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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: AFRICAN FOOD |
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Ive seen a couple of African food joints in Itaewon, in the alley behind BK.
Question: Has anyone ever been to any of these restaurants, and if so, are they
a) good
b) african (as opposed to african american)
c) worth going to |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: AFRICAN FOOD |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
are they
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What, you got something against Soul Food?? |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: AFRICAN FOOD |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
are they
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What, you got something against Soul Food?? |
ugh. jesus f-ing christ...reaching aren't you?
yes. i am a huge biggot racist. just don't tell my black grandmother.
and yes i hate soul food, just don't tell my big fat ass.
JUST WONDERING WHAT TYPE OF FOOD THOSE PLACES SERVE AS I WOULD LIKE TO TRY AFRICAN FOOD. |
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Demonicat
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Chances are quite high that its Nigerean food, as there is a Nigerian Neighborhood very close to Itaewon. Never been though (didn't know about the restarants) but I am quite interested in how it goes. Chimp, let me know if you need an eating partner- or barring that, if the food is worth it. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
| Chances are quite high that its Nigerean food, as there is a Nigerian Neighborhood very close to Itaewon. Never been though (didn't know about the restarants) but I am quite interested in how it goes. Chimp, let me know if you need an eating partner- or barring that, if the food is worth it. |
im not in korea right now  :::dances:::
but in a couple of weeks ill bump the thread and let you know. i checked out nigerian food on google and it seems nice.
if anyone else has been please feel free to recommend... |
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simone
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Now Mostly @ Home
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
| Demonicat wrote: |
| Chances are quite high that its Nigerean food, as there is a Nigerian Neighborhood very close to Itaewon. Never been though (didn't know about the restarants) but I am quite interested in how it goes. Chimp, let me know if you need an eating partner- or barring that, if the food is worth it. |
im not in korea right now :::dances:::
but in a couple of weeks ill bump the thread and let you know. i checked out nigerian food on google and it seems nice.
if anyone else has been please feel free to recommend... |
I love international food. I'll pretty much try anything - even the old dog soup once here in Korea.
Went to a dinner party given by a lovely Nigerian couple we met in grad school. Great party, 10-odd people, all trying their damndest to swallow the 8-course meal lovingly prepared by the wife. Again, the sweetest folks in the world. Maybe she was just a bad cook? But the flavours we good, nice and spicy, but the textures and ingredients were impossible for me to get down.
One was a spicy stew made with intestines - or tongue, through I'm pretty sure it was intestines. I'm not so bad with tongue. 
There was also a dish of basically peeled and steamed okra - I don't know how well you all know okra, but after a half hour, it was basically a bowl of lukewarm mucuous... very viscous mucus. I downed my glass of wine as a chaser, and did my best to appear to enjoy it.
Whew! That was a rough one. We insisted on hosting next time. Chicken curry - always a crowdpleaser. |
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ed4444
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
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I brought my Korean girlfriend to one of the Nigerian restaurants in Itaewon. we were the only non central africans there but they made us feel welcome. there was an advertisement saying it was "the taste of home".
there was goats head on the menu but i wasn't feeling that brave.
I had some mashed rice dish with beef in a dark gravy style sauce. it was not fantastic but it was different. girlfriend had some cow tongue and some veggies.
hygene seemed about the same standard as most korean family run restaurants. no ill effects afterwards.
its good for a change. most of the dished were between 8,000 and 15,000W
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:35 am Post subject: Re: AFRICAN FOOD |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
Ive seen a couple of African food joints in Itaewon, in the alley behind BK.
Question: Has anyone ever been to any of these restaurants, and if so, are they
a) good
b) african (as opposed to african american)
c) worth going to |
YES! I did.. they are VERY GOOD. Also VERY AFRICAN.. and VERY WORTH GOING TO.
Went to one over the weekend.. had some meat in a soup dish you mix with your rice.. plus another dish of something like bread-rice that you rip off and dip in another sauce. Absolutely delicious.
I'd go again in a heartbeat. |
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Bo Peabody
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think all the Africans in Korea are necessarily Nigerian... I think that's just a convenient label that's been stuck on them. There are probably a few different African nationalities running restaurants. |
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ed4444
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| I didn't assume they were Nigerian. I asked them when I was there and they told me. |
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Tiger Beer
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| I don't think all the Africans in Korea are necessarily Nigerian... I think that's just a convenient label that's been stuck on them. There are probably a few different African nationalities running restaurants. |
You got that right.. I've met very few Nigerians, but have met a lot from everywhere else on that continent. |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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Two words: Cous Cous.
Would be a well-deserved break from Korean-style cooked rice. |
I bought 5 HUGE boxes of couscous before coming back this summer, Koreans seem to really enjoy it, especially the Harrissa sauce. I learned to love it when I lived in France, had a friend from Morocco, who was always making it! |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| you can get cous cous at the international markets here. I usually buy mine at the one near What the book |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| I don't think all the Africans in Korea are necessarily Nigerian... I think that's just a convenient label that's been stuck on them. There are probably a few different African nationalities running restaurants. |
I just know of the Nigerian one which is off the lower reaches of the hill. Seoul French Club did some oily African dishes before it closed down. As for the make up of the African community here, most are Nigerian, next biggest seems to be the Zairean/Congolese. I've also met Ghanaians, Cameroonians and Liberians here. |
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