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So it has been a really long time since I made a new entry mainly because nothing really that extraordinary has happened to me. Just the usual things go to school and hang out. Nothing really worth posting about. But this weekend I am on a 5 day break from school due to a combination of national holiday, school anniversary and my friends having a practice exam. So I decided I would do at least 3 entries this weekend to make up for all the time I have missed. I will do one on Korean food, my trip to jeju island ( even though that happened months ago) and then the last one on just a general update.
So first begin Korean food, Korean food is fucking delicious! Final. /blog.
But seriously I love the food here so much. I eat like a pig here, and still somehow I have managed to lose over 15 pounds. I guess the food is just straight up much healthier than what I was eating in Canada. Even though I would say I eat more fast food here. Also food is ridiculously cheap here so I end up buying a lot of food from stores and restaurants. My favorite food is like Bulgogi 불고기 in a spicier sauce, not sure of the exact name. Probably the thing I hate the most here is either some of the soups I have to eat besides the soups it is probably lotus root, which is probably one of the worst things I have eaten.
So now I will pics of foods then talk about them a little. I could have sworn I had more pics saved on my computer but I have no idea where they are.
First, I guess I will start with my school lunches, mostly they are pretty bad to be honest. But sometimes they can be alright. The school caf is like just out of the movies like you just grab a tray then walk down line and they slop the food on your tray. But sometimes if it is one of your friends giving out the food they will sometimes give you extra if the item they are serving is good. Eating in the caf is cool sometimes it is really quiet as everyone is starving and just wants to eat. But mostly it is funny, copious amounts of food stealing goes down along with messing with other peoples food. And also people share a lot of food and trade stuff they don't like and so on.
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So this is like a pretty standard lunch, always there is rice no matter what. Rice is either just white rice or sometimes has beans in it. then usually always a type of kimchi this being the most common type(kimchi is red stuff in top right corner if you didn't know). Kimchi is really good, at first when I came to Korea is really didn't like it but know I usually want to eat it everyday. Same thing goes for rice, need to to eat everyday. The main dish for this lunch was like a pork cutlet, which is pretty good. Probably one of the better lunchs. The soup is some cream based thing and the greens are just greens.
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These pictures are of some lunch, those are all pretty typical Korean side dishes And then the other picture is just a mix of main dishes ranging from chicken to seafood and such. Pretty sure this was on Jeju island aswell.
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Some like chicken that you mix and cook at your table, is pretty good. Not really sure what the name.
Next is one of my favorite foods here
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짜장면(jjajangmyun)!! It is noodles in a black bean with onions or sometimes other stuff mixed in. This is also my favorite type of instant noodle, whenever I can find it. Instant jjajangmyun isn't to bad. I think it is considered a Chinese dish though but whatever.
Next one of my other favorites here is the ramyun.
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I pretty much eat this everyday, always with rice after I eat all the noodles to add to the broth. So delicious sometimes add an egg if I want. Like all types although I prefer the non-instant ones where you just add steaming water. Usually taste is a little worse in those one but still delicious.
This was my meal with my host family on Parent's Day.
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This was similiar to the chicken thing above except instead of chicken it was octopus. First pic is the octopus then the second is after finished eating all of that you add rice to the left over and the rice becomes ridiculously delicious. Pretty good meal.
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Pretty sure this isn't even korean( think japanese) but whatever it was delicious I have no idea what its called but yeah. Like i'm pretty sure it is squid on the inside but not 100% if anyone know please tell me.
So that is pretty much it for all the pics of food I have. But overall Korean food is amazing and I really enjoy it.
If anyone has any question or such please ask away, could be about anything doesn't have to be about food.
And finally, Thank you for reading!
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Nice. 짜장면 먹고싶어요!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How long have you been in Korea?
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I'm hungry now gawd damnit
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the octopus ball thing is called takoyaki
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Most foreigners I know here love the food, but I gotta say, I absolutely despise 75% of it. Blaargh. Especially kimchi (in all its various forms), how people eat that crap and apparently enjoy it is a mystery to me. Oh well, good for you if you like it!
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The noodles in the soybean sauce/paste or w/e is indeed Chinese
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On June 07 2012 14:03 Tippany wrote:
Nice. 짜장면 먹고싶어요!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How long have you been in Korea?
I have been here since February 17 so approaching 4 months
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Some good Korean food... I would seriously take the school lunch over the fucking food at my university even though its claimed to be #1 in the nation or around there.. I think #3 this year.
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Even though jjajangmyun is Chinese it is very different from the typical style that is served in Korea. But damn the lunches! I would consider that luxurious compared to the dubious mass-factory produced stuff we consumed before university... Albeit I stopped eating it during high school.
And lotus root has no real flavor, I've personally just started accepting it as another root vegetable alternative.
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That Takoyaki looks pretty good... mmm
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I'm going to try and find the courage to try 산낙지 today or tomorrow, I've never eaten octopus before though and I don't know if raw moving pieces are a good start.
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Yeah Korean food is ridiculously good ^_^
Also you probably lost weight because of all the walking around
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this is a bad idea to open when im eating breakfast consisting out of bread with cheese on it
-.- u so qt.
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The last one is probably takoyaki ( octopus ball) really nice with the fish flakes(the things on top)
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Loki where would you say you started on rotinegg's tier list of Korean food and where have you climbed to at this point?
Edit: here is the tier list if you haven't already seen it.
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Pretty sure I would be at the very least platinum but considering I really like both 김치 and 떡볶이 so probably around diamond.
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I'm a native korean, but to be honest, i really don't like a lot of korean food. the same could be said for a lot of other koreans too. i feel like a lot of foreigners (especially those interested in starcraft) have some kind of fetish about korean food. yeah, you will probably like the bbq we have here, but it's kind of like eating a few tacos and saying that you love mexican food.
nevertheless, there are a lot of korean foods that i do like, but it's not really something to dream or fantasize about
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On June 07 2012 18:50 Tazza wrote:
I'm a native korean, but to be honest, i really don't like a lot of korean food. the same could be said for a lot of other koreans too. i feel like a lot of foreigners (especially those interested in starcraft) have some kind of fetish about korean food. yeah, you will probably like the bbq we have here, but it's kind of like eating a few tacos and saying that you love mexican food.
nevertheless, there are a lot of korean foods that i do like, but it's not really something to dream or fantasize about
Korean is by far not one of my favorite foods, probably not even top 3. But it is a lot better than i expected. At first I hated things like kimchi and most fish but after being here for a while they grew on me and now I actually enjoy them.
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Looks delicious, have been meaning to try. Is there anything you'd recommend to first-timers?
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On June 08 2012 03:22 UltimateHurl wrote:
Looks delicious, have been meaning to try. Is there anything you'd recommend to first-timers?
I really have no idea. But you cant really go wrong with any Korean BBQ or most Korean noodle dishes are really good. I just really tried everything at least once then decided what i did and didn't like.
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Hello. Can you suggest good side dish for Samgyupsal? Planning to grill it with ssam jjang. I'm thinking tofu ;_;
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Lotus root is fucking delicious it's like water chestnuts but cooler looking and soaks up sauce better. Scrub.
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Oh do you live in korea? 
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On October 01 2013 15:30 shin_toss wrote:
Hello. Can you suggest good side dish for Samgyupsal? Planning to grill it with ssam jjang. I'm thinking tofu ;_;
I personally think white rice fits best. Obviously, salad leafs and raw garlic as well.
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On October 01 2013 15:30 shin_toss wrote:
Hello. Can you suggest good side dish for Samgyupsal? Planning to grill it with ssam jjang. I'm thinking tofu ;_;
I don't want to go ahead and suggest a banchan to you, but...
http://www.trifood.com/banchan.asp
here are plenty. Maybe you pick your own
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Maybe its where you live, but food in Korea is NOT cheap man. I mean, yeah the school food obviously is, but an average meal will cost you at least 5 dollars. And i'm talking cheap stuff, like Jjajangmyun, kimbap, etc. A lot of soups and stews, which used to be much cheaper, go for at least 6 dollars a pop now.
If you want to dine a little higher, like korean BBQ or some pasta/western food, that becomes really expensive. Pastas are like at the very least 10 dollars, and steaks are usually at least 20. Korean BBQ/meat is charged by the serving, but those servings are tiny and each serving costs quite a bit, depending on the meat.
Maybe the food isn't expensive, but it certainly ain't cheap either.
By dollars, i mean USD in this post.
EDIT: I just realized i had posted on this blog like 2 years ago or something lol. I guess back then I didn't really like korean food or something and I might have sounded stupid. But yeah, actually living in korea the past few years(i had lived in the states previously) made me really like korean food. Especially the "bunshik" which is the term used to categorize kimbap, ddukbokki, sundae, fish cakes, etc. But anyways, glad you like the food man!
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Can I survive in Korea? because I'm not into seafoods. ;_;
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That food looks so delicious...
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On October 01 2013 21:34 shin_toss wrote:
Can I survive in Korea? because I'm not into seafoods. ;_;
Easily
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On October 01 2013 20:58 Tazza wrote:
Maybe its where you live, but food in Korea is NOT cheap man. I mean, yeah the school food obviously is, but an average meal will cost you at least 5 dollars. And i'm talking cheap stuff, like Jjajangmyun, kimbap, etc. A lot of soups and stews, which used to be much cheaper, go for at least 6 dollars a pop now.
If you want to dine a little higher, like korean BBQ or some pasta/western food, that becomes really expensive. Pastas are like at the very least 10 dollars, and steaks are usually at least 20. Korean BBQ/meat is charged by the serving, but those servings are tiny and each serving costs quite a bit, depending on the meat.
Maybe the food isn't expensive, but it certainly ain't cheap either.
By dollars, i mean USD in this post.
EDIT: I just realized i had posted on this blog like 2 years ago or something lol. I guess back then I didn't really like korean food or something and I might have sounded stupid. But yeah, actually living in korea the past few years(i had lived in the states previously) made me really like korean food. Especially the "bunshik" which is the term used to categorize kimbap, ddukbokki, sundae, fish cakes, etc. But anyways, glad you like the food man!
It blows my mind how these prices can be considered non-cheap.. I guess that's the problem with being from Scandinavia. If you can buy a meal for less than 10 dollars in Sweden, I would safe to say eat out far more often. 10 dollars is the level of a mcdonalds meal here.
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cheapest mcdonalds meal here is like $2 or $1.2 or $0.92
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The last picture is Takoyaki which is a Japanese snack usually using Octopus.
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On October 02 2013 17:18 Tobberoth wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2013 20:58 Tazza wrote:
Maybe its where you live, but food in Korea is NOT cheap man. I mean, yeah the school food obviously is, but an average meal will cost you at least 5 dollars. And i'm talking cheap stuff, like Jjajangmyun, kimbap, etc. A lot of soups and stews, which used to be much cheaper, go for at least 6 dollars a pop now.
If you want to dine a little higher, like korean BBQ or some pasta/western food, that becomes really expensive. Pastas are like at the very least 10 dollars, and steaks are usually at least 20. Korean BBQ/meat is charged by the serving, but those servings are tiny and each serving costs quite a bit, depending on the meat.
Maybe the food isn't expensive, but it certainly ain't cheap either.
By dollars, i mean USD in this post.
EDIT: I just realized i had posted on this blog like 2 years ago or something lol. I guess back then I didn't really like korean food or something and I might have sounded stupid. But yeah, actually living in korea the past few years(i had lived in the states previously) made me really like korean food. Especially the "bunshik" which is the term used to categorize kimbap, ddukbokki, sundae, fish cakes, etc. But anyways, glad you like the food man! It blows my mind how these prices can be considered non-cheap.. I guess that's the problem with being from Scandinavia. If you can buy a meal for less than 10 dollars in Sweden, I would safe to say eat out far more often. 10 dollars is the level of a mcdonalds meal here.
DAMN 10 dollars for mcdonalds??? That is pretty insane. Food in korea is definitely cheap compared to you guys then lol. but dude, man 10 dollars for a big mac meal? that'd be like going out to an actual restaurant or something
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korean food is cheap and pretty balanced and really tasty
i'm glad you like it
i really miss authentic korean food tt
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ugh, someone bumped this.
i ate a pbj and a hardboiled egg for lunch today. 
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On October 01 2013 15:30 shin_toss wrote:
Hello. Can you suggest good side dish for Samgyupsal? Planning to grill it with ssam jjang. I'm thinking tofu ;_;
Hello! Grilling Samgyupsal sounds amazing, and pairing it with Ssamjang is a must! Tofu is a great idea—it’s light, versatile, and pairs well with the bold flavors of grilled pork and Ssamjang. You can pan-fry it and sprinkle a little soy sauce or sesame oil for extra flavor.
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Kimchi: The tangy, spicy flavor is a classic match.
Gamja Jorim: Soy-braised potatoes add a sweet and savory touch.
Sigumchi Namul: Seasoned spinach is light and refreshing.
Kongnamul Muchim: Soybean sprouts bring crunch and a hint of nuttiness.
Pickled Radish or Cucumber: Their acidity cuts through the richness of the pork.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/FYHjS.jpg /[img]<br><br>Now this is one of the first school lunches, I have had. The soup absolutely disgusting, the main is tofu covered in some really bad like sweet tomato sauce or something. And then everything else was okay. But still probably one the worst. That's not even meat in the soup just bones. <br><br>Now I just start showing random pics and then describing them.<br>[img]http://i.imgur.com/IEyKj.jpg[img]<br>First is 짬뽕 (jjambbong). This is like noodles with seafood in a spicy sauce. I had this on jeju island, it was really delicious but ridiculously spicy. I was used to eating pretty spicy food in Canada but here some stuff is just so damn spicy. <br><br>Next,<br>[img]http://i.imgur.com/TeoN6.jpg)
