Though my shots are somewhat hampered by my ancient pin-hole Olympus D-100, I thought some might enjoy pictures of some of the neat winter foods that I am enjoying now. First, this is a great bean-paste (된장) soup with mushroom, little clams, tofu and Shepard’s Purse (냉이), a plant that few in the U.S. seem to eat though it is everywhere. 냉이 really makes bean-paste soup come alive, IMHO. Next, there is the curious case of this persimmon, which seems to be quite unique to Korea. I’m not sure if this persimmon is NSFW or not.
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R. Elgin,
Great shots of the food and interesting notes – boy, I sure miss Korean (and Japanese) persimmons. They don’t taste the same here in Canada as they did in the days of my youth.
One minor quibble – although common usage suggests otherwise, a thing is either unique or it isn’t; there is no degree of uniqueness. Sorry, but the Monday morning-frustrated-English-major in me is running wild.
Those are some pretty hands you got there Neff. Put an iPhone in one of those hands and then you can do commericals!
Ooops… Elgin, not Neff.
Well, R Elgin. I dunno if that persimmon’s NSFW but if you show a picture showing a hand ripping off the phallic looking part, we might a good candidate for a next IHBB avatar because he seems to like the idea of fruit getting sexually abused.
You’re preaching to the converted when it comes to 냉이 combined with 된장찌개 – good stuff.
i like making my toenjang jjige w beef stock and no seafood (enter jw). very tasty!
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