Korea Part2

If you are a proper veggie and are in korea then you are in for some royal treatment. Based on my experience of 4 months 15 days i can vaguely let you know what you should expect here.

If you fall into the category of eating food which has "no meat, no fish, no egg" category ( like i am ) then surely its difficult for you here. But you can still find the below things that can be tweaked to bring that indian taste ;)

- Lassi : You get in various flavours: common one being plain , strawberry, mango, banana. Stick to plain !! , you will never regret.

- Samosa: This varies from place to place. Though, i haven't eaten like the ones you get in india though, but the ones here are usually eatable.

- Soup: Be prepared to add salt / pepper or else you feel like you are just drinking tap water with vegetables thrown in.

- Noodles: Go to some chinese restaurant and try explaining that you want simple vegetarian stuff. You will get one.

- Pizza : Go to pizza hut, point to the size of pizza you want to eat, point to all vegetable photos placed on display and you are done !!.

- Rice: You do get plain rice here, but its sticky as koreans eat rice with chopsticks. If you are not comfortable with this kind, there is a way to get biryani type rice. Read the menu and pick up the fried rice you want. Say, it has "shrimp fried rice" , Just order "shrimp fried rice without shrimp and egg !!" ( don't forget the egg part ) and you get your good old fried rice.

- Indian hotels. I was lucky enough to be "posted" in places which had atleast one indian hotel. Though food can become monotonic after some days in such places, but you don't have to sleep on an empty stomach.

- Ice creams. One of the things that i like in korea. Baskin robbins itself has 31 different flavours. Though strawberry has monopoly in the flavours available, the thing worth is the combination flavour. I kind of like it.

- Fruits . This is the best part. You get fresh fruits in all hotels ( Watermelon / pineapple and lichee being the normal ones). Visit homeplus and you get all grocery you can ever think of.

- You do get maggie too in korea in some other brand name, but i always doubted how "vegetarian" it is. If anyone tries it, please let me know :p


Right then, this is few of the things i could think of. More so, if i happen to visit korea again, i would use this list whenever i feel hungry :p