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Kiwi Tart
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: Sugar too sweet now b/c of K food? |
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I just went out tonight to a Starbucks and ordered a Green tea Frappuccino, and after 2-3 sips, I had to throw it away. It was just too sweet! I know I liked to drink them back home on occasion, but now I think they are too sugary.
Maybe I'm getting accustomed to eating much less sugar, since I eat mostly Korean food. Anyone else have a similar experience?
Anyone else developing new taste since they got here? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| I always thought the mixed coffee drinks were too sweet. I used to work part-time at a coffee shop and would almost gag at the amount of gunk I had to put in drinks for people. Then I'd look over at the school bus about to down the monstrosity I'd created, and it'd all make sense... |
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Jeonnam Jinx
Joined: 06 Oct 2005
Location: Jeonnam
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| Absolutely! When I returned home, I found the ice cream, chocolates, candies, pies, and so many other things (especially Christmas chocolates) to be unbearably sweet. I think they use more cream in the ice cream here than they actually do in the West. When I get gifts from home, like cookie mixes, boxes of cookies, choco pies (we called them "Wagon Wheels" ), and other sweets, I find them incredibly sweet = (tasty, but sweet). |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:44 am Post subject: |
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I actually find that regular Korean food has far more sugar in it than 'western' foods. You just don't taste it because it's drowned in mayonaise, red pepper paste, and oil.
I also find the sweets in Korea seem to load up way more sugar in them. The pastries, the ice cream, ect. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:55 am Post subject: |
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let me tell you
i used to have no problem drinking a 1L cola bottle under 5 minutes.
now i can't even drink 20cl in an hour ...
The same with fatty food. If i dare to eat too much fat in one day, i am going to feel bad the following day.
If you do have a korean diet, the way the Koreans NORMALLY eat. Not the new and improved western food they "try" to eat. Then you will become less used to eating sugar and fat.
There is also some kind of "Kicking off" feeling i had the first few months.
PS, without any effort i lost 10 Kg in 5 monts. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| Hapkido-In wrote: |
I actually find that regular Korean food has far more sugar in it than 'western' foods. You just don't taste it because it's drowned in mayonaise, red pepper paste, and oil.
I also find the sweets in Korea seem to load up way more sugar in them. The pastries, the ice cream, ect. |
If you try eating Western Food, yes, they add too much sugar and fat. But that is because they think that is the way Europeans/Americans eat.
Try eating regular normal everyday Korean food. Technically this means only vegetables, fruits and fish. |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
If you try eating Western Food, yes, they add too much sugar and fat. But that is because they think that is the way Europeans/Americans eat.
Try eating regular normal everyday Korean food. Technically this means only vegetables, fruits and fish. |
What Koreans do you know that eat only vegetables, fruits, and fish? Ones that live in Japan? 
Also, fruits are very high in sugar.
Anyways, I eat Korean food a plenty and haven't experienced any reduction in my sweet tooth. Bring on Starbucks! |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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i totally agree!!!
i cant eat the bread here because it has way too much sugar in it
so i miss my vegemite/peanut butter on toast cause now it tastes yucky...
the one good thing is that i can eat bagels and they taste normal
but i do miss garlic bread..i tried some at wal mart and it had sugar in it!!!
i was not expecting that 
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Kiwi Tart
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Oh yeah, the sugar in the bread is weird to me too.
I've been told that bread is a sweet snack to Koreans. Is that just a Korean thing, or do other countries put extra sugar in their bread to make it super sweet? |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Kiwi Tart wrote: |
Oh yeah, the sugar in the bread is weird to me too.
I've been told that bread is a sweet snack to Koreans. Is that just a Korean thing, or do other countries put extra sugar in their bread to make it super sweet? |
Did you ever eat sugar bread?
If not, come to Belgium, we also have a bread filled with sugar, we mainly eat it only on Sundays though. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Hapkido-In wrote: |
| Juregen wrote: |
If you try eating Western Food, yes, they add too much sugar and fat. But that is because they think that is the way Europeans/Americans eat.
Try eating regular normal everyday Korean food. Technically this means only vegetables, fruits and fish. |
What Koreans do you know that eat only vegetables, fruits, and fish? Ones that live in Japan?
Also, fruits are very high in sugar.
Anyways, I eat Korean food a plenty and haven't experienced any reduction in my sweet tooth. Bring on Starbucks! |
I guess i made myself misunderstood, mea culpa.
I was trying to convey the information that the "normal" diet of a korean consists of vegetables fruit and fish.
With the increased consumption level and disposable income, they have eagerly taken upon themselves to copy cat Western style overfdeeding themselves and their children.
You do realise that the sugar in Fruit is somewhat less negative in effect then the sugar distilles from root or sugarcane?
Have you gone one week without eating anything Western since you came here, try it. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| After 4 years in Asia (2 in Japan), I can barely finish a Cadbury cream egg anymore, though I sure as hell try. |
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Kiwi Tart
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
Did you ever eat sugar bread?
If not, come to Belgium, we also have a bread filled with sugar, we mainly eat it only on Sundays though. |
Mmmm... sounds good. Not that I don't like the sweet bread, but when you bite into a dinner roll, expecting a warm, salty and buttery bread, then get something that taste like a cake, it's quite a surprise.
Are you from Belgium, by the way?
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
| Hapkido-In wrote: |
| Juregen wrote: |
If you try eating Western Food, yes, they add too much sugar and fat. But that is because they think that is the way Europeans/Americans eat.
Try eating regular normal everyday Korean food. Technically this means only vegetables, fruits and fish. |
What Koreans do you know that eat only vegetables, fruits, and fish? Ones that live in Japan?
Also, fruits are very high in sugar.
Anyways, I eat Korean food a plenty and haven't experienced any reduction in my sweet tooth. Bring on Starbucks! |
I guess i made myself misunderstood, mea culpa.
I was trying to convey the information that the "normal" diet of a korean consists of vegetables fruit and fish.
With the increased consumption level and disposable income, they have eagerly taken upon themselves to copy cat Western style overfdeeding themselves and their children.
You do realise that the sugar in Fruit is somewhat less negative in effect then the sugar distilles from root or sugarcane?
Have you gone one week without eating anything Western since you came here, try it. |
Of course fruit sugars are far less harmful than processed stuff. But as far as the taste goes, I find fruit to be just as sweet as anything else. I love the pears here, or as I call them apple-pears. That probably plays a roll in why my sweet prevails, come to think of it.
Of course vegetables and fish have no sugar in them (or very little), so if you were to eat only fish and vegetables, I figure that you probably could lose the sweet tooth. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| The same with fatty food. If i dare to eat too much fat in one day, i am going to feel bad the following day. |
No doubt! Especially fast food hamburgers. I don't eat much western food here. After I eat them, they give me the runs in the middle of the night.  |
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