An Olympic Challenge: Eat All the Korean Food That Visitors Won’t
- 6 years ago
An Olympic Challenge: Eat All the Korean Food That Visitors Won’t
On a recent visit to Pyeongchang Hanwoo Town, a beef barbecue restaurant near Olympic Stadium, staff members apologetically informed us
that they weren’t serving any of their specialty raw beef dishes.
In our conversation, David Chang said it had been frustrating at times to see
that Korean food — beyond bibimbap, barbecue and kimchi — was still so inscrutable for so many people he encountered during the Olympics
It turned out that dried pollock (known as hwangtae in Korean) from Gangwon Province was served as the main course at the Feb. 10 lunch meeting between South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in,
and the high-level delegation visiting from the North.
I’d been talking to Chang, the famed chef and a fellow Korean-American, about the Olympics in South
Korea, where he spent 10 days this month working as a sort of culinary correspondent for NBC.
Our conversation turned to the local cuisine around Gangwon Province, which includes the Olympic cities of Gangneung
and Pyeongchang, and the extent to which people visiting the Winter Games here seemed to be engaging with it.
Go eat the snow crab!”
So I went to eat the snow crab.
On a recent visit to Pyeongchang Hanwoo Town, a beef barbecue restaurant near Olympic Stadium, staff members apologetically informed us
that they weren’t serving any of their specialty raw beef dishes.
In our conversation, David Chang said it had been frustrating at times to see
that Korean food — beyond bibimbap, barbecue and kimchi — was still so inscrutable for so many people he encountered during the Olympics
It turned out that dried pollock (known as hwangtae in Korean) from Gangwon Province was served as the main course at the Feb. 10 lunch meeting between South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in,
and the high-level delegation visiting from the North.
I’d been talking to Chang, the famed chef and a fellow Korean-American, about the Olympics in South
Korea, where he spent 10 days this month working as a sort of culinary correspondent for NBC.
Our conversation turned to the local cuisine around Gangwon Province, which includes the Olympic cities of Gangneung
and Pyeongchang, and the extent to which people visiting the Winter Games here seemed to be engaging with it.
Go eat the snow crab!”
So I went to eat the snow crab.