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[Ya-ta Boy]

How many squirts of ketchup do you like on your lettuce salad?

Personally, I prefer none. Salad dressing, yes. Vinegar and oil, yes. Mayo, yes. Ketchup, no thank you.

[kermo]

Here are some more yummy recipes I encountered this weekend (cross-posted to my blog, yo.)

Cheese and Onion Quesadillas. $11. Try something new in this bar in Hongdae, which serves them piping hot with salsa and whipped cream. It looks like sour cream, but it's fluffy and sweet.

Cherry Coke. $6 The second "cocktail" on the menu at Black Box, a bar in Yongin.

Directions (as witnessed by the author):
-pour some Coke in a tall class.
-pour in a little more.
-add a spoonful of cherry Koolaid powder.
-add 5 more spoonfuls.
-drop in 4 ice cubes.
-stir with a long spoon for five minutes. The mixture should be a dark red colour.
-give it to your friend to sniff.
-fill the glass to the top with more Coke.
-take a straw to taste a little-- duck down behind the bar to put it in your mouth.
-give some to your friend, then put the straw back in the glass.
-add a few maraschino cherries.
-serve it to the confused-looking white girl. Confirm to her that it contains no alcohol whatsoever.
-take the drink back to bar, pour some of it out in shot-glasses and top it up with vodka.
-serve it again to the confused-looking white girl, and watch her suck back its sugary weirdness.

Vegetable-Egg Toast: $1.50
-toast two slices of lily-white bread
-mix egg and grated veggies and fry
-on one slice of toast, layer egg and a heap of sliced cabbage
-top with ketchup and French dressing
-on the other slice, smear STRAWBERRY JAM.
-put slices together, serve to hungry but horrified customer.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Today was one of those surprise lunches the admin springs on me from time to time, complete with soju at noon. They even moved one of my classes up and made my co-teacher take it, so I'd be free after lunch. (hehehehe....we got back 30 minutes before lunch period ended. No need to move my class.)

Ten of us go to a fish restaurant. The alcohol starts flowing and the fish dishes start coming in. (I don't eat fish. Fish is for cats.) Jin-Wook ordered a salad for me. The waitress scrambles around to make a salad for the waygookin. Gotta appreciate the effort. Big plate. Some actual ice berg lettuce. A pile of cucumbers. A scattering of Spam. All smothered with some orange sauce...possibly meant to be French...but then about a quart of ketchup poured over all of it.

It's been years since I've been served ketchup on a lettuce salad. It is just as gross as I remember.

Don'tcha just love those baked potatoes with whipped cream? They look deceptively good.

I think I could go for that Veggie Egg Toast.

[jaebea]

An Aussie-Irish girl where I work loves the tomato sauce on her caesar salad, much to the amazement of her colleagues and staff at the local restaurant.

jae.

[Bulsajo]

Are you sure it's lettuce, Ya-ta?
I always got a mayo-ketchup mix on top of shredded cabbage and carrots... sort of an "anti-coleslaw", if you will.
But yes, they did bill it as a Western style side salad...

[jacl]