Ok, now for food photos.
These are rice cakes (with a spongy, chewy texture), cooked in a hot sauce. They're EVERYWHERE. We sometimes eat these in Taiwan, but seriously this seemed to be the only thing offered by street vendors.
This is kimchi. The traditional dish is made by pickling white cabbage in hot sauce, but these days you can find kimchi made of all types of vegetables, some even with seafood and meat. Koreans eat a LOT of this stuff - every meal had at least 3-4 types.
Run-of-the-mill Korean barbecue (although I have never seen it cooked on a marble slab). Once the meat is done, you wrap it in a lettuce or sesame leaf, add some garlic, some scallions, some hot sauce, and voila.
This is a tofu stew. Cooked with some kimchi, so it's pretty spicy.
Here is a Japanese-style fried pork cutlet, with cheese and - you guessed it - kimchi wrapped in the middle. I was not kidding when I said they eat of lot of kimchi in Korea.
I believe this is oxtail we were eating. I'm not sure. Regardless, it was pretty good, albeit a little spicy - because it was cooked in the SAME DAMN hot sauce like everything else.
