This blog presents a visual archive of the school lunches eaten by a non-Korean English teacher in Daegu, South Korea.
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Clockwise from top left: hamburger nugget in vegetable sauce; seafood pancake; kimchi; daikon and other vegetables in perilla broth; rice with mixed grains and strawberries.
I could have taken more than one hamburger nugget, but I only wanted one.
쇠고기찹스테이크, 해물파전, 배추김치, 들깨무채국, 잡곡밥, 딸기
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This lunch was insane!
Clockwise from top left: stir-fried duck and onion; lettuce, perilla leaf and an unnamed other green; ssamjang, kimchi and raw carrots and cucumbers; udon soup with skewered fish cakes; rice and a fried cheese stick.
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Clockwise from top left: soy sauce, sesame seeds, chopped scallion; fried chicken with lightly pickled scallion; tiramisu Denmark Yogurt; cheonggukjang; fried rice with bean sprouts, shredded seaweed and kimchi.
Cucumber and Chinese bellflower pickled in a spicy sauce was available, but I didn’t take any. Some days I just don’t want so much red food.
콩나물밥/소스, 청국장찌개, 파닭, 배추김치, 덴마크요구르트
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Clockwise from top left: cheese buldak (a mixture of gochujang, chicken chunks and joraengitteok baked under a thick blanket of cheese food); young pumpkin and shrimp pancake; kimchi; yukgaejang; sorghum and white and brown rice.
치즈불닭, 애호박새우살전, 배추김치, 육개장, 현미수수밥
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This is the final lunch that I ate at my previous school. Clockwise from top left: kimchi and ssamjang (a mixture of fermented soybean paste and red-pepper paste); raw perilla leaves; raw green pepper; sauteed duck and onions; fermented soybean paste soup containing greens and tofu; white and purple rice.
전 학교에서 마지막 먹은 점심: 김치, 쌈장, 깻잎, 고추, 오리야채볶음, 된장국, 밥
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Clockwise from top left: kimchi; battered and fried slices of sweet potato; sliced pineapple; eggs, mushrooms, bean sprouts and slivered hot pepper in chicken broth; bibimbap with egg, gochujang and ground-beef sauce, and steamed vegetables including squash, carrot, greens, and bean sprouts.
My breakfast today also included egg and pineapple.
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Clockwise from top left: kimchi; chicken jjim; ground-beef and garlic-chive pancake; soup with squares of fish cake, mushrooms and leeks; rice.
I don’t know why this picture turned out so terribly.
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Clockwise from top left: kimchi; soft taco containing one strip of breaded chicken, one tomato slice, shredded raw cabbage, apple-flavored dressing; tangerine; steamed greens in fermented soybean paste dressing; fermented soybean paste soup containing mushrooms, tofu and (too) many sea squirts; rice with bean sprouts and seaweed, topped with soy sauce, scallions and red pepper flakes.
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Clockwise from top left: radish kimchi; unidentified-meat dongaseu with honey mustard; spaghetti Bolognese; kimchi and bean sprout jjigae; rice.
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Clockwise from top left: kimchi; cold steamed bean sprouts with ham and crab stick; fried yam slices in sweet sauce with black sesame seeds; ddeokguk; rice.