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[jkelly80]

Is like making kimchee with nacho cheese. Stop Korea, please.

[Hyeon Een]

Beef, kimchi, chilli, cheese nachos sound good. Hmm. Maybe I'll make some.

Also kimchi, mushroom and chicken pizza is pretty good. I made some the other week.

[Goku]

Hmmm sweet garlic bread, the first time I tried it I had a major wtf on my face.

But it goes great with wine, a soft peppered tenderloin stead, and salad on the side...

Yum Yum

[Robot_Teacher]

LMAO! Things are not what they appear to be! It's improvising Western things based on photographs of Western things without understanding what they're really trying to achieve. If they want do something Western style, maybe they could try asking an American with culinary knowledge as to acquire knowledge on how it really is. Hey, this is not some planet many light years away to the point they can't contact Earth on how Earth food is prepared, this is only a ROK situated in the cold tense North Asia Pacific region just a jet's throw away from the real deal. How can such common easily acquired knowledge elude them in the jet and internet age??? This is funny. It's severe cultural and language barrier problem so they just work around it by doing what they think is best to do as to save face instead of admitting incompetence by asking for help.

[curlygirl]

Oh yeah baby, sweet garlic bread is the shizzle

One of my favorite recollections from my first year in Korea:

Mr Jeong: So when I went travelling to Nepal I looked at the menu and there was nothing I recognized. But then I saw garlic bread so I ordered that.

Curlygirl (she's a smart cookie so she already guessed what was coming): Good choice, and how was it?

Mr Jeong: Well when it arrived I was so suprised.

Curlygirl (trying hard and failing to wipe the grin off her face): And why was that?

Mr Jeong: But Curlygirl, it was bread...and..."gasp" garlic!

Curlygirl: (several seconds later once she has stopped laughing) Yes Mr Jeong. That's how the rest of the world eats garlic bread. It's only Koreans that sweeten it.

Mr Jeong: Really?

Curlygirl: Yes, really.

[jkelly80]

I met a guy who told me he was at the Hard Rock after it had been open for about two weeks. He ordered nachos, and was quite surprised to find that instead of sour cream they used Cool Whip.

[MollyBloom]

Make your own garlic bread. It's easy and much tastier. My recipe:

1. baguette from Paris Baguette/Tous les Jours/etc
2. butter
3. fresh garlic
4. optional parsley and or/cheese

-mince garlic and put in a microwaveable bowl with some butter, for 40-50 seconds
-cut the bread open
-pour the garlic/butter mixture on the bread
-pop in the over/toaster oven for 10 minutes until it gets crispy

The garlic is really good...it isn't strong or tangy tasting like it is when it is raw

[jkelly80]

[pkang0202]

Place down the street from me is not a bakery but a Pastry shop. Their garlic bread is the real deal. Italian bread, butter and garlic. Nothing sweet about it. And enough butter to give you a heart attack.

It is delicious. 5,000w a loaf though.

[Adventurer]

I make my own garlic bread. You guys mentioned garlic bread, but it's not only the garlic bread, it's also lots of pasta out there. Koreans don't like their pasta, generally, salty tasting, or maybe those who marketed the pizza here assumed that. But, Costco pizza is selling very well, though it's not a sweet tasting pasta. I don't see the point in adding sugar to garlic bread. You might as well not eat it in my book and just add sugar to bread and not have garlic on it, but, hey, this is how the folks like it. Some Italians complain about American pizza, but they'd maybe complain more about Korean pizza, but, as they say, "Different strokes for different folks". I don't care what they like so much. I just do miss what tastes right to me and more authentic to me.

I remember talking to a Korean adult, who was such a nice Busanite.
I like people from Busan. He said, anyway, that he preferred Korean pasta to Italian pasta. After all, that's what he's used to, you know?

[moosehead]

just don't ever buy the sourdough at Emart - it's got whole garlic cloves in it.

talk about bitter disappointment

[teachergirltoo]

I dislike Korean garlic bread also, so I make my own garlic break pretty much the same as Mollybloom except that I don't have a toaster oven so I brown it in the George Foreman grill. Excellent. You can find one of those little butter brushes at the $1 store.

[tzechuk]

[Xuanzang]

[Adventurer]