On Thursday I probably had the best lunch (maybe even meal) I've ever had in Korea...and it was from our school cafeteria! It was a great surprise. We had fried duck/veggies and onions wrapped in white kimchi, with udong Soup, rice, and delicious dried/caramelized cuttlefish/squid. SO good. Somehow I ended up ordering a kilogram of this duck for myself from the food distributor so I'll be eating duck for the rest of my time in Korea.

Today's lunch wasn't bad, but it was a tad heavy on fish. It was fried fish, with process fish cakes (basically fish hot-dog), fish soup, rice and kimchi. I was thinking that in the west it would be equivalent to Chicken Wings served with hot dogs, beef stew and noodles.

Our lunches this year are a huge upgrade from last semester. I can remember one day where we had JaJangMyeon (Black Bean Sauce with Rice), and the sauce was SO bad that everybody just ate plain rice for lunch...not too fun.

I'm not sure if I've ever blogged about lunch time in a Korean school. I decided its about time since it really can make/break your day. Unlike back home, lunch is provided to all students and teachers. Its a set menu that is incredibly nutritious (I've heard in America the lunches are not healthy at all). At both school's I've worked at, the non-homeroom teachers eat in our own lunch room. Which often ends up being a very meditative meal for me since I don't usually understand what is being said and I'm often not included in conversations (but after 2 years of this, I've come to terms with it).

You can usually help yourself and the food usually looks like the photo below.