Korean Job Discussion Forums

[fidel]

I don't want to scare you off from eating Kimchi at restaurants, but have you ever wondered whether some restaurants recycle the side dishes that you didn't quite manage to finish.

Well wonder no more, it's true, some do. One sure way to tell whether you have been served some twice, or thrice used baechu Kimchi, is to see if it's layered or not. If it's just piled haphazardly on a plate, you know somethings afoot and chances are this Kimchi has done the rounds.

Many Koreans avoid kimchi all together at the mom and pop cheap joints for just this reason. Also that nasty raw spicy crab that most people avoid, well I do anyway, has to have been recycled dozens of times and just put back out time and time again to make up the numbers.


Just something to think about. Hmmmmmmm

[just because]

I know all the side dishes are recycled but i don't care.

People use their chopsticks to get the food so they don't really touch it. I usually have a look first and if it is one of the kimchi plates that has done the rounds i will ask for another one.

[fidel]

Sure they use their chopsticks, but think of the old geezer whose chim is dribbling into the Kimchi bowl, while he smokes and drops ash onto some other dishes. And the kid whose mother is trying to force some kimchi down his throat but he spits it back up and back into the bowl. Not to mention the constant coughing, throat clearing, hoiking and so forth. Not that appetizing anymore is it? Huh? is it? hahahha (Crazy maniacal laughing)

[Corporal]

Oh come on, I'm sure the waitresses only recycle it if it hasn't been obviously messed around with, torn apart etc. I don't really eat the stuff anyway, but it's not like you are going to have obviously previously consumed food being given to you at your table. Besides, if you're in doubt at all, just don't eat it! Problem solved.

[wylde]

could be another reason why korean food hasn't taken off in america... it is dirty

[lush72]

[just because]

[Mankind]

[phaedrus]

It's only the nice new places that recycle, how else do they afford their building?

I have no idea about recycling of food. I do think that restaurants should try to come up with some ideas about food conservation though.

I think it is a sin when I leave a restaurant and there is so much food on the table for no reason.

My father always said when I was younger if I was wasting food "An Ethiopian would love to have that."

There are other issues such as wastage of land for useless production.

Wait what am I talking about? The food isn't wasted, it's recycled.

[The Lemon]

I'm more concerned about the tongs at the kailbi restaurants that the adjumas use to serve you the cooked meat-


...which they've just lifted straight out of the pan of bleeding raw pork.

It's a wonder we're not all dead.

[phaedrus]

[HardyandTiny]

Yes they re-serve the side dishes, not just the kimchee. We're all brothers and sisters here in Korea. It's kind of like leftovers at home.

[khyber]

pffft.
i'd prefer recycled to what i've seen.
ajoshis tending to vegetables while the cigarette hanging from their mouths drops right into a head of brochili.
or the ajuma who was hacking up her whole breathing cavity on top of her vegetables; nota pleasant site.

[fidel]

Mankind said

[phaedrus]

I just asked my wife if the small restaurants recycle.

Although Korean she does not have the final answer, but she said:

"Yeah, I suppose they would."

She didn't seem too concerned. I told her how dirty it is, and she said:

"Yeah, maybe."