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[Wrench]

Ok don't get me wrong I love Korean food but it really in the flavour department. All Korean food seems to taste more or less the same. I don't know if its just me or the fact that I go eat out a lot. Maybe I didn't try enough things. ^shrug^

So now I hit the Peanut butter phase, I just want to eat PB and J. (Maybe I am missing some minerals or vitamins from my diet)

Are you slightly bored with Korean food?


MMM PB and Cheese

[Homer]

Just go buy a gallon of PB, some bread and Jam and lock yourself in for a weekend.

Best of luck.


As for being bored with Korean food. It can be because of the choices you make (not trying new things, not cooking it yourself or not varying your diet with other foods).

If you ate Italian food everyday and stuck to same few meals, the same thing would happen to you.

[brento1138]

I hear ya. Being from multi-cultural Vancouver Canada, I am used to walking less than a block from my home to get my favorite middle-eastern vegitarian meal. Then, if I wanted, I could walk a couple shops over, and can get a tasty toasted Italian or French baguette (not a Paris baguette, dammit!)! Across the street, there'd be a great Sushi place where you can get 18 small rolls for 5 bucks (and it was the best Sushi, a chef from Japan using fresh Canadian ingredients). Then, maybe I could walk down the road 1 minute, and stop in the Greek food restaurant, order up some lamb.... or no, maybe the Indian restaurant. Or... wait, I feel more like.... Cuban food at Havana's! There's even a friggin Ethiopian restaurant, even though I heard its not that great.

Ohhhhhhhhhh.... how I miss Commercial drive in Vancouver.

Korean food is damn good, don't get me wrong, but I really miss the ethnic food variety of my multicultural homeland. Here it is possible, but only if you wanna make a little journey of a trip out (depending on where you are, lucky Seoulites you!!! rrrr).

[paperbag princess]

i would kill for some ethiopian food.

KILL!!

[buddy bradley]

[dulouz]

I used to go to Vancouver to "date" Canadian women for 25 minutes or so. There are plenty there to choose from. The place looked like a George Romero movie. I've seen so many zombie-fied drug addicts walkin' around, ghastly pale and looking for something to ingest. The looked like they were part skeleton and part scab. The people there blended in witht he gutter trash, spit, dust and concrete chips so well. I know what desperation is but I didn't know it had a stench. I parked my truck and walked across the street for a Coke and while I sat down in front of the store to drink it, I could watch people try to break into my truck or try to take my mountain bike off my rack. I chased them away by throwing rocks at them.

[keithinkorea]

I do find Korean food pretty dull. I've tried most things and it is still dull.

A few little variations on a very few themes.

Learn to cook a bit and source some decent ingredients, learn a little survivial Korean, find a source of semi decent cheese.

The internet is great for recipes and such. There are quite a few Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers here so finding good spices isn't too hard.

Learn to cook yourself is the best advice I can give. I was an ok cook before I got here and now I'm much much better. Given the admittedly piss poor availability of really interesting ingredients it gives you time to work on working within very strict limitations.

Yesterday my main dinner was a chicken -lots of other bits too- stir fry with noodles, oyster sauce, ginger and chili peppers. Today was tuna pasta bake with olives, tomatoes, peppers and brie.

Heck I even did another Paella the other day and it was awesome.

Learn to cook and it will save your sanity here.

[Wrench]

Don't get me wrong I do cook for myself. I lived on Vancouver Island and I have to admit there were tons of different food I could get. German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Polish etc.. List goes on and on. Here you got token western restaurants that are overpriced and to Korean for my taste (who puts sweat patato on a pizza or serves it with a steak). Oh well I guess a bit of home I guess. What I wouldn't do a for a descent perogi.

[mullethunter]

[jlb]

Going back to the original message about peanut butter and jam. Usually if your body is craving something like that, it's trying to tell you something. You're probably not getting enough of a nutrient you need, so listen to your body!

When I have engaged in long periods of backpacking, my body would crave at various times, salt, dairy, meat, etc. I'm pretty sure my body knew what it wanted and was doing its best to tell my brain.

[kangnam mafioso]

i can eat korean food 3 times a day and do not get bored. i still like western food and other ethnic foods on ocassion, but i don't see how you could think korea food is dull. eccentric or strange? yes. spicy? yes. dull ... i don't think so. i love the whole philosophy of food in korea ... all the side dishes, sharing everything, sitting on the ondal floor, drinking soju/alcohol with most meals. going in to tgi fridays and getting a processed hamburger, coke and fries for $20 is dull by comparison. with that said, i don't care for korean "fusion" -- when they take a western idea (pizza) and koreanize it (corn or squid for toppings), but the traditional stuff is spot on. if you're tired of the spice get some bulgolgi, nangmyon, pajang or seoullung tang and chill. not to mention the sasheemi. you have to try a wide range of foods -- if you get kimbap or dwenjang every time you go out to eat, you'll naturally get bored.

[Wrench]

[brento1138]

[jajdude]

[periwinkle]

Do you cook? I like to surf sites like www.epicurious.com to find recipes, especially ones with easy-to-find-in-Korea ingredients. I make a large pot of something, and freeze 1/2 of it, then eat about 2 days or so of leftovers. I regularly make spaghetti, chili, shrimp or chicken creole, vegetable soup, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, tuna melts, meatballs, omlettes, etc. You just need some inspiration!