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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: I only like Korean food. |
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A new teacher has joined the school. She was working in Indonesia for several years.
I asked her if she missed the food there. She said not really but she had spices coming in her boxes.
I helpfully volunteered that she could go to the local Asian supermarket. To which she replied
I only like Korean food. I'm bringing the spices back for a friend. I rarely ate local food out there. I didn't like it.
I think she was there for three or four years.
Korean food isn't my favorite, but I eat it and enjoy some of it, there are some that I don't like, but I don't not like all of it. |
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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: I only like Korean food. |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
A new teacher has joined the school. She was working in Indonesia for several years.
I asked her if she missed the food there. She said not really but she had spices coming in her boxes.
I helpfully volunteered that she could go to the local Asian supermarket. To which she replied
I only like Korean food. I'm bringing the spices back for a friend. I rarely ate local food out there. I didn't like it.
I think she was there for three or four years.
Korean food isn't my favorite, but I eat it and enjoy some of it, there are some that I don't like, but I don't not like all of it. |
Should we assume this person is Korean? |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: I only like Korean food. |
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| Crockpot2001 wrote: |
| sobriquet wrote: |
A new teacher has joined the school. She was working in Indonesia for several years.
I asked her if she missed the food there. She said not really but she had spices coming in her boxes.
I helpfully volunteered that she could go to the local Asian supermarket. To which she replied
I only like Korean food. I'm bringing the spices back for a friend. I rarely ate local food out there. I didn't like it.
I think she was there for three or four years.
Korean food isn't my favorite, but I eat it and enjoy some of it, there are some that I don't like, but I don't not like all of it. |
Should we assume this person is Korean? |
Oddly enough yes. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Just leave them to their kimchi, twigs and branches. I don't mind Korean food, but I haven't had it (save the odd cup of ramien) in a few weeks. |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Kind of like the foreigners here who rarely eat Korean food.
What does it matter? What you eat it up to you. I sneer at those who can't use chopsticks or eat kimchi as much as anyone, but when it comes down to it, it's personal choice. |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
Kind of like the foreigners here who rarely eat Korean food.
What does it matter? What you eat it up to you. I sneer at those who can't use chopsticks or eat kimchi as much as anyone, but when it comes down to it, it's personal choice. |
What is your favorite Indonesian food?
None.
FFS that is just pathetic after that length of time there. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| She must have not ate a lot in those 3 years then. I imagine finding cheap or any Korean food over there would be quite difficult. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
Kind of like the foreigners here who rarely eat Korean food.
What does it matter? What you eat it up to you. I sneer at those who can't use chopsticks or eat kimchi as much as anyone, but when it comes down to it, it's personal choice. |
Such as who? False premise. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: I only like Korean food. |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
| Crockpot2001 wrote: |
| sobriquet wrote: |
A new teacher has joined the school. She was working in Indonesia for several years.
I asked her if she missed the food there. She said not really but she had spices coming in her boxes.
I helpfully volunteered that she could go to the local Asian supermarket. To which she replied
I only like Korean food. I'm bringing the spices back for a friend. I rarely ate local food out there. I didn't like it.
I think she was there for three or four years.
Korean food isn't my favorite, but I eat it and enjoy some of it, there are some that I don't like, but I don't not like all of it. |
Should we assume this person is Korean? |
Oddly enough yes. |
Yep, as an expat in Jakarta I can honestly say that the Korean community is the most cloistered, insular and frequently loathed section of the non-native population here. |
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Jeff's Cigarettes
Joined: 27 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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koreans only eating korean food when abroad is not unusual at all. haven't you checked out that little grocery shop at incheon airport? they've got tubs of stuff for koreans to take with them so they'll never have to resort to foreign food.
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| crusher_of_heads wrote: |
| I've come across many uptight kimberlies who get their panties in a bunch when I don't eat the kimchi jigae who ae more than open in saying they don't eat "foreigner foods when in another country." |
In reality, or just in your imagination? My money is on the latter.
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| I would point out their nonsense, but kimberly isn't worth the effort |
You mean it never really happened, so you haven't had a chance to point it out yet, don't you?
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| and as long as it's one less meal in kimberly's company, I win. |
I'm sure that, ultimately, they are the real winners. |
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