Korean Job Discussion Forums

[cjwilder]

American chinese food or Korean chinese food?

Honest question.

[BoholDiver]

Not eating true Chinese food more than a few times, it is hard to judge. However, my guess is on Korean for the sheer lack of options. 4 items in most Korean Chinese joints and they all suck.

[northway]

[Bloopity Bloop]

Well the American version's heavenly and the Korean version is absolutely horrid and unfit for consumption, so...

[Weigookin74]

Kind of harsh. Jjam Bong is ok depending on where you get it. Same with Jja Jjeon Myeong. Fried dumpling with sauce can be not bad but don't know the Korean name for them. I suspect Korea being close to China makes its food more close to being authentic than ours. Chinese food has noodles and rice with lots of odds and ends. But China is alos a big country with many regional foods.

I personally like ours more. Wish some place here in Korea would make it. Jackie Chan's and Holy Chow are sort of ok, but I'd love to find egg rolls, chop suey, chow mein, chicken balls, sweet and sour pork, chicken fried rice, etc. Mmmm.

[Fishead soup]

North America still has large communities where you can still get the real thing. Chinese in North America don't go for teh whole sweet and sour chicken balls thing. In Korea places that serve althentic Chinese food are few and far between. I like Tang Su Yook I also like sweet and sour chicken balls.

Also bear in mind there are places in Toronto that serve both the Bastardized version and the real thing.

Chinese food is not a cuisine it's a state of mind. If you think you are eating Chinese food than you are eating Chinese food. Reality is relative to a singular personal and decieved perception of reality. We are all constructed semiotic products of Postmodernist consumerism. We are all part of the pastiche and parody.

[northway]

[SeoulNate]

[Weigookin74]

[Yaya]

I like American-style Chinese food more than the Korean style, but it's a matter of personal choice. I grew up in the U.S. thinking jajangmyeon was a Korean dish.

The Chinese food in Korea is of the Shandong variety and Americans are most used to the Guangzhou (Cantonese) or Sichuan cuisines. That said, I hear Chinese food in mainland China is downright awful and nothing like the stuff in North America.

[rickpidero]

[northway]

[red_devil]

Americans are purists (or borderline racist) they think the best Chinese food is run by Chinese, Indian food by Indians, Sushi places by Japanese (or Koreans since i met some who think Korea is part of Japan) ...i think the exception is like Italian/pizza places which are run by anyone.

But seriously Korean Chinese food is really really bad. I love Jajjangmyun, and Gambunggi/Tangsuyuk but that's not Chinese. What i would give for some of the Chinese places i ate at in SF...or for that matter even in LA or SD.

[tatertot]

I don't like Korean Chinese food either, but I think most of the posters in this thread are missing an important point. Korean and American people have different tastes in foods (generally speaking), so the Chinese restaurants in the US will appeal to Americans and the restaurants in Korea will appeal to Koreans. I can't make a comment regarding the relative authenticity of American and Korean Chinese food, but I would assume that they are both rather inauthentic.

[DorkothyParker]

I enjoy both. I don't care about bastardization. I care about tastiness.
If it's has some spice and is flavorful, I'm in.