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yellowdove
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| There were at least two boxes of Trix in the Foreign Food Market in Itaewon on Sunday. |
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toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009
Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yep. I've noticed that many of the second and third wave bloggers tend to do a better job of providing disclosure and avoiding the "i'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" schtick than the first wavers, so hopefully the tide is turning as food blogging evolves in Korea. But it's the first wave blogs that garner the most attention and exposure by virtue of the fact they've been around the longest and established a loyal market share back when there weren't many options for food blogs, so maintain a skeptical posture. It's good to hear the K-govt is finally tightening the screws.
It's important to stay vigilant. When searching the net for a nice place to take your hot little co-teacher for din-din, be critical of what you read. Look for disclosure statements. Does the author mention the meal being comped? Get a second (and third) opinion by performing another search of the restaurant name. Does it seem like these other reviewers were also comped? One trick is that restaurants will offer free meals to the "most popular" expat blogs in return for the press- can't blame em as it makes sense from a marketing perspective. But in the end it's often the customer who gets screwed.
When it doubt, get a recommendation from a trusted friend. This may all sound like overkill, but don't forget that a meal at many 'western' restaurants can easily run over 20K-30K; it's important you aren't being duped into wasting your hard-earned money or the time it takes to travel. |
This is very sound advice. |
I should mention another piece of advice that hasn't let me down: if you're looking for a Korean restaurant, go where the adjosshi's go. If you walk by a restaurant packed with adjosshi's, you can damn well be sure that the food must be good (whereas if a food blogger is promoting it, well, ya never know what you're gettin').
Of course, adjosshi's tend not to visit western restaurants so the advice doesn't apply there. In theory this is where expat food bloggers should/could fill a void, but as we know this isn't always the case. If you visit food blogs, reference my advice above. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I just picture someone shaking down that Silly Rabbit in some Seoul alley. |
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MiXX
Joined: 30 Aug 2012
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| yellowdove wrote: |
| There were at least two boxes of Trix in the Foreign Food Market in Itaewon on Sunday. |
Never been here. Csn you give specifics on where exactly or is it small and ill have no issue finding it?
Thanks, guess ill go check out this place this week |
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