Jul 21
"We Didn't Order These" — The Truth About Korea's Free Side Dishes (Banchan)
The little plates you see in every K-drama — this is banchan. Photo: Matt @ PEK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons You’ve seen the tables in a hundred K-dramas — so crowded with little plates there’s barely room for the rice. It looks like a feast laid on for guests. Then it happens to you, at a real Korean restaurant, and for a second you’re sure there’s been a mistake. You order one thing. A…