Samgyetang is a dish that Koreans typically eat in the summer, though it is available year round. It is a type of chicken soup (a whole chicken!) with ginseng. The whole chicken is boiled in the ginseng broth along with dried jujube fruits, garlic, ginger and glutinous rice. When we ate it, it came with some salt on the side for you to dip the incredible tender chicken is. I think even if I wasn't skilled at using chopsticks, eating samgyetang would be realitively easy because it literally just fell off the bone.
I'd love to try making it sometime on my own. Here's what it looks like:
Delish!
Samgyetang is absolutely wonderful. The first time I actually had it was a few nights ago at German Bar. Song had it cooking for a while and he fed it to our table of four. He sure didn't skimp on the ginseng which I know is not cheap. The best part is he didn't charge us for it! I'm definitely asking for this next time we've got a group going.
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