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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: Mud soup. |
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Usually, I try to eat something at lunch, even if it's just the rice. Today, at my place there was some rice and a bowl of what looked like watered down mud soup. The other assorted dishes on the table looked even less appealing. It was all brownish, mushy looking goop.
Not too many days are like this, but when I meet another ex-pat who brags about how he or she is so open minded and adventurous as to order from menus that he or she cannot read. I think about my school lunch table and I don't freakin' believe 'em. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Mud soup. |
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| Illysook wrote: |
Usually, I try to eat something at lunch, even if it's just the rice. Today, at my place there was some rice and a bowl of what looked like watered down mud soup. The other assorted dishes on the table looked even less appealing. It was all brownish, mushy looking goop.
Not too many days are like this, but when I meet another ex-pat who brags about how he or she is so open minded and adventurous as to order from menus that he or she cannot read. I think about my school lunch table and I don't freakin' believe 'em. |
Did you ask what it was? Think about good-old-American Chili. Looks like someone else ate it first. |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Mud soup. |
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| Straphanger wrote: |
| Illysook wrote: |
Usually, I try to eat something at lunch, even if it's just the rice. Today, at my place there was some rice and a bowl of what looked like watered down mud soup. The other assorted dishes on the table looked even less appealing. It was all brownish, mushy looking goop.
Not too many days are like this, but when I meet another ex-pat who brags about how he or she is so open minded and adventurous as to order from menus that he or she cannot read. I think about my school lunch table and I don't freakin' believe 'em. |
Did you ask what it was? Think about good-old-American Chili. Looks like someone else ate it first. |
Easy, now, brother. I come from the chili-making capital of the world (self-proclaimed), and chili need never look like mud. If it does, you're doing it wrong.
Mushy-looking goop in a Korean environment means something other than chili, I shit you not. Might just be the way it's served. Might just be the dish itself. You can't possibly mean to tell me that you traveled all the way to Korea and decided that the mud soup was, in fact, mud? |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: Mud soup. |
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| ReeseDog wrote: |
| Straphanger wrote: |
| Did you ask what it was? Think about good-old-American Chili. Looks like someone else ate it first. |
Easy, now, brother. I come from the chili-making capital of the world (self-proclaimed), and chili need never look like mud. If it does, you're doing it wrong. |
No worries, chili doesn't look like mud, it looks like vomit. A chili dog looks like .. well, use your imagination. Are both quite tasty? Yes.
Point is, never judge a book by its cover. Step up your vocab. What's this? It's galbi-tang. That would be a beef rib soup. What's this? It's chamchi-kimchi chiggae. That would be kimchi and duna fish soup. What's this? Dwenjang Chiggae. That's gonna be...well, fermented soybean paste soup, which isn't recommended procedure if you have high blood pressure, but I've never seen a Korean eat an entire bowl.
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Ever had sujaebi? It resembles bits of foreskin in that craft glue that you used in elementary school. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Part of eating is visual. When there's almost no variety in color or texture in a meal, I feel like taking a pass. |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Jiggae could look like that, right? You guys got it right. Tasty as hell. |
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KimchiExplosion
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Nowhere near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: Mud soup. |
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| ReeseDog wrote: |
Easy, now, brother. I come from the chili-making capital of the world (self-proclaimed) |
I'm from Cincinnati too! |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Mud soup. |
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| KimchiExplosion wrote: |
| ReeseDog wrote: |
Easy, now, brother. I come from the chili-making capital of the world (self-proclaimed) |
I'm from Cincinnati too! |
Ummm...Texas, there, brother. Texas chili is the world's best. Y'all add pasta and shit to y'all's chili. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
| Part of eating is visual. When there's almost no variety in color or texture in a meal, I feel like taking a pass. |
Did you ever like..ya know, go to a Korean restaurant before you committed to spending a year of your life here? I don't mean like upscale New York, I'm talking about Chicago style Chinatown, menu in Hangul, point-and-pray. Did you even look up Korean cuisine on Wikipedia? |
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ReeseDog
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| "Y'all's," there, folks. Second person inclusive possessive. There's two apostrophes in that word. Southerners are the smartest of the bunch, yesireebob! |
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Morgen
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Giving the food a shot a few times in America isn't the same as having dishes you didn't choose and don't have the power to refuse presented to you every day. That's what my friends don't get when they say they can't believe that I can't bear the lunches here. I like it in restaurants as much as anyone, but public school lunches are a very different thing. I used to try to eat a bite of everything, but now some days I just have rice for lunch. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Morgen wrote: |
| Giving the food a shot a few times in America isn't the same as having dishes you didn't choose and don't have the power to refuse presented to you every day. That's what my friends don't get when they say they can't believe that I can't bear the lunches here. I like it in restaurants as much as anyone, but public school lunches are a very different thing. I used to try to eat a bite of everything, but now some days I just have rice for lunch. |
Brown bag it. Are you telling me you actually ate the school lunch when you were teaching back in the states? |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Morgen wrote: |
| Giving the food a shot a few times in America isn't the same as having dishes you didn't choose and don't have the power to refuse presented to you every day. That's what my friends don't get when they say they can't believe that I can't bear the lunches here. I like it in restaurants as much as anyone, but public school lunches are a very different thing. I used to try to eat a bite of everything, but now some days I just have rice for lunch. |
When the director presents his nation's delicacies to your palate, then, for Spongebob's sake, eat the fukcing things. Get a big glass of water or soju and wash them down. Eat all of the nasty, squirmy, rotten things that they like to call delicacies (or things that they wouldn't touch), and you'll have their respect, if nothing else. Hell, take a bite, and then offer the plate to them. See what they say... |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like you're eating" Chewotang". When they flood the rice fields all these little creatures that look like tiny eels start swimming around.
They call them" Mikarauggi" |
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