Korean Job Discussion Forums

[DeMayonnaise]

You should all read Michael Pollen's "In Defense of Food."

Seems like the more you worry about being clean and healthy, the more sick you get. I'm a slob, but I'm not sick very much. I think I was exposed to everything under the sun as a kid and so am pretty healthy because of it.

To the poster who boils their bottled water...you must be miserable. Try slowly weening yourself onto tap water and you'd probably be better off.

The guy above me knows what's up. Eat real god....spinach is great. And eat you kimchi!!! The bacteria in it is good for you.

I'm calling bullshit on this one:

"The Korean diet has almost double the sodium to an average Western healthy diet."

The "Western healthy" diet? That's an oxymoron. The average western diet is the most unhealthy in the world.

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[DeMayonnaise]

[Senior]

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[NYC_Gal]

[Underwaterbob]

If a Korean ever offers to take you out for 홍어 (Hong Eo) don't.. just don't

[zz8w1988]

korean diet composes mostly of kimchi and over spicy stuff. I read some many websites that said radish kimchi and bean paste soup can lead to stomach cancer.

[allovertheplace]

The Korean diet is not healthier! Yeah, Canada and the US are full of overweight people but not Italy, France, South America etc.

If the diet was so healthy why do so many people have stomach cancer-besides stress.

Portion size is the key, if you eat 38 lbs of rice its still 38 lbs of rice. Snack, but make it small. Oh, and take a walk one in a while.

Oh, and I liked the list.

[Troglodyte]

[Troglodyte]

[Troglodyte]

The only food that I really wouldn't recommend to most people is the ray (sting ray or something like that). It's an acquired taste for some people, but you really have to stick with it to acquire a taste for it. Like shark it's absolutely full of ammonium. So much in fact that they have to let it rot in a jar for the better part of a year so that the ammonium can break down or leak out of it to a point where it's not toxic. But still, it reeks like urine or industrial cleaners. If you are really curious and can stomach the smell of it, then by all means taste a piece of it. But if you've never tried it before don't order a plate of it.

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[Banana_Man]

Korean home cooking is way healthier than western home cooking.

For starters, white rice is usually only eaten out (in fast food restaurants like kimbap nara), in the home Koreans combine rice, nuts and pulses, veggies in the rice cooker - making a very healthy rice bowl, unless they are in a hurry, in that case it will be ramen or white rice.

Traditionally rice is always served with soup - whilst eating out this soup can be spicy or salty or contain what some claim to be 'dirty' meat. In the home the soup will be full of vegetables, be very brothy and have either good meat or a very small amount of meat. Usually it's neither too salty nor spicy. Banchan or side dishes in the home are nearly always veggies or pulses/nuts and are very healthy, yes there is kimchi, but not too much and the home variety is mostly, less salty/spicy than usual.

Home cooking has a lot of color and variety here, all healthy, compared to the west with way too much bread and pasta, ultra reliance on cheese, cream and in my opinion less flavor. If you like cream pasta or meat and two veg that's fine, but it is NOT more healthy than homemade chu-o-tang and ya-chae-bap.

If you are eatingout, then wherever you are, the US, Korea, the UK or anywhere it WILL BE unhealthy and too salty, too fatty.

Make the effort here and you can cook anything from your country of origin, combine the healthy aspects of that with the healthy home cooking here and you will be perfectly healthy.

Of course it will be less fun than eating out, but it will be healthier.