Eating Dinner, Korean Style

After our DMZ tour Saturday, we headed out for some good old Korean Barbecue.  Yum!  We headed to a little place in Itaewon.  

The fun part about Korean Barbecue is they cook the meat right in front of you.  You can see the silver looking platter near Ali.  That's the grill.  Our waitress cooked it here while we watched.  

While the meat was cooking they brought out about a million side dishes.  Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating, but it was a lot.  You can see them here on the table.  We weren't sure what everything was so we had to ask our waitress.  She was very patient with the Americans!  Moving across the picture below from left to right was:  onions, kimchi, mussels, steak, eggs, salad with a strawberry jam dressing, and lettuce leaves.  There was also a pumpkin dish you can't see in the picture.  It was quite the variety of foods.

Our waitress showed us the proper way to eat.  You use the lettuce like a tortilla and build yourself a little meat burrito by adding some rice, the red sauce in the picture above, onions, and meat.  Delicious!    

Here's Emma making me another "burrito."  I'm sure there's a Korean name for this, but I don't know what it is.  I do, however, know how to say in Korean, "The girl eats rice" (thanks to Rosetta Stone) which was appropriate for Emma here.  That's all she ate.  She was afraid of everything else on the table.  While she loved making lettuce rolls for everyone else, she didn't love eating here.  I'm thinking these meals may be for date nights and not family nights.  

After we ate they brought lollipops for the kids.  Emma got two.  

After a meal of nothing but rice, she was pretty happy...and the rest of us were stuffed.  Loved this Korean dinner.