For me, it's a hot bowl of rice and oxtail soup with green onion sprinkled on top! When my mom brings home oxtail, I do a little happy dance since I KNOW it's going into oxtail soup. I love to suck on the cartilage on the bone caps, and sprinkle a generous pinch salt just on the meat before dissolving the salt into the soup. Sometimes, my mom adds radish (think: turnips from animal crossing) to the soup and it makes it slightly sweet and the veg adds a really nice texture and flavor. But I like my soup the best with just oxtails.
There are two main "ways" to eat soup and rice in Korea: you can eat with the rice already submerged in the soup, or eat the soup separately from the rice. I like my soup a "third way," which is to scoop some rice up in a spoon, then dunk the spoon into the soup. That way, each bite of rice is perfectly mixed with soup and none of the rice gets mushy for being TOO soupy.
