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[samd]

What an annoying thread.

First, learn the Korean for yourself. Asking for no meat is not that hard. Fork out for a book, look on the net, ask a Korean, for fvcks sake, how helpless can you be.

Second, a "kimbap restaurant" is unlikely to have any pure vegetarian items. Give up. Just eat meat.

Third, tell her to stop being so picky, and eat what she's given. Meat is good. There's plenty of people in the world who would love to eat meat at will, but can't. So don't squander your privilege, eat some cow.

[Hater Depot]

Man, it's so much fun to be pissy and self-righteous in some other group's thread. It's almost enough fun to make me wish I had a hobby, or a girlfriend.

[samd]

[Hater Depot]

Actually I don't really have any hobbies.. hmm. We could take up cross-stitching together. I know of one hot chick who likes it.

[samd]

Cross-stitching it is!

Sorry for the rude post above...

[revbribri]

Hey. So the short answer is that your bird will have to learn a bit of Korean. The good news is that there is food to be had, even at the local gimbab house. The bad news is that they'll get it wrong sometimes, and it's a pain in the neck to ask them to fix it, and not all places put the same stuff in food (some places put ground beef in bibimbap, some places don't).

Your/your bird's best bet is to get a vegetarian friend who knows the ropes. As kermit recommended, the veggie club is a good place to start.

Is your friend vegan or just vegetarian? If you like, you can drop me an e-mail at [email protected] and I can try to give you a crash course.

[ryouga013]

A lot of things have animal or animal product in it. Kimchi, depending on who makes it has fish protein. Most cafeteria soup will have fish or chicken stock. Many places don't clean the grill between meat and non-meat orders. If you are too picky, you will just have to start eating only raw foods that you make yourself just to be sure.

Man, at least this is one great thing about not being a finicky eater... a large variety of food being available to me.

[majolica]

yachae kimbap jusaeyo... ham baego, kyoran baego... kamsamnida!!

kyoran is the name of that egg omlet stuff... i don't know how correct it is, but i usually use it to get bibimbap without egg too.

[murr]

Crab seems not to be considered meat here either... I had an immense struggle explaining to a Korean friend and his wife that, no, sorry, I can't eat that white stuff. They insisted it was vegetarian... a bit of a deadlock.

[IncognitoHFX]

[Dome Vans]

Unfortunately you and your bird are going to have to work around it. There's just gonna be places that you can't eat. After being vegetarian for a while you realise that you're just gonna have to miss out. Kimbap places being a good example. I went to one with some friends for breakfast on a road trip. I had to take the bibimbap because that's the only thing I knew was definitely 100% meat/stock free.

In Seoul you stand a better chance of getting vege places to eat. I remember we went to a really good one in Insadong with the Seoul vege club.

I live way out in the sticks so when I go to a restaurant with my co-teacher he's well versed in what might be 'mistakingly' added to my food. The other thing is to go to the restaurants near the buddhist temples because they have tons of vegetable side dishes and tofu dishes.

[Dome Vans]

[Rteacher]

There are plenty of vegetarian restaurants and resources in Korea.

This thread lists most of them:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=53723