, every meal I had was anju. Sorry, "an joo".



Soju

Despite the veritable RIVER of soju that's flowed through me over the years:

1) I have never bought a single bottle of it from a store to drink at home. I've bought some as joke-gifts for taking abroad, but that's it.

2) I have never drunk it alone, anywhere, whether at a restaurant, at home, on a mountain, at the beach, in a ditch.

3) I regard soju as "Korean restaurant-ONLY" booze. It has to be drunk only at restaurants, those restaurants must be Korean, and must serve food the tribal elders have decreed goes well with soju. And at such restaurants, smoking must be not merely permitted but required of every drinking-aged male. Stubbing butts out on the floor is a plus, but sadly this is one of those treasured customs that seems on the way out. Anyhow, outside of this precise milieu, soju lacks the proper setting unless you're a Korean farmer or navvy or bus driver or building guard or university student or other variety of peasant.


I have some foreign friends and acquaintances in Korea who admit to buying soju and drinking it alone at home rather regularlly. This worries me. Not because I fear that they may be "closet" problem-drinkers, but that they may be "closet" peasants.

[saw6436]

I prefer beer with my soju.

[valkerie]

[ryoga013]

can't I just have the side dish and leave the soju for those that used to like getting high off paint fumes?

[red_devil]

Golbangi, oginuh bokum, nakji bokum, kimchi chiggae, dukkboggi, kimchi dubu, and of course the odang. Basically anything spicy is good with soju as well as meat.