Korean for Happy Birthday!
Ha! No, totally kidding. I have no idea how to say "Happy Birthday" in Korean, but Bibimbap means "mixed meal." And birthday week here in Reynardridgeville was a very mixed, albeit, predominantly Asia, series of meals.
We celebrate three birthdays right in a row - Bi! Bim! Bap! - and we hit up a Japanese place for Hope, Thai and Korean for me (hey, at my age I deserve two nights out). And Tom? Um. Chicken nuggets. We heated those puppies up at home. No point in going out for chicken nuggets.
Of these meals, only the Korean was documented. Because, who can resist talking about Bibimbap?
Bibambap arrives as above, in a sizzling hot iron pot with a raw egg buried in there somewhere. You mix it around to cook the egg ...
..and you get something like this. Monica and I used to hit up the Korean fast food place at Aquacity in Nanjing for really great, cheap, Bibimbap. Nothing cheap about Austria, let me tell you.
Apply mouth ... voila! You can see by the high quality chopsticks that we were in a fairly exclusive Korean restaurant.
Or not. It was pretty good, but, true confession time, because the menu was available only in German and Korean, we ended up with a slightly less than the total exquisite Korean BBQ portion of the meal we were longing for.
Jeff and I both love Korean BBQ, and while we used to get some great meals in Nanjing (and one in Busan - oddly enough the Korean BBQ in Korea is quite nice), it has been a while since we sizzled, wrapped and dunked. Alas, while we did get our meat sizzling, we missed the kimchi and delectable sauces that are generally served with, not to mention the huge salad leaves to wrap all that goodness in. Perhaps next time I will bring my German dictionary. I don't happen to have one in Korean.
Raised By Wolves 1 and 2 quite enjoyed it. Ayi.
Many thanks for all the happy birthday wishes! It was a good one, with some delicious food, great weather and some fun hanging out with my family.
Tomorrow: Biking! Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
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