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Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I felt like this would be an interesting, random topic, as it's something most of us haven't had to consider since coming to Korea. Do you like SPICY FOOD?

(Next poll: are you handsome?)

d503 · Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Location: Daecheong, Seoul

god yes. i am packing up everything red i can find here before heading to the states. *said while eating some gochujang right out of the box*

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

I'm one of the two that voted "could/do eat it every day". Rather difficult to avoid in Korea. If kimchee is one of the banchan, and it always is, then everyone will vote the same. Nearly everyone.

I do wonder what people who can't handle any heat eat in Korea.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

I like to bring some Indonesian hot sauce with me when I go out for dweaja gabli or sam gap sal. Invariably it draws the curiosity of nearby Koreans and they ask to try some Laughing

It is definately a different kind of hot than they are used to Laughing

At school the kids are eating ramien out of the packets. They wanted me to eat some hoping that I would freak how hot it was...no problem. So the next day I brought some Cayenne pepper with me and asked them if they wanted to try it Twisted Evil

you have never seen so many people running for water so fast Laughing

BUT they all wanted more!

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Who else thinks Grotto should give up English teaching and go into the restaurant business?

But in Seoul. Northern Seoul, specifically.

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:13 am Post subject:

16-0 in favour of spicy food.

Gee, I'm not in such a minority of expats after all.

Bring on the "go-chu"!

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

The only thing I don't like about gochu is it gives me mad gas.

Maybe after 50 people vote in this poll, if the results look promising, I can print it out and show it to Koreans when they express mystification at my willingness and eagerness to eat spicy food. See, we foreigners love it, too!

Homer · Guest

God bless the spicy stuff!

I eat those gochus raw with my father-in-law...those are good.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Before I came to Korea, I didn't like spicy food at all. I guess I never really ate it growing up and even medium salsa was a bit too much. But after Korea, I can take it all now...extra-hot salsa, eating jalapeno's on nachos. Good old Korea, expanded my eating universe.

sonofthedarkstranger · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I like spicy food. I don't eat it everyday tho.

The evil penguin · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:48 am Post subject:

Hyalucent · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: British North America

Spicy is good.
I earned my stripes in high school when a best friend and I would have semi-regular homemade pizza parties. We grew those tiny little chilli peppers in pots at home, plus he worked part time at a grocery store and would bring home any new peppers that they were stocking. We spiced each pizza up to the max, and served it with garlic dip that used two or three full bunches of garlic, just to watch our friends cry. Very Happy

That totally kiled any sensitivities to gastronomical heat I might have had for years to come.

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

peony · Joined: 30 Mar 2005

most foods get a healthy dash of jabanero or tabasco sauce!
and gochu dipped in cho-jang is a favorite!

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Where can you get spicy food in Korea?

I have been here nearly 7 years and I find the food rather bland.

My Korean wife refuses to eat my favourite dish in England - "too hot Yobo" she says.