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
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.
Clockwise from top left: cheese buldak (a mixture of gochujang, chicken chunks and joraengi tteok 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
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
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.
Clockwise from top left: lightly pickled radish and cucumber with sesame seeds; breaded fried pork cutlet with mushroom sauce; sliced apples, bananas and tangerines in sweet mayonnaise dressing; fermented soybean paste soup containing greens and mushrooms; rice.
One of my co-workers liked the fruit and mayonnaise concoction so much that she filled her lunch tray’s bottom-right soup zone with it. She used a separate bowl for her soup.
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.
Clockwise from top left: radish kimchi; unidentified-meat dongaseu with honey mustard; spaghetti Bolognese; kimchi and bean sprout jjigae; rice.
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.
Clockwise from top left: kimchi; calamari rings with soy sauce; sliced mushrooms and Korean chives in gochujang sauce; generic “Korean” vegetable soup; rice and patjuk (red bean porridge). As you may see from clicking the patjuk link, patjuk is eaten to commemorate the winter solstice.
