What did you cook or eat today (September 2025)?

Blue cheeseburger, onion rings
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Some things I ate in Korea on this trip:

'Mandu' - dumplings:
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Grilled chicken skewer:
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Convenience store fried chicken and Fanta Zero which I absolutely love; I've not seen this in Singapore or anywhere else:
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Now this purple vegetable I discovered is actually the stems of fern plants - I loved it. It's chewy and savoury:
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Om nom nom:
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KFC. Korean Fried Chicken. Double-fried and super crispy and succulent:
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Street food: tteokbokki rice cake, fried stuff, Korean sausage stew thing:
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More dumpling - kimchi and pork filling:
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Gimbap rice roll. These are great and found in all convenience stores which are virtually every other street block. huge variety and delicious. Great when hiking:
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Some kind of beansprout side salad with a sweetish chili sauce:
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K-BBQ:
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Fried dumplings:
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Two flavours of fried chicken:
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Onigiri and an ice cream - it was nice because it had strawberry sauce at the top and then surprised me by being apple underneath:
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Beer flight after a hard morning's hiking:
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Another K-bbq deep in locals' area:
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Cheese curry croquette:
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The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - a lamb kebab!
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Makgeoli - unfiltered rice wine.
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Gejang - raw marinated crabs:
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McDonald's Pepperoni burger - I had to try it. It was alright!
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Rotisserie chicken. Bit overpriced for an 'ok' roast chicken, but it was a fun night drinking beer and pulling at it with hands.
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Street food: tteokbokki rice cake, fried stuff, Korean sausage stew thing:
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More dumpling - kimchi and pork filling:
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Gimbap rice roll. These are great and found in all convenience stores which are virtually every other street block. huge variety and delicious. Great when hiking:
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Some kind of beansprout side salad with a sweetish chili sauce:
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K-BBQ:
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Fried dumplings:
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I’m jealous. What a trip.
If I was ever going to go on a wild abandoning of coeliacs disease and just eat anything I wanted that is exactly the place I’d want to do it!
 
I’m jealous. What a trip.
If I was ever going to go on a wild abandoning of coeliacs disease and just eat anything I wanted that is exactly the place I’d want to do it!

It's actually really easy to avoid gluten over there as they eat A LOT of meat (and seafood and of course SPAM lol), surrounded by A LOT of vegetable side dishes. :)
 
It's actually really easy to avoid gluten over there as they eat A LOT of meat (and seafood and of course SPAM lol), surrounded by A LOT of vegetable side dishes. :)
They can keep the bloomin’ spam 😂
I was told the same thing about Nepal and Tibet but the lack of understanding about what gluten is meant I couldn’t be confident about the answers I was getting. They would politely tell me what they thought I wanted to hear and would say things like yes, yes it has gluten, then when I managed to communicate I didn’t want gluten they’d say oh no no gluten 🤣
 
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