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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| The Great Wall of Whiner wrote: |
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! |
Have you eaten the jumping prawns yet? My friend was there on business and had to suffer that one night. |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| My first school used to serve dried squid all day long. They also liked to serve anchovies and rice for lunch. The good thing was, it gave me an excuse to take off and eat elsewhere instead of with the kids. |
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sadsac
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Gwangwang
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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I eat at the restaurant across from the school. It's much better. Vegemite though is a magic spread for toast. Marmite is a poor pretender.  |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't rice the main dish in all Koean meals? |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:00 am Post subject: Re: worst lunch ever |
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| Toby wrote: |
| 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. |
No that's just my own personal opinion.
Ramyeon is also junk food, imho. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Oh, I can still remember my worst lunch ever. It was when I was in bording school in Switzerland.
It started out just fine. I had a prawn c*cktail
This posted by accident. I will start again.
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| I never would have touched Spam until I came to Korea. Now I love it. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:53 am Post subject: |
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Ok Second try.
My worst School Lunch ever was in bording school in Switzerland.
It started out ok.
I started with the prawn c*ocktail. It was excellent.
Then I Soupe a l'oignon, smuthered in gruyere. Fantastic.
Then, a salade nicoise. Great, as always.
Then, roti de lapin a la sauce au poivre. Outstanding.
Then for desert I ordered creme brulee.
But, the bloody barbarians were all out of it, and I had to have mousse au chocolat. TWO days in a row :twisted  |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| shawner88 wrote: |
| I never would have touched Spam until I came to Korea. Now I love it. |
Hey shawn. Did you see my post about your B-day? A bit scary  Wow here we go again, we both posted at 3:44.
Hey shawn, is the Okpo shopping center grocery store still the best store in Korea?
Man, I sure could do with a tub of that sour cream from Danemark.
For you guys who don't know, if you hit about 4 differet stores in Okpo you can get stuff you can not even find in Pusan. You see, in a small area there were about 800 foreign worksers at Daewoo, Samsung, Chevron etc.
So, the stores were smart and found out what we wanted and got it. And some places, like bakeries, had some of the foreign workers wifes give them recepies and cooking lessons so they could make stuff that the western people, and Koreans with good taste would want. Good Business. Don't see that often in Korea.
At least it was that way 4 years ago. I also miss that one place that had real cream puffs with tapioca pudding.
And, even Lotte Departent Store in Pusan, and now the one here in Kwangju don't have anchovies fileted in olive oil (Like God intended.) But, I could get them in Okpo.
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:05 am Post subject: |
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yikes, that one was 4:04. I better call it a night.
Love and pecks 
Chicken |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
| Isn't rice the main dish in all Koean meals? |
Rice sucks.
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:57 am Post subject: |
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today we had something that I termed 'catfood jjigae' as the fish in it looked like the stuff I would give to my cat. We also got dried squid.  |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
Ok Second try.
My worst School Lunch ever was in bording school in Switzerland.
It started out ok.
I started with the prawn c*ocktail. It was excellent.
Then I Soupe a l'oignon, smuthered in gruyere. Fantastic.
Then, a salade nicoise. Great, as always.
Then, roti de lapin a la sauce au poivre. Outstanding.
Then for desert I ordered creme brulee.
But, the bloody barbarians were all out of it, and I had to have mousse au chocolat. TWO days in a row :twisted |
Actually, the above was not the worst. It was the second worst. The worst was the next day.
Well, things started out just fine.
I started out with smoke salmon with caviar. Severd on lightly tosted bagette. With minced onion, hard boiled egg and capers. Superbe
Then, I have the shrimp cream soup. Magnific.
Next, salade aux epinards. Quite refreshing.
As for the main course, lobstar tails with real butter and
lemon wedges. A+++
Then, for desert. I ordered tarte aux pommes. BUT THEY WERE ALL OUT.
Mousse au chocloat THREE DAYS IN A ROW. 
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: |
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And then there was the time that the brie was over ripe.
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