Day 2 of nouns. Did a person yesterday. Today a thing is on the docket. Tomorrow, we will do a place, but after that it will be up for grabs. We might go place, place, thing, person, place, person. Who knows? All I know is that there will be nouns and there will be plenty of them.
Today's thing is bimimbap. Which up until a few minutes ago, I had never typed, or printed, or wrote in cursive. I had eaten it. Boy, had I eaten it. Bibimbap is a Korean dish and looks like this ...
I first fell in love with bibimbap at first sight as it is a multisensory treat. The texture, the taste and the look all meld together. I used to frequent this Chinese/Korean restaurant in Evanston, Illinois back in the 1980's. The owners were Korean so I always ordered the Korean fare rather than the Chinese. In all the times I went there, I think I only got the Bibimbap, it was so wonderful there was never a reason for me to branch out. I have to tell you, I'm the guy who loves to get new things on the menu. I once had fried pork brains while waiting for a train at a Memphis dive. I ordered them because they were the most unique thing on the menu. So when Mr. Pork Brains has a go-to dish that is high praise indeed. I realize that I have major league digressed as well as not yet told you what Bibimbap is. So, click
here to see what
Food Republic says about it.
About 10 years after I first ate this Korean wonder food, I found myself serving as a missionary in Russia with several Korean Amercian Missionaries. Once they found out that I loved bibimbap, they would make it for me every time I was over. This of course was awesome. Now in the past 20 years I have not eaten a lot of the aforementioned dish. But when I think back about it, I celebrate the memory of every morsel. If I have made you interested in this fantastic dish, check out this
recipe from
Bon Appetit.
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