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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Sure they use their chopsticks, but think of the old geezer whose chim is dribbling into the Kimchi bowl, while he smokes and drops ash onto some other dishes. And the kid whose mother is trying to force some kimchi down his throat but he spits it back up and back into the bowl. Not to mention the constant coughing, throat clearing, hoiking and so forth. Not that appetizing anymore is it? Huh? is it? hahahha (Crazy maniacal laughing)  |
You must eat at some very colorful establishments. I eat out every day and have never once heard someone hork in a restaurant.
Do you know how inexpensive those sidedishes are? That's why you can have as much of them as you want. Any restaurant recycling kimchi or any other sidedish is cheap to the nth degree. It's like cutting open a tube of nearly-finished toothpaste to scrape out the remnants.
And, it's incorrect to assume that just because the kimchi isn't "stacked" that it has been recycled. This disgusting practice may happen, but my guess is very, very infrequently.
Remember when people were scared to eat Chinese food because Chinese restaurants supposedly served cat to unsuspecting diners? A little more objectiveness would have been nice in your original post. The way it is, it reads like a hyperventalating high school girl passing gossip. Grow up.
Sparkles*_* |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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I was at the kimbap shop one day having the omelet covered bap (gar-ran kimbap-I love that kind) when I noticed the kimbap aujama make kimbap, then scratch her toes, then make more kimbap. 
I was sort of freaked about that... |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Sorry to be deconstructing your obviously well thought out and insightful post, however your screed just begs to be analysized.
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| Do you know how inexpensive those sidedishes are? That's why you can have as much of them as you want |
And you base this assumption on what data? Your own gut feeling? Female intuition? Below I have listed a few average prices as of December 5, 2003 in the Jung-gu area, Seoul. (Taken from the Seoul City website). To the average household pulling in 1.2 million a month these prices might be seen to be more than exhorbitant. Remember the minimum wage is only about 3000 per hour or less.
White cabbage (2kg) 2,273
Lettuce (400g) 2,238
Apple (300g) 1,600
Bean Curd (420g) 1,671
Do you ever go grocery shopping? Your next comment suggests not.
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| I eat out every day and have never once heard someone hork in a restaurant. |
Great, further comment unneccesary.
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| And, it's incorrect to assume that just because the kimchi isn't "stacked" that it has been recycled |
Okay, so what would be your assumption. If you have ever cut Baechu Kimchi you would know that it is layered. What other possible explanation could you have for Kimchi that is piled haphazardly? Don't make statements without offering alternative explanations.
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| Remember when people were scared to eat Chinese food because Chinese restaurants supposedly served cat to unsuspecting diners? |
Not really, but I do recall a few people professing their belief that Chinese restaurants serve cats, but they were generally ignorant rednecks, the ill-informed or the prejudiced amongst us.
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| A little more objectiveness would have been nice in your original post. The way it is, it reads like a hyperventalating high school girl passing gossip. |
To you maybe, but I stated this practice happened in the smaller mom and pop type joints. I didn't once claim it was endemic throughout the Korean restaurant trade. I take it you are a girl and have first hand knowledge of hyperventilating gossip mongering?
Unfortunately, like everyone I am. ACCURSED AGING PROCESS!!! |
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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:05 am Post subject: |
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Very good. Use the most expensive time of the year. By the way resturants don't pay anywhere near the price the rest of us pay. My neighbours (own a sheikdong) buy everything in bulk and make it. We get 1 or 2 things off them once and a while and they charge us less the half the supermarket price.
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I eat out every day and have never once heard someone hork in a restaurant.
Great, further comment unneccesary.
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Exactly, because he's right. Outside all the time, inside, not too likely unkess they have a bad cough.
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Remember when people were scared to eat Chinese food because Chinese restaurants supposedly served cat to unsuspecting diners?
Not really, but I do recall a few people professing their belief that Chinese restaurants serve cats, but they were generally ignorant rednecks, the ill-informed or the prejudiced amongst us.
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I remember it well and it's funny because this is basically what I wrote about you in the begining 'generally ignorant rednecks, the ill-informed or the prejudiced amongst us.'
Gossip gossip gossip
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Korean restaurants either waste a lot of food or put some of it back out.
I am sure some restaurants don't waste, whereas others may.
Similar things may or may not happen in other countries.
Many people have many expert friends in the food or food related business.
Korea isn't unique.
Chinese don't serve cat all the time and call it other meat. |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:14 am Post subject: |
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Korean restaurants either waste a lot of food or put some of it back out.
I am sure some restaurants don't waste, whereas others may.
Similar things may or may not happen in other countries.
Many people have many expert friends in the food or food related business.
Korea isn't unique.
Chinese don't serve cat all the time and call it other meat |
Thanks Phaedrus for the nice summary, all points covered in plain simple language for all to understand.
No need for anymore infantile name calling, let's leave it at that. |
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t bear
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: south central rok
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:33 am Post subject: |
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I too have never seen anyone actually spit in a restraurant, but loudly conjuring up a lugey from the depths of one smoke and soju saturated lungs is an awful enough sound to deal with.
I've seen the recycle thing aswell, after I'd finished eating aswell. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:18 am Post subject: |
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So, what dread illness are you going to get from eating recycled kimchee? E. coli? Tuberculosis? If you didn't get your Hep A and B series completed before you got to Korea, it's your own fault. I'm going to keep devouring the kimchee and other side dishes. And if it looks randomly thrown on the plate, so much the better, because my favorite kimchee is the old sour stuff. I've never gotten sick that way.
Now, raw eggs, on the other hand, served ANYWHERE except in the downtown of a major city, that's another story... |
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anae
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: cowtown
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't say that randomly piled kimchi is necessarily a sign of recycling. When you make quick kimchi ( I forget the korean term) you cut the cabbage before combining it with the seasonings. I only ever make this kind as I can't be bothered to deal with cutting runny cabbages every meal.
As well, some establishments might cut up a cabbage or two at the beginning of the day and keep it in a plastic container so they can quickly dish it up throughout the day. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| fidel wrote: |
And you base this assumption on what data? Your own gut feeling? Female intuition? |
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| I take it you are a girl and have first hand knowledge of hyperventilating gossip mongering? |
Will your amazing powers of deduction never cease? And can I then assume that, based on your avatar, your are a gay sheep?
Sparkles*_* |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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The sheep is a STUD man, get it right!!!!  |
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