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richardlang
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam
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 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: Bakeries not ready at 8am |
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| Back home fresh breads would be out and scones would be warm. |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreans hve rather different attitudes to bread. Always be careful buying in the morning. Make sure you're not getting yesterday's. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| well guess what...you're not back home |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Bakeries not ready at 8am |
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| richardlang wrote: |
| Back home fresh breads would be out and scones would be warm. |
Back home all the signs would be in English. HOOOOOO |
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richardlang
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
| well guess what...you're not back home |
I know. This is just an observation. |
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richardlang
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: Bakeries not ready at 8am |
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| Straphanger wrote: |
| richardlang wrote: |
| Back home fresh breads would be out and scones would be warm. |
Back home all the signs would be in English. HOOOOOO |
Yeah. |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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But you started a whole new topic about it! ALso you could have whined a bit more and made it a few sentences longer.
And a rebuttal
back in Australia most corner stores would be closed at 8:00. And those that are not are kilometers from my house. Here in Korea I can go at any time and 90 percent of supas will be open.
Welcome to Korea some things suck ass others do not. |
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johnny_larue
Joined: 09 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Skippy wrote: |
But you started a whole new topic about it! ALso you could have whined a bit more and made it a few sentences longer.
And a rebuttal
back in Australia most corner stores would be closed at 8:00. And those that are not are kilometers from my house. Here in Korea I can go at any time and 90 percent of supas will be open.
Welcome to Korea some things suck ass others do not. |
Most cornerstores are open 24 hours a day in Canada, unless you live in the middle of nowhere.
Fresh bread in the morning should also be expected. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| johnny_larue wrote: |
Most cornerstores are open 24 hours a day in Canada, unless you live in the middle of nowhere.
Fresh bread in the morning should also be expected. |
And Xavier will be around shortly to pick up your dry cleaning. Will you be taking your evening cocktail on the lanai or in your study, sir?
THIS IS NOT CANADA.
Get used to it. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:06 am Post subject: |
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pathetic isn't it - most of the good bread isn't out until 10:30am or 11:00am...
and even then the "garlic baguettes" usually have a tonne of sugar coated on them...
damn... I miss real garlic bread... |
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ryoga013
Joined: 23 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:31 am Post subject: |
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I see some of the coffee shops open at 9 or 10. I don't drink coffee that much but if I did and I wanted some before my morning shifts last winter session, I would have been more than pissy probably.
You can always make some of your own bread, not that hard and doesn't take too long. If you through it in the oven when you first wake up, it could be ready when you leave for work. That's fresh  |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
pathetic isn't it - most of the good bread isn't out until 10:30am or 11:00am...
and even then the "garlic baguettes" usually have a tonne of sugar coated on them...
damn... I miss real garlic bread... |
Well, I don't wanna say I'm the god of food here in Korea, but me, myself, and I would get a baguette, some butter, some garlic, and some salt, and probably try to figure something out in a toaster oven. |
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richardlang
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| I miss Great Harvest bakeries. |
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bobbybigfoot
Joined: 05 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:42 am Post subject: |
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I miss freshly brewed Timmy's coffee in the morning.
I miss the wicked smell of fresh bread from that bakery in Toronto. Opened at 6 am.
I miss that bagel bakery in Victoria, BC. Hot cinnamon - raisin bagels in one hand. Fresh java in the other.
I miss Swiss Chalet.
I miss my pizza from that ma and pa pizzeria in Ottawa.
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And when I'll leave here...
I'll miss sitting out front a corner store with a beer in the dead of summer.
I'll miss no tipping and no added tax.
I'll miss kimchi.
I'll miss the thousands and thousands of hot Korean girls parading around, classy, and never wh*re-like
I'll miss this part-time job that masquerades as full time work. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Bakeries not ready at 8am |
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| richardlang wrote: |
| Back home fresh breads would be out and scones would be warm. |
Korea is more of a night-owl culture. They don't like to generally open very early. Some of the baguettes are okay, but not stellar. Korea is not known for bread-making. The word for bread comes from either Portuguese or Spanish. It hasn't been around so long. It was only added to their diet probably within the last couple of centuries or so.
I am willing to wager than in the 1950s few Koreans ate bread.
As far as garlic bread, I do prefer garlic bread to be closer to the way garlic bread was made originally i.e. according to the Italian palate.
However, this is a different kind of Rome. So, if I want some garlic type of bread, I can get some rye bread from the Russian store (I like rye), and put some butter on the bread and chop up some garlic and bake it.
That's good enough for me.... I have a huge toaster oven.
It doesn't really bother me that I can't get fresh baked bread. I am not a big bread person. I try to reduce my bread consumption. I do love rye bread, though. I mean the dark, rather hard stuff. |
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