Chicken Bibimbap: the most perfect food!!!
If you are eating out, I hope you come across a mom and pop Korean Food restaurant like the one I found today by happy chance.
Servings aren't gargantuous, and they are definitely cooked fresh from scratch.
Bibimbap has always been a favorite dish of mine, but because it's made with rice (actually bibimbap means mixed rice) I have shied away from it post op. But today, I asked if I could hold rice and my server was happy to oblige! But because I like my bibimbap in the hot stone she said it has to have rice. She offered brown rice instead and when said if she could just serve me 1/4-1/2 cup serving, she said sure!
The rice is place on bottom of hot stone, where a layer crisps and the pickled and steam vegetables, and chicken (or beef or pork or tofu) are placed beautifully on top of the rice and they crack a raw egg to finish cooking.
Korean custom is that you mix it all up with hot sauce so the egg cooks before you take first bite.
I mixed my veggies and chicken and egg and avoided the rice at all cost, there where a few stragglers but it was delicious!
I think all in all I ate about a cup of chicken and vegetables, including a few tablespoons of kimchi, before that alarming full feeling came. I packed the rest which was less than a cup without the rice, most of it was stuck on the pot. Before I would have scraped every single grain lol!
As I left the nice lady said "come back soon!" and I said thought oh goodness you're my new best friend!
After that I got a call from my new Bariatric post op care facility, we talked about the main things they can do for me post op. Nutrition, exercise and mental health support along with however many labs I am willing to pay a year, since my new health care exchange insurance doesn't cover bariatrics
I have sent their highly recommended therapist a request for an appointment.
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