When I saw a post on ZenKimchi Korean Food Journal about chitlins my first instinct was to exclaim, "Korean soul food? Say what!" Then I thought about it a little more, and I realized that with its hearty casseroles and stews, Korean cuisine has a lot in common with American soul food. It's just that the above dish of gobchang gui is, how to put this, a bit more soulful than other Korean fare I've encountered.
Technically, they're not chitlins, since they're beef, not pork, intestines. Either way, the dish sounds delicious. Some of you out there might be grossed out by the concept of eating a cow's small intestines. Not me, especially when I read that they taste like bacon and are stuffed with Korean pâté. Drool. To complete the organ meat orgy there was Makchang (sliced large intestine), beef heart and tripe smothered in pâté.
ZKFJ's author is lucky to be based in Korea. I've enjoyed Korean blood sausage in my native Queens, but have yet to encounter what amount to pâté-filled sausages. I gots to get me some gobchang y'all.
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8-26-2007 @ 11:09PM
psn said...
heh heh. Seoul food :)
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8-27-2007 @ 12:30PM
jsmylie said...
I'll stick with my Gal Bi and Bulgogi, thank you. I can't even imagine the texture of intestines...it makes me shudder!
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8-27-2007 @ 5:16PM
Mike said...
well I guess then you won't do tripe. My mom made this wonderful Korean Beef soup growing up with Tripe. While I've not had chitlins, anything cooked on a charcoal grill with some grilled onions and garlic to go into a nice lettuce wrap sounds great to me.
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9-12-2007 @ 2:49AM
ron said...
i just read your bahn mi post. 12$? you're trippin'. it's either you have the God given gift of taste, like Rainman, or you're just very rich. either or.
i'm just shocked. i'll be heading to westminster, ca on thursday and will be feasting on 2 for $3 dollar bahn mi's that'll knock my munchies out like mayweather did that disappointment.
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9-23-2007 @ 6:46PM
Abby Crouch said...
that food looked nasty. i will never ever look at that again. my mom and i laughed really hard at that nasty food picture.
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