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teachingld2004
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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 Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:14 am Post subject: spam |
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| This does not answer you as far as where you can buy vegimite or marmite, cause i dont think it is sold anyplace. even the black markets in Namdemun do not have it. Cant you just have some one mail you that stuff from home? |
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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:25 am Post subject: budaechiggae rocks and rolls |
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spam chiggae is so good..in canada i would never dream of eating spam...or spreadable ham...but in chiggae...delicious...i am loving it...I love the chiggae's here...tuna, kimchi, budae...bring it on...except fish..
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TJ
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: Vegemite |
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You have just insulted Australia !!!!!!!!!!!!! Vegemite is yummie. But tripe is very different !!!!!! Stomach lining ........ YUK !!!! |
This reminds me. I am living in Korea now and I have been looking for Vegemite for months. Does anybody know where i can buy some. I would even settle for Marmite if I have to.
Long live Vegemite! |
Sorry, I can't help you .............. My wife and I bring a year's supply with us each time we come here to start a new contract. What's more, we guard it carefully. If ever there is a fire the first thing I will grab as I rush out the door is the vegemite. Oh, I suppose I should really grab my passport as well. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: worst school lunch ever |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| yesterday the main dish was spam stew. mushrooms, carrots and big old hunks of spam! |
That's a "traditional" wartime dish. But really, really gross.  |
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JAMZ
Joined: 18 May 2004
Location: Ori Station, Bundang
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| well I'm wondering.... what did all of you expect to be eating when you came here??? I mean it is a foreign country and all and you dont exactly all teach at 5 star restaurants so shouldn't you have expected to be eating things that you would consider "odd" back home? I'm Canadian born and raised but I'm ethnically asian so I've eaten alot of similar foods to what I've been served here by the school and I think its good. Its all not exactly what I'd be eating if I was back home but I expected this to be the case so I'm not complaining. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| JAMZ wrote: |
| well I'm wondering.... what did all of you expect to be eating when you came here??? I mean it is a foreign country and all and you dont exactly all teach at 5 star restaurants so shouldn't you have expected to be eating things that you would consider "odd" back home? I'm Canadian born and raised but I'm ethnically asian so I've eaten alot of similar foods to what I've been served here by the school and I think its good. Its all not exactly what I'd be eating if I was back home but I expected this to be the case so I'm not complaining. |
I've eaten over a year and half of korean school lunches and Monday's was pretty foul.
After watching my students chow down garlic bread with vanilla pudding spread on it as a sidedish to kimichi spaghetti I think I had seen just about everything.
Perhaps school lunches are foul everywhere but this particular display of the spam stew was nasty. I stand my OP it was the worst school lunch ever. |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| If you eat other parts of the pig, following ethics you should eat SPAM or similar types of meat. |
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oldfort
Joined: 09 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| spagetti with squid sauce was interesting. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| JAMZ wrote: |
| well I'm wondering.... what did all of you expect to be eating when you came here??? |
Not SPAM. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
| If you eat other parts of the pig, following ethics you should eat SPAM or similar types of meat. |
I don't. |
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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:44 am Post subject: |
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I'm going through these responses, and unless I've missed something SPAM STEW is the worst you can come up with??
At our school all the teachers, foreign and Korean, have to eat with the students, at least until the students are finished. This is a major point of contention in our battles with management. Mostly, the food is good. It has gotten better. We regularly have bulgogi or something less, um, culturally unique.
But then we get the Malchi Bokkeum. Stir-fried Anchovies. Noodles with Eyes.
Now, I'm one of those gastronomical masochists who love anchovies on pizza, but I still have trouble with the dried ones looking up at me from a puddle of vegetable oil and garlic stems.
And even worse, there are days when that's basically all they're serving. We can always tell when the owner is about to spend money on another trip to China when the lunches start getting bad, so bad the kids won't touch them. |
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syclick
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:47 am Post subject: Re: worst school lunch ever |
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| OiGirl wrote: |
| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| yesterday the main dish was spam stew. mushrooms, carrots and big old hunks of spam! |
That's a "traditional" wartime dish. But really, really gross. |
Budae JJigae is the bee's knees. I could eat it 'till the cows come home.  |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| Budae Jjigae = Korean junk food. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject: Re: worst lunch ever |
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| teachingld2004 wrote: |
| Seems during the Korean war the Koreans were starving, so the GI's gave them their let over food. We have a resturant here who serves their version, called "garbage souP' Has in it chunks of spam, a bit of pepparoni (wish I knew where they got the peparoni), buts of Ramyan, bits of spaghetti, water and hot paste. |
But, in a good restaurant, this food is excellent, even knowing how it came about. I have eaten it in numerous places and it is nearly always good. One of my favourite dishes in Korea. Boo Day Jig Gay. �� 댸 �� �� I think it is spelt. Wonderful food.
| matthewfromwoodford wrote: |
| Budae Jjigae = Korean junk food. |
Depending on which Korean you are talking too I guess, but I have never heard anyone call it that. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Meh.
Whiners.
All of you.
I taught in Korea for three years. Saw a lot of weird things and strange foods. But I'm in China now.
Try bumblebee salad (yes, with real bumblebees!)
Termites and Garlic stirfry
Chicken feet...pig noses....
mouse kebabs....
Silkworm stew, steamed fish head, cow eyeball soup...
I would die for Spam Jigae or Kimchi Spaghetti again! |
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