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OOC: Grilled Fish

The last entry in Sythyry’s journal featured very importantly a grilled fish. This was slightly real-life flavored. I, too, have been craving grilled fish.

[livejournal.com profile] beetiger and I went out on our regularly-scheduled Friday night nice dinner of delight and happiness, this time at a fun Korean place called Kalbi House. (It is not the place that Tamvaus is modelled after.) I was whiffling about wanting grilled fish on the way there. However, Kalbi House doesn't have any grilled fish options that are shareable with a pregnant woman. She offered to go somewhere else instead, but I wanted all the amazing Korean side dishes more than a grilled fish.

Korean restaurants generally come with a pile of little side dishes. Kim chi (spicy pickled cabbage), shredded daikon radish in vinegar, seaweed salad, sweet black beans, barbeque potatoes, macaroni salad with Japanese crabstick … there are dozens of possibilities, and the restaurants do half a dozen each evening. Kalbi House often has a special featured side dish, brought to your table in mid-meal. Last time it was fresh kim chi, before it fermented, and it was really neat to do the side-by-side comparison.

Tonight's was grilled fish.

Named Inihithre.

(Well, we named it ourselves. [livejournal.com profile] beetiger had named the grilled beef "Milwaukee". The side dishes were anonymous.)

It was a pike-mackerel: a little pointy-beaked fish about a foot long and not very thick, grilled with lemon and salt maybe. Nothing terribly fancy. But very very fun, after I had been hoping for grilled fish.

I was stunned and delighted.

I am beginning to wonder if some gods or other are reading my livejournal, though.

Date: 2003-08-22 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com
That is wonderful!
Korean House on El Camino here does a VERY respectable spread of sides (around 14) and seems to take perverse pride in refilling lavishly whatever you empty. But they don't do the mid-course thing. Too nifty.
And thank you, I do believe some random weeknight when I am feed-me-or-I-turn-cannibal hungry immediately afterwork your timely reminder of the existance of said place will save Paka's life.

Date: 2003-08-22 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tyrantmouth.livejournal.com
Good kim chi is like crack. I love the stuff.

Date: 2003-08-22 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n.livejournal.com
I admit it, I'm reading your LiveJournal! But alas, I am just a lesser god.

The god of caffeine and biscuits, no less.

Go me :D

-ASTN-

Date: 2003-08-23 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com
If it had been a caffeinated, bisculated fish, I would know to thank you... as it is, was it you?

Date: 2003-08-23 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n.livejournal.com
Alas, it was not. Nor do I know who it was. We lesser gods know so little these days. I could try and ask the god of crumpets if he knows?

Date: 2003-08-22 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blither.livejournal.com
Joy to the fish! I am pleased for you.

Date: 2003-08-23 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmsword.livejournal.com
Teh, God of Typographical Errors reporting in.

Date: 2003-08-26 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwurm.livejournal.com
That is too cool! If there are deities reading your livejournal, I hope that they aren't the ones that Sythery and Strenata ate for dessert. Or if they are, that they found it as amusing as I did. ;>

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