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[Tundra_Creature]

I enjoy the taste, but apparently the drink doesn't like me. I can't drink more than a glass or else my stomach will be yelling at me the next morning.

[teachingld2004]

Typo.
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[Kurtz]

The problem is it's hard to regulate how much you consume. Becuase of the small cups it's drunk out of, I quickly lose count, and the next thing I know is I'm drunk.

Also, like certain Dave's posters, it brings the worst out in me AND also the hangover is horrible.

I try to avoid when possible, or just have a or two cups.

[seoulsucker]

The fact that restaurants often use the leftover contents of bottles as a cleaning solution should point to the fact that the stuff is really unfit for human consumption. Stay away at all costs, unless it's going to throw a serious monkey wrench in the workings of a social or professional relationship.

[Globutron]

I tend to say 'No thanks, I don't like it'. Stops me suffering, at least.

I remember being pressured to a high extent to drink a shot, because a friend was leaving. Everyone was ganging up on me, which instead of making me fall for peer pressure, just gave me more incentive to refuse - such is my nature.

It ended up having a slight fall out because it got so serious, I was saying that if they decide I'm a bad friend for not drinking a shot, then what does that say about their friendship towards me. And just sat there with a shot of soju until they realised what assholes they were being, and quickly resorted to 'jeeze we were only joking, of course you dont have to drink it'.

[thomas pars]

Food for thought.

When you go to the hospital for your yearly checkup, they have a
health questionnaire.

It has 3 questions.

Do you smoke?

Do you drink alcohol?

Do you drink soju?

That should answer any questions as to whether you should be drinking this
garbage.

[SeoulNate]

its good with bbq

[northway]

[Hotwire]

Nastiest hangovers I ever had. Plus they clean pans with it.

Hmmm...

No thank you!

I'll fake a shot with Korean co-workers to keep them happy though.

[alistaircandlin]

We've been staying with my in-laws for the last ten days until we move into our own place next Saturday.

My mother-in-law has made this maesil soju which is amazing. Basically she gets loads of korean plums and soaks them in soju for a few months - she uses a big gallon jar.

I really love the stuff - we had a regular soju the other day for the first time since returning to korea and it didn't taste half as good.

She tells me that you can use any fruit - apples, peaches or whatever - and you can buy large bottle of soju especially for doing this. To make strawberry soju - what she callss dalkiju - she's added quite a bit of sugar; personally I prefer the maesil-ju, which is not sweetened.

It's a bit like what we do with sloe gin in England I guess - anyway I love it and it's certainly worth trying it with different sorts of fruit.

[Fishead soup]

Soju is a short sprint drink. It gets you really drunk really fast. This is partcularly the way it's served. If you want to drink all night you might want to go with beer or Makoli.

One of the biggest advatages of soju is it goes well with Pork Belly Samgyupsal. Otherwise it's crap.

Drinking soju makes you vulnerable to black outs. Only drink it with close friends who actually care about you and are not just interested in seeing the foreign teacher get pissed out of his head.

[Hotwire]

[Jake_Kim]

Soju as it is widely known now isn't even real Soju, and it's actually an insult to Korean heritage. Those watered-down green bottles of shite killed almost all other, better spirits because Korean govt saw an opportunity to control grain consumption and jack up tax revenue simultaneously by streamlining small distilleries when the country was piss-poor decades ago. Now, even for an average Korean, the names of those 'endangered or extinct' spirits sound almost mythical and are subsequently forgotten, overwritten by readily available Soju.
The one called Andong Soju (40+%) is the closest recreation of what real Soju should be, and there are a few other non-Soju spirits which are, ironically, rather hard to acquire due to minuscule production and equally little mass-exposure.

[ThingsComeAround]

Get yer Soju from the DMZ, they allegedly import it from North Korea

[Jake_Kim]

And get some nice warm Seollongtang through my nose hanging upside down in the basement of certain government agency in Naegok-dong? Nah, I'll pass.