I had to down tons of water as I ate my Yukhoe Bibimbap!
I admit, I am picky when it comes to food. There are quite a lot of things I don’t like eating. These include spring onions, onions, celery, capsicum, parsley, lamb, eel…and more. Sometimes I can be totally anal that I would pick out every bit of anything I don’t eat from a dish!
Our family likes eating in, so we usually have home cooked meals. Mum would always ask what we wanted to eat and our standard response would be “anything”. She would complain that “anything” was not that easy to cook, especially for me as I am so picky! Sometimes, I wonder why she even bothered to ask when she always end up making the decisions on what to cook!
While I love my sashimi, I don’t take every type of raw sashimi…definitely not those wriggly, iggly squids that the Korean so love and no raw beef!
This time, when I went for Park Sihoo-ssi’s Birthday Tour 2018, I wanted to try more of his favorite restaurants. I had a raw deal!
After going on a spree of discovery of Park Sihoo-ssi’s drama “My Golden Life” filming locations, we decided to have dinner at Sae Byuk Jib 새벽집 or House of Dawn. This is a Michelin guide restaurant with their inspectors’ quoting “This 24-hour no-frills eatery has been feeding the famished with classic Korean fare like bibimbap, beef barbecue and stews since 1994. The food is simple yet tasty, prepared around the clock with fresh ingredients. The façade and décor are uncomplicated, reflecting the food it offers.” I would add, the restaurant is a maze of nooks and corners cramped with dining seats as they try to maximise their space. Just manoeuvring around is a tight squeeze and don’t be surprised if you get lost!
Eat what? Raw beef bibimbap?!!
Rumors had it that this is one of our man’s favorite restaurant and he is a regular. So of course when we made our reservation, we just had to ask for a seat where Park Sihoo-ssi sat previously and we got a small cosy room right at the back of the restaurant. I understand that every time he visited he would order the raw beef bibimbap. Being a galbi or beef restaurant and it seemed Sae Byuk Jib’s Yukhoe or raw beef bibimbap is a must try. It is simply bibimbap topped with raw beef. Yikes! Park Sihoo-ssi, couldn’t you have liked something else? Because you like it, I just had to try it, even though I don’t take raw beef!
The Yukhoe Bibimbap was beautifully served with fresh, multi-colored stripes of vegetables and seaweed neatly arranged on top of rice and topped with red raw beef stripes. The set came with the usual array or banchan or appetisers, a vegetable salad and a piping hot soup. I love the banchan, especially the sauced turnips! The salad I promptly gave away…it was a plateful of spring onions!
After my iPhone had its feast, I started mixing the Yukhoe Bibimbap throughly, adding in the sauce for flavor. I must say that the bibimbap tasted surprisingly delicious even with the raw beef. If not for the fact I ordered this dish, I won’t even know there is raw beef in it! But psychologically, there was already a barrier put in place. I was thankful for that small pot of hot soup! But horrors! My first spoonful uncovered two large chunks of something else picky me won’t eat! Congealed cow blood! This Seonjitguk soup is yet another test for dare devils! And I am certainly not one!
Luckily, that bowl of bibimbap was huge and laden with vegetables and rice, else I would have gone hungry that night! A Michelin guide restaurant, I was expecting a large bill for the food, but it came up to just KRW 8,000 for the Yukhoe Bibimbap set.
So, not so raw a deal after all!
Raw beef bibimbap! Favorite of our favorite man!
After mixing everything up
生鲜的交易！
我承认我对食物很挑剔。有很多我不喜欢吃的东西，包括葱，洋葱，芹菜，灯笼椒，香菜，羊肉，鳗鱼等。有时候，我可以非常噁心，从盘中一个个的挑出我不吃的东西！
我们家人喜欢吃自制家常菜。妈妈总是会问我们想吃什么，而我们的标准回答是“什么都可以”。她会抱怨说，“什么都可以”不容易煮啊，经常是针对特别挑剔的我！有时候真不知道她为什么要问，因为最终决定煮什么都是她自己！
虽然我喜欢吃鱼生，但不是任何种类的鱼生都吃……绝对不吃韩国人很喜欢的活生生的章鱼和生牛肉！
这一次，当我去首尔参加施厚君的生日会时，也想尝试他最喜欢的餐馆。这次对我可是生鲜的交易raw deal。
有一天，去探施厚君的电视剧“我黄金光辉的人生”拍摄景点后，我们决定去Sae Byuk Jib 새벽집或黎明之屋吃晚饭。这是一家米其林Michelin指南里推荐的餐厅。该指南的检查员介绍说：“这家24小时的小餐馆自1994年以来一直提供经典的韩国料理如拌饭，牛肉烧烤和炖菜。食物简单而美味，因为全天准备和应用新鲜的食材。外观和装饰简单，反映了它提供的食物。”我想补充一点，这家餐厅试图最大化的利用他们的空间，所以把餐席位放满到每一个角落，就像迷宫。 如果在这座位紧凑的餐厅里迷了路，不要感到惊讶哦！
有传言说，这是我们男神最喜欢的餐厅之一，他是常客。所以当我们预订时，也请求要施厚君先前坐过的座位。店主给了我们一间在餐厅后面的舒适小房间。也听说施厚君每次来管顾这家餐馆都会吃生牛肉拌饭Yukhoe Bibimbap。 作为galbi或牛肉餐厅，Sae Byuk Jib的Yukhoe或生牛肉拌饭是必须尝试的。 它是石锅拌饭配生牛肉。哎呀！ 施厚君，你为什么这么喜欢吃这菜肴，就不能吃别的吗？ 就因为你喜欢吃，我只好尝试一下，即使我不吃生牛肉！
I felt exactly how Oppa Choi felt about the spicy stewed fish
Yukhoe Bibimbap生牛肉石锅拌饭配上鲜美多彩的蔬菜和海藻，整齐地排列在米饭上面，最上面摆放着鲜红的生牛肉条。 套餐配有通常的开胃菜banchan，蔬菜沙拉和热腾腾的汤。 我喜欢他们的开胃菜banchan，特别是调味萝卜！ 我立即放弃了沙拉……因为是一盘葱花！
我的iPhone用完盛宴后，我就加入调味酱，开始混合Yukhoe Bibimbap生牛肉石锅拌饭。我必须说，即使是生牛肉，拌饭的味道也非常美味。如果不是因为我点了这道菜，我甚至不会知道里面有生牛肉！ 但从心理上来说，已经有了障碍。 所以我非常感谢有一小锅汤！ 但恐怖！ 第一勺发现了两大块凝结的牛血！ 这是牛墟Seonjitguk汤。是另一个测试敢量的一道菜！ 我当然没胆量啦！
幸运的是，那碗拌饭很大，满载着蔬菜和米饭，否则那天晚上我就会饿着肚子了！在一家米其林Michelin指南餐厅，我预计这餐会贵，但Yukhoe Bibimbap生牛肉石锅拌饭的套餐的价格才8,000韩元。
所以，不是个生鲜的交易raw deal哦！
Now, this is how I like my beef, Park Sihoo-ssi!
HOW TO GET THERE? 怎么去？
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Oh Dear, Nance, the things you don’t eat spring onion onion celery these are the basics I cook with so many dishes. I eat them almost everyday. Raw beef when it is of good quality and fresh, they are simply yummy. I can imagine when mixed into bibimbap the whole dish will be simply yummy, that’s why our man likes it. Nance, you and I are very different when it comes to food, I eat anything except dog and snake meat. 🙂
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 wait until you eat our award winning lamb you wouldn’t categorise lamb as lamb that has strong smell. I get remarks like the best meat they ever eaten despite be4 that they said exactly the same thing you just said. 😉
Hahaha! We do agree on the dog and snake though! But seriously, I don’t like the smell and strong taste of lamb. I remember making a trip to Inner Mongolia and they claimed to have the freshest lamb given their unspoiled environment.That was about the only meat they serve and since I was at an official banquet, I could not decline and had to eat it.I must admit, it was probably the most “edible” lamb I had and it was simply boiled. Even then, if I can decline, I would, just not my cut of meat 🙂
Raw beef.. Eeek ! PSH’s favourite or not….. definitely not for me !
Hahahah