Hi folks! This past weekend, my roommate Mona and I went to Jeonju!! It's east of Jochiwon, where I work. We both fell asleep on the train on the way there, but thank the lord I happened to wake up 5 minutes before our arrival time.
Jeonju is very well known for bibimbap, my favourite Korean dish. Bibimbap means mixed rice. It's a bowl of steamed white rice topped with tonnes of cooked veggies (such as carrots, zucchini, bean sprouts, brake fern, mushrooms... etc) that are all arranged beautifully around the bowl. It also has red pepper paste and an egg on top. You're supposed to mix it all together with your Korean spoon and chopsticks (both with long handles, and the latter flat) and then enjoy!
Here are a tonne of I took during the trip:
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| Cute Korean pose! |
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| Pungnammun gate, build in 1768, is the only of 4 city gates that still stands |
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| Mona said these dudes represent us! |
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| In front of Gyeonggi Palace, which we chose not to visit |
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| Cute Korean dolls! I didn't buy any, cause I'm going to try to stick with functional souvenirs |
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| Jeonju bibimbap, #1 |
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| I'm a happy gal! |
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| A GIANT bag of mushrooms (you can get a sense of its size by comparing it with the slippers on the left) |
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| Scary statue = scary Pam |
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| Gorgeous flowers, despite the dreary day |
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| Beautiful landscaping |
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| BBQ squid |
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| Jeonju is also famous for paper making! |
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| A 600-year-old ginko tree |
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| Cool tress! |
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| I decorated a box in Hanok village! It was plain white before I glued on all the paper and made my own design on the top |
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| Baked hoddok! (Hoddok = a baked pastry filled with cinnamon and brown sugar).. but this one wasn't good because it wasn't warm |
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| A squirrel photo for Jesse |
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| A door for little people |
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| Hanok village is just full of traditional homes like this one |
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| I made my own paper at the village!! I loved it, but lost it somehow on the way back home :( |
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| At Deokjin park |
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| Koreans make water bottles out of these gourds (probably just for souvenir purposes) |
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| A huge and gorgeous lotus lake at Deokjin park |
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| Korea and Jeonju's most famous bibimbap restaurant: Gogung |
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| Our side dishes |
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| One of the best bibimbaps I've ever had (maybe tied with the one in Myongdong area in Seoul) |
Thanks for your specification on what bibimbap actually is. Is there a raw egg in the one you are having at the bottom of this post? My friend Josée has been in Korea (teaching) for 2 years and is coming back in a couple of weeks. She said that she'll take me out to a restaurant and have me taste bibimbap, after I asked her about it.
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