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10-27-2006, 01:08 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
BTW, for those in Seoul, I kept seeing these barber poles all over the place. At first I was thinking why the hell would there be the same barber poles all over the place, then I quickly realized (correctly) that these were the symbol for a brothel. LOL @ Asia and prostition. In every city Ive been to its like this: Noodle shop, brothel, 7/11, CoffeeShop, repeat.
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#62
10-27-2006, 01:08 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
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[ QUOTE ] can two people eat all the food shown in the last pic? what was the cost of the meal? which one is you? [/ QUOTE ] When you get BBQ, you get a plate of pork/beef/seafood. Then you get rice(if you want it) and a lettuce type vegetable, and a bunch of sauces. Then you normally get a soup, and 6-7 other small dishs with food in them. These are different foods that you eat with the meal. Most of them are fairly strong, and I dont think most people end up consuming all of them. Its really hard for to describe these side dishs because I have no idea what some of them consist of. They are usually pickled vegetables and stuff like that along with different varieties of tofu, whatever. Very good stuff. Ill let more Koreans speak on these side dishs. [/ QUOTE ] As far as the side dishes go, it really varies from place to place or even day to day in a given place. You'll often find a variation of: Different kimchees: standard napa kimchee, radish kimchee, turnip, cucumber etc. etc. Almost anything can be made into kimchee. Pickled beansprouts Dried cuttlefish or squid Dried anchovies "Tempura" vegetables Something gelatenous (like acorn jello) Spinach prepared with sesame oil, sesame seeds, salt, etc. Marinated potato dish Something between mashed potatoes and potato salad Fish Various marinated roots and on and on and on...
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#63
10-27-2006, 01:09 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
"Also good is the turnip kimchi. My favorite is when it still has the turnip vines attached."
Heh. I think this is the "spinach vegetable" I described above because it still has the vines/roots when its in the dish.
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#64
10-27-2006, 01:10 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] can two people eat all the food shown in the last pic? what was the cost of the meal? which one is you? [/ QUOTE ] When you get BBQ, you get a plate of pork/beef/seafood. Then you get rice(if you want it) and a lettuce type vegetable, and a bunch of sauces. Then you normally get a soup, and 6-7 other small dishs with food in them. These are different foods that you eat with the meal. Most of them are fairly strong, and I dont think most people end up consuming all of them. Its really hard for to describe these side dishs because I have no idea what some of them consist of. They are usually pickled vegetables and stuff like that along with different varieties of tofu, whatever. Very good stuff. Ill let more Koreans speak on these side dishs. [/ QUOTE ] As far as the side dishes go, it really varies from place to place or even day to day in a given place. You'll often find a variation of: Different kimchees: standard napa kimchee, radish kimchee, turnip, cucumber etc. etc. Almost anything can be made into kimchee. Pickled beansprouts Dried cuttlefish or squid Dried anchovies "Tempura" vegetables Something gelatenous (like acorn jello) Spinach prepared with sesame oil, sesame seeds, salt, etc. Marinated potato dish Something between mashed potatoes and potato salad Fish Various marinated roots and on and on and on... [/ QUOTE ] I Googled Korean Side Dishes and found a bunch more.
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#65
10-27-2006, 01:11 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] can two people eat all the food shown in the last pic? what was the cost of the meal? which one is you? [/ QUOTE ] When you get BBQ, you get a plate of pork/beef/seafood. Then you get rice(if you want it) and a lettuce type vegetable, and a bunch of sauces. Then you normally get a soup, and 6-7 other small dishs with food in them. These are different foods that you eat with the meal. Most of them are fairly strong, and I dont think most people end up consuming all of them. Its really hard for to describe these side dishs because I have no idea what some of them consist of. They are usually pickled vegetables and stuff like that along with different varieties of tofu, whatever. Very good stuff. Ill let more Koreans speak on these side dishs. [/ QUOTE ] As far as the side dishes go, it really varies from place to place or even day to day in a given place. You'll often find a variation of: Different kimchees: standard napa kimchee, radish kimchee, turnip, cucumber etc. etc. Almost anything can be made into kimchee. Pickled beansprouts Dried cuttlefish or squid Dried anchovies "Tempura" vegetables Something gelatenous (like acorn jello) Spinach prepared with sesame oil, sesame seeds, salt, etc. Marinated potato dish Something between mashed potatoes and potato salad Fish Various marinated roots and on and on and on... [/ QUOTE ] How complicated are these dishs to prepare? Would you say that most of them can kept overnight. If you were to run a restaurant, these are prepared every thursday and monday, and then kept the rest of the week, etc...
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#66
10-27-2006, 01:13 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] can two people eat all the food shown in the last pic? what was the cost of the meal? which one is you? [/ QUOTE ] When you get BBQ, you get a plate of pork/beef/seafood. Then you get rice(if you want it) and a lettuce type vegetable, and a bunch of sauces. Then you normally get a soup, and 6-7 other small dishs with food in them. These are different foods that you eat with the meal. Most of them are fairly strong, and I dont think most people end up consuming all of them. Its really hard for to describe these side dishs because I have no idea what some of them consist of. They are usually pickled vegetables and stuff like that along with different varieties of tofu, whatever. Very good stuff. Ill let more Koreans speak on these side dishs. [/ QUOTE ] As far as the side dishes go, it really varies from place to place or even day to day in a given place. You'll often find a variation of: Different kimchees: standard napa kimchee, radish kimchee, turnip, cucumber etc. etc. Almost anything can be made into kimchee. Pickled beansprouts Dried cuttlefish or squid Dried anchovies "Tempura" vegetables Something gelatenous (like acorn jello) Spinach prepared with sesame oil, sesame seeds, salt, etc. Marinated potato dish Something between mashed potatoes and potato salad Fish Various marinated roots and on and on and on... [/ QUOTE ] How complicated are these dishs to prepare? Would you say that most of them can kept overnight. If you were to run a restaurant, these are prepared every thursday and monday, and then kept the rest of the week, etc... [/ QUOTE ] I'm no expert in making these things (but I am at eating them), but I think that in general, all the kimchees, and most of the marinated things can be kept for a week or more. The dried things even longer. Some of the other dishes that are egg based probably need to be made more frequently. I'd say that you could make a good menu of side dishes where more than 60 or 70% of the items could be kept for at least one week. I don't know how complicated most of this stuff is to make. I have only dabbled in a few side dishes (kimchee, bean sprouts, spinach). The link I provided above has links to recipes though. You might be able to get a good indication of how complicated they are based on that info.
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#67
10-27-2006, 01:22 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
To add further to comments above:
Banchan (small side dishes) is part of a traditional Korean meal, and should be gratis. I've heard some restaurants are starting to charge extra for it - that's retarded. I don't eat BBQ as much as just going to a bibimbap or noodle place (ja jang myun and jap chae are typical favorites) or tofu house or something, but depending on the number of people, typically as little as 4 to as many as 12 banchan come with every meal. Banchan plates are a nice mix of fish, starch, and veggies (sometimes meat). Most Korean places strive for a balance I think. Some people say you can measure a restaurant's quality by its banchan, don't think that's necessarily true. Some I like include raw blue crab (spicy), cod (small and fried), any kimchee-related banchan, blanched spinach, eggplant or bean sprouts in sesame oil (namul), sweet potato and black bean, dried anchovies, potato salad, fried zucchini... damnit I'm hungry. Hornacek - Korean Ja Jang Myun >>>> Chinese version (you know it, just admit it). -Al
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#68
10-27-2006, 01:33 PM
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Re: korean food renders all other food tasteless.
KKF - chicken soup with ginger is Sam-gye-tang, it's good and restorative (think mainly a summer dish). If you like that, I think you'd also like any Gook Soo dish (hand-cut wheat noodle in soup). It's standard Korean comfort food, a broth with anchovies, seaweed, kimchi. Chicken gook soo prolly uses chicken broth (taste is similar to sam-gye-tang, not as gingery tho). Add scallion-chile paste, very tasty.
-Al
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10-27-2006, 01:53 PM
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Donkey - Hite sucks get OB instead. -Al [/ QUOTE ] Hite's not so bad. The Koreans I work woith prefer it. I really can't tell a whole lot of difference. I actually like Hite Prime the best.
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