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princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

I don't eat much of it, because today's rice is not healthy like the rice one's grandparents ate. Today it is just nasty refined sugar, fat and it's fortified with God knows what. It's so funny when I have a pile of kimchi on my plate at lunch time and the kids ask "Teacher, why no rice"?

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

I find myself unsatisifed if I don't have some carbs with my meal, and here that usually means rice.

Luckily I like it. Rice is good.

Privateer · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.

What a whiny thread!

I was taught to finish what's on your plate and eat what's put in front of you, otherwise you look like a spoiled brat.

This has never failed to keep the host happy no matter what country I've been in - although I hear in China it's better to leave a little food untouched or they'll never stop giving you extra helpings.

And if you're bored with an unvarying diet, then vary it. No one's forcing you to eat Korean food every meal, or, for that matter, the same Korean dish every meal.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

I used to do this whever I had bulgogi. Mix white rice with the soy maranade. It's really delicious

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

I raved for ten minutes about how much I love gimchi and dangcho gimbap, dukalbi, mayoon tang, haemul tang, gimchi dzigae

and my Korean coworkers loved it

but then I said "no thanks" to the rice and reached for extra gimchi, honestly mentioned how I can only eat rice twice or three times a week, that every day is too much, is blah, because I grew up having it only once a week or every two weeks...

and I offended three of the five Korean teachers at the dinner table Confused

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

rice is good!
i'm not too big on straight up plain white rice, but if you eat it WITH something, it's pretty good.

and they have a number of different varieties.
one jjigae place i used to go to switched to this purple rice, i don't know the name of it, but it's supposed to be healthier.
there's also brown rice or 5 grain rice if you wanna try those.

as long as it's complimenting something, it's all good.

but, i've never been given just straight rice to eat. it always comes with something. mix it up and be happy~

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:32 am Post subject:

steak is my favourite food but I don't eat it every day.

How is it that with no variation in diet, then these hags after THE TURn, as described in the "Don't Do it, Boys!" thread, take to wearing the cyborg masks and cannot figure out the osteoporosis-Korean logic at its best.

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