Dinner started with a plan to make Japchae and ended as a Korean spread I cooked and took over to my friends’ place 
I was halfway through making the Japchae in the afternoon when my friend called and invited me over.
But… I still wanted to eat Korean, so I did some quick menu thinking and called her back to ask if they were open to eating Korean. They didn’t have a plan yet, so it worked out well.
I finished the Japchae, made rice, then a quick store run to to buy meat and some banchan-ish stuff.
Snagged the last jar of kimchi at the store (woot!), and decided on Galbi over steak with Gochujang butter (because the fried rice was already pretty strongly flavored).
So the menu was:
Arugula salad with soy and sesame oil dressing
Scallion salad
Broccoli slaw banchan
Napa cabbage Kimchi
Wild mushroom Japchae
Bacon-Kimchi-Butter fried rice
Galbi
Manhattans to drink.
Man I missed Korean food while I was away!
