먹방 (Mukbang) Monday: Chuncheon Dakgalbi

Different cities and regions in South Korea are famous for different foods. Seong's (and my!) uncle and aunt live in a city about 1 hour east of Seoul called 춘천 (Chuncheon), which is famous for 닭갈비 (Dakgalbi), a spicy chicken "stir fry". Last week, Seong and I traveled to Chuncheon and were lucky enough to sample this delicious specialty!
Dakgalbi is one of the Korean foods that cooks on the table, so I got some videos of the stages of cooking.
The ingredients are spicy chicken, rice cakes (떡 = ddeok), and veggies, like cabbage, sweet potatoes, green onions, and perilla leaves. The server adds the raw goodness to the hot pan and then cuts the chicken into pieces with scissors.


After it cooks for a few minutes, the server usually comes back to stir it, but Seong took matters into his own hands!



The only 반찬 (banchan = side dishes) that are needed are greens for wrapping, spicy sauce, pickles, and raw onion and garlic.


After eating the dakgalbi, the server brought rice and goodies to make fried rice in the same pan. There was also some udon noodles cooking!


But it wasn't done! Next, he sprinkled cheese on the rice and rolled it up into cheesy rice rolls!


And here is all that was left! Yum!