Office Appropriate Korean Food
Okay, let’s be honest. I cannot eat Korean food without 100 napkins and making a mess all over the place. It’s so bad that at the end of the meal, as Eric and I are cleaning up, his place setting is spotless while mine is riddled with sauce spots and random food particles. Essentially, when it comes to Korean food, I’m a five year old child.
Bulgogi (I haven’t yet written about cooking it since Eric and I make it all. the. time), is essentially eaten by taking meat, rice, spicy red bean paste and whatever sides you have on hand and then wrapping it in a lettuce leaf. Eric recommends shoving the whole thing in your mouth, while I prefer to do eat it a little at a time. The best picture I can find online is this:
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You get the point. Rice, meat and what not is always falling out of my wrap onto the table.
So today, as I took my fixings for left over bulgogi out of my office fridge, I paused a second. What if I made it into a salad?
I tore up the lettuce leaves, julienned the sesame leaves, added pickled garlic and a carrot to form the base salad, to which I added the warmed leftover bulgogi meat. The “dressing” consisted of the juices from the meat, a dash of the juices from the pickled garlic and a nice dollop of the spicy bean paste. The warm meat helped melt it a little bit and spread consistently over the entire salad when shaken.
The result? A gorgeous salad and a clean desktop: Mission accomplished. And while yes, it wasn’t as good as true bulgogi (a meal that would be included in my death meal week line up), it was so much easier and appropriate to eat in an office setting.
