OK, I know that sounds weird. Vietnamese food is not Korean, but I discovered it in Korea. And I probably would never have tried it without living in east Asia.
Here are a few of my favorite dishes:
- Beef brisket noodle soup. A mild, but steaming broth holds long white noodles and strips of pink beef (which cook right before your eyes). You add in bean sprouts, onions, peppers, and sauces to your own personal taste. Great on a cold winter day (like today)!
- Wol Nam Sam. Imagine a huge party tray with thinly sliced vegetables, meat, and shrimp. Then, you dip a small piece of "rice paper" a into a steaming bowl of water to soften it. Then, like it's a tortilla, you fill it with all of the veggies and meat and add sauce. Finally, roll it into a ball and eat it in one bite. Sweet goodness. (Best of all, since it's mostly vegetables, I can pig out and not feel guilty!)
- Vietnamese Shabbu Shabbu. This is almost the same, except that about half of the vegetables and beef go into a boiling cauldron right at the table. Then you spoon them out and eat it either as soup or in the rice paper wraps. Can't go wrong with this.
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