Seoul "Soul" Food Day 6: Chinese Take-out

We spent our last day in Jeju hiking up Mt. Halla, which I don't recommend unless you're into the whole hiking thing.  The hike up was quite boring since there wasn't any pretty foliage or flowers to look at.  Besides the crater, the view of the island from the top is also not impressive.  It's not an active volcano, so the crater was literally just a really, really big dry hole.  

The hike took us 4 hours up and 4 hours down and we didn't pack much to eat nor have the time to eat it.  So when we got back to Jeju City, we desperately needed food.  If you're too sore and tired to go to the food, then the food must come to you!  Half an hour later, this is what showed up....

(All photo credits in this post to my friend Julie who dragged us to the top of hell and back.)

 Chinese take-out, Korean style :)  And yes, the delivery is just like what you see in the dramas with the aluminum box.  They come back to get the dishes after you're done eating too.  We ordered two jajangmyuns (black bean noodles) and fried rice with jajang sauce.  Sweet and sour pork (tangsuyeok), the yellow radish, kimchi radish cubes, raw onions, and sauce came as a service, meaning it's free.  Because we ordered a set, we also got fried dumplings  The black bowls on the far left is the sweet and sour sauce and the red plates are the fried chicken.  You dump the sauce on the fried chicken.

Korean version of jajangmyun is sweet, not salty like Chinese jajangmyun is.  All the pork and veggies are stewed in the black bean sauce for lots of deliciousness.  I don't know what crack they put in it in Korea, but it tastes very different than when I try to make it at home.  Perhaps it's the pan?

Sweet and sour pork

Really different than Panda Express' sweet and sour pork lol.  Not that take-out is ever really healthy, at least I can see legit vegetables and fruit in this.  The sauce is also more sweet than sour though the tangerines give it a good tangy-ness.

Fried rice & jajang sauce

 I never thought of this pairing before, fried rice with the black bean sauce.  Must try in my own kitchen next time!

Fried dumplings

And of course you can never go wrong with fried dumplings.  In Korea, there isn't really such a thing as Ranch dressing.  It's either "Thousand Island" (which is basically ketchup and mayo mixed together), or ketchup.  Which for the record, is really tasty with the cabbage shreds.  And that concludes this very hard earned dinner.  Next, back to Seoul!