I recently went on a tour with ChunCheon SpeedBike. CCSB is a club of riders who are all really cool people and even better riders. I've been riding with them for most of this season and it's been a blast. Most of our tours involve going to eat lunch at some random place. A couple of weeks ago, we decided to go to HoengSeong to eat some HoengSeong Beef Soup. Now, if you don't know about Korean beef or don't live around Gangwon-do, you might not know about HoengSeong Beef. I don't like to say I am a connoisseur of beef, but I do eat a lot of it and let me tell you this,
HoengSeong beef is some of the best beef I have
ever ever ever had. The cows are never given
any steroids and are free-range as far as I know.
I've been to the HoengSeong cow farms and it looks like they are given great treatment... besides the fact that they are eventually cut up to be served as food. Anyways, I was excited and decided to bring my camera along.
The food we had can be seen in the picture to the right. You get a stone pot of beef stew and then another stone bowl on the side with rice. You take most of the rice and put it into your soup bowl and then pour some water into your rice bowl and put the wooden lid on it. While you eat your soup, the water and rice cook and you get something called 누룽지, which is basically burned rice porridge. I'd suggest you don't knock it until you try it because it is delicious.
The ride wasn't that long, it was probably about 20 minutes from HongCheon. CCSB started in ChunCheon of course, but I woke up late and decided to meet them by the bus terminal by my house. It wasn't the usual ride leader and we had a couple new faces in the group so the riding was a bit disorganized, but we all got there and back safe so I'd count it as a successful tour. It was an extremely hot day so most of us opted for vented gear. Although I don't own an exo-skeleton type jacket, I bet it was great in the heat. All in all, it was a fun ride and the food was great. Here's a short edited video of our highway ride. Enjoy.
