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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| I find that the portions in Korea are far bigger than what I got back home, unless I was visiting my grandparents in the mountains. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
| I find that the portions in Korea are far bigger than what I got back home, unless I was visiting my grandparents in the mountains. |
You must've been eating lots of fancy food in NY, lol.
Portions in the States are ginormous at most places.
Or... you simply HAVE to tell me where you eat in Seoul. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Many areas, sure, but the larger cities tend to focus more on quality vs quantity. I did tend to go for the healthier, locally-grown options, which can be considered "fancy" but it was hardly this:
http://tinyurl.com/23oejgj
More like this:
http://tinyurl.com/2esand7
Even a bowl of noodles at an ajumma's outdoor tent is huge. Everything comes with banchan, and the rice! Sheesh! |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:04 am Post subject: |
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As a coworker said to me once
'Eat gimbap very good and will not make the fatly and bad mind like America food!' |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Hotwire wrote: |
As a coworker said to me once
'Eat gimbap very good and will not make the fatly and bad mind like America food!' |
Kimbap:
300 g =484 kcal |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:42 am Post subject: |
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NYC Gal,
Portions in your average restaurant in the US are far bigger than in your average Korean restaurant in Korea. Also, in Korea, food that is ordred tends to be shared.
This is not a slam on the US by the way. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:27 am Post subject: |
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The average woman is a size 14 in the US, but cities tend to be different. The people and portion sizes are smaller.
For me, the portions here are huge. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| I think that the corn subsidies in America should end. We don't need HFCS in nearly every product in the grocery store and we wouldn't have it if they weren't looking for more and more ways to use all of that subsidized corn that they have been growing. Perhaps the money could be spent on health care, the cost of which has been inflated by all of that subsidized corn making people fat. |
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michi gnome
Joined: 15 Feb 2006
Location: Dokdo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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what about steroids & growth hormones in the chickens and cows? haven't seen anyone bring this up.
just a gut feeling, no pun, but some of the effect has to make it's way through
the animal to the human.
now are you ready for GM salmon? mmm...can't wait |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
The average woman is a size 14 in the US, but cities tend to be different. The people and portion sizes are smaller.
For me, the portions here are huge. |
Terrifying, ain't it?
But going back to your cities vs. suburbs/rural areas/whatever point, I honestly don't think major cities necessarily focus on quality over quantity. There's likely to be more restaurants that do this this, but in general, cities back home still pack huge portions.
I honestly think it's the particular food choices you personally make. I don't mean to be offensive by this at all, but from a lot of your posts, I feel like you believe that there are many people out there who eat like you, which, in relation to the public, isn't the case at all. So sure, if you eat organic/local stuff all the time (which I'm actually totally against... but that's a whole different topic), those restaurants would typically serve smaller portions because the clientele is probably not going to be people like me--crazy carnivores.
I personally LOVED NYC. I walked into one of the first restaurants I crossed by in NYC and had the biggest calzone I'd ever seen in my life. So good. I also went to a bunch of delis and had some gigantic sandwiches. Nowhere in the city was I hungry, which I often am here in Korea.
I think I'm kind of making this a bigger deal than it is, cause it doesn't really matter, but I stand unconvinced that Korean portions are anywhere NEAR as large as those back home. It's important to me because I often need to purchase multiple entree items here to get full. Never really a problem back in Cali.
So yeah, show me where you can get copious amounts of food at a Korean restaurant and change my opinion. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Any Kimbap shop.
Sure, there are places that do serve huge portions in NYC, but the majority of NY-ers (at least the ones in professional environments) tend to be somewhat fitness-oriented. I've only met a few truly fat people at work-related events (both in my industry and my other half's).
I by no means believe that most people try to eat as I do, but in NY and LA (from my experience in both) the people tend to care a lot more about health. |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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You have to bear in mind NYCG that you hang with the WASPY yuppie crowd....
I very much doubt Shaniqwa in Harlem or Joey 'The Exterminator' Clams in da bronx be worrying bout how they'll fit into that size 10 at the next governer's ball that they watch their figures so much that they're going to answer negative to 'Do you want me to Supersize that?'
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NYC_Gal
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Hotwire wrote: |
You have to bear in mind NYCG that you hang with the WASPY yuppie crowd....
I very much doubt Shaniqwa in Harlem or Joey 'The Exterminator' Clams in da bronx be worrying bout how they'll fit into that size 10 at the next governer's ball that they watch their figures so much that they're going to answer negative to 'Do you want me to Supersize that?'
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Not true. I've got plenty of African American and Hispanic friends from as far up as Washington Heights and Queens. Guess what? Latin food is pretty healthy and doesn't come in those huge portions when you're paying $3 for a full meal.
I've got Italian and Irish (and often both combined) friends from Staten Island, quite a few 2nd generation Asian friends (Asians and Jews tend to congregate in top classes in high school) who got financial aid in uni, and plenty of others that don't fall under the label "yuppie." Some do now, but they worked hard to be able to afford to live comfortably.
ALL of my friends eat healthily, with the exception of family holidays, of course, when one makes sure to wear loose pants 
My other half and many of my friends may be well off, but that doesn't mean I spend my time with only yuppies. That's the beauty of NYC: one can have friends from all areas of life. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Hotwire wrote: |
You have to bear in mind NYCG that you hang with the WASPY yuppie crowd....
I very much doubt Shaniqwa in Harlem or Joey 'The Exterminator' Clams in da bronx be worrying bout how they'll fit into that size 10 at the next governer's ball that they watch their figures so much that they're going to answer negative to 'Do you want me to Supersize that?'
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I'm laughing with and at the fact that your two typical New Yorkers are named Shaniqua and Joey Clams.
Who's next in your NY circle of friends? Seamus McWifeBeatty, Murray Goldenblattstein and Puerto Rikey Carlos? |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
Any Kimbap shop.
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LOL WHAT?!
Now I'm really confused  |
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