Cycle 13 – Item 228
21 (Sun) August 2022
Naeng Myeon
2.0
at Madangjip
-Hanlim, Jeju, Republic of Korea-
with MtG + family, et al.
Dive Trip to Jeju, Day 3
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- Day 1 (13.226 Sea Urchin Bibimbap)
- Day 2 (13.227 SPAM Sticks)
- Day 3 (13.228 Naeng Myeon)
Solo dive trip. First time diving in almost exactly 2.5 years – previously 16 February 2020 in the Philippines, a month before the pandemic lock-down of Manila on 16 March 2020. First time diving in Korea – ever. First time visiting Jeju in over 15 years – previously 18 May 2007 for a faculty workshop when I was a professor at AUSOM, pre-GMTD. The plan was to recon the local diving scene, with an eye towards bringing the family next time.
DINNER
Madangjip is a Korean restaurant. Specializes in grilled pork, though not Jeju’s famous black pig (see for example 13.226 Sea Urchin Bibimbap).
(As MtG explained, the group had agreed to a tight budget that precluded luxuries like black pig.)
By coincidence, MtG is in Jeju this weekend, along with his family and the families of his kid’s school friends.
We met up for dinner on the final night.
Having eaten meat over the past couple days – including SPAM last night – I was in no mood to eat meat again, certainly not pork that wasn’t derived from black pigs.
The only item on the menu that I was willing to eat was the bibim naeng myeon (BNM).
It wasn’t very good.
I will describe BNM in greater detail someday, but not this time.
(See also HANSIK)
(See also RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)
(See also BOOZE)