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The pursuit of vegetables.
I came across the delightfully chewy vege-root last year at the Ice Queen diner on Aviemore Drive. The name is something of a misnomer, as the only thing my family and I ate were steamed buns, bland corn soup and salad, consisting of seaweed, bean sprouts and this never-before-seen rooty thing.
I did enjoy it.It was rather chewy due to the threads that run through it, and the marinade/dressing went with it very well.

Skip forward the better part of a year, and I am now on a ten hour long haul to Seoul. Oo, lunch! Bibimbap, PLEASE. And thus my next encounter with the wonderfully crunchy, yet chewy yellow-white rooty thing. Mm.. yummy.

So now, on a bored, meandering surf throuh the interwebs, I look up bibimbap, and riffle through the list of usual ingredients. Mm. Doraji. Google Image the word, and you find pictures of chilli sauced jullienned rooty things. They look positively hunger-denting, in my opinion.

And so I will try to find the things fresh, anywhere in New Zealand.