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| - What is a non-meat-eating, half-Korean gal to do? Since cutting most meat out of my diet, I had very rarely looked back... until it came time to go to a Korean BBQ with friends. It was the first time I found myself longingly craving meat. The bulgogi and samgupsal and even kimchi jigae was now pretty much off-limits.
However, I discovered that Miega is by far the most accomodating Korean restaurant in Cleveland when it comes to non-carnivores. It is not on the menu, but if they have the ingredients, they will make the most beautiful, delicious platter of vegetarian gim-bap (Korean sushi) with freshly cooked fried eggs. The kimchi jigae is already made vegetarian (the pork is added after the stew cooks, so it's easy to omit). My husband ordered vegetarian bibimbap and they left out the bulgogi and added tofu in one of the most beautifully-arranged bibimbaps I've ever seen!
I occasionally eat fish, and this is the place to have it! The grilled mackerel is delicious with rice and kimchi.
All of the banchan items that are served before the entrees have been delicious!
The servers are wonderful - I always enjoy trying to use the very, very small amount of conversational Korean I know with them, and they are happy to humor me and offer pronunciation help.
Tip: Another great thing about Miega (I hope/think) is that it is BYOB. We have brought a bottle of wine to dinner there a couple times. When I visited Korea, drinking soju with every meal was customary - I now tend to feel like any Korean dinner (well, I guess any dinner) seems more festive with a bottle shared with friends.
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