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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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I'll miss Elysian and microbrews in general from Seattle and pho with basil, cilantro, and lime. But that's about it.
Glad to be back for kalbi, kalbitang, samgyetang, barley tea, xylitol gum, doin jang guk, bossam, sundeguk, Tofu Village...I could go on. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Also, goyim isn't a polite way to say non-Jew. Gentile is.
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Who said I was trying to be polite? 
Also, goy is Yiddish and gentile is English. They mean the same thing in different languages.
I was mostly joking... my friend and I are both NY Jews and we always joke about how only non-Jews eat fruity bagels because all of our non-Jew friends eat blueberry and cinnamon raisin and stuff but we only eat everything, poppy seed, sesame, etc. |
My little sister loved cinnamon raisin with cream cheese, but I always went for the pumpernickel or everything (or pumpernickel everything once I realized that I could make special orders in advance,) so I get you on the savory vs sweet bagels. Blueberry? Blech!
Doesn't goyim mean cattle? It's actually a derogatory term, whereas gentile just means non-Jew. At least, that's what my grandma and the interwebs told me.
Either way, we really do need a NY Hot Bagels here, with vegetable cream cheese. It'd make a mint! Nomnomnom. |
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thebektionary
Joined: 11 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| thebektionary wrote: |
| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
Also, goyim isn't a polite way to say non-Jew. Gentile is.
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Who said I was trying to be polite?
Also, goy is Yiddish and gentile is English. They mean the same thing in different languages.
I was mostly joking... my friend and I are both NY Jews and we always joke about how only non-Jews eat fruity bagels because all of our non-Jew friends eat blueberry and cinnamon raisin and stuff but we only eat everything, poppy seed, sesame, etc. |
My little sister loved cinnamon raisin with cream cheese, but I always went for the pumpernickel or everything (or pumpernickel everything once I realized that I could make special orders in advance,) so I get you on the savory vs sweet bagels. Blueberry? Blech!
Doesn't goyim mean cattle? It's actually a derogatory term, whereas gentile just means non-Jew. At least, that's what my grandma and the interwebs told me.
Either way, we really do need a NY Hot Bagels here, with vegetable cream cheese. It'd make a mint! Nomnomnom. |
Hmm... I don't know. Maybe you're right. I always thought goyim was plural for goy, and that goy meant non-Jew. I'll have to do more research 
Yeah, there really needs to be. But no bagel is the same outside of New York, not even in Florida where there are tons of Jews. Have you been to Suji's? The bagels aren't so good but everything else is! |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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If I ate non-seafood meat, I'd be all over that place. Every time I visit home, I bring back half a suitcase of pumpernickel-everything bagels, sliced and ready to be frozen. Nomnomnom
I've made my own whole-wheat bagels here, and they were pretty good, but there's something about the water of NYC that makes them so much better. They're pretty labor intensive, too, so not really worth it. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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I missed English tea until I found where to buy it. Otherwise I've never really missed anything that much. It's not as if I really like Korean food- I think it's so-so at best. Just that I'm not really into food. It's usually just a means to refuel to me
I do wish there were a good Chinese or Indian place where I live. There's a Chinese but it just seems to have that awful black bean sauce. Actually I'm going to go back there to investigate...
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Man that IS EXACTLY my point.
Tradional food from India, Nepal, Pakistan often aren't as spicy as they have been made for the British market and they never have that much - if any - meat in them.
The Itaewon / hongdae restaurants (again, sucks to have to keep repeating myself, but it just seems that people do not read before posting) NOT the stuff adapted to the Korean pallete - are more authentic than what you'll find in the UK.
What I'm saying is they are MORE AUTHENTIC - not that they are more deicious to everyone (though they are to me.)
Brick Lane, I'll make an exception for, but only just as it is a special area. And tbh I wasn't that impressed. Like most areas that become as popular as Brick Lane has, the quality goes downhill as they want to cater to as many as possible and food gets rushed and prepared badly as a result.
Your average curry house anywhere else on the UK high street is not authentic Indain food and IMO the restaurants I named before kick their arse.
I know it's a souce of pride to many of you fellow Brits, but it's just the way it is.
If it helps, I'm coming from the perspective of some of my best friends were from Pakistan and I used to get fed by their Mum a couple of times every week with amazing home cooked food. |
I ate Indian food in Dubai (where I think most of the population are Indian) and it was the same as what I'd get in the UK. These restaurants weren't in tourist areas and when I was in I was the only non-Indian looking person in there |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:41 am Post subject: |
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I really miss bagels from home. They don't count the number of raisins to go in each one, rather take a handful and drop it in the batter for a nice saturation.
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As a Jew, I am making fun of you for eating raisin bagels. Only goyim (non-Jews) eat fruity/sweet bagels!
Ya'll are crazy who say that you are bored of Korean food. I love it. I could eat it most days of the week, but I find that I have to have something different on the weekends... then I'm back to happily eating Korean food again. |
Goyim-shmoyim! Sweet bagels or not, the bagels in Korea are made poorly- same with pizza by nickel/dimeing on ingredients. Anyone that ate a raisin or onion bagel here knows what I'm talking about. I'm glad I haven't seen poppy seed bagels here... probably 4 poppies per roll
Korean food is great, but after eating it all the time everyday, you want a change. I have my favorites but every now and then I'd prefer to hit Burger King or Seoul for a pizza and get a taste of home. |
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Kimchifart
Joined: 15 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:48 am Post subject: |
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Oh and the Indian, Turkish, Russian and Middle Eastern food in places like Hongdae, Sinchon, Itaewon and HBC are much much much much much better than you'll find in the UK, which frankly is kind of surprising. |
Better Indian in Korea, are you serious? Not in a million years. |
Yes I am serious. Not in all of Korea, no, but in good restaurants in those areas I mentioned the food is much better and more authentic than any Indian food in the UK, which is usually changed to suit British tastes. |
I'm guessing you're from a provincial area in the UK. There's nothing in Korea outside Itaewon (and probably not much inside) that touches Curries in Brum, London, Manchester, even Cardiff.
However, I will say there are a couple of decent Turkish places, but again, go to London and this will change.
There are around 9000 Indian restaurants in the UK. Yes, many of these appeal to British tastes (i.e. very high in fat and sugar - it's seen as a treat there) However I've had curries in the Middle East and India and depending upon the region (usually more northern Indian stuff) it's fairly close, especially in the cities, and yes, it's not very similar to the stuff further South. It's nothing like Goan cuisine, and nowhere near as good (partly because you can't get fresh spices like you can in Goan cuisine) however, the more northern cuisines use dried spices and British curry houses can reproduce those pretty well.
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Kimchifart
Joined: 15 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| The Floating World wrote: |
Man that IS EXACTLY my point.
Tradional food from India, Nepal, Pakistan often aren't as spicy as they have been made for the British market and they never have that much - if any - meat in them.
The Itaewon / hongdae restaurants (again, sucks to have to keep repeating myself, but it just seems that people do not read before posting) NOT the stuff adapted to the Korean pallete - are more authentic than what you'll find in the UK.
What I'm saying is they are MORE AUTHENTIC - not that they are more deicious to everyone (though they are to me.)
Brick Lane, I'll make an exception for, but only just as it is a special area. And tbh I wasn't that impressed. Like most areas that become as popular as Brick Lane has, the quality goes downhill as they want to cater to as many as possible and food gets rushed and prepared badly as a result.
Your average curry house anywhere else on the UK high street is not authentic Indain food and IMO the restaurants I named before kick their arse.
I know it's a souce of pride to many of you fellow Brits, but it's just the way it is.
If it helps, I'm coming from the perspective of some of my best friends were from Pakistan and I used to get fed by their Mum a couple of times every week with amazing home cooked food. |
Have you actually eaten curry in any region of India or maybe the ME? If not, then I think you might be surprised to find out that you are talking rubbish.
They are frequently very spicy in India; I had my socks blown off a few times when I wasn't looking to have them blown off. I don't know where you are getting these ideas from. British curry in the big cities can be very competent, but yeah they are tweaked/adapted for the UK and in the provincial areas it is that sugary/very oily crap, but also there are hundreds of good restaurants amongst the 1000's in the country. |
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missty
Joined: 19 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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I missed English tea until I found where to buy it. Otherwise I've never really missed anything that much. It's not as if I really like Korean food- I think it's so-so at best. Just that I'm not really into food. It's usually just a means to refuel to me
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Where did you find English tea?!?!?! Are you just meaning the Lipton, or have you found some secret source of something better?? I am fed up of having to cart back an enormous bag of Tetley from home every time. But then I haven't set foot in a foreign food market in Korea in absolutely ages, as the only thing I crave is mature cheddar cheese and I now can get that in my local Emart. ^^ |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchifart wrote: |
| The Floating World wrote: |
Man that IS EXACTLY my point.
Tradional food from India, Nepal, Pakistan often aren't as spicy as they have been made for the British market and they never have that much - if any - meat in them.
The Itaewon / hongdae restaurants (again, sucks to have to keep repeating myself, but it just seems that people do not read before posting) NOT the stuff adapted to the Korean pallete - are more authentic than what you'll find in the UK.
What I'm saying is they are MORE AUTHENTIC - not that they are more deicious to everyone (though they are to me.)
Brick Lane, I'll make an exception for, but only just as it is a special area. And tbh I wasn't that impressed. Like most areas that become as popular as Brick Lane has, the quality goes downhill as they want to cater to as many as possible and food gets rushed and prepared badly as a result.
Your average curry house anywhere else on the UK high street is not authentic Indain food and IMO the restaurants I named before kick their arse.
I know it's a souce of pride to many of you fellow Brits, but it's just the way it is.
If it helps, I'm coming from the perspective of some of my best friends were from Pakistan and I used to get fed by their Mum a couple of times every week with amazing home cooked food. |
Have you actually eaten curry in any region of India or maybe the ME? If not, then I think you might be surprised to find out that you are talking rubbish.
They are frequently very spicy in India; I had my socks blown off a few times when I wasn't looking to have them blown off. I don't know where you are getting these ideas from. British curry in the big cities can be very competent, but yeah they are tweaked/adapted for the UK and in the provincial areas it is that sugary/very oily crap, but also there are hundreds of good restaurants amongst the 1000's in the country. |
Along these lines, I go back home and I ate some "Korean food" that my sister or mom prepared. For 20+ years it tasted fine to me. Then, after living in Korea and having the real deal with local ingredients, the Korean food my family made was close, but it wasn't the same.
It wasn't until I came to Korea and ate the food for years did I notice a difference.
That being said. Any food that is made outside of the original land it comes from will taste different, UNLESS, considerable effort has been made to use 100% ingredients from said region.
Hell, look at bagels from NYC. They say its the NYC tap water that makes them delicious. NYC Tap water is not something you are going to get in San Francisco, unless somoene is shipping it there. |
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adzee1
Joined: 22 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| missty wrote: |
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I missed English tea until I found where to buy it. Otherwise I've never really missed anything that much. It's not as if I really like Korean food- I think it's so-so at best. Just that I'm not really into food. It's usually just a means to refuel to me
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Where did you find English tea?!?!?! Are you just meaning the Lipton, or have you found some secret source of something better?? I am fed up of having to cart back an enormous bag of Tetley from home every time. But then I haven't set foot in a foreign food market in Korea in absolutely ages, as the only thing I crave is mature cheddar cheese and I now can get that in my local Emart. ^^ |
You can buy a few different types of Twinnings tea in Emart, and in also Shinsegae they have a couple of different brands, not sure about Tetley though  |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I ordered a bunch of PG Tips off of ebay. |
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missty
Joined: 19 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Squire wrote: |
I missed English tea until I found where to buy it. Otherwise I've never really missed anything that much. It's not as if I really like Korean food- I think it's so-so at best. Just that I'm not really into food. It's usually just a means to refuel to me
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Where did you find English tea?!?!?! Are you just meaning the Lipton, or have you found some secret source of something better?? I am fed up of having to cart back an enormous bag of Tetley from home every time. But then I haven't set foot in a foreign food market in Korea in absolutely ages, as the only thing I crave is mature cheddar cheese and I now can get that in my local Emart. ^^ |
You can buy a few different types of Twinnings tea in Emart, and in also Shinsegae they have a couple of different brands, not sure about Tetley though |
Ah yes, thank you. Oops. I actually meant Twinnings. I always get those two mixed up for some reason. Tetley in Korea would be awesome, but I somehow doubt of its existence. |
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thekakapo
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: peanut butter |
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If you miss good peanut butter...
That's actually something you can make. It's super easy. Roast peanuts, use a food processor, blend on high. No extra ingredients necessary, though you can add some jaggery or maple syrup or molasses for sweetness. It's delicious and way healthier than the peanut butter back home, even the organic stuff, because even then they often add oils. You can add oil for a smoother peanut butter, but no need! |
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