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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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 Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 3:56 am Post subject: Yummy Yummy Yummy |
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So, im wanting to think of different food to cook in Korea and i was wondering what is your favorite dish to cook?
Have you found you eat less meat or Carbs or anything while living there? maybe found new foods you didn't know existed.
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 4:53 am Post subject: |
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One of my favourites is still bibimmandoo. It's lightly fried thin egg mandoo that is wrapped around thinly sliced carrots, cucumber, cabbage, and chogochujang - I usually dont include the thin crispy seaweed. Fell in love with it back in '97 and still make it myself at home around once a month. That was never on the menu anywhere I went to eat in my city back home.
Definitely eat more meat, and less fish and rice, while trying to eat more veggies. The less fish is because I'm still not comfortable with that dead fish's eye(s) staring at me -sure wish they'd fillet the fish here, or at least cut the head and tail off! I love fish, but most Koreans think I hate it because of that. But it's also because they're always throwing chewy squid or octopus(2 things I almost never eat fishwise) in, so I usually avoid the fish choices. I eat less rice because less is better for me, or maybe anyone, when it comes to carb intake.
Another favourite, which I don't make at home, is daeguboljjim, or spicy cod stew. Had cod fish back home, but never like that.
Two other ones I like that you can cook at home are budaejjigae and shabu shabu.
When it comes to western fare, I like to make fish and chips once a week - thank you costco for those PEI french fries! Also like making burgers once a week, doing em differently almost every time...different buns/breads, different cheeses, throw an egg in, leave an egg out, soy sauce this week, none next week, lightly peppered verses heavily, bacon in the mix, or fried on the side, etcetera.
Ultimate favourite is a caesar salad. Thankfully, emart now has a pretty tasty dressing, and romaine can usually be found at both emart and costco. Costco bacon(low-salt version, of course! Ha! Like it makes a difference with everything else that's in there???) crisped and broken generously over top. Throw in a bunch of extra parmesan. Fortunately, have one of those awesome samsung micro-convec ovens at home so I can make my own garlic butter croutons to top it off. I skip the schrooms that my sis likes.
Surprisingly, I'm not overweight. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| denverdeath wrote: |
One of my favourites is still bibimmandoo. It's lightly fried thin egg mandoo that is wrapped around thinly sliced carrots, cucumber, cabbage, and chogochujang - I usually dont include the thin crispy seaweed. Fell in love with it back in '97 and still make it myself at home around once a month. That was never on the menu anywhere I went to eat in my city back home.
Definitely eat more meat, and less fish and rice, while trying to eat more veggies. The less fish is because I'm still not comfortable with that dead fish's eye(s) staring at me -sure wish they'd fillet the fish here, or at least cut the head and tail off! I love fish, but most Koreans think I hate it because of that. But it's also because they're always throwing chewy squid or octopus(2 things I almost never eat fishwise) in, so I usually avoid the fish choices. I eat less rice because less is better for me, or maybe anyone, when it comes to carb intake.
Another favourite, which I don't make at home, is daeguboljjim, or spicy cod stew. Had cod fish back home, but never like that.
Two other ones I like that you can cook at home are budaejjigae and shabu shabu.
When it comes to western fare, I like to make fish and chips once a week - thank you costco for those PEI french fries! Also like making burgers once a week, doing em differently almost every time...different buns/breads, different cheeses, throw an egg in, leave an egg out, soy sauce this week, none next week, lightly peppered verses heavily, bacon in the mix, or fried on the side, etcetera.
Ultimate favourite is a caesar salad. Thankfully, emart now has a pretty tasty dressing, and romaine can usually be found at both emart and costco. Costco bacon(low-salt version, of course! Ha! Like it makes a difference with everything else that's in there???) crisped and broken generously over top. Throw in a bunch of extra parmesan. Fortunately, have one of those awesome samsung micro-convec ovens at home so I can make my own garlic butter croutons to top it off. I skip the schrooms that my sis likes.
Surprisingly, I'm not overweight. |
Wow!! they all sound so nice.. im not a BIG fish fan but it depends on the type hehe. aahhh so is Costco like the big supermarket chain?
So i know its a personal question but do you feel like you have lost maybe a bit of weight since eating food from the east? |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
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One of my favourites is still bibimmandoo. It's lightly fried thin egg mandoo that is wrapped around thinly sliced carrots, cucumber, cabbage, and chogochujang - I usually dont include the thin crispy seaweed. Fell in love with it back in '97 and still make it myself at home around once a month. That was never on the menu anywhere I went to eat in my city back home.
Definitely eat more meat, and less fish and rice, while trying to eat more veggies. The less fish is because I'm still not comfortable with that dead fish's eye(s) staring at me -sure wish they'd fillet the fish here, or at least cut the head and tail off! I love fish, but most Koreans think I hate it because of that. But it's also because they're always throwing chewy squid or octopus(2 things I almost never eat fishwise) in, so I usually avoid the fish choices. I eat less rice because less is better for me, or maybe anyone, when it comes to carb intake.
Another favourite, which I don't make at home, is daeguboljjim, or spicy cod stew. Had cod fish back home, but never like that.
Two other ones I like that you can cook at home are budaejjigae and shabu shabu.
When it comes to western fare, I like to make fish and chips once a week - thank you costco for those PEI french fries! Also like making burgers once a week, doing em differently almost every time...different buns/breads, different cheeses, throw an egg in, leave an egg out, soy sauce this week, none next week, lightly peppered verses heavily, bacon in the mix, or fried on the side, etcetera.
Ultimate favourite is a caesar salad. Thankfully, emart now has a pretty tasty dressing, and romaine can usually be found at both emart and costco. Costco bacon(low-salt version, of course! Ha! Like it makes a difference with everything else that's in there???) crisped and broken generously over top. Throw in a bunch of extra parmesan. Fortunately, have one of those awesome samsung micro-convec ovens at home so I can make my own garlic butter croutons to top it off. I skip the schrooms that my sis likes.
Surprisingly, I'm not overweight. |
Wow!! they all sound so nice.. im not a BIG fish fan but it depends on the type hehe. aahhh so is Costco like the big supermarket chain?
So i know its a personal question but do you feel like you have lost maybe a bit of weight since eating food from the east? |
Costco is an American import supermarket. The Korean chains might be more thought of as shinsegae/emart, homeplus/tesco, and lotte and lg places. Wish walmart would try again though.
Anyhow, I'd say that the consumption of eastern food hasn't affected me in any significant way. My weight doesn't fluctuate much - I go up or down one kilo at the most and have kept my weight generally the same over the past 20 years. However, if I ate a full bowl of Korean rice three times a day every day, I'm pretty sure I'd be quite curvaceous, in an unmanly way. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| denverdeath wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| denverdeath wrote: |
One of my favourites is still bibimmandoo. It's lightly fried thin egg mandoo that is wrapped around thinly sliced carrots, cucumber, cabbage, and chogochujang - I usually dont include the thin crispy seaweed. Fell in love with it back in '97 and still make it myself at home around once a month. That was never on the menu anywhere I went to eat in my city back home.
Definitely eat more meat, and less fish and rice, while trying to eat more veggies. The less fish is because I'm still not comfortable with that dead fish's eye(s) staring at me -sure wish they'd fillet the fish here, or at least cut the head and tail off! I love fish, but most Koreans think I hate it because of that. But it's also because they're always throwing chewy squid or octopus(2 things I almost never eat fishwise) in, so I usually avoid the fish choices. I eat less rice because less is better for me, or maybe anyone, when it comes to carb intake.
Another favourite, which I don't make at home, is daeguboljjim, or spicy cod stew. Had cod fish back home, but never like that.
Two other ones I like that you can cook at home are budaejjigae and shabu shabu.
When it comes to western fare, I like to make fish and chips once a week - thank you costco for those PEI french fries! Also like making burgers once a week, doing em differently almost every time...different buns/breads, different cheeses, throw an egg in, leave an egg out, soy sauce this week, none next week, lightly peppered verses heavily, bacon in the mix, or fried on the side, etcetera.
Ultimate favourite is a caesar salad. Thankfully, emart now has a pretty tasty dressing, and romaine can usually be found at both emart and costco. Costco bacon(low-salt version, of course! Ha! Like it makes a difference with everything else that's in there???) crisped and broken generously over top. Throw in a bunch of extra parmesan. Fortunately, have one of those awesome samsung micro-convec ovens at home so I can make my own garlic butter croutons to top it off. I skip the schrooms that my sis likes.
Surprisingly, I'm not overweight. |
Wow!! they all sound so nice.. im not a BIG fish fan but it depends on the type hehe. aahhh so is Costco like the big supermarket chain?
So i know its a personal question but do you feel like you have lost maybe a bit of weight since eating food from the east? |
Costco is an American import supermarket. The Korean chains might be more thought of as shinsegae/emart, homeplus/tesco, and lotte and lg places. Wish walmart would try again though.
Anyhow, I'd say that the consumption of eastern food hasn't affected me in any significant way. My weight doesn't fluctuate much - I go up or down one kilo at the most and have kept my weight generally the same over the past 20 years. However, if I ate a full bowl of Korean rice three times a day every day, I'm pretty sure I'd be quite curvaceous, in an unmanly way. |
Out of that list, Tesco was the only one i recognized hehe~ and oh! brilliant so there is a lot of moderation in your diet i assume, do you think sometimes with Korean food there is a point of self restiction... |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Although they think samgyupsal is healthy to combat the yellow sludge from china, i dont. I'd like to eat more cheap samgyupsal and kimchi, but it will kill all. Be careful! The Korean diet is TOO salty! Having said that, dwayjigukbap is still pretty good on occasion. |
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