We began our morning in Suanbo, a little mountain town in the heart of the country. Our first adventure was hunting for Olgangi, a type of Korean marsh snail which would be used to make our hangover soup.
PAfter our soup of snail and greens we took off for a pheseant farm. Here we learned all about the birds and even got to get up and personal in their cage.
After catching our pheasant we took it over to the family’s restaurant which is supposed to be the first place in this town to serve the bird in modern times.
Even the ex-president ate here. Good stuff indeed.
The history of eating pheasant is steep in Korea. Mark wrote about it here. Read it.
We had a 6 course meal, ranging from breast tender sashimi to bone meat stew. It was fantastic. The bird has such a clean, mild, and tender flavor.
Preparing the sashimi with cucumber, apple, pear, garlic, and sesame oil & seeds.
Along with the aforementioned dishes we also had pheasant shabu shabu, minced pheasant dumplings (my favorite!), and pheasant bulgogi. We couldn’t have ended the trip on any higher note.
And finally, time to say goodbye.
Team Planeteers with the production crew. Thank you Hansik Foundation, we had a fantastic time!
this was fantastic I probably would love the pheasant that was prepared by the restaurant there, I love the post. Love you G’ma.