Today's recipe is Daeji Doenjang Jjigae. We were served this dish on the second day we arrived in Seoul. Soup (guk or tang) or jjigae (stew) is essential to Korean cuisine and is served at almost every meal with rice and banchans. Daeji is the Korean word for pork; Doen = thick; Jang = sauce, jjigae = stew. 

On November 8, 2022, after carefully planning our five-week trip to South Korea, we flew to Honolulu and excitedly boarded Korean Air for a ten-hour flight to Seoul. We planned to stay nine days in Seoul, then pick up a rental car and circle the entire country.