Chicken Kebab vs. Dackochi
Beside of the Mosque located at Itaewon in Seoul, there is a turkish restaurant which is very few in Korea. Even though it’s not that big but many Muslims are coming to this restaurant without pause. You can easily have ‘Kebab’ made out of turkish traditional skewered beef or mutton and mutton dishes with vegetables. I tried the food called ‘Chicken Shu Shu Kebab’ there. ‘Chicken Kebab’ is made with sauced chicken, skewered and cooked in oven. You can have it wrapped in turkish bread with onions, tomatoes and cabbage. Different from our pre-thought that they may use very strong spice, they don’t put almost any of them at all that it tastes very fresh and simple that fits to Korean. After ‘Kebab’ I also tried dessert called “Turkey Cookie” and it has really strong sweet taste that all the meat flavor remaining in the mouth is cleared up through it.
If I compare ‘Chicken Kebab’ with korean food, it’s similar to “Dackochi,” skewered chicken. It was very similar in skewering and roasting chicken. However, there are also many different points. First, you put much of spicy sauce on ‘Dackochi’ but in ‘Chicken Kebab’, they didn’t put any sauce except little bit of spice on the chicken. And we eat ‘Dackochi’ without anything else in Korea but the interesting thing in ‘Chicken Kebab’ is eating chicken with bread and many different kinds of vegetables. Lastly, when it comes to taste, ‘Dackochi’ has spicy chicken flavor but ‘Chicken Kebab’ tastes fresh and simple combining with meat, bread and vegetables.