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[keithinkorea]

Most Korean food is rubbish in my personal opinion. Mandu is just bad dim sum, Sam gep sal (apologies for spelling) is just all fatty and horrid, most people cooking food here have never had any proper training and I hate the way that they just put ingredients in a pot and boil them up. Have the 'chefs' in Korea not realised that a piece of fish should have the guts taken out before they cook it?

Have they not realised that a piece of meat, different veggies take different amounts of time and that just slinging everything in a pot and boiling it up with a bit of kimchee or gojujang just doesn't work. If you do that some veggies are underdone, others are overdone everything just blends into a hideous dogs dinner of a mess.

I am a bit of a food snob and very fussy, my Korean fiance is also similar but annoys me a bit on occasion with 'this is the way Korean people like it' type excuses. But even my dearest, most precious, most loved one was freaked out when we ordered a pizza and a salad and the salad contained cheerios and chocolate m and ms that was a weird and quite disgusting combination, the pizza almost qualified as OK.

I do however love Kalbi it is excellent if it is not a cheap cut of crap fatty beef. I like Kimchi if it is not all weird and rotten. I love some of the excellent sea food available here. I hate the pickles with everything obsession.

I like to cook and I've been told I'm pretty good. We've had a few cookouts in recent times and my food has been highly praised. In Korea some truly amazing ingredients are available at the local market such as the ultra fresh big crabs and the tiger prawns and at certain times of the year you dont need to pay through the nose for great fresh ingredients.

I'm always suprised to meet Americans (it always seems to be Americans) who say that Britlish food is bad and rave about crap Korean food. I miss the food I used to eat in the UK, the fantastic cheese, great veggies all year round, Indian-British food in the form of curry, really good roast dinners from my mum and me, good fish and chips, great kebabs, much better Thai food.

On the whole Korea has a lot of potential especially when it comes to ingredients, but people are stuck in the boil up some roots, eat some rotten cabbage, recycle the kimchi for the next customer.

Most cooks here should only do prepping, it took me years to learn how to cook well. The sling it in a pot thing is disgusting lazy cooking and I hate it.

In two words Korean food is generally rubbish.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

I dissagree completely with the above post. Dishes like Dwenjang JJigae, Bibimbap, and Galbi Sal are classics that are unique and have stood the test of time.

[hojucandy]

[coolsage]

I side with Keithinkorea. Most Korean food reflects the Korean persona: no imagination. If you've had one Korean meal, you've had them all (with the possible exception of dalkabi, and I reside in the home of this 'famous' dish). Most of it, though, consists of abused, low-quality flesh with the same side-dish assortment of boiled twigs and grasses. It's no surprise that Korean restaurants aren't springing up everywhere in the West : there's no demand for the product. I tend to avoid the stuff.

[Homer]

[panthermodern]

I wrote a post that was most likely deleted that most Korean food in Korea (andwhat I mean by that is BIG city Korea : AKA Seoul )is terrible and you have to go into the country (as in countryside) to find the truely good food of Korea.

You will not find good Korean food in Seoul.

Unless you pay ...


Jeon Ju (Chon ju) is the "food city" of Korea. I am no longer in contact with anyone who lives there but perhaps other posters who are currently in Cholla could help you out ...


My favorite restaraunt of all times was "Ma Ma's" at the gate of Jeon Buk Dae where you could eat like a gourmet for less than 5 000 won.

My favorite was Mul Neg Myung served with frozen watermellon chunks rather then ice and thick as pencils buck wheat noodles ... with home made mustard sauce with vinegar ... even the boiled egg tasted better ...

Anyway ... Go to Jeon Ju and eat.

[jajdude]

I like some of the regular foods, but there are some I dislike. I have always found there to be a lack of variety, but then I am not a great cook or anything, and don't like enough foods that koreans do like, which limits my repertoire of eats. Seoul, I don't know, seems to me the best variety of restaurants is there, but maybe panther is right to say not the best deal on good local grub. And homer and Kiwi agreed! --- I'll mark the date on my calendar!

[sillywilly]

live in canadaand bought a rice maker and keep my fridge stocked with kimchi