Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My Christmas Eve Party in CBNU, Jeonju Korea

Such a special day , we decided to have a special party in an open air compound ( below zero degree Celsius, location: in front of new canteen). This party including us, three people from Malaysia , two of my lab mates ( Ms Sneha and Dr. Sathish) from India and one special Korean guess. Before the day of party, we went Home Mart ( also named as Tesco) to buy all cooking materials for that night, sure including alcoholic beverage and raw Sam-Gyup-Sal. It is cheaper than if we eat in a restaurant.

In Korea dishes, vegetables wrapped grilled meat is very famous, especially thick pork strips (삼겹살, Sam-Gyup-Sal ).Normally meat is cooked on a grill with mushrooms, garlic, onions or kimchi ( not necessary ). Then a slice of cooked Sam-Gyup-Sal is wrapped using leafy vegetabels. Dweejang, kimchi, onion or other side dished also can added.

For this event, we mixed the Sam-Gyup-Sal with special liquor and red wine. The taste really fantastic.



Korea beer (맥주, Mek-Ju, prefer " Hite") and traditional rice liquor (소주, Soju) are very famous alcoholic beverages, as a part of their life. Normally, they pratice " 3 steps drink" (3 차 ) . What is " 3 steps drink"? Mean 1st time drink during dinner time (1 차 ). Then they will continue drink in nearest pub (2 차 ). After 1-2 hours, then chnage another pub and continue drink (3 차 ). This is Korean special culture. Can you imaging they can drink like water. We, Malaysian always pratice drink milk tea ( Teh Tarik) or Cocoa with sugar ( Milo Kosong) in mamak store during night time. But Korean only drink beer or rice liquor. ( beer and rice liquor are very cheap in Korea as local made)


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