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Troll_Bait
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 Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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This is a little old (more than a week) but still relevant and interesting.
From the International Herald Tribune ...
This Chinatown lacks only one thing � Chinese
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All was quiet in South Korea's non-bustling new Chinatown on a recent weekday. The lunch-time trickle was over, leaving the streets as deserted as they had been in the morning. The shiny new arches, the ubiquitous red lanterns, the towering "Welcome to Chinatown" sign, all magnified the neighborhood's inactivity.
Hoping to lure ever-increasing numbers of Chinese tourists and investors, the local government here in Incheon, just outside Seoul, transformed a dilapidated Chinese toehold here into the country's first Chinatown four years ago.
In no time, officials in half a dozen other cities across the country announced plans to build their own Chinatowns, despite a host of obstacles ranging from a lack of capital to, well, a shortage of Chinese residents.
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"This is not a real Chinatown," Cho added. "It's a creation of the local government � very shallow and artificial. What is this? Do Chinese come here? No. There's nothing beautiful here. Plus the parking's terrible."
The Chinatowns' fitful progress � 400 Chinese now live here � reflected South Korea's larger ambivalence toward the reemergence of China.
South Korea has been strengthening ties with its big neighbor in recent years, even as it has put distance between it and the United States.
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europe2seoul
Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| europe2seoul wrote: |
| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
Do they have authentic dim sum? The type where they bring the carts around to your table and you choose the dishes you want? |
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europe2seoul
Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| stumptown wrote: |
| europe2seoul wrote: |
| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
Do they have authentic dim sum? The type where they bring the carts around to your table and you choose the dishes you want? |
Yeah right  An even an authentic one |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| stumptown wrote: |
| europe2seoul wrote: |
| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
Do they have authentic dim sum? The type where they bring the carts around to your table and you choose the dishes you want? |
I didn't see this. You may have to go to Jackie Chan's for this in Coex. |
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| rocklee wrote: |
| stumptown wrote: |
| europe2seoul wrote: |
| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
Do they have authentic dim sum? The type where they bring the carts around to your table and you choose the dishes you want? |
I didn't see this. You may have to go to Jackie Chan's for this in Coex. |
Just a quick question for everyone. Do you like Korean style restaurants or would you rather eat at a authentic Chinese restaurant. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| lowpo wrote: |
| rocklee wrote: |
| stumptown wrote: |
| europe2seoul wrote: |
| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
Do they have authentic dim sum? The type where they bring the carts around to your table and you choose the dishes you want? |
I didn't see this. You may have to go to Jackie Chan's for this in Coex. |
Just a quick question for everyone. Do you like Korean style restaurants or would you rather eat at a authentic Chinese restaurant. |
If you mean Korean Style Chinese food over authentic Chinese, then of course, authentic Chinese!
Authentic Korean over Authentic Chinese....? I'd opt for both on different days |
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seoulsucker
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Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| My [i]adult[i/] student, when asked what kind of Chinese food he liked, replied with a straight face, "Both. 짜장면 and 짬뽕." |
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mindmetoo
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| That was front page on the IHT a couple weeks back. I had to laugh. I think I read elsewhere that Korea pretty much rounded up all the Chinese in the '80s and deported them. Now they're like "oh ummm... sure wish we still had some of those Chinese people around." |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I haven't been in a while but I'm going this weekend to a restaurant in Seoul by Garibong that's owned by a Chinese immigrant and serves some of the most awesome authentic Chinese food I've had here. If you speak Korean, you can manage to order but I just point to the pictures on the menu. I'll post the directions if anyone's interested. I also have to write down the name because it's in hanja. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| stumptown wrote: |
| I haven't been in a while but I'm going this weekend to a restaurant in Seoul by Garibong that's owned by a Chinese immigrant and serves some of the most awesome authentic Chinese food I've had here. If you speak Korean, you can manage to order but I just point to the pictures on the menu. I'll post the directions if anyone's interested. I also have to write down the name because it's in hanja. |
Yes, please.
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thepeel
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I think some Chinese food is good. But, since I have been in Asia, I've realized that I previously didn't have a clue as to what Chinese food was. Think, Ho Lee Chow..
Back to the OP. I always thought it was strange that every large city in North America has a Chinatown but Korea did not. I guess they just felt the need to protect themselves from the cultural, political and economic monster to their north and west.
As the Koreans become more wealthy and thus confident (as opposed to their current streak of insular arrogance) about their culture, I think you will see more acceptance of outsiders expressing their cultural artifacts in Korean cities. Currently, they think of everything not Korean or American/Western as "dirty". Thai's are "dirty". Chinese are "dirty". Malay's are "dirty" Africans are "dirty". They need to get past that. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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I would love some shrimp lo mein. I'd always get the hot red pepper (oil and flakes mix) on the side so I can mix it in with the lo mein to make it more spicy.
Hunan chicken, egg foo young, crab rangoon. I'm so hungry right now. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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I had char-sew for lunch. Good stuff. But Chinese food (at least as cooked in Singapore) is very oily. Very very oily.
When I was in China I ate at few local haunts, and don't remember... But is Chinese food in China as oily as it is outside of China? |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: Re: A Chinatown that only lacks one thing: Chinese |
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| lowpo wrote: |
| rocklee wrote: |
| stumptown wrote: |
| europe2seoul wrote: |
| Food is pretty good there...Koreanized of course but still. |
Do they have authentic dim sum? The type where they bring the carts around to your table and you choose the dishes you want? |
I didn't see this. You may have to go to Jackie Chan's for this in Coex. |
Just a quick question for everyone. Do you like Korean style restaurants or would you rather eat at a authentic Chinese restaurant. |
The latter. |
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