ACCOMODATION

FOOD

Homemade Noodles

Content Family food is much simpler. The Koreans eat three hearty meals a day. The average family has a breakfast of soup, fish or meat, Kimchi, rice and grilled fish. Lunch and dinner follows the same pattern.
However, homemade noodles are popular and great favorites. They are served as a snack in the summer or an appetizer. Noodles may be served cold in the summer or warm in cool seasons with mashed beef and sliced fried egg, while thinly sliced green pumpkins, red pepper, sesame seeds, and scallion are added to enrich the flavor. Spices and seasoning are the key to delicay and flavor.

Haoe town

Sanchae bibimbab of Chung Kiwa restaurant ( T;0571-52-8361) is large portion. ( Andong noodle;3,000won (=4US$), son dubu;5,000won,San chae bibimbab; 4,000won)

Street Stall Food

Street stalls are a good option,both for the traveller on a tight budget and for others interested in sampling the full gamut of Korean cuisine. Ttokbukgi is a popular snack consisting of rice dough rolled into the shape of hot dogs and simmered in hot sauce. You can find these tasty morsels everywhere, but be warned- the chilli sauce is as hot as it looks.lp.

Alcoholic Drinks

Koreans love their liquor and there is no shortage of drinkin establishments. Boozing it up is mostly a male group activity in Korea. Makkoli is famous caustic,milky white rice brew which is cheap. Soju is the local fire water ; it's a potent drink made from potato and similar to bad vodka. Makkoli and soju are often drunk with various snacks known as anju. If you drink in soju pang the management expects you to buy some snacks along with it. Just going a couple of soju or beers is usually frowned upon.

BEHIND STORY

Korea's nightlife is changed after terminating government-imposed midnight closing. This restriction has its roots in a curfew which was enforced back when Korean was a military dictatorship. The dictatorship is gone, but the government feels the need to shut down bars at midnight to protect the morals of the nation.

One Korean innovation with a long history are soju tents (pojang macha). These are usually set up in the evening along the bank of a river, and feature inexpensive drinks and snacks. The government frowns on these places, believing they are a relic from the poverty stricken past which have no place in modern Korea.

* Useful phrases

I can't eat spicy food. maeun umshikun mukji motamnida.

restaurant shikdang.