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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: Food-related skills picked up in Korea |
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I just finished writing a letter to family back home and thought this worth sharing (perhaps you could add some).
Skills picked up here in South Korea, notably food-related:
- how to spread peanut butter with the backend of a chopstick
- how to cut up a whole chicken with a pair of 'kitchen scissors'
- how to eat octopus while their tentacles are still moving about
- how to eat bacon-'n-leaves for dinner with tons of rice alcohol
- how to leave raw eggs out unrefrigerated on a 30 C afternoon
- how to prefer dried squid and green tea ice cream as snacks
- how to have hot pepper spice with everything, even chocolate
- how to sit cross legged and eat noisily to have good etiquette |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| - how to avoid eating Korean food. |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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My chopstick skills are better. They were not too bad when I arrived, but I find that the flat steel chopsticks are harder to use than the wooden split apart one, the square plastic Chinese ones, or the pointy light Japanese ones.
But when I go back to any of the latter three my skills have improved 
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: Re: Food-related skills picked up in Korea |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
- how to eat octopus while their tentacles are still moving about
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/barf
| VanIslander wrote: |
- how to prefer dried squid and green tea ice cream as snacks
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/double barf
... except for the ice cream. I've yet to taste a "green tea" item that wasn't at least slightly palatable. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| How to order cheap edible food over the phone |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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How to trim the fat off galbi and samgyupsal with scissors.
How to start a fat fire and freak out everyone in the restaurant (the trick is to jam the fat between the grill rungs into the fire itself so that it comes shooting up from below and there's nothing the ajumma or the family at the neighbouring table can do about it when they rush over to help you).
How to eat fried chicken with chopsticks, never touching the chicken with my hands. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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How to pick ALL MANNER of tiny bones out of fish with chopsticks...
How to use cardboard (folded over into various sizes) as everything from a hotcake (Hotuk) holder to yogurt spoon...
How to shock your Korean co-diners by soaking nogari in shik-cho...
How to get the meat off the bones in Kamjatang with one deft flick of the wrist...
How open a can of tuna WITHOUT getting the bloody oil all over you...
more to come... |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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I have to admit, now I've got used to cutting meat and vegetables up with scissors for cooking, I'll never use a knife again. It's so much quicker and easier.
Well, except for onions I guess. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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ow to pick ALL MANNER of tiny bones out of fish with chopsticks...
How to use cardboard (folded over into various sizes) as everything from a hotcake (Hotuk) holder to yogurt spoon...
How to shock your Korean co-diners by soaking nogari in shik-cho...
How to get the meat off the bones in Kamjatang with one deft flick of the wrist...
How open a can of tuna WITHOUT getting the bloody oil all over you...
more to come... |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Food-related skills picked up in Korea |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
I just finished writing a letter to family back home and thought this worth sharing (perhaps you could add some).
Skills picked up here in South Korea, notably food-related:
- how to spread peanut butter with the backend of a chopstick
- how to cut up a whole chicken with a pair of 'kitchen scissors'
- how to eat octopus while their tentacles are still moving about
- how to eat bacon-'n-leaves for dinner with tons of rice alcohol
- how to leave raw eggs out unrefrigerated on a 30 C afternoon
- how to prefer dried squid and green tea ice cream as snacks
- how to have hot pepper spice with everything, even chocolate
- how to sit cross legged and eat noisily to have good etiquette |
Where can you buy soju distilled from rice, I'd like to try some. |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
| ... find that the flat steel chopsticks are harder to use than the wooden split apart one, the square plastic Chinese ones, or the pointy light Japanese ones... |
I'm exactly the opposite. I hate the fat Chinese-style chopsticks. Can't use 'em worth a damn. The disposable "splitters" are useless - too short, and the very texture and feel of them in my mouth makes me cringe. The pointy Japanese ones aren't so terrible, but all in all I find the flat steel ones are the best. (Granted, it took some getting used to at first...)
Back to the OP:
* Eating raw fish.
* I never liked mustard before coming to Korea.
* Learning to cook a decent, healthy meal with what I have on hand.
* Pushing through crowds of ajummas at the markets / grocery stores without guilt or hesitation.
* Appreciating grocery stores in foreign countries (and smuggling various agricultural products back into Korea...) |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
How to get the meat off the bones in Kamjatang with one deft flick of the wrist...
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I'll believe it when I see it! |
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europe2seoul
Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: Re: Food-related skills picked up in Korea |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
- how to spread peanut butter with the backend of a chopstick
- how to cut up a whole chicken with a pair of 'kitchen scissors'
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Kitchen scissors are used for that - its their purpose. And they should not be quoted because those scissors are indeed for kitchen used mainly in West to cut up polutry and not for paper and other usage. Be it Korea or some other country.
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- how to eat bacon-'n-leaves for dinner with tons of rice alcohol
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It ain't bacon - it ain't cured & smoked.
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- how to leave raw eggs out unrefrigerated on a 30 C afternoon
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If fresh, sure. When it goes out of chicken it doesn't go automatically into the fridge. Also, eggs can keep up to 2 weeks not refrigerated but you need to turn them to keep all sides moist inside - ask any sailor.
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- how to have hot pepper spice with everything, even chocolate
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Been to Mexico, India and other countries that use spices to make food hot?
I reckon its your first and/or only country you lived except your home one. |
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europe2seoul
Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: Food-related skills picked up in Korea |
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| spliff wrote: |
| Where can you buy soju distilled from rice, I'd like to try some. |
In any big chain supermarket like E-Mart for example.
Andong soju....ain't gonna be 1000 won though. |
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