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[blunder1983]

I went out for toasties last night. I got thinking, how did Koreans come up with the culinary abortion that is the Korean toastie.

I understand the need for them to add cabbage to the toastie, its korean. But where did they get the idea to add Kiwi goo into savory toasties? And they often mix it with other hideous concontions.

Just wondering if anyone knows who came up with idea in the first place.

Gimmie a good ol' fashioned british bacon toastie with hp sauce anyday!

[Tiny_Tibbo]

really?? i haven't seen such a thing....where do you find it?

[kermo]

I hear ya.
Last week I ordered some toast with egg and vegetable. After they were done putting on the ketchup and mayonnaise, they smeared on some strawberry jam. WHY????

[indytrucks]

The Isaac Toast in front of my uni does a wicked egg-ham-cheese bagel. It took a few times of telling the woman NOT to put on some kind of sugar sauce, but she knows better now. Yum.

[Porter_Goss]

[JongnoGuru]

I've driven by but have never been inside one of those Isaac sandwich shops, and have thus never read their menu nor eaten anything from there. I've never been very keen on these "toast" sandwiches, and places like Isaac strike me as one step up from the surgical-masked ajumas scampering in & out of 4 lanes of stalled morning traffic to sell those flyblown, exhaust-fumed "morning toast" concotions they throw together beside the road. Blechhh.

But I'm tempted. Yes, just to be part of the hip, happenin', finger-snappin', sassy-assed "in" crowd here on Dave's, I'm tempted. So if I can get just one more positive review, I could see myself shoving small Korean children out of my way as amble up to the counter and place my order for one, or maybe even two of those indytruck specials... "and hold the sugar sauce!"

Just one thing, though. Where does the shop get its name? From the English teacher on EBS TV? That sounds like something Koreans would do, name a shop or product after some one or some thing totally unrelated to the business. Just as I'm sure there are a few "APEC" room salons and pubs in Busan now that didn't exist a couple years ago. I remember going to the "Baden-Baden Hof" in Seoul years ago and asking the owner if he'd lived in that city. Nope, had never even been to Germany. Hmm... So why did you choose that for the name of your hof? Oh, because it was in Baden-Baden in 1981 where Seoul won the rights to host the Olypmics seven years later. Huh... And that name is still supposed to have some cachet in 1993?

[indytrucks]

Word to the wise Guru ... not all Isaac Toasts are created equal. I sampled the egg-ham-cheese bagel from a different Isaac location once and was bitterly disappointed. The ajumma was confused as to why I was asking for no sweet sauce which led to a very minor but rather annoying argument, the cheese wasn't gooey enough, the bagel was a bit mushy and the ham was burnt. I would say find an Isaac near you, establish a good rapport with the ajumma(s) and stick with it. You will be rewarded in the end.

BTW, I sincerely hope the chain ISN'T named after .

Major tool.

[Hater Depot]

Actually I like the sweet stuff they put in. For a while I was picking up some Isaac's toast pretty regularly. And the new toast stand in Osan station is good too.

Unfortunately the toast at Ministop is premade with ham bits all over the place.

[blunder1983]

Well on my juice cup they had a verse from the bible, mentioning Issac so I think thats where they derive the name.

I dont really enjoy the egg mix they use either, so I'm just chalking it up along side water kimchi and dokkbokki as something I'll never eat

[EFLtrainer]

I do toasts. Also have them hold the strange sugar-laced.... goo. I always get the bulgogi.

[Hyeon Een]

If you can find an Issac that does "�����佺Ʈ(pizza toast)" (not all of them do), then what you want to do is order a ham-cheese toast with pizza sauce and get them to hold the greensugarcrapsauce. Unfortunately my new local Issac doesn't have pizza sauce. But it does have bagels and wholemeal bread, which is exciting.

If you like the greensugarcrapsauce you're probably the kind of freak who asks for extra sugar on his garlic bread. It's vile stuff.

[Hyeon Een]

If you can find an Issac that does "�����佺Ʈ(pizza toast)" (not all of them do), then what you want to do is order a ham-cheese toast with pizza sauce and get them to hold greensugarcrapsauce. Unfortunately my new local Issac doesn't have pizza sauce. But it does have bagels and wholemeal bread, which is exciting.

If you like the greensugarcrapsauce you're probably the kind of freak who asks for extra sugar on his garlic bread. It's vile stuff.

[Don Gately]

We were talking about syllables and I wanted to make a point about how hangeul-izing English words to help Koreans pronounce them really does them a disservice (don't get me started on romanizing hangeul) so I asked one of my girls "How many syllables in 'toast.'"

"Three," she says.

Point made.

[ilovebdt]

There is a nice toast place in Gangnam Underground station.
I had a tuna toastie. Admittedly, it wasn't as good as the toasties you get at home, but, it was ok.

Not sure why it had white cabbage in it either.