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ThreeDogNight
Joined: 30 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: Korean Food Difficult to Swallow? |
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I don't mean this as a matter of taste, but from a culinary perspective? Isn't Korean food difficult to down and kind of stringy and chewy compared to Western food? I often find bits and pieces in my stew and other dishes that get stuck in my throat. The fish, too, has far too many little bones.
I can't always down some of the onion skins and those stringy green chives or whatever they are either. And sometimes the meat has too much fat. I feel like I almost choke while eating at some of those bulgogi joints.
This is not to mention I'm missing a couple of teeth. Molars. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Food Difficult to Swallow? |
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| ThreeDogNight wrote: |
The fish, too, has far too many little bones.
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I suggest writing a strongly worded letter of complaint to God; While you're waiting for a reply better stick to eating at McDonalds.
[And let's be honest here- this is exactly the sort of response you're trying to get, isn't it? Glad to be of service.] |
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ThreeDogNight
Joined: 30 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:16 am Post subject: Re: Korean Food Difficult to Swallow? |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| ThreeDogNight wrote: |
The fish, too, has far too many little bones.
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I suggest writing a strongly worded letter of complaint to God; While you're waiting for a reply better stick to eating at McDonalds.
[And let's be honest here- this is exactly the sort of response you're trying to get, isn't it? Glad to be of service.] |
Dear God,
I think the food here is difficult to swallow. Would it be that you could perhaps make it. . .more like McDonald's, Lord, so I can feel the fat like Bulsajo's butt and squeeze out some more of these constipated remarks?
Good idea.
i'm loving it.
And yes, the food is still difficult to swallow even though I do grab a McFeast now and then. Has to do with, I guess, the fact not many people can swallow bones that easily.
Aw, the Lord doesn't answer such letters anyway. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:19 am Post subject: |
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3 dog,
Fish have bones mate...thats the way they are made...nothing Korean about that, they didn't invent marine life.... 
You can get the bones out or eat fish that have less of them...
Talk about griping about somthing thats totally out of your control...
As for difficulty in swallowing the food...I suggest consulting a specialist, perhaps there is an operation available to you....
good luck and keep on chewin mate |
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ThreeDogNight
Joined: 30 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
3 dog,
Fish have bones mate...thats the way they are made...nothing Korean about that, they didn't invent marine life....
You can get the bones out or eat fish that have less of them...
Talk about griping about somthing thats totally out of your control...
As for difficulty in swallowing the food...I suggest consulting a specialist, perhaps there is an operation available to you....
good luck and keep on chewin mate |
Yeah, I know it sounds like a gripe but do you think after five years of living and eating the food here I'd finally start to gripe?
No, I just want to know if anyone here finds the food too difficult to down in comparison to their home countries. I've got a voracious appetitie sometimes, and can't eat as well here cause all this little junk, skins, seeds, gochu flakes, even these stringy bean curds, are too difficult to swallow. I feel like a darn bird picking at my food. And the meat. . .some of it, anyway. . .contains too much grizzle to chew.
Bones in fish? I only eat Salmon and Taegu here. Those little fried suckers on your plate, those ugly, Pirhanna-looking bug-eyed critters with delicious meat? I gotta pick at 'em with a magnifying glass cause the darn bones are so minuscule. And the other fish, the macheral? Those suckers are impossible.
Yeah, I do have a few health problems too. Tonsilitis, tracheatis, phryngeal lyringitis, injected throat, two missing molars, but heck man, you know the raw fish here has bones in it? Yeah, some does, so you'd better watch out.
Want to know if anyone else has had problems. Not griping, mate. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:33 am Post subject: |
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I see 3dog....
No problems here...a few bones here and there but thats fish. |
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ThreeDogNight
Joined: 30 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:42 am Post subject: |
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I guess I'm just a 'meat and potatoes man.' I think I need a bridge too.
BTW Is Bega Cheese pretty popular in Australia? I've been eating quite a bit of it here. Found it at WalMart. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I feel like I almost choke while eating at some of those bulgogi joints. |
Anyone seen that restaurant in Shinchon near Lesbian Park called "Choke Chicken"? It's across from the 7-11 (the one across the Hyundai Dept Store, near Mr. Wow). |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| If you learn how to pull the meat off the fish properly, the bones will be hardly any problem at all. |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Nah, that's too much of a pain in the a$$. I'm with Bulsajo, McD's all the way. |
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CheeseSandwich
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Kimbop every day yo |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Fcuk McDonalds. You can find fish without bones here. You can also find western food that doesn't feed corporate America.
The bones bothered me at first, but once I learned (in 2 minutes) how to remove the meat from the bone, it's not a problem. |
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Robedee
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Bega cheese is quite popular in Australia, pretty stock standard sort of stuff though. |
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jessie-b
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| I agree, Kim Bap is the way to go. Lots of stuff is too salty to enjoy every day. The sidedishes that are drenched in syrup...maybe the lotus roots...are tough for me to stomach. |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| ThreeDogNight wrote: |
| Homer wrote: |
3 dog,
Fish have bones mate...thats the way they are made...nothing Korean about that, they didn't invent marine life....
You can get the bones out or eat fish that have less of them...
Talk about griping about somthing thats totally out of your control...
As for difficulty in swallowing the food...I suggest consulting a specialist, perhaps there is an operation available to you....
good luck and keep on chewin mate |
Yeah, I know it sounds like a gripe but do you think after five years of living and eating the food here I'd finally start to gripe?
No, I just want to know if anyone here finds the food too difficult to down in comparison to their home countries. I've got a voracious appetitie sometimes, and can't eat as well here cause all this little junk, skins, seeds, gochu flakes, even these stringy bean curds, are too difficult to swallow. I feel like a darn bird picking at my food. And the meat. . .some of it, anyway. . .contains too much grizzle to chew.
Bones in fish? I only eat Salmon and Taegu here. Those little fried suckers on your plate, those ugly, Pirhanna-looking bug-eyed critters with delicious meat? I gotta pick at 'em with a magnifying glass cause the darn bones are so minuscule. And the other fish, the macheral? Those suckers are impossible.
Yeah, I do have a few health problems too. Tonsilitis, tracheatis, phryngeal lyringitis, injected throat, two missing molars, but heck man, you know the raw fish here has bones in it? Yeah, some does, so you'd better watch out.
Want to know if anyone else has had problems. Not griping, mate. |
You mean mackerel. I'm no expert and I rarely eat fish but I can de-bone those suckers in less than a minute. After living there for 5 years, you still havent gotten used to it? |
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