Korean Job Discussion Forums

[weatherman]

tsgarp, we all get what you are saying, and if we all lived in Seoul and looked and scouted out the interesting eateries, I guess we would all be cool in your book. You talk about the homogeneity of western chain food and you have your point. But your point about chains limiting diversity of food is not. If anything costumers react to this marketing by doing what you did, finding the mom and pop operations that serve great and interesting food. This is so true of most large urban areas in North America. What about Korea, what Korea outside of Seoul and Busan? You talk about the homogeniety of food, well Korea has you beat. I go out to the front gate of my school, and their are many mom and pop restaurants all serving the same food. Very little diversity amoung all the restaurants out there. So the inclussion of a place like TGI Fridays is diversity. It is all relative. I can get my favorite tuna Kimchi che-gae at about 5 places at my school's front gate all tasting about the same....that is homogeniety of food, or if I so feel like, (which I haven't yet) I could spend a pleasant lunch having a burger the likes I haven't eaten in years.... six in onehalf a dozen the other around here, you make the call.... all eateries being local in the end.

[Zyzyfer]

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

[The King of Kwangju]

[Corporal]

[lush72]

[tsgarp]

Angry? I couldn't be less so. I just shoot from the hip. Corporal, judging by the tenor of your posts one could make some interesting remarks about you but I bet you would be the first to say what someone posts and whatsome is off the board are two different things. I do admit to being sardonic and cynical but I don't see any anger. As for winning friends and influencing people, it seems to be working. Look at Lush, I've already got a board stalker.

[Down from Above]

[tsgarp]

[kangnamdragon]

Why does the manager have to get permission from Seoul to add somthing to the menu which is already on the menu in Seoul?

It is worth paying 12,000 for a good burger here in Seoul once in a while.

I don't see why Koreans cannot get the burgers too unless they will be losing money on the deals.

[kangnamdragon]

[tsgarp]

Australian Beef tastes different because it is grass fed vs corn fed. Argentine beef is now big in demand in the States for people who want a more flavorful beef. Actually this is kind of backwards, it's the corn fed beef that's off in flavor. I think this is why I've heard NA's complain about Korean beef but I've never heard Aussies or Kiwis complain.

[dogbert]

[tsgarp]

Good link, I think though you can see that the grain and straw feed of Korean cows definitely results in a flavor closer to grass fed cows as opposed to corn fed cows.
Your concern about antibiotics is legitimate. But most cows that don't eat a cron diet need very few antibiotics if any. Cows can't digest corn properly which reults in them getting stomach lesions and dietary tract diseases which is why they need antibiotics. Same with chickens and hogs. The real problem lies closer to the bottom of the food chain. Corn has been engineered and cross-bred so radically that it no longer resembles anything close to its original form. It has lost a lot of its nutritional qualities and is very poor but very cheap feed.
The first time I had grass fed beef I thought it tasted odd, the second time I had it, I realized this is what meat is supposed to taste like.

[dogbert]