16 April 2026
Boiled dough soup
Jeonju hanok village and bulgogi
After a few weeks of avoiding it, I decided to cook my own dinner. Well sort of. It was not the full Korean bbq experience, just a bulgogi place, I will explain below with three (3) food photos.
Before settling on my dinner it was time to do a last lap of the famous slow hanok village at dusk. This produced a few nice photos with the golden hour light, I did my best to hide the destructive tourism features including pink golf carts with flashing LED lights for people too fat to walk, caricature portrait tents, twisted potato on a stick, dancing Kim Jong un... you get the idea.
One of the many museums in the area, no English.
Now for some photos with my camera pointing into the setting sun, which always makes for the best photos.
I waited around to make it look quieter than it was, especially waiting for the stupid golf carts to get out of the frame.
Not bad.
OK, last one of the hanok village is a fitting end, a giant multi level cafe, this one has no windows, you can fall right out of it.
Now for my dinner. All this and more for about $10. So far we have green onions and bean shoots on hot plate number 1, and a saucepan of a few mushrooms and green things on top of hot plate number 2. The lettuce leaves are for making parcels of bulgogi, once the actual bulgogi arrives. The new to me thing is inside the plastic in the ashtray, I thought I maybe had to make a pizza as it is just a ball of dough.
The actual pork bulgoi was pre cooked elsewhere and brought to my hot plate to continue cooking, I ate some of it wrapped in lettuce, but mainly just ate it off the hot plate.
And now the piece de resistance, while I was eating my bulgogi, the boss lady came over, put on disposable plastic gloves, and peeled bits of dough off and put them in the soup pot. Here on the left, you can see the result, plain boiled dough. My research tells me it is called Sujebi. It tasted exactly like if you were to mix flour and water and eat it. I guess it is a rice substitute.
Tomorrow, back to Seoul, but don't worry, I will be on the other side of Seoul, for 7 more nights!