Here is what we ate, in order.

Medley of salad piles - Translucent mung bean noodles, pickled cucumber, threads of marinated beef and mushroom julienne, sprinkled with black-green seaweed
- Kaesung style mixed vegetable salad of bean-sprouts, radish, spinach and slices of dried persimmon
- Gold strands of jelly fish with Asian pear and cucumber in a mustard dressing served with thousand year old egg
More fried thingsRight: Some sort of seafood buchim (fried pancake)
Left: Unassuming deep-fried green pepper, a common sight at street cart vendors, but...
Ddukgalbi: rib meat that is minced, marinated, and reassembled into patties, sitting on cylindrical dduk (rice cakes)
Neobiani (royal bulgogi): marinated barbecue sirloin or rib-eye. Neobiani is cut thicker than bulgogi, no stock poured into it; traditionally no vegetables are supposed to be cooked with the beef. Delicious; didn't taste as candy-sweet as modern bulgogi.
For shiksa (literally "meal," but referring to the starch at the end of the meal that fills you up after you've eaten all the meat) the choices were nengmyun, bibimbap, or nooloongji.I chose nooloongji (burnt rice with water), which was served with a pungent dwenjang (soybean paste)
Dessert: thawed persimmon, dubbed "nature's chocolate" by Austrian dining companion
Watermelon, yakgwa (traditional cookie), and dduk (rice cake) served with maesil cha (plum tea)






