I know I promised the last of my formal Bombay restaurant reports today but it is has long been established that I am a liar. Also, do you really care? I’ll have that report on Thursday. Possibly. In the meantime, here is a report on a one-dish meal eaten on one of our program outings from Seoul in February. During our second week here we woke up bright and early one morning and headed off in a coach to the DMZ. Early rising and some snow-related delays aside, it was a fascinating day—though I never need to go into that cramped North Korean tunnel again. But this is not a travel blog and so I am not going to tell you about what you can see if you go on one of these DMZ trips from Seoul. All I am going to tell you about is the lunch we ate. Fittingly, it was centered on budae jjigae or “army/military” jigae. Continue reading →