In-flight meals are never satisfying. It's just comfortingly hot at best. I like the cheese and fruits. But that's about all. I always prefer to gobble a good meal before flying out of a city. The last meal in Seoul would have to be the man's favorite sort of bibimbap and my favorite mul naengmyeon. Along the random streets in Sinsa-dong, we strolled, and hopped into a little shop with low ceilings that was filled with locals. The shop offered no printed menu of any sort. *gulp* Upon sitting down, we realized that the shop only specialized in a pan-fried style of bibimbap and naengmyeon. YAY! What a find.
Instead of depending on clumsy hand gestures and the very slow Google Translate, bravely, with my newly-absorbed-rubbish-broken Korean, I asked for a table, and with a lot of ummm...ahhh...and stuttering, made the orders, and somehow, the grinning server managed to understand that I wanted no meat at all, but octopus to be pan-fried with the rice, and a vegetarian mul naengmyeon. The orders arrived perfectly in order. SCORE.
My vegetarian mul naengmyeon was good! It was topped with an egg, and held plenty of vegetables. Crunchy and cold. Awesome-st. The server fried up the bibimbap for us, beginning with the pieces of octopus, and then stirring in the rest of the stuff and the scary gochujang. It was ready to be eaten straight from the pan. So this bibimbap was the first we had these 2 weeks served piping hot. I had few bites of the bibimbap, not much. Honestly delicious. The man went on a carbs binge and finished the portion in the entire pan that was bigger than our faces put together.
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