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[just because]

I would go to maccas twice a week. I eat my share of Korean food but love some greasy stuff occasionally. So whenever I order(usually take out) and walk to home or work I feel like I've sold out because here is this waygook carrying around a Maccas bag. Just reinforces the hamburger 3 times a day theory they have.
I'm not going to stop and am not too worried but often think that Koreans must think"stupid waygook, can't eat Korean food'

[Derrek]

How do you know where those "all-beef patties" come from in Korea?

You might be eating a very traditional Korean delicacy, and not even know it!

[just because]

If Bulgolgi burger is a Korean delicacy than they had better get some better dishes

[Derrek]

[camel96]

Ha...funny - I was in a Maccas here a couple of months ago and this Korean guy comes up to me and says in English "I think you eat here a lot. You should try Korean food". And I'm sort of like "Errrr. Douchebag. I eat here once a month at most. I eat Korean food 5 days a week at least. *beep* off" And he did. But anyhow whatever. Koreans tourists plague the Korean restaurants outside Korea. Eat where you want. The reason I go easy on Western fast food places these days is that they seem to always give me a stomachache. Otherwise.....

[Corporal]

I think we should all stalk the Koreans back in the West who eat in Korean restaurants. Go after them when they leave the restaurant and say, "I think you eat here too much. You should really have a hamburger once in a while." Hypocrites.

[On the other hand]

[On the other hand]

[lush72]

[jaebea]

Do you still get the same looks when you go to KFC or Pizza Hut?

These two fine establishments have comparable grease levels in their food products. :D

I guess you can't really beat a burger though.

jae.

[Tiger Beer]

I avoid McDonalds at all costs back home.. but sometimes here you have to enter the golden arches?

Why? Because there aren't enough other alternatives.

How do I feel about eating in a fastfood restaurant here? I feel sick. The food is sick. They also choose the most mainstream and more boring fast food choices thats well over 40 years old or whatever they are. Do we have to wait for each chain to become 40 years old before they incorporate it over here?

Why does Korea and other countries like it always have to pull out the worse fast food restaurants, the worst of the mainstream music, and the worst of the mainstream movies?

Regarding a guilt complex about eating fast food. Nah, its almost to be expected. Particularly when you are by yourself and you need a quick fix. I do feel really weird about it however if I'm with other foreigners and thats our choice.

[khyber]

i can't stand the site of a macdonalds hamburger. It is beyond me how visually people aren't turned off by the mound of food.

[FierceInvalid]

I get a bit of the "check out the foreigner not eating Korean food" guilt, the same way I get the Twan guilt when I stand up to get off the subway at Itaewon station. It doesn't bother me too much because I know I eat mostly Korean food, but it's there. Most of the guilt comes from the food/restaurant itself, not the perceptions of others regarding me eating it. I get the same guilt when eating fast food in Canada or elsewhere, but I can't help it - I get the itch every once in a while, so I scratch.

[Mr. Pink]

Why feel guilty?

I feel bad that I have to settle for a crap burger instead of a nice fresh real burger I might get at a local burger joint back home.

McD's is crap. I would rather do Burger King any day of the week.

Do Koreans stare at me, NOPE.

But one of my co workers used to think I always ate there when I would go out for lunch all the time. I was pretty pissed and told him there are 50 Korean restaurants to that 1 McDs...I asked him if he would settle for shitty food everyday and that shut him up.

[Gord]