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bassexpander
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 Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject: Japanese reporter disrespects Bi-Bim-Bap |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2914541
Someone will have to explain to me why this reporter will have egg on his face?
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A Japanese newspaperman might have egg on his face after revealing a personal beef with Korean cuisine....
Kuroda used the Chinese saying �Sheep�s head, dog meat� which might be better translated as, �Crying out wine and selling vinegar� and wrote that the people who try the spicy dish will be shocked when they see it all become an unidentifiable mixture in front of their eyes. Kuroda said that the word bibimbap literally means �mixed rice� and described Koreans as people who �tend to mix everything they eat.� |
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Burndog
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: Japanese reporter disrespects Bi-Bim-Bap |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2914541
Someone will have to explain to me why this reporter will have egg on his face?
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A Japanese newspaperman might have egg on his face after revealing a personal beef with Korean cuisine....
Kuroda used the Chinese saying �Sheep�s head, dog meat� which might be better translated as, �Crying out wine and selling vinegar� and wrote that the people who try the spicy dish will be shocked when they see it all become an unidentifiable mixture in front of their eyes. Kuroda said that the word bibimbap literally means �mixed rice� and described Koreans as people who �tend to mix everything they eat.� |
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They also used the word beef. Perhaps they were trying to be all Birtish Tabloid journalisty and witty. If so...it didn't work.
I can't believe that the Korean TV Program paid for a full page advertisement in the NYT to promote Bibimbap!! I don't see how placing an advertisement for a particular menu item in an American newspaper really "introduces Korean food and culture to a global audience."
I think that the NYT must be happy with the revenue that it receives from Koreans placing advertisements for various issues (first Dokdo, now bibimbap). |
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aishiii
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GoldMember
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| As much as bibimbap is a reasonably good meal, you have to admit that once you stir it up it does look like the food garbage you see in the food scrap bin. |
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Netizen Joe
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I always associate 'mixed' food with 'peasant' food. One would never see a French or Italian chef, when discussing a meal he just made, say "now mush it all together then shove it into your mouth with a big spoon".  |
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caribmon
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| I could make a better stirfry using Canadian garbage on the rice. Put 1 cup of rice in a bowl. Add dandelion leaves, alfalfa, lawn grass, crab apples, birch bark, expired Timbits, Zamboni snow, shredded paper and 1/2 pound of salmon eggs collected during the salmon run. Add 2 pounds of horseradish paste for burning sensation. Mix together and serve in glory to the Canadian flag. |
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Xuanzang
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| Some Japanese favourites are also peasant dishes like sukiyaki and nabemono dishes... |
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red_devil
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Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Considering that SUSHI is what puts Japan on the food map and that it was partly stumbled upon and wasn't popular in Japan itself until the 19th century, i hardly think the Japanese should have any issue with Korean cuisine. |
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Old Gil
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| Peasant food is freaking amazing. I'm in Vietnam at the moment and the 'simple fare' here is out of this world. Give me peasant food for breakfast lunch and dinner and keep the fancy gout food for Lord Fauntelroy. |
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Netizen Joe
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I'm not saying that I don't like Korean food. I do like it. But it does have a 'peasant' feel about it. It's not exactly high cuisine. Can you imagine serving bibimbap to visiting presidents, kings and queens?
Not saying it's not enjoyable. Just rather lowbrow, like KOrea itself....Maybe that's why they think of it as a representative Korean dish. It definitely fits the bill. |
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BoholDiver
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I agree 100%. I like many Korean dishes, but high cuisine, no way. It even fits the decor and presentation of Korean food. Lots of diners look like they're no better than shacks. Toilet paper on the table.
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| Peasant food is freaking amazing. I'm in Vietnam at the moment and the 'simple fare' here is out of this world. Give me peasant food for breakfast lunch and dinner and keep the fancy gout food for Lord Fauntelroy. |
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ashland
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:59 am Post subject: Re: Japanese reporter disrespects Bi-Bim-Bap |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2914541
Someone will have to explain to me why this reporter will have egg on his face?
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A Japanese newspaperman might have egg on his face after revealing a personal beef with Korean cuisine....
Kuroda used the Chinese saying �Sheep�s head, dog meat� which might be better translated as, �Crying out wine and selling vinegar� and wrote that the people who try the spicy dish will be shocked when they see it all become an unidentifiable mixture in front of their eyes. Kuroda said that the word bibimbap literally means �mixed rice� and described Koreans as people who �tend to mix everything they eat.� |
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just one man's opinion... all the japanese i know love korean dishes including bibimbab. |
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redaxe
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| Old Gil wrote: |
| Peasant food is freaking amazing. I'm in Vietnam at the moment and the 'simple fare' here is out of this world. Give me peasant food for breakfast lunch and dinner and keep the fancy gout food for Lord Fauntelroy. |
Now the worst of both worlds, is when they try to make peasant food fancy. Expensive Korean restaurants are categorically awful. |
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UknowsI
Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
| Old Gil wrote: |
| Peasant food is freaking amazing. I'm in Vietnam at the moment and the 'simple fare' here is out of this world. Give me peasant food for breakfast lunch and dinner and keep the fancy gout food for Lord Fauntelroy. |
Now the worst of both worlds, is when they try to make peasant food fancy. Expensive Korean restaurants are categorically awful. |
I'll have a 5000 won Korean meal over a 30,000 won Korean meal any day. But maybe it's because I'm not so used to the taste yet. When I was younger I preferred cheap western food to expensive western food, but now I enjoy the expensive food more (as long as I don't have to pay). If the Koreans truly enjoy the expensive food more, it could be something similar. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Japanese reporter disrespects Bi-Bim-Bap |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2914541
Someone will have to explain to me why this reporter will have egg on his face?
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A Japanese newspaperman might have egg on his face after revealing a personal beef with Korean cuisine....
Kuroda used the Chinese saying �Sheep�s head, dog meat� which might be better translated as, �Crying out wine and selling vinegar� and wrote that the people who try the spicy dish will be shocked when they see it all become an unidentifiable mixture in front of their eyes. Kuroda said that the word bibimbap literally means �mixed rice� and described Koreans as people who �tend to mix everything they eat.� |
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I forget the name. But there was a french socialite couple that criticized Koreans for eating dogs. Saying it was uncivilized and blah blah blah.
Koreans threw eggs at them and their house. And also vandalized it in other ways.
Koreans aren't exactly the most mature bunch. |
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