Bawk.
Chicken. I’ve had more than my share these past couple weeks, and I think it’s safe to say that my Chicken Phase is over. During my Chicken Phase, I craved chicken like nobody’s business. As in for every meal. One day, I had chicken for two meals, and they were both dinner (but with different people and different restaurants, of course). When going out to eat with friends, I would coyly suggest trying out a new chicken place (as if I hadn’t just had it! hah!). When my cousins came over, guess what I told them we should eat? The apex of my Chicken Phase came one night when I was alone for dinner and looked at my dismally stocked fridge. I had a bright idea - why not order chicken!
Chicken and chips at The Frypan.
My favorite chicken place in Korea — Goobnae Chicken.
As I sat and tore through a box of delivery chicken at home that night, eating the way girls do when boys aren’t around, I kind of just looked at the growing mound of bones and realized that I wasn’t going to be craving chicken for a long, long time. It was a peaceful realization. I mean, I didn’t feel at all sickened or disgusted with the amount of chicken I had consumed, but I could just sense that my craving had been filled and was now maybe on the brink of overflowing.
Except the next morning I had the leftovers as breakfast. But really, Chicken Phase is over.
Which is good, since Seoul is so much fun for eating.
Food!
Today I ate more than I had any right to, but I don’t have photos of my beautiful meals. Instead, I have these meal-for-one snapshots taken over the past few days.
Homemade zucchini walnut bread with coffee
I LOVE the green onion kimchi on the left. I’ve been eating it with almost every meal I have at home. The zucchini was leftover from the zucchini bread, and I added barley + flax powder to my regular white rice. Miam!
A reincarnation of the same meal, with a tofu-spinach-mushroom stir-fry.
