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batman · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject:

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T-dot · Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: bundang

try nakji bokum(spicey)

also try shinchon dukboggi or red roof in daegu. they serve a yogurt drink just to cool tastebuds after a meal.

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Gave some hot salsa (the kind that numbs your tongue and lips) to my brothers-in-law. They never mentionned the spicyness of Korean food again to me.

Korean restaurants usually serve their version of 'fast food' (kimchi jiggae, yukkaejang, etc), most of which is 'spicy'. If you're tired of everything tasting like 'gochu', go to one of those restaurants that serves royal banquet meals. Make sure you try some gujeolpan. It's a little pricy but it's well worth a try...or two.

http://www.visitseoul.net/english_new/eat/cen_koreandish_main.htm

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Heck ya!
I value my innards and intestinal calm. Don't cook spicy at home because it overwhelms the other flavours. Like if it's spaghetti it becomes 'Mexican spagetti'. If it's potato/vegetable/noodle slop it becomes 'Mexican bowl of vegetable slop'. My tongue in the burn ward. But hey, I avoid drinking those 'Vita C' drinks, orange juice, lemonade because it slaps my stomach lining silly.
Like kimchi chigae once in awhile, and eat all the side kimchi, and cough, wheeze, cry and it's a rejuvenation. I'm like a phoenix bird, arising from the ashes. Like going from the hot to the ice cold baths, back and forth, in the mowgyauk.
But I wouldn't eat those green hot peppers set out in the side-dishee. Gotta be some crazy psycho to do that Laughing

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batman · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:23 am Post subject:

teachingld2004 · Joined: 29 Mar 2004

I think that most Koreans confuse the words "spicy" and "hot", because they don't know what spicy is. I have had Korean friends to my apartment plenty of times, and they always say my cooking is wonderful. To me its just average American style, which is a conglomeration of many different cultures. But, I have a vast variety of spices that I brought here. I have made "Adobo" chicken, which is not hot, but it sure is spicy. I made chili and curry from scatch. These are spicy. Just because lots of Korean food is drowned in hot peppers, that is "spicy" to them. It is just plain HOT to me, and at times tasteless. Dont get me wrong, I do love Korean food, but I have eaten out countless times and had 10 or more side dishes in front of me, and the ones that are all hot are just that. Not very different in taste, just different in texture.

desultude · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:51 am Post subject:

Some of my students were eating Andong Ggim Dag (that is how they say it is spelled) tonight, and invited me to try some. Several of the guys kept warning me that it was hot, and watched with gaping mouths as I ate it down. Damn, that was so not hot. I told them to try some Thai food. Maybe I'll make some old-fashioned Chili for them someday.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Like most of you, I think a lot of Korean food is either bland (especially the soups) or has only ko-chu in it. One note flavor. Not that interesting.

Some of the meat marinades are pretty darn tasty though.

I don't eat the green ko-chu raw. Those are too hot for me. Also, I prefer not to eat the garlic raw. I think it is hotter than the stuff back home. However, I tend to blow the waitresses' minds when I keep asking for more garlic so I can roast it. I've got them pretty well trained at my favorite places now. They bring over a whole bowl full when I come in. Works for me. And I've developed a pretty good recipe for garlic soup that most of my Korean friends like.

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

batman · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject:

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

FYI:

New Zealand: 103,733 sq. miles

South Korea: 38,120 sq. miles
North Korea: 46, 490 sq. miles

Total: 84,610

Hmmm....with just about the right amount left over to squeeze in the Netherlands. (13,097)

Wisco Kid · Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Location: Changwon

I think the spiciest food I've ever seen eaten has to be genuine Issan-style som-tam. (green papaya salad from Northeastern Thailand). This is the only food know which will make native Thais cry from the pain/pleasure/flavor.

peppermint · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:

I've been dreaming of it ever since I got back from Thailand. . got a recipe?

rNS · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Macheon Dong, Seoul

Guys get yourselves over to England, walk into any decent curry hut and order a tindaloo, this is a dish made especially for pissed up guys who think they're 'hard' because they eat the hottest thing on the menu, its prime purpose is to hurt the person eating it, I don't even think its traditional just a piss take on a vindaloo, it's a madman, I had one spoonfull of my mates and I thought I was gonna die, proper throat swelling agony.............