don't ask, don't tell

korean cuisine is really rockin'. i loves it. it's spicy and flavourful (oh boy, i'm a little bit candian yet, eh?) also, there's lots of fish. now, i like seafood. like, red lobster seafood. i will branch out a little, but not much. here, i have been branching out. basically because i get free lunch at school, and i just mow down before i realize what i'm eating. first time it happened, i said to grace, the korean teacher i eat lunch with, "mmm, these are good crunchy noodles!" needless to say, they weren't crunchy noodles. they were fried fishies, heads and all. hurl. then there was the "chicken." odd. huh, i don't remember chicken have suction cups. oh god. hurl. i have since adopted a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. i eat anything, just don't tell me what it is until i'm done. that way i can be adventurous and not sick to my stomach. there's lots of "sausage" served at lunch too. don't ask, don't tell. and i never want to know what's in kim bap. i just love it too much. don't ask, don't tell. and there are these things called "fish cakes." don't ask, don't tell. and there's a kind of fish jerky that's sold on the street corner. yeah. but they eat a lot of pork and chicken and cow too. i've eaten more fried chicken since i've been here than i have in the past 6 years.



here's a photo of traditional korean eatin'. a huge table with communal bowls and everyone just goes at it. lots of pickled stuff, lots of spicy stuff, always soup. every single meal has soup of some variety. niki and i had one that tasted like the ocean once. that wasn't all that good. clear water, two bean sprouts floating on the bottom, and tasted exactly like ocean. but it's usually yummy. tonight i went to dinner with a buddy of mine and we had to take off our shoes and sit on cushions on the floor. i wasn't allowed to take pictures for embarassments sake (whatever, i'm not from here) or i would have. it was so much fun! and we ate spicy spicy soup with pork on the bone. you eat soup with a spoon and chopsticks usually. plus there was rice and some pickled stuff. like kim chi. mmm . . . kim chi. so yeah. korean food = good food. i'm not tired of it yet. i hope i never am.