Bibimbab

Oh God I am happy today. I have just discovered a new lunch and it has everything going for it. All the different ingredients arranged in nice little bundles, sauce on the side AND an egg on top. What more could you possible ask for?

I go through phases of having the same thing for lunch everyday. For a while there it was the plain and simple cheese and tomato sandwich. There was also the sushi phase, the Vietnamese roll phase and the tuna dip roll phase. I am in need of a new phase and now I’ve found it in the form of Bibimbab. Lucky for me they serve this perfect dish at Koba in the food court of the building where I work. Even luckier for me they have a sign on the counter of Koba that explains it’s pronounced Bi Bim Bab. It can be pretty embarrassing when you can’t even pronounce the dish you want to order.

Apparently Bibimbab is a traditional Korean dish which translates as “Mixed Meal” and they recommend that before you tuck in you mix the different ingredients together. Are they mad??? It is so perfect to have all the different ingredients in their own little sections so you can mix and match every chopstick full to produce the perfect mouthful. I love it.

The egg on top is definitely the ‘piece of resistance’. It was my Dad that got me hooked on the idea of an egg on top being the making of a meal. He loves Nasi Goreng and I think the main attraction is that jewel of a fried egg on top. I love anything with an egg on top. Especially when the yolk is runny and you can split it and let all that creamy gold spill out. I’m really gushing here but I just love this new lunch. It’s filled with tasty morsels like mushrooms, carrot, zucchini, glass noodles, bean sprouts, spinach all atop some steamed rice and finished with that winner of a fried egg sprinkled with sesame seeds. You can have your bibimbab with a number of accompaniments like chicken, beef, prawns and raw tuna. I’m keen to try the raw tuna but recently Koba have been out of tuna so I have opted for the second choice of prawns which have been fantastic. There’s a hot chilli sauce on the side that you can add at your own discretion. Today I went all out and ended up with a very runny nose because by God does that sauce pack a punch.