“사랑채(Sa-rang-chae)” literally meaning reception room, flashed into my eyes. Without any hesitation I pulled my legs toward this Han-ok and found that it was a restaurant, serving a rib stew.
From the entrance of “사랑채 (Sa-rang-chae)” a scent of rib-stew trickled out and coiled around me making my eyes into starved bull’s one and my mouth all watery. Soon noticing the chef of 사랑채 was watching me being embarrassed I regained my rationality and came back to a man and started blaming to myself ‘why did I stood so stupidly in front of the chef…… oh no he is keeping eyes on me.’ The chef slide in to me and opened his lips “Gotcha! looking for something to eat?” I nodded, in an instance the chef drove me into his restaurant, guided by my instinct; I the hungry boar couldn’t disobey his order. At first I wasn’t sure about this restaurant as rib stew is such a common dish in Korea, therefore in my mind I would eat to just to fill my devastated stomach however entering the 사랑채 all of my doubt towards the rib-stew vanished.
The restaurant was shambles, every one barged themselves into a crowd only to have the rib-stew. ‘What is so special about the rib-stew in this restaurant…… Excuse me is it that really nice? I mean the stew you are having.’ Asking was no good everyone got deafen and just replied “Try for yourself.” ‘Okay…… Well first things first let’s look for a seat.’ At the corner of the room two people left their seats, finding a space I jumped into a chaotic crowd, pushing and barging, creating a seat from chaos. Shortly after that the rib-stew showed its figure ‘it smells nice… but looks like an ordinary rib-stew then why people are so crazy about this thing?’ Just before taking a bite off, I still had a tiny doubt about this rib-stew. However a bite of a rib gave me a big shock and a scoop of the stew hit right in my head that I totally had wrong idea. Unlike other rib-stews, those in “사랑채” has a special soy sauce which resembles sauce you have at the “양념갈비 (Korean style rib barbeque)” therefore you can dip your ribs into a sauce and eat it just like “양념갈비” and plus side dishes are so arrogant, that 사랑채 must have stolen main dishes from nearby restaurant. They are served just like a main dish! To admit my chopstick never retreated from the sniffish side dishes. Everything was just perfect, satisfied with my harvest I crawled out from the 사랑채 holding my swollen stomach.