Day 58: Soupy Soup

I enjoy soup. I do, there is no lying here guys and dolls. When I was a kid, one of my favorite meals was chicken noodle soup and PB&J sammiches. I liked dipping the sammich into the soup and make it all soggy. Sure, it sounds gross, but we all know it tastes like magic and sunshine. Korea has some of the best soup-related products around. The picture above houses my favorite kind of soup-related product and also my favorite place that serves said soup-related product: 설농탕 (this one is a bitch to romanize, so I'm just going to leave it blank). It's a beef-broth soup, ever so lightly seasoned, with slices of beef, noodles, and green onions. Some like to eat it as it is, some may add some salt and pepper. Me? I go all out, traditional Korean baby. I add loads of kimchi (which is spicy), black pepper, and then I put the rice they give me into the soup to make it all soggy. The result is nothing shy of perfection any time of the day. I swear to god, I've gone days eating nothing but this. This place, though, kicks it up a notch by combining my two favorite foods, the 설농탕 and 만두국 (dumpling soup). So inside the soup there are some large, oh so delicious dumplings. Guys and dolls, this is certainly a good thing.