Thread 21689382

Korean food, to me, a non-Korean, tastes like a hodgepodge of things you would eat if times were really, really tough, but you managed to scrimp up all these random things and serve them in your cold, grey concrete hut surrounded by barren fields, because it's some celebration, maybe it's the 10 year anniversary of a loved one dying and their suffering is over and you're celebrating that.

I don't think for the most part any of it is *bad*, but none of it is really *good* either. It's just like, "wow, you must be a really good cook because you made this slime stuff you scraped off the bottom of a boat and these mushrooms you found growing on a tombstone taste surprisingly... not dangerous to eat!

At its absolute best it's just expensive cuts of meat, grilled with a lot of sugar and spices, you can't really fuck that up. It's like the french drowning garden snails in butter and garlic and now it's a renowned delicacy.

But the most "korean" of korean food is like... you know how jewish people have those annual religious rites where they eat bitter herbs to remind them of hard times, or they make hardtack and gnaw on it for a week, because it symbolizes how they had to flee in a hurry? That's how koreans eat, except it's every damm meal, and apparently they like it.

If you want real korean food you have to go to north korea because SK's culture was destroyed by American military influence during the korean war and postwar period

Korean food sucks because it’s all sweet. I’ve never eaten anything Korean that wasn’t full of sugar.

Might just be American-korean though I’ve never actually been there

>>21689389
Nah there's lots of it that isn't sweet but they follow the same philosophy as india in the sense that it's blasted so hard with fermentation and chili that it's completely unidentifiable, just "interesting texture #23124, almost crunchy yet somehow fibrous and limp thing that may or may not have once crawled around on the sea floor or maybe it's a vegetable that you almost choked on, served cold, with two sesame seeds and enough fermented chili paste that I don't really care what it is, when's the meat coming"

>>21689382 (OP)
>jewish people have those annual religious rites where they eat bitter herbs to remind them of hard times,
That's the bullshit reason for the profane.
The real reason they eat bitter herbs is because they are anti-parasitic

>>21689608
Shouldn't that kill them?

>>21689382 (OP)
>Korean food, to me, a non-Korean, tastes like a hodgepodge of things you would eat if times were really, really tough, but you managed to scrimp up all these random things and serve them in your cold, grey concrete hut surrounded by barren fields, because it's some celebration, maybe it's the 10 year anniversary of a loved one dying and their suffering is over and you're celebrating that.
that's pretty much what it is. korea was a third world shithole not long ago. it was artificially fast tracked through development because of its strategic importance to the US but at heart it's still a backwards ass agrarian shithole subsisting mainly off poverty food. they only just officially banned dog meat last year.

>>21689382 (OP)
The very fact you associate bitter taste with bad food tells me you're an underdeveloped tastelet who should honestly stick to tendies and barbecue sauce for your own good

>>21689382 (OP)
>Korean food, to me, a non-Korean, tastes like a hodgepodge of things you would eat if times were really, really tough
yes they had to post war

>>21689382 (OP)
>>21689389
chang or takashi, you decide

>>21689776
That's funny because koreans love their bbq sauce, I've never seen bitter melon in korean food, and their baked goods are carefully curated to take away any bitter or savory flavors

I'm sorry your homeland became a battleground between two superpowers but as we can see from the middle east, a war torn region need not collapse into barbarism like korea did

>>21689382 (OP)
>tastes like a hodgepodge of things you would eat if times were really, really tough,
congratulations moron. you just described 90% of food.

>>21689388
>If you want real korean food you have to go to north korea
there is no food in north korea

>>21689382 (OP)
wow op, this bait is excellent. a little too sweet for my liking though.

>>21690438
I don't get how americans believe this.
Do you think that people from other countries don't need to eat or something?

>>21690712
A lot of people here grow up thinking everyone outside of the US lives in a mud hut and is desperate to move here. This is why we end up with people turning into tankies or weebs, because some of them, when they first set foot in a foreign country and find out there's electricity and flush toilets and in some respects the standard of living is higher in those places, they experience such an extreme cognitive whiplash that they form weird online communities obsessed with specific countries

>>21689382 (OP)
This nigga got filtered by Bon Chon lmaooo

Do Koreans have umami or do they not believe in it because its Japanese?

>>21691152
>be from Italy
>live in America
>show American neighbour a pic of my old neighbourhood back home in southern Italy
>"YOU HAVE BUILDINGS IN NAPLES?!"
Yes, bitch. For 3500 years now, although our oldest building still standing is "only" 2100 years old. Jesus fuck.
So yeah, I'm well aware that there are Americans who think everyone else on earth lives in mudhuts.
She gave my kid these frog shaped sour gummies today as he walked past her on his way home from school as a Halloween treat. We just got in from trick-or-treating and he's slightly disappointed that he didn't get more of those frogs.

>>21691181
Koreans are dollar-store Japanese, insectoid robots forever trying to capture the culture of the Japanese soldiers who generously gave them some pity DNA injections during WW2, but always falling short. So instead of getting real sushi we get "gimbap", instead of getting instant ramen we get Buldak "ramyun" chemical waste, instead of getting Sony we get Samsung, and instead of getting cute Nipponese waifus we get plastic surgery monsters who resemble uncanny-valley Realdolls from Temu. It's pretty telling that while American millennials at least had the good sense to be weeaboos, the inferior retarded zoomers are obsessed with "k-pop" and "k-drama". FFS, if you're going to get yellow fever, at least have some standards.

>>21691181
They use a broth similar to dashi which is what inspired the creation of the word umami

>>21691289
I'll give you all that but why did the Japanese let their glorious film industry collapse and be replaced by HK and China in the 80s and 90s and then South Korea from 1999 (with Shiri) until now?

>>21689388
>If you want real korean food you have to go to north korea

>>21691521
North korea has some famous regional food like naengmyeon, but you can find most of it in south korea and japan due to migration.

It is definitely Korean culture to value metal chopsticks and tableware, which Chinese and Japanese people dislike.

>>21691534
Can an Asian anon tell me why this is and how wooden chopstick Asians feel about metal chopstick Koreans? As a non-Asian, wooden chopsticks feel more comfy but metal chopsticks feel cooler and more like I'm eating real food than grazing on salad, meat bits, and rice like with wooden chopstix.

>>21691606
I was raised with metal chopsticks but still prefer the feel of wooden chopsticks, overall. I do primarily use metal chopsticks over wood, though, and mostly use wood for cooking.

>>21689382 (OP)
Korean dish is unironically refugee chinese food, americanized too.
Even the Ethnic Korean tribe in China has better food than actual Korea.

>>21691482
Because anime happened

>>21691606
My Nan is from an Asian country where they don't really use chopsticks except for very, very rarely to eat noodle dishes (they're usually eaten with a fork and spoon, even Chinese inspired/descended ones) but when chopsticks ARE used, they tend to be plastic or wood.
I don't really have a preference for the material but I find those Korean flat chopsticks a little weird. I've never encountered them anywhere else while metal ones, though uncommon, do occasionally pop up elsewhere.

>>21691289
Brutal but true

>>21691240
I don't understand, you mean because you lived in one of those high rises in the CDN area? Most of naples looks like the stereotype of an italian city

>>21691289
wrong
japs are jr koreans

i love how OP typed all that out and managed to bait zero people, only his self-bumps.

>>21690712
it's a joke you fucking retard. are you this low IQ?

you know what they say about koreans...

>>21692154
TRVKE

>>21691181
from kimchi

>>21691606
metal chopsticks are only used because they're easy to keep clean, wood or bamboo is preferred for feel/grip but over time can mold

the worst is those shitty long plastic ones at chinese places as it has no grip on greasy food

peak is japanese (some kind of plastic/resin) that is textured or with ridges to grip better at the ends

>>21692142
I'm from Vomero.
She was unaware that Naples was a city at all. She's "Italian"American and knows fuckall about Italy. Everything she knows, she learned from Mafia movies, and I'm not even joking.
She even claimed to be of Neapolitan background but it turns out her family are actually from some middle of nowhere town in the mountains /of Molise/ that doesn't even exist anymore and they merely left Italy on a ship from Naples in the 1800s, not that they're from Naples.
One of the first two things she asked when I bought and moved into my house after learning that I'm from Naples is how am I so tall (because city folk aren't starving like people in the middle of nowhere were in the 1800s) and why I'm not dark (because I'm not immediately descended of farmworking peasant stock). She is very, very dark.
These creatures can't even pronounce their names correctly so I don't know why I'm surprised that they seem to seldom even know where their families originated.

Why is it when posting picrel it makes the japs who reeee over Korea freak out and mass report the pic?

The foods and culture of Japan is heavily influenced by Korea. This is not even a meme. Its factual and it covers the FOOD aspect of things.

>>21692166
tell everyone you don't have a passport without telling everyone you don't have a passport

>>21692444
I thought japanese only ever used single-use chopsticks because of some weird purity hangups related to re-using something like that

>>21692874
I guess you were wrong you fucking retard

>>21689382 (OP)
Yeah, it's poverty food like most asian food.

>>21692444
It's not plastic, it's just wood or bamboo with 1000 coats of paint.

white people look at veggies and freak out, lmao

>>21692988
wypipo need grease and butter and cheesy slop completely covering their food otherwise it's not edible.

>>21692546
no one cares

>>21692546
cool story bro. shut the fuck up, no one cares

>>21693043
t. "italian" from ocean county, NJ

>>21693088
im not italian at all. i just have zero interest in your off-topic anecdotes about italy and neither does anyone else.

>>21693090
wasn't my post, calm down

>>21693095
then shut the fuck up

>>21693097
why? it was a good post and you're being a stupid crybaby

>>21693105
no. the crybaby is your butthurt italian self trying to make us sympathize with your because someone hurt your feelings irl in a thread that isn't about italy at all.

>>21693121
I'm not italian though, and I made the thread so you can go touch some grass now

>>21693178
hahaha this faggot's been babying his thread for two weekend nights in a row and is telling me to touch grass.

>>21689382 (OP)
it's definitely a fucking Chinaman posting this. strange obsession with deriding Korean food and an inferiority complex in genera. it's weird how hostile you Chinks get about Korean food, so bizarre

>>21692608
just bait
hierarchy is japan > korea > china

>>21692967
the ones i got were SPS resin
though this one look pretty nice

>>21692608
This seems to be makign the argument that korea is like a less refined, more primitive version of japan, not sure that's the conclusion you wanted us to draw but it is the logical conclusion

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>>21692181
they have no seoul?

>>21692608
Korean kangz posting

>>21692967
The expensive ones use urushi lacquer.

>>21689382 (OP)
It's always felt like it's close to it's sister, Japanese food and it just depends on era in a lot of ways.
As the world has expanded, Korean food has fallen largely in line with the greater Pacific Rim food movement that not only includes Japan and Korea, but also Taiwan, China, Southeast Asia and the American West Coast. Through that we've gotten the modern Sushi Roll, Boba, the Teriyaki Bowl and Korean Barbecue and those corn dog things that people seem to love.
So if you are dealing with Wartime Korean Food from Refugees, yeah it's gonna be povertyslop, if you go to some hip restaurant blasting kpop staffed by cute girls with a lot of makeup and guys with hip haircuts you're gonna get something resembling a trip to a wealthy county fair in California, Oregon, Washington or British Columbia.

>>21696801
Maybe that's why it's always disappointing, so many of its "signature dishes" are similar to something else, so there are expectations that get set, and those expectations are miscalibrated for what the food actually is.

>>21696801
Is traditional Korean food similar to Japanese but MORE? More meat, more spice, more garlic, more pickle, etc.

>>21696828
holy shit, OP is a Chink living in Canada.

Once long long ago wealthy Koreans ate chinese styles banquets. When times became scarce they didn't want to lose face by serving fewer dishes because how many you had with your meal was a class marker. Eventually producing the culture today of serving tiny little dishes of whatever because the number of dishes was more important than their size

my exposure to korean shit is limited ive only been to a korean food cart or two. is bulgogi beef a thing they actually eat in SK? it's pretty good desu

>>21696165
they have small penises

>>21696988
yes it is. theres a spicy version called dwaeji bulgogi which is a nice alternative to the sweet soy shit i would recommend

>>21689608
>The real reason they eat bitter herbs is because they are anti-parasitic
That doesn't seem to be working.

>>21696917
>fake plastic culture was curated by copying existing culture then doing it way worse because they were poor but have an insatiable need to look rich
Holy shit everything in Korea follows this blueprint