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[jamesd]

[The King of Kwangju]

Maybe it is 찜닭? I will look into it.

Actually any recommendations for good places in Seoul of Gwangju, I would appreciate. I had a few favourites but I'm not even sure they exist anymore, I will need to go back and check.

Even really good galbi/samgyupsal/BBQ places are harder to find in the west than you would think. Or at least, than I thought it would be. The lettuce is all wrong, for one.

As for pizza, I live in New York! Best pizza in the world.

But I'm also looking forward to Korean fried chicken, as it's also not so easy to find in the West.

Dave spends most of his working day handling orders through this form:

https://www.secure-quotes.com/eslcafe/post.asp

That is, checking credit card numbers, handling ad placement, fixing formatting, etc. Maybe editing typos.

When I was brought on board, he was literally checking credit card numbers over the telephone to make sure they were valid.

It's a massive waste of time, when this could be automated programmatically and essentially chop his 8 hour working day into less than 1. Then his time could be better spent on loafing, or even better, improving the rest of the site.

I always felt he was in a very tenuous position. The site was #1 for ESL jobs, and I think it still is, but it would be pretty easy to knock him out of that spot. I thought he should take advantage of his lead, let computers handle the easy stuff, and he could concentrate on innovation, writing, community building, etc, stuff that would be a better use of his time.

He didn't agree with me at the time, looks like he still doesn't.

Working with Dave was interesting in that even though he's done many things "wrong" with this website, it generates a lot of money for him and is a success on that level.

I still think he's in danger of losing his lead, even though he's had it for years now. Sooner or later someone is going to figure it out, and he'll have a lot more time on his hands to validate credit card numbers, because fewer of them will be coming in.

[madoka]

[tiger fancini]

[missty]

[tiger fancini]

[Zyzyfer]

[missty]

[The King of Kwangju]

I think it might be "buldak"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak

which became popular in 2000. Zyzyfer suggested it on the first page, but I got confused with "bulnak" the bulgogi-nakji dish.

But thanks for that 닭한마리 recommendation, i will check it out. It sounds great.

Zyzyfer I couldn't agree with you more about the meat restaurant (or "Korean BBQ" as they call it here in NYC). What comes on the side is just as important as the meat.

The best kalbi place I ever went to was on the outskirts of Kwangju, and they had 8 different kinds of homegrown lettuce, not to mention the yangpa mix, and homemade ssamjang. For 8,000 won a serving as I remember.

All things considered, the meat has to be good, but the side dishes and stuff that come with it have to be good as well.

Passable here in Manhattan is "Miss Korea." Flushing has better places, like "Jang Tuh Sutbulgui." But you are going to have to spend more like $30 a serving to get anywhere.

And as far as Dave not wanting to improve the site, make no mistake, he has a deep affection for it. He could have sold out for millions of dollars, but he didn't.

He wants to improve it, but he doesn't want to make it so complicated that he can't understand it himself. Which is why it's kind of locked into Web 0.5 mode.

I took a closer look this afternoon: traffic has been dropping over the last few years. Which is not good.

[Draz]

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[Zyzyfer]

[PatrickGHBusan]

[madoka]

[PatrickGHBusan]