Today is an exciting day because I'm going to try 순대 (soondae) at the BIFF street! I had it once before at the foodcourt in Shinsegae and it tasted horrible because it had this gelatinous consistency, which I didn't like. I don't like anything that is not jelly and tastes like jelly.
Basically, 순대 is a local delicacy made from glutinous rice stuffed into pig's intestine and soaked in pig's blood, and is usually stir-fried in hot sauce alongside 떡볶이 (fried rice cake). It is quite similar to 猪血糕 in Taiwan although between the two, I'd rather eat 순대. 猪血糕 is really an acquired taste that is hard to capture, but I would strongly recommend everyone to try it if they have the chance to. Who knows, you might actually like it!
 |
| The friendly imo preparing our food! The soondae is the one on the right, in a dirty red colour gravy. |
 |
| The imo says that the soondae is really spicy, so I asked her to mix it with the ddeokbokki, which was still spicy, but of a much milder spice. |
I'm glad I gave it a second chance! It didn't taste that disgusting as I remembered it to be and the taste of blood was also less distinct when drenched in the hot sauce. It actually tastes just like normal glutinous rice! The soondae today had a harder bite, which I enjoyed and I shared it with a friend so it wasn't as overwhelming as the previous time when I had one whole plate by myself.
We also ordered 만두 (dumplings) to split and I had a 호떡 (red bean pancake with nuts) from my favourite stall for dessert. The queue at the hotteok stalls are crazy long nowadays, I think the cold weather has made the hot snack even more enjoyable than it already is. Somehow it didn't seem as delicious as I had remembered it to be and I think I'll not be eating anymore of those babies for the next few months.
Because I kept snacking on random food, I wasn't hungry when it came to dinner time but I thought I should still eat something so I bought a corndog. I love corndogs, especially hot toasty ones with mustard drizzled all over it, but they didn't have mustard here so ketchup was fine too.
The corndog looked really appetising but when I bit into it, I realised that there were tiny crystals on its crispy skin, which tasted sweet and melted on my lips. Turns out that the whole corndog was coated in sugar, which was a little weird combined with the salty ketchup. I regretted buying it, but at least I tried something new.
 |
| Sorry for the bad focus, the bus kept jerking and it was hard to get a good picture! |
I went to the dormitory's cafeteria, wanting to get a kimbab when I saw that dinner was my favourite satay chicken so I bought a meal ticket (although I wasn't hungry). When I went to collect my food, I was appalled to see that the people in front of me were being served stir-fried beef with rice instead of the promised chicken. The imos ran out of the satay chicken so they had to serve something else instead.
 |
| I like this but I want my chicken!!!! I like crunchy onions :) |
Kids, from this we learn that we should not be greedy and only eat if we are truly hungry, if not we will be wasting a lot of food and calories on unhappy eating.
xoxo, ❀
