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lizziebennet
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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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No it's the same one! Been there for 20 years or something... Even my Saudi students had been to it or heard of it!
Thanks for that. Is grocery (in that context) an American or British term? I learn new things everyday!
They do love Korean TV shows. I remember seeing a bunch of students who got together and made a Korean stand at a cultural day at KAU.
They even made Kimchi and Bulgogi. |
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hsm
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I suggest you take a taxi,,,some taxi drivers know the city more than expats and maybe locals... |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:43 am Post subject: |
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Hey Lizzie... yes we Americans call wherever we buy our food a grocery store. I had to learn to say "super market" when I got to the Middle East.
Don't even remind me of kimchi. In the US, back in the 70s, I got a new Korean neighbor... lovely woman. She worked two full time jobs and then 2 or 3 nights a week she would be preparing kimchi... all night. The stench would waft into my flat and I would wake up gagging and choking, unable to sleep for the rest of the night. I finally had to sell that condominium because I couldn't take it any more. Even my clothes reeked of kimchi.
Thanks for reminding me... 
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
...and then 2 or 3 nights a week she would be preparing kimchi... all night.
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By "preparing", you mean canning or packaging. Koreans don't actually "prepare", kimchi...God does...in big earthen jars up on the roofs where they sit and sit and ferment and ferment for a month or so at a time.
As a lover of garlic, I LOVE kimchi (xox VS ) !!! I have very good memories of being in Chonan, sitting with my Korean students, munching on kimchi and soaking up the Makkoli until amnesia took hold...
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Rather reminded me of rotting sauerkraut... something else that is great while you eat it, but the stink is bad... but, less than half as bad as kimchi. I don't know what part of the process she was in... I only know the putrid results.
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lizziebennet
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Hey V.S
I lived in Korea on and off for 5 years. The whole country smells like that 
I love Kimchi so no problem!
Of course I know what a grocery store is and groceries are lol!!! We use that word here and i have been teaching American English for a few years.
For example I now call a rubbish bin a trash can or a flat an apartment,
NCTBA used 'grocery' as a name for a structure attached to a house not a grocery store. He also used compound to refer to a freestanding double story house that has walls.
I don't remember hearing 'grocery' used in this manner although it may have been in some of the old books I read. I am also not used to the word compound being used for such a small structure. |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| lizziebennet wrote: |
Hey V.S
I lived in Korea on and off for 5 years. The whole country smells like that
I love Kimchi so no problem!
Of course I know what a grocery store is and groceries are lol!!! We use that word here and i have been teaching American English for a few years.
For example I now call a rubbish bin a trash can or a flat an apartment,
NCTBA used 'grocery' as a name for a structure attached to a house not a grocery store. He also used compound to refer to a freestanding double story house that has walls.
I don't remember hearing 'grocery' used in this manner although it may have been in some of the old books I read. I am also not used to the word compound being used for such a small structure. |
La! I simply dropped "store" from "Grocery". I don't know if it's a Southernism or not...I grew up all over the world and have Northern and Souhern influences is my family. For example, I might say "coke" and VS will say "pop", but they both refer to a sweetened carbinated beverage of ANY name. I hafta ask myself, WWJS...What Would Johnslat Say?
"Grocery" activities take place within a structure in most places. So, the term "store" becomes superfluous...
A compound, in the American sense, can mean a place where the family lives or meets...as in "Joe, Jack and Bobby always loved to go sailing when at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port".
As for "old book"...and I quote my favourite...
The body of
B. Franklin, Printer
(Like the Cover of an Old Book
Its Contents torn Out
And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be Lost;
For it will (as he Believ'd) Appear once More
In a New and More Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author.
It did...in my son...
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lizziebennet
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hah hah! It seems I have a lot to learn when it comes to American vocabulary.
I never saw a grocery store attached to the building.
I have an image of the restaurant in my mind and it is possible that you have a different image in your mind . |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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I'm thinking that you might not want to know what visions are lurking in NCTBA's mind.
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| I might say "coke" and VS will say "pop", but they both refer to a sweetened carbinated beverage of ANY name. |
Really? You use "coke"? Not "soda"? Pop is norm in the prairies, but I use soda after my years in the Mid-Atlantic.
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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American vocab is funny, eh? Where exactly does a "sofa" become a "couch"...somewhere around St. Louis?
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lcanupp1964
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I found the Korean restaurant. The food was very good. I stuffed myself silly and paid around 70 SR. The phone number is: 6604769 and the cell number is: 0569354989. It is a little out of the way and hard to find, but it is close to the Iranian and Turkish embassies. It is near the corner of Arafat Street and Madinah Road. It is open from 16:30-22:00. |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Great!
O.K., we're ready...next conundrum???
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lizziebennet
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The funniest difference for me is the word 'fanny'.
A fanny is a woman's private area. So if I hear someone say 'I fell on my fanny' it makes me giggle. |
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lizziebennet
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Great ican! Last time I was there the Korean owner was on vacation in Korea.
My Korean friends warned me not to go because they had heard via the Korean grapevine that the food was terrible.
I was really craving Korean food so went anyway. And it was terrible! I ordered an jjang pong bab (spicy seafood soup with rice) and it didn't taste anything like a jjang pong bab.
I had to send it back and ordered a Kimchi Jigae instead which was much better!
The first time I went there with Korean friends, I whipped out some Korean and the owner gave me a free paljeon (Korean pizza which is actually more like an omlette).
BTW they used to have a Korean Buffet on Fridays.
I guess you can phone and ask if it is running again (it wasn't while the owner was away). |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Always stick with the Kimchi Chigae...even better, Soondaebu (Sic.) Chigae...
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