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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: Why aren't you eating rice? |
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Cause I don't fkg want to eat rice! It's bland and useless. If I do have some, do you mind if I poor my food over it? Lot easier than scooping the food from another part of my tin tray. Wouldn't want to offend you?
Excuse me while I pick my bowl up and drown this tasteless soup. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:38 am Post subject: |
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Korean friend: Do you want to eat Korean food?
Me: Sure, why the hell not you selfish, unwordly bastard. Let's eat what you like every time.
Korean friend: Ok, Korean food it is. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: |
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darkcity
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: SF, CA
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| you guys need new korean friends. mine are kickass. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Korean friend: Do you want to eat Korean food?. |
Me: No. You eat Korean food everyday. Let's get something different for once. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| For me it's the other way around, I try to get my Korean friend to EAT rice. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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The fixation with rice in this country often pisses me off.
Just last weekend I apparently offended the hostess at a friends dinner party by declining a bowl of rice which she brought to the table 20 minutes after the other foods were served! There was no way I could have forced in that rice. But, according to my wife, Korean custom is to force in any food offered, especially the rice, or the host will think their cooking is not 'mashita'!!
When told that I should think of rice as being like bread to westerners, I still don't get it. Which of you westerners would get offended if one of your guests declined some bread??
Funny how many Koreans are so convinced that we foreigners are incredibly alien and strange, yet get offended when we don't follow one of their little customs?? |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: Why aren't you eating rice? |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
Cause I don't fkg want to eat rice! It's bland and useless. If I do have some, do you mind if I poor my food over it? Lot easier than scooping the food from another part of my tin tray. Wouldn't want to offend you?
Excuse me while I pick my bowl up and drown this tasteless soup. |
Bro, chill out and get your arse to the Hongdae tavern this weekend-I'd be going tonight but I'm at th etail end of a cold.
When I have teachers [not my coteacher, she's golden] demonstrate the most efficient chopsticks usage, or touch the hair on my arms, I make eye contact and say
"Don't do that. Don't ever do that again."
ps eamo, I just get to a point and say "I'm not eating any more." It works for me |
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mrgiles
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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you're in asia. what do u expect?
u don't have to eat rice yourself, but don't be surprised that koreans do. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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I must say I'm getting used to it.
This year I get fresh hot food, but at last years elementary I would get food that had been waiting in containers for 20 mins before our class ended. The principal and sometimes VP would get first pickings:roll: .
After a 'kalbi' meal among others, it is customary to eat either a bowl of rice with chiggae, or cold noodle.
What you can't eat, offer it to others before you start eating and then you could hide the rest in the chiggae. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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why not? hmmm...expensive, bland varieties here and little nutritional value. what is there to like?
stuffs your belly if you are a starving peasant. OK. but i you aren't a starving peasant about the only thing rice is good for is "cleansing the palate". |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| mrgiles wrote: |
you're in asia. what do u expect?
u don't have to eat rice yourself, but don't be surprised that koreans do. |
You've missed the point entirely......
Refusing to eat rice will offend Koreans. That's the problem. They see eating rice as such a requirement that even foreigners are roped in. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Rice is awesome.
Fried Rice. Rice Pilaf. Spanish Rice. Broccoli and Cheese Rice. Cajun Rice. Jambalaya.
Yum! |
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EricaSmile84
Joined: 23 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Only on Daves can people get pissed off by rice.  |
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jetrash
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Location: the united steaks
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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no ............
actually other way round..hence thread.
only in korea can people get pissed off because one doesnt eat rice
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