What would you eat if you could choose your last meal on earth? I was asked this question by LaoCook recently. This topic has been asked before and is the idea behind “My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals”.
Since the LaoCook is a professional chef at a world-class hotel in Spain, I was apprehensive at first. I don’t want to come off looking like a country bumpkin. The foods I picked don’t have fancy unpronounceable names or come from any region of France. These are foods I’ve loved eating up until now in my life. Maybe in the future there’ll be caviar and expensive champagne in my life, but for now, I’d be happy eating any of the foods below.
Lao-Ocean Girl is teaching English in Korea and describes herself as “a glass half full kind of girl”.
My Appetizers:
A decadent Cheese Platter of 8-10 varieties, most of them sharp and strong. Also throw in some Salami for good measure.
Steamed Oysters with Sweet Chilli sauce.
A fruit platter of: Blueberries, Blackberries, Durian, Jackfruit, Avocado, Persimmons, Mangoes, Custard Apples, Mangosteens, and Guavas.
Lightly buttered White Corn on the cob.
Main Dishes:
Extremely large variety of fresh Sushi, with extra Tuna Toro and Salmon.
Crispy Roast Duck.
Nhem (You call it Laotian Rice Salad. See picture and recipe here).
A bowl of Pho (a dish of perhaps Vietnamese origins with Rice Noodles served in a Stock (Broth) normally made with Beef bones (or Chicken) and cuts such as Oxtail, Flank etc…) with soft Beef Tendon, Fatty Brisket, well done Flank, and 2 Vietnamese Meatballs.
Dim sum of: Shumai (Steamed Pork and Shrimp/or Crab dumplings), Fung Jeow (Steamed Chicken’s feet), Har Gau (translucent Shrimp dumplings).
Desserts:
Sliced Mangoes on Coconut Sticky Rice (Thai style).
Balls of Mochi (Rice Cake) Ice Cream.
Flan.
Cream Puffs.
Drinks:
Starbuck’s blended Mocha Frappuccino.
Pocari Sweat (A popular Japanese Sports/Soft Drink).
And some Red Wine.
So, those are my choices. I just noticed there aren’t any Korean foods on my list. If I had to choose one, it’d be bo-saam. It’s fatty, I know, but delicious. Since being in Korea, I’ve learned to embrace the fat in foods. When I see foreigners cutting away the fat in samgyeopsal (3 layered pork), I shake my head and think, “They don’t know what they’re missing.”
What about you? It doesn’t have to be a long list. What are some things you’d definitely want to eat at your last meal???

























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