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drunkenfud · Joined: 08 Mar 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7680371.stm

With added comedy gold "It will include spending $40m over the next two years to try to make Korean food as famous as French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Thai food. "

Troll_Bait · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

Korea a net importer of kimchi

sojourner1 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject:

Yes, a Korean guy told me this about a year ago. He said there's many problems with low quality kimchee from China.

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Trying to make Korean food as popular as Italian or Thai? Yeah, good luck there, Korea. Perhaps Korean barbecues might catch on in some places, but I really doubt a lot of other dishes would. I agree with what other people have said: Some Korean food is just peasant food, really.

I_Am_The_Kiwi · Joined: 10 Jun 2008

Save the $40 on trying to make people like shit food that they obviously wont. And maybe spend it on producing more kimchi for consumption in Korea. If other countries even do catch on you think theyll buy Korean Kimchi or the Chinese one that is cheaper.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Koreans totally got to take a lesson from the Thais. Koreans keep pushing kimchi, dwengjang jjijae, etc on the world and are surprised when it's not as popular as pizza. Thais on the other hand figured out North Americans loved the pad thai with the peanut sauce and satay with the peanut sauce. They learned to ramp down the spice and ramp up the hospitality. That brought 'em in by the droves. Now tastes have matured and people are moving onto the green curry dishes etc.

Koreans traditionally would greet whitey with wild eyed suspicion if they entered a Korean restaurant in the local K town. And their english menus were so poorly (or maybe accurately) translated as to revolt the average diner. And they didn't understand whitey doesn't shout across the restaurant to order or get the bill. Whitey just felt ignored.

And then their restaurants were extremely dingy and poorly appointed. I think that has a lot to do with trying to keep the prices down. Koreans have a very clear idea what they should be paying for kimbap (namely, what they'd pay in Korea) and get indigent when things like higher wages and taxes mean you have to charge $5 for a $2 kimbap.

Eventually a generational shift came and some younger Koreans understood Koreans have gateway dishes: heaps and heaps of meat being cooked in the middle of the table in a communal manner. It's the familiar (bbq'd meat) and the exotic (communal dining we associate with foreign dining experiences). It's at the point now where you can enter a Korean BBQ restaurant in Toronto and there isn't a Korean working there.

MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

Jeweltone · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Location: Seoul, S. Korea

Korean BBQ and tofu houses are quite popular in Northern California, especially Silicon Valley. The better BBQ houses (ie. clean and meeting USA health standards) will cost you about $40/person...for the meat! The tofu houses are more like Korean fast food places, and are usually less expensive.

There is even a Korean food place in the food court of the local shopping mall, but it is very watered down and flavorless.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

HBCCanuck · Joined: 19 Oct 2008 Location: HBC, Seoul

in vancouver there's tonnes of k-bbq spots.

korean food is great. why shouldn't it be promoted?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

sharkey · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Hobophobic · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Almost all the sushi places I've been to in Chicago were owned by Koreans.

Two of my friends worked at two separate places, and they both said they will never work for Koreans again.