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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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Personally, I enjoy them. Espcially the chicken-on-a-stick outside Songnae station, which is, "famous" as they say. They are still not there as of today.
I also like o-daeng. I do wish somebody would put something different in their carts, say hanburgers. Koreans love hamburgers, but I guess the meat is too expensive.
Maybe I will start Songnae's first hamburger/hotdog (real ones, not that breaded disgusting type) cart. Yeah! Of course, I'll probably be deported 6 minutes after opening.
By the way, I keep trying to get my girlfriend to ask one of the ajummas how they actually go about putting a cart somewhere? I heard all these rumours that they have to pay "mafia" hitmen. Do they just find an open place and stick the cart there and that space becomes there's permanently or do they really pay bribes? |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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For awhile, there were a number of street food vendors (at least in Seoul) selling "L.A. burgers", which looked to me like a pork hamburger with mayonnaise and teriyaki sauce on top.
Here's a company that will supply you the cart. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| I do wish somebody would put something different in their carts, say hanburgers. |
I love hanburgers. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
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| I do wish somebody would put something different in their carts, say hanburgers. |
I love hanburgers. |
You are on quite the humor roll today. |
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Blind Willie
Joined: 05 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:32 am Post subject: |
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But wait!
How can I get tasty yet hygenically questionable chicken on a stick?
huh? HUH? |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
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| I do wish somebody would put something different in their carts, say hanburgers. |
I love hanburgers. |
Do you also like chiken? |
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blindsheep
Joined: 18 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| There's a vendor outside Seohyeon station in Bundang that sells Tacos for 1000 won each... Finding that out made my day. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:51 am Post subject: |
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And a vendor now sells them out of a truck in Itaewon. Saw him parked in front of Spy Club Tuesday night.
Oh, by the way, has anyone noticed that they've cracked down on the selling of fakes in stores? The street vendors still sell the small fake Oakley sunglasses and Burberry-wear, but the stores can't sell the fake purses without having a fake name tag on them (they still try, but #s have been cut waaaay back).
I heard this from my friend at KBS. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: |
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I love the street vendors.
I hate what has happened in the west with the over-regulation of friiging everything so now it is so sterile.
Always fun and you know its cheap |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
I love the street vendors.
I hate what has happened in the west with the over-regulation of friiging everything so now it is so sterile.
Always fun and you know its cheap |
well true,, but at least back home its legal.. you get your permit and license and you're sweet..
here its a bloodwar. gangstas fighting for the best street corner.. or the best subway exit! cops taking bribes, government officals turning the blind eye.. while real unfortunate people with no income and starving, get pushed aside by greedy gangstas who want all the bank roll...
the governments should step up.. and the people should go into a lottery
you want a to be a vendor? you need a permit.. you need a license..
you need to past hygiene regulation tests if you are selling food..
you need to pay taxes.. blar blar.. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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you want a to be a vendor? you need a permit.. you need a license..
you need to past hygiene regulation tests if you are selling food..
you need to pay taxes.. blar blar..
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And what is wrong with that? The way I see it there is a stomach bug in every cart. Better to license them rather than allow smelly Grandma to sell chicken that has been sitting out in the heat all day. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| I'm confused...this is korea....and I thought that koreans were big on family?!?! One big tight knit happy family who always help one another...so...why the street vendors who are old folks? I can't believe that thousands of them have no family! |
I had a really diligent university student a few years ago, her parents were street vendors...I felt very guilty for teaching her because her parents had to work a lot of hours to scrape up the money to pay for her hakwon fees every month. One month she couldn't afford it, so I had the hakwon deduct her fee from my salary.
So the short answer is, probably the whole family is not too well off financially. There are cases of street vendors scraping the money together to pay for their kid's school fees. Don't knock them. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
| I'm confused...this is korea....and I thought that koreans were big on family?!?! One big tight knit happy family who always help one another...so...why the street vendors who are old folks? I can't believe that thousands of them have no family! |
I had a really diligent university student a few years ago, her parents were street vendors...I felt very guilty for teaching her because her parents had to work a lot of hours to scrape up the money to pay for her hakwon fees every month. One month she couldn't afford it, so I had the hakwon deduct her fee from my salary.
So the short answer is, probably the whole family is not too well off financially. There are cases of street vendors scraping the money together to pay for their kid's school fees. Don't knock them. |
Wow, what a Buddha thing to do. My hats off to your act of compassion. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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you want a to be a vendor? you need a permit.. you need a license..
you need to past hygiene regulation tests if you are selling food..
you need to pay taxes.. blar blar..
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And what is wrong with that? The way I see it there is a stomach bug in every cart. Better to license them rather than allow smelly Grandma to sell chicken that has been sitting out in the heat all day. |
Hmmm in a nation that can't keep school bus drivers from blowing through red lights I'm not sure that's a workable plan. And there are bigger fish to fry.
My kids live on that street vendor food and I haven't lost one yet. The cars blowing through red lights outside my school pose a much greater danger to them, however. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| Wow, what a Buddha thing to do. My hats off to your act of compassion. |
Well, thanks,  but it was no biggie. She deserved a break. |
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