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[riley]

Since we're on this whole lunch rant, could the school lunch be healthier and more interesting? Oh yeah, I hate fish! Though, for 1,500won that's not too bad.

[Qinella]

[Qinella]

Here's my whine: the apartment building where I live has two elevators. One of them only goes to even numbered floors, and the other one to odd. I think it takes a special kind of mental defection to come up with this type of design. When I walk up to the elevator I need, only to watch it starting at level 2, go all the way up to 14, and slowly make its way down to me while the elevator I can't use sits idly unused.... it challenges my patience.

Oh, and they have two doors at the entrance. One has a sign that says �� (closed door) and it's always locked. Once again, I wonder, WHAT IS THE FREAKIN POINT!?!?! Do they have a room in the back where you can pay and watch hidden camera videos of people smacking into the locked door and waiting around for half an hour at the elevator?

Cheers.

[xingyiman]

I have to admit...Korean food tastes like ass. It sucks. Kimchi sucks. Kimbap sucks, etc... The Koreans have the knack for being able to take a semmingly unscrewable food item like king crab and make it taste like sh!t. Never knew why I decided to go to chefs college but maybe it was premonition? ANyway its the only reason I am not starving to death now. I like evertyhting else about Korea though.

[Thunndarr]

On soggy sandwiches: Why is it an unwritten rule that the condiment layer must be adjacent to the bread layer? Why not simply put the mayonnaise/mustard/whatever between two slices of meat or lettuce or whatever else? Bread stays dry, sandwich stays lubricated, taste buds happy.

[xingyiman]

Or how about the fact that every pastry is stuffed with some kind of shiiit tasting fruit jam. Lots of times I have bought great looking bread items only to bite into them and have that synthetic crap ozzing out and ruining the experience.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[seoulsucker]

I'm usually fairly positive about my life here, but this is one thing that I just can't get over.

In just about every country I've been to, I can use a numbered street address to find a place. I just don't get the ���� system here, how it was designed, etc.

If you are trying to give directions to someone here, it's nearly impossible without using landmarks like, "go past the Family Mart, then make a left at Pelicana Chicken," etc. Most Koreans seem to rely on landmarks to find their way to a new place as well.

How tough would it be to assign street names and give buildings numbers? I think it could be done gradually over the course of a few years.

[identity]

my only complaint is the prediliction for foreigners to complain about every aspect of life that is different than their lives at home.
and slugs in my lettuce.

[steroidmaximus]

shut up ya whiny non slug eating sock.

[xingyiman]

[Unreal]

My complaint is why can't cooks do a little more of the preparation of food themselves? Instead of a few cooks removing the fish bones and the head, hundreds of people have to pull their own bones out of their food and I have to put up with a big fish eye staring at me from my soup. Same for chicken...why do I have to pick through several pieces of chicken to find one with meat on it? I end up throwing out so much cafeteria food because it's too much of a pain to pick off each sliver of meat and cut off chunks of fat, gristle and cartillage.