Its been over 5 months since we moved to Singapore and since then I have been eating out quite a bit. TH and I have lunch out and while he finds it difficult to find good food outside (he is a vegetarian), its slightly easier for me. I am a very selective non-veg eater and after marriage, have been mostly sticking to vegetarian food. I mostly ask restaurants to customize their dishes by removing any red meat and substituting with vegetables if possible, or sometimes chicken. This is not easy considering South East Asian Cuisine has meat and seafood atleast in a hidden way, in the form of fish sauce or pork lard used for cooking.
Anyway, since I normally experiment on different kinds of cuisines, I thought I will document some of the dishes here. The pics are going to be a bit fuzzy since I don’t carry my camera with me everywhere and use my phone mostly.
The other day, I went with 2 of my colleagues to a Korean restaurant called Seoul Kool and I tried the popular one dish Korean meal called Bibimbop (bee-beem-bop). Though normally served with beef, they also served the chicken version.
While we waited for our orders, they brought in 6 bowls with different starters. Unfortunately, I was only able to take a picture of half of them. There were steamed asparagus with chilli flakes, cabbage in some vinegar-chilly paste, mashed potatoes with some sort of seeds and white raisins, red beans in some sweet sauce (which was yummy), julienned carrots with spinach, tiny fish dried and fried (which I didn’t try since I don’t like dried fish).
The bibimbop came in a metal pot which was on a metal tray and it was *hot*. The dish looked pretty and colorful with all the components arranged in a nice manner. There was shredded chicken, fried seaweed, bean sprouts, cucumber, mushrooms, spinach, carrots, and some more unidentifiable vegetables and chilli noodles, all served on a bed of rice. We were supposed to mix it all well before eating. There is a also a leafy soup that can be added to it, along with some chilli paste. I tasted the soup and didn’t like it – the leaves tasted like they were dried before cooking.
Though the serving looked small, once I started eating it, I found it quite filling. Also, they kept refilling the starters too. It was wholesome and flavorful. I loved it!
Cost: S$ 12.90
Seoul Kool
Jong Gat Jip Holdings Pvt Ltd
Icon Village
12 Gopeng Street
Singapore – 078877
Ph: +65 6327 7761
Love the name of the dish and how it looks Nags!..:)
Cheers,
Siri
something new, and definitely interesting! I’ll check this out next time we go to a singaporean restaurant:) looks like you guys just loved it:D
I loooove bibimbap – especially the dolsot kind that comes in a stone pot. Other fave Korean dishes: jjangmyun (black bean noodles) and soondubo (soft tofu soup). Have yet to find good versions of these in Singapore.
This is one of my favorite dish.I love the taste.Thanks for sharing ur experience.
nice one nags…good that you enjoyed for clicking an empty bowl!…though I could hardly say those names correctly..:)
When we were in Egypt, we went to this korean place and the food was just superb.
Looks really nice, wish I could find a decent veg version somewhere. I have only had this at some food courts here, where they just leave out the beef & the egg for me.
I went for a Korean food fest recently – had this stuff. Most of it was good but there was some rice porridge so bland I couldn’t taste even a bit of salt in it. All those little starters were tasty!
Love that empty bowl picture… you took all these with a cellphone camera, they’ve turned out pretty nice! 🙂
Looking forward for more restaurant reviews;)
What a cute name that is.. bibimbap 🙂
Love the name of the dish and how it looks Nags!..:)
Cheers,
Siri
hi Naga, very interesting! Bibimbop looks very filling, and nutritious. Awesome starters too, and amazing that it was refilled..Love this post for the start towards restaurant reviews:-) Looking forward to more.
The empty bowl says it all. Bibimbop really is comfort food.