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[Flossie]

Stupid question you may say. But my culinary experience for the evening consisted of ordering an egg sandwich from my local 'Joe's Sandwich' outlet. Great stuff (usually) until tonight.

What do you expect in your egg sarney?

I reckon the first few ingredients are on the ball...

egg
mayo
onion/chives
smattering of pepper
and...














strawberry jam

WTF??? What's up with that?

[JongnoGuru]

Doesn't surprise me.

I have had to pick thin apple slices, shredded carrots, sweet corn and raisins out of more Korean-made sandwiches than ... Well, I don't trust them to make sandwiches the way I like, so I've given up and just don't buy them anymore.

[plattwaz]

Usually when I get a sandwich at one of the shops that I often frequent, I dictate exactly what I want on it, or what to leave out. Or, if it's a new place and I'm not sure what surprises there will be, I stand while they make it and am prepared to stop them before it goes on.

They are ALWAYS freaked out by it. ALWAYS. More than once I've left the girl (usually it's a girl) making it sooooooo confused. Simply by saying "NO SAUCE" as she reaches for the bottle of Thousand Islands dressing. "HUH?" "NO SAUCE PLEASE!" "No saw-suh? Huh?" "Yes. No sauce."

At least half the time they put the sauce bottle down, and then pick it up immediately and squirt it on. My boyfriend will always make them start again and refuse to accept the sandwich they put sauce on when I just told them not to. I get a little embarassed by that......

[Qinella]

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[SarcasmKills]

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[JongnoGuru]

psst! There's a guy working as part of the kitchen staff at the Gangnam TGIF who goes by the name of "Woody". Do not, I repeat, do NOT order salads there! Cause if you do, you'll be walking around with a .... oh, forget it.

[Freezer Burn]

Put a little bit of curry powder in it, yum.

[margaret]

I never order sandwiches in Korea but my boss once bought me one. It had some sweet disgusting sauce on it.
Margaret

[Grotto]

In one of my special classes I decided to do a cooking lesson.

Making a sandwich. I told the students to bring whatever toppings they like on sandwiches and we would go through the instructions and ingredients.

I brought ham and cheese, mustard, mayo for one sandwich and peanut butter and banana for the other.

My students brought shredded cabbage, canned corn, thousand island dressing, ketchup, jam, tuna, and cheese slices.

The most interesting sandwich they made was cheese, cabbage, corn, thousand island and strawberry jam. The students voted it the best tasting.

My ham and cheese got solemn nods and the peanut butter and banana sandwiches were treated as some kind of toxic waste by most of the students....Yeah teacher....you want us to taste that?

[Freezer Burn]

I had a birthday in China, at the restaurant where we were celebrating it they bought out a cake, on the cake in chinese was 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY" but in Chinese of course, so on a beautiful cream cake with what I thought was strawberry sauce writing was actually tomato sauce

One good combination that I tried in China, was sultanas covered in a chilli powder, the spicy wth the sweet was great.

[sarahsarah]

Several weeks ago at English camp we made quesadillas.

Apparently cheese, tomato and onion wasn't good enough as a filling for the students.

They decided to make some adjustments to the recipe...

In the end the quesadilla fillings included cheese, tomato, onion, macarroni and cheese, ketchup, and GRAPE JELLY! They loved it!!

What's with these kids. And they thought it was terrible when I tried to make them eat pepperjack cheese.

[keithinkorea]

The only place I've had anything even approaching a decent sandwich was the 'Hollywood bar and Gril'l in Itaewon, there club sandwich is damn good.

Subway is OK if you only want a tuna one, the meat based sandwiches there are horrendous.

Koreans have a strange taste in foods, apple is found in a lot of sandwiches, as is that horrible Korean style pickle it takes a lot of effort to screw up a simple sandwich but somehow they manage it. Korean salads can be even stranger, my gf and I once ordered a salad with the pizza we were getting delivered and it came with chocolate m and ms, peaches and some sort of demented breakfast cereal! That's one weird salad

Korean kids seem to love to eat most things, it is always difficult to get kids to tell you a food that they don't like. I always resort to asking them if they like kimchi flavoured icecream and garlic milkshakes

[Swiss James]

"Koreans view bread as a sweet food".

This warning label should be displayed at all bakeries.

Good places to get a sandwich then:

'Wood and Brick' deli- Gwanghwamun
'A Twosome Place'- Sinchon
'Jennie's Cafe'- Hongdae
the stall on jong-no that does loads of tiny sandwiches for 100 won each- Jong-no