Comments on: The Best Korean Food Is Fit for Royalty http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:46:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sonagi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50700 Sonagi Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:55:21 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50700 Sugar Shin, the closest I've ever come to eating Korean mom's food every day was the three months I spent in a boarding house. I even learned to enjoy a Korean-style breakfast because the side dishes were so good. Sugar Shin, the closest I’ve ever come to eating Korean mom’s food every day was the three months I spent in a boarding house. I even learned to enjoy a Korean-style breakfast because the side dishes were so good.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50685 sewing Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:38:25 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50685 "...if you’re wise enough, to pick your friends from all provinces" Hah hah hah! A: "What are you doing tonight?" B: "I'm sampling Jeolla-do cuisine" A: "Huh???" B: "I mean, I'm having dinner at Cheol-su's house." “…if you’re wise enough, to pick your friends from all provinces”

Hah hah hah!

A: “What are you doing tonight?”
B: “I’m sampling Jeolla-do cuisine”
A: “Huh???”
B: “I mean, I’m having dinner at Cheol-su’s house.”

]]> By: Sugar Shin http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50679 Sugar Shin Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:27:23 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50679 The "best" authentic Korean food you can get is at a Korean mommy's table. Go fetch a Korean colleague or friend and coerce them to invite you to their mommys' place, i.e. kitchen table. It's cheap, too. A little present for ajumma and you can taste the variety of different regional specialities, if you're wise enough, to pick your friends from all provinces ;) The “best” authentic Korean food you can get is at a Korean mommy’s table. Go fetch a Korean colleague or friend and coerce them to invite you to their mommys’ place, i.e. kitchen table. It’s cheap, too. A little present for ajumma and you can taste the variety of different regional specialities, if you’re wise enough, to pick your friends from all provinces ;)

]]> By: kpmsprtd http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50677 kpmsprtd Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:39:58 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50677 I like Korean food. I like Mexican food. But I do not like the increasingly popular trend in Northern California Korean restaurants of using jalapenos in Korean dishes. Decent-quality red peppers are extremely cheap here. Why substitute jalapenos? Note that I have yet to see jalapenos in my Indian food. It's only my Korean food that's being tampered with. But now that I think about it, I have sighted jalapenos in the Vietnamese pho restaurant. They are not in the food itself, but are kept instead in small jars at each table. The Korean-American clientele add them to pho (soup), but I haven't seen any Vietnamese-Americans eating them. It appears that Korean-Americans in Northern California have developed a taste for jalapenos. Has this trend made it back to the mother ship? Are jalapenos showing up in your food in Seoul? I like Korean food. I like Mexican food. But I do not like the increasingly popular trend in Northern California Korean restaurants of using jalapenos in Korean dishes. Decent-quality red peppers are extremely cheap here. Why substitute jalapenos?

Note that I have yet to see jalapenos in my Indian food. It’s only my Korean food that’s being tampered with. But now that I think about it, I have sighted jalapenos in the Vietnamese pho restaurant. They are not in the food itself, but are kept instead in small jars at each table. The Korean-American clientele add them to pho (soup), but I haven’t seen any Vietnamese-Americans eating them.

It appears that Korean-Americans in Northern California have developed a taste for jalapenos. Has this trend made it back to the mother ship? Are jalapenos showing up in your food in Seoul?

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50670 Sonagi Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:15:57 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50670 Zonath, the baby corn was merely an example. Plants and animals, like people, migrate and naturalize. Many Asian countries have incorporated chili peppers into their cuisines. Thankfully, they haven't done the same with baby corn. My dining companions agreed that the food didn't taste good and it didn't taste like the food I had eaten in Thailand. In most of the Korean restaurants I've eaten at in the US, a few ingredients might be changed, but overall, the flavor is Korean. Both ethnic and American restaurant owners can and do form cooperative relationships with food producers. The local supermarket in that particular city had a huge Asian produce section with bitter melons and fresh lemon grass, rare for the midwest. Zonath, the baby corn was merely an example. Plants and animals, like people, migrate and naturalize. Many Asian countries have incorporated chili peppers into their cuisines. Thankfully, they haven’t done the same with baby corn. My dining companions agreed that the food didn’t taste good and it didn’t taste like the food I had eaten in Thailand. In most of the Korean restaurants I’ve eaten at in the US, a few ingredients might be changed, but overall, the flavor is Korean. Both ethnic and American restaurant owners can and do form cooperative relationships with food producers. The local supermarket in that particular city had a huge Asian produce section with bitter melons and fresh lemon grass, rare for the midwest.

]]> By: Zonath http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50669 Zonath Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:16:28 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50669 <blockquote>I never saw baby corn in any dish I ever ate during my three trips to Thailand, nor did I ever see baby corn in any of the hundreds of meals eaten in a variety of restaurants in China.</blockquote> Again, your point is what? Unless you're absolutely hung-up over needing to feel like you're eating the 'genuine article', (or just hate baby corn), I fail to see how using what's available automatically equates to 'americanization'. And anyhow, Thais Americanized their food a couple hundred years ago, when they started using chili peppers... Why should they stop there? ;) At any rate, while it might be slightly different from what you might find in the 'old country', what do you really expect? Restauranteurs (unless they also grow their own produce) have to work with what's on the local market if they want really fresh food, which usually means going without the more 'exotic' ingredients. That doesn't necessarily equate to 'Americanization' in my book (unless they start adding mayonnaise to stuff... that's just gross.) :P

I never saw baby corn in any dish I ever ate during my three trips to Thailand, nor did I ever see baby corn in any of the hundreds of meals eaten in a variety of restaurants in China.

Again, your point is what? Unless you’re absolutely hung-up over needing to feel like you’re eating the ‘genuine article’, (or just hate baby corn), I fail to see how using what’s available automatically equates to ‘americanization’. And anyhow, Thais Americanized their food a couple hundred years ago, when they started using chili peppers… Why should they stop there? ;)

At any rate, while it might be slightly different from what you might find in the ‘old country’, what do you really expect? Restauranteurs (unless they also grow their own produce) have to work with what’s on the local market if they want really fresh food, which usually means going without the more ‘exotic’ ingredients. That doesn’t necessarily equate to ‘Americanization’ in my book (unless they start adding mayonnaise to stuff… that’s just gross.) :P

]]> By: R. Elgin http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50662 R. Elgin Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:08:44 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50662 Thanks Simone for the information. We did go to lunch. I need to check to see what the difference is between lunch and dinner. They certainly do not change portions, thus I am a bit curious why the difference. The 28,000 per person was the cheapest set menu. Thanks Simone for the information. We did go to lunch. I need to check to see what the difference is between lunch and dinner. They certainly do not change portions, thus I am a bit curious why the difference.

The 28,000 per person was the cheapest set menu.

]]> By: Simone_ http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50645 Simone_ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:35:19 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50645 You must have gone at lunch - I just called to make reservations for 4 on a Saturday evening, and the set menu is actually 48,000 won / person. TGIFridays, though the food is crap, isn't that much, unless your drinks come with little fancy umbrellas. You must have gone at lunch - I just called to make reservations for 4 on a Saturday evening, and the set menu is actually 48,000 won / person.

TGIFridays, though the food is crap, isn’t that much, unless your drinks come with little fancy umbrellas.

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50463 Sonagi Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:38:10 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50463 I never saw baby corn in any dish I ever ate during my three trips to Thailand, nor did I ever see baby corn in any of the hundreds of meals eaten in a variety of restaurants in China. I never saw baby corn in any dish I ever ate during my three trips to Thailand, nor did I ever see baby corn in any of the hundreds of meals eaten in a variety of restaurants in China.

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50462 Sonagi Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:36:35 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/09/26/the-best-korean-food-is-fit-for-royalty/#comment-50462 I never saw baby corn in any dish I ever ate during my three trips to Thailand. I never saw baby corn in any dish I ever ate during my three trips to Thailand.

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