service

"Service" in Korean means on the house. Its a free little side dish that you get complimentry. Now in Canada this means salt, pepper, ketchup, etc. At a good bar this means peanuts or pretzels, but things on the house are not that common. Its too bad, but thats life.

In Korea they are all about the service. Usually there are more plates of service stuff than there are of regular stuff. The best part is that they are unending, if you eat it all, you can just ask for more.

Here is a picture of the food we ate at a wedding we went to. Now at the wedding the whole meal was free, but the side dishes are plentiful. (Vanessa posted this picture, but redundancy is not always bad)


Here is another picture that was posted before. We only ordered some meat on the grill, the rest were side dishes, all service. We had to move stuff off the table because there was too much stuff that was service (including kim chi, mini octupus, oysters, more kim chi, some egg, corn and other stuff).


Now comes the interesting one. At a bar. Now normally I associate nuts, pretzels, maybe some chips as bar food. But in Korea they have the goods. Bar service is impressive as it almost includes everything from the four food groups. Now its hard to see in this picture but the free food comes along with this meal includes: canned peaches, boiled egg, corn, popcorn, some fried pork, cold mashed potato and this ice cream dessert kinda thing with shaved ice. Crazy. Not the typical bar food that I am used to, but thats just my cultural narrow mindedness.