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Well, I used to go out often for dinner in Korea to eat what Koreans almost always eat when they go out for dinner, Korean barbecue. The most popular kind of barbecue now and for the last 2-3 years is Samgyupsal which before cooking looks like strips of thick bacon. There are a few other types of this. Recently I went out to dinner and at first we had Sogeum Gui which is about the same but comes in large round pieces. I and three other adults enjoyed two rounds of this and one of Samgyupsal at a recent night out. There were many sides as always. After we had fried rice which is really good because after all the meat has been eaten, rice is put on the grill mixed with whatever is left of the sides which are some types of kimchi, some other vegetables and possibly some other foods. All is cooked in the oil which came from the pork. This ended up being one of the most delicious dinners I'd had in a long time. We also shared one bottle of beer and one of cider which is white stoda.

The part I want to talk about is this: because this meat has so much fat on it, in fact samgyupsal is 1/3 all fat, I cut it off the meat that I ate. I almost always do this. But when I was cutting it I realized my friend next to me liked the fat. So I cut each piece and took the meaty part and gave him the fatty part. Then I looked down at his place to see he had put several pieces of meat or fat on top of each other with a little sauce and was about to eat it like that. It looked like the piece on the botttom was a regular piece with meat and fat. The sauce was on that. Then there were three pieces on top. At least the top two were pieces of fat I had just given him, possibly all three were. I said to him: "It's a fat sandwich." And he laughed. The pieces are bite-sized by the way. Korean barbecue is always cut into small bite-sized pieces.

The amount tof calories, carbs, fat, protein and whatever else consumed on one of these outings is probably best not talked about.

Most adult Koreans consume alchohol with these dinners. Can be a little or a lot.

Introduction

This topic is worthy of its own blog. As of now I want to write about the Korean diet meaning what Koreans eat as well as the other meaning of diet, weight loss, in Korea.