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[Missihippi]

While i eat most Korean food, and enjoy most of it...I can't eat it everyday. I'm not much of a cook, so i eat out a lot. I find myself at the local burger king or domino's 3 or 4 times a week (usually on the weekends). How about you?

[Xuanzang]

Once in a very blue moon.

[Robot_Teacher]

I rarely eat it. Not just becuase I live in a small town/rural area where no such restaurants exist, but because I fear arteriosclerosis and heart disease. I sometimes eat Big Macs or an omelet when on vacation or a weekend outing. Ate gimbap a couple times, but it lacks nutrition and fresh ingredients as it's not gourmet California Roll style of American sushi. I won't be making too many weekend outings to Seoul as there are no 3 day weekends until Chuseok to allow enough time for trips so I will not eat any fast food until my August vacation. No hard feelings about it, but I would like more grocery selection at these small stores like Easy Mart.

I do nearly all my own food prep and cooking in my apartment such as stir fry veggies, chicken, salmon, rice, mashed potatoes, and sometimes ground beef over tortilla chips with chopping veggies for a taco substitute. I've been eating Korea public school lunch and actually gained 6 pounds in 3 weeks due to the gluttonous white rice and fatty salty bowls of hot pepper broth. I feel so hungry and take too much white rice as they're wiling to dish it up. Going to lay off the white rice as it's really nutrition less junk food like Wonder bread. Gimbap is also fast food; Korean style as it's mostly high calorie white rice with very little nutrition.

At home, Taco Bell, Subway, and Quiznos were my favorite fast food restaurants, but I still didn't eat it regularly as I wasn't ever doing very well financially to afford regular eating out so I brought my lunch most days. Often, money was so tight, it worked in my benefit of staying thin for just $3 was out of my budget for lunch or dinner after paying bills and squeezing by paycheck to paycheck. I remember how I lost 20 pounds in just several weeks a couple years ago due to a car breakdown!

[FMPJ]

"food"

[VanIslander]

twice or thrice weekly i eat shin ramyeon, dangcho gimbap and/or dukbokki... does that count?

[Ya-ta Boy]

I'm in the once a month or so range. I'd do it more often if it was available. We sometimes have a shortish lunch break and a hamburger would fit the bill. My conception of Korean food is the kind where you take off your shoes, sit down on the floor and get blasted into Sunday morning with soju. That does not work well when you have afternoon classes. (Take my word for it.)

I do do ramyeon every couple of months, but the salt content concerns me. I don't do kimbap because rice should not be cold. It just shouldn't. I tend to cook a lot on the weekend and stick leftovers in the refrigerator to heat up for lunch the first few weekdays.

[Ilsanman]

I am certainly not a fan of twigs and leaves, but I do pack a lunch almost everyday and eat while walking between locations.

[Ginormousaurus]

I go to burger/chicken places very rarely, maybe twice a month. But I eat at Subway about 4 times a week, sometimes more.

[Forward Observer]

I was just home for a week and survived on dougnuts and IN n OUT burgers. Wish they had In n Out in Korea. sigh.

I think I ate at BK twice in the last two years.

[ChinaBoy]

[Gillian57]

I never eat at fast food restaurants, didn't back in the States, don't here.

[VanIslander]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

The other week a thought occured to me: in SE Asia, McDonald's and Burger King are something to avoid. Here they're something to look forward to. I guess the list of Korean foods I really like is rather short, especially when I'm eating at the school cafeteria all week long.

[samcheokguy]

isn't the thread titled wrong? Isn't this asking how often one eats fast food, not how much?

[poet13]

Yup. I was expecting a thread about how many burgers, fries and colas one drinks.