삼계탕, which is a headless, featherless, gutless chicken in a bowl with some spices. For example, 오리백수, which is a headless, featherless, gutless duck on a platter with rice stew and some cooked chestnuts.I still can't eat meat alone, at home. I still gag. But I crave it. Right now, for example, I'm craving a chicken drumstick. (But if there was a chicken drumstick here, I wouldn't be able to eat it-alone, in my apartment.) Yesterday I was super into the duck stew I had with my co-teachers, so much so that I was inwardly a little ticked when Park Mi-Ran took a leg from our platter and put it on the platter at Han Jin-An's (older male co-teacher) side of the table. I was going to eat that meat!
I peeled all the meat off the bones and when I fished out 2 linked vertebrae from a chunk of meat I'd put in my mouth, I thought briefly about putting them back in my mouth to suck some bits of meat off of them (the vertebrae), and also to re-investigate the strange way they clicked around in my mouth.
But I still can't eat the duck porridge I brought home with me, much as I would like to.
2 comments:
hi pam! i like your new blog (this is jeff ham) and i'm glad you started blogging again, because i've secretly been re-experiencing korea through you for the past year.
i ate samgyetang every day the last week i was there (it was also my first meal in korea--i was caught in a nostalgic loop). in retrospect, seven whole chickens in one week is too much, even if they're cornish hens.
best,
jeff
p.s. also, this is mostly directed at myself, but i never created the blogspot name "jwdd." why does this exist and why is it connected to my #googleidentity? gah!
oh man, i had no idea you were secretly reading my blog! samgyetang's the best, and seven chickens in 7 days sounds awesome. (that's 14 drumsticks! though i find the meat slips off the leg bones too easily with samgyetang, and so the illusion of the drumstick becomes less satisfying.)
also, does jwdd have anything to do with e and f being the letters next to them on the keyboard?
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