hometown foods you crave

[diablita]

We went to a Korean restaurant last night.  So delicious!

[OldBaldHippie]

Aren't those yellow perch?  We never ate the yellow perch, only white perch.

Yellow perch...I had to google white perch, which isn't a true perch...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_perch




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[mango]

We went to a Korean restaurant last night.  So delicious!

and what did you have?

you can no more say So delicious! and not say what you ate than OBH can post a picture of slaughtered fish and not say how he eats 'em.

I shan't allow that in my thread.

... white perch, which isn't a true perch...

[the more you know]

and Moronidae is a cool name for a fish -- much cooler, IMO, than Perch.

[CheryG]

Yellow perch...I had to google white perch, which isn't a true perch...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_perch

I did some googling too and found that in Maine the yellow perch tend to be wormy and off-tasting in the summer, which is why they're not eaten. 

I miss fishing in ME.  We always caught tons of fish.  Here in VT, no.

[diablita]

I ate a tofu stonebowl.  I don't know the Korean name for this, sorry.  I like spicy food so in addition to the sauce I mixed in, they brought me a small bit of sauce with habañeros.  It hurt.  The little dishes of veggies were delicious, with the kimchee and picked daikon radish being my favorite.

[mango]

I ate a tofu stonebowl.

ah, that.

(I don't know the name for it either, because I still can't tell what it was that you ate  )

no matter, another tofu in a stone bowl I like:

[diablita]

I was afraid of that!    There are many items on the menu translated from Korea but this isn't one of them:
http://www.urbanspoon.com/cities/82-asheville/restaurants/1644824-stone-bowl-korean-restaurant/menu

(see thumbnails below)

It's a sizzling stone bowl with rice, tons of thinly sliced vegetables and tofu and it continues to cook on the hot pot while you're eating.  They have red sauce at the table to be mixed in, it's just a bit spicy but very flavorful.  And they bring out many little bowls of picked and sweet vegetables (e.g., pickled kimchee, pickled daikon).  I like to mix them in to make the food more flavorful and the textures more interesting, no idea if that's supposed to be done.

[mango]

It's a sizzling stone bowl with rice, tons of thinly sliced vegetables and tofu and it continues to cook on the hot pot while you're eating.

They have red sauce at the table to be mixed in, it's just a bit spicy but very flavorful.

aka gochujang sauce

And they bring out many little bowls of picked and sweet vegetables (e.g., pickled kimchee, pickled daikon).

aka banchan

I like to mix them in to make the food more flavorful and the textures more interesting, no idea if that's supposed to be done.

of course it is; that is the very definition of bibimbop (which is what you had in a stone bowl) -- you put everything in a bowl, and mix it all up.

indeed, bibim= mixing, and bop=rice.

anyway, thank you for elaborating further; with that piece of my curiosity satisfied, I now feel more at peace.

[diablita]

It's delicious.  I've heard of bim bim bop but had no idea I was eating it.  The problem is that I always reach the crisp rice at the bottom when I'm full, but how can you not eat the best part???

They also serve vegetable pancakes that are very delicious.

[mango]

I've heard of bim bim bop but had no idea I was eating it.

hee.

dolsot (dol=stone; sot=pot) bibimbop is what you must have had.

They also serve vegetable pancakes that are very delicious.

lest I abuse your kindness, I shall not inquire about this any further.

(but please feel free to tell me more if and when the spirit moves you)

[witchypoo]

bibimbap is one of my most favoritest foods in the whole world. 

[onawhim]

bibimbap is one of my most favoritest foods in the whole world. 

1.  I live in a Korean part of town.  Such great food 

[diablita]

I don't know what to tell you about the pancakes other than that they have chunks of delicious vegetables (the green onion stands out) and they're served with a soy-based sauce.  SO good.

[mango]

green onions do stand out, don't they.

[caribougrrl]

green onions do stand out, don't they.

you must describe this in more detail

[diablita]

yes!  and your picture looks identical to the pancakes (cut in rectangular shapes).

[MikoftheWat]

I've been known to whore myself out for a proper pretzel.

[Suesquatch]

I miss all food. They're good at Southern and barbecue here, but anything else meh.

[mango]

you must describe this in more detail

that is pa (=green onion) jeon (=kind of pancake).

some recipes with pictures you might find interesting:

pajeon

haemul (=seafood) pajeon 1

haemul pajeon 2

[gebuh]

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