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| If you were open a Korean fast food franchise back home? |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:38 am Post subject: If you were open a Korean fast food franchise back home? |
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I think an Issac Toast shop would do a fortune in the UK, bulgogi/cheseee on toast is the business in my opinion and forms a large part of my lunchtime diet!
I think Lotteria is far better than McDs or Burger King and Kyo Chon kicks the arse out of KFC but which Korean fast food franchise would you fancy taking home with you to make your fortune?  |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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BK, You're living in New York compared to me. Never heard of the other two there, we've got a Lotteria though.
The only one I can think of that'd be a bit of a niche for is the Chestnut sellers. Wheel 'em out! You'd make a killing. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| I'd certainly eat Kyo-chon Chicken if I were back home, but it would have to be a fair bit cheaper. That stuff is 14,000 won for small box! That's seven pounds!! |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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BK, You're living in New York compared to me. Never heard of the other two there, we've got a Lotteria though.
The only one I can think of that'd be a bit of a niche for is the Chestnut sellers. Wheel 'em out! You'd make a killing. |
Go to the big city and order yourself a box of Kyo Chon original fried chicken mate! You'd thank me later and it would be worth the inconvenience!
Issac toast is fantastic... I could see that doing a fair amount of trade in the UK. I wouldn't travel to find an Issac toast shop but if there is one near your place of work it is pretty good! |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| I'd certainly eat Kyo-chon Chicken if I were back home, but it would have to be a fair bit cheaper. That stuff is 14,000 won for small box! That's seven pounds!! |
Do you think its that small? It looks a small box but it is a fair amount of chicken for one person and you get a bottle of coke/cider and those useless white blocks of crap in brine!  I think it would be better value than KFC... you can pay 3 or 4 quid back home for chicken and get next to nowt!  |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: |
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I'm a veggie. No chicken for me.
Looking at what they offer, I'd go for the Toast place seems a bit different. There's loads of quick chicken places and burger places everywhere.
If there was a Cornish pasty (proper one) shop in Korea, I'd be there. Be worth trying to get a job there. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| Kyochon Chicken already is in New York, and it sounds like it's doing pretty well there. |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| (If I were to bother...) I'd open a makholi and pahjang joint. |
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petethebrick
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:59 am Post subject: |
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I have to agree that Isacc Toast is pretty good, but I reckon that's primarily because I'm living in Korea and don't each much of the food I'm used to from back home.
I have to say that I think you'd get a few digruntled customers back home after you dollop sugar and tomato sauce all over a ham and cheese sandwich
you intend to sell them. |
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karma police
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
Location: all roads lead to where you are...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:43 am Post subject: |
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no, no, NO!
make you a Korean spouse that cooks well and create your own, creative, new fangled dish that the masses will crave... why think and risk so much on somebody elses idea? 
be original, be unique, be zzang, people... |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Yong Woo-Dong. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I would open a place that serves spaghetti in waffle cones. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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My heart is with Lotteria but I've read Korean friend chicken is starting to catch on in NYC/LA. If you think about it, no one has done anything with fried chicken in a long, long time. The market needs a make over for sure.
Me, I'd like to open a 7 Monkeys Coffee (although it's japanese). |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| I would open a place that serves spaghetti in waffle cones. |
Cue music:
I noticed that place isn't a graveyard. It actually has people. I also noticed cone pizza is becoming popular:
http://crispycones.com/
I suspect someone in Korea has spotted this trend, looked at a picture, and decided a) it's spaghetti b) it's a cone therefore it's a sugar cone like at Baskin Robbins.
You know how Koreans tend to cook western food by trying to figure out the photos vs actually read recipes? Hmmmm. It needs a white sauce. Well, there are only two white sauces in existence on the planet earth (ie Korea). So mayo or whip cream? I got whip cream. Okay put that on... |
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BreakfastInBed
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| It needs a white sauce. Well, there are only two white sauces in existence on the planet earth (ie Korea). So mayo or whip cream? I got whip cream. Okay put that on... |
This is frighteningly accurate. I wouldn't have believed it two years ago, but early on in my first year here I ordered a reasonable looking plate of nachos at a restaurant solely because it was accompanied by a bowl of sour cream in the picture. I really like sour cream. Of course, when the food arrived it was sans sour cream. I did my best to, politely, complain, gesturing at the picture and pointing out what was missing, trying to convey how important that element was to me. All I got were confused apologies and assurances of 없어요. Fast forward five minutes, I've resigned myself to my dry nachos and begun pecking at them when the waiter returns, small bowl in hand, beaming as though he's delivering my first child to me. Insanely pleased, he haltingly tells me he found some of what I want in the kitchen. Naturally (I say now, though much surprised at the time), it was whipped cream. I tasted it and smiled, a smile born of conditioned politeness and spontaneous bewilderment, and let it go with an expression of gratitude for the waiter's effort to please me. I ended up eating the whipped cream separately because, well, it's good, but I'm irritated (and a little amused) that I've helped propagate the notion that all that white stuff in those food pictures is whipped cream, and led at least one Korean waiter to believe that white people absolutely love it with their nachos. |
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