Finally! Fellow marmots and other marsupials, we’ve finally got another episode of SeoulGlow for you, and let me tell you, it’s fat. No, not as in phat, but fat. If you don’t get the intense urge to go slay some swine and greedily slurp down its fat, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Well, we are technically all monkeys’ cousins, along with pigs, but…
Anyway, in this 6th episode of SeoulGlow, Susan treats us to her second installment of “Seoul Food,” in which she helps me pick a pig’s foot clean. Well, I can’t lie about it; she actually did most of the work. I guess she didn’t see Babe. Or just didn’t like it.
And for those of you who don’t know, Susan has a super snappy blog, one that’s been going for a while but was offline for a bit. She’s a gifted and witty writer, as well as a breath of fresh air in a pretty serious Korean blogosphere.
And finally, I apologize for the spotty releases of our SeoulGlow video podcasts, but I am beholden to being “lost in translation” when it comes to the subtitling stage, especially when going from English to Korean.
We need interns! And we’re paying! If you have any Korean friends who are looking for something, just send them over to this link (I put together a Korean description as well) and let them get in touch.
And don’t forget to let your Seooooooooul glow!
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‘Chokpal’ is a bit too rubbery and bland for my own tastes, but I love ‘posam’ (regular pork that’s been boiled in, I guess, a variety of herbs and bark (whatever is added to the water gives it an incredibly delicious nutty flavour)).
i love 보쌈 but never had 족발. people have told me that they taste the same. true?
Bossam is more like what Someguy said, while chokbal is greasier and tastes, not surprisingly, like ham. Most of it is fat though and you have to pick through it for the meat.
“Fellow marmots and other marsupials”.
Marmots are not marsupials.
“Marmots are not marsupials.”
Whatever. Anyway, I do like both bossam (because it’s steamed pork) and chokpal (because it’s roasted pork), especially on a Friday night with cider or beer and lots of nice company. Now I’m hungry!
I wish they would loose the irritating opening music and stupid cartoons. The girl is quite fetching and I am sure the meal was tasty. That being said, has anyone noticed how common strokes are in Korea? Must be all the fat and Soju.
Oh, and one more thing. Chokpali is also the Koreans slur for Japanese people.
>Oh, and one more thing. Chokpali is also the >Koreans slur for Japanese people.
Well, I guess that’s yet another way to bring Japan into a thread.
I heard that that came about because of the Japanese wooden clogs compared with the cloven hooves of pigs.
Is heart attack more common in Korea than the US (where fatties roam free)? Not being snide, really asking, I’m not sure.
Heart attacks in Korea probably has something to do with stress and the fact that S. Korea has the most work hours in all of OECD.
Yeah, I prefer 보쌈 to 족발 too — the latter being just too greasy. As far as 보쌈 goes, I especially like the 놀부 variety.
Tip: If you want less fat on yours, at 놀부보쌈 you can always ask: “비개없이주세요,” and they’ll serve you the leaner version sans fat.
Believe me, the difference between the two is like night and day (and much healthier too).
“If you want less fat on yours, at 놀부보쌈 you can always ask: “비개없이주세요,” and they’ll serve you the leaner version sans fat.”
Less fat, Less taste for 보쌈/족발. And Mighty SOJU will bust all fats, no?
보쌈! Yum! Love those fresh greens.
Ledtim wondered:
Is heart attack more common in Korea than the US (where fatties roam free)? Not being snide, really asking, I’m not sure.
I am disappointed to tell my fellow Americans that we are no longer the world’s fattest nation. That honor now belongs to Saudi Arabia, where 36.9% of the adult population is overweight and 35.6% obese, compared to 34.1% and 32.2% respectively for the US. Those stats put us in third place behind Panama with 32.7%
and 34.7%.
ttp://www.iotf.org/database/GlobalPrevalenceofAdultObesityFeb07.mht
As for heart attack rates, Americans have more heart attacks while Koreans and Japanese have more strokes. Both are forms of cardiovascular disease and have similar and different risk factors. We have more heart attacks mostly due to our diet high in refined foods and low in fish and fresh produce. Koreans and Japanese have more strokes because of heavy consumption of salted and pickled foods. Overall, CVD mortality rates are higher for North Americans than for Japanese or Koreans. The gap is wider between women than between men due to differences in smoking rates.
ttp://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1173881029846InternationDeathRates_2007.pdf
I lopped off the “h” at the beginning of the links to keep this post out of the spam trap.
Let me correct myself. Americans have higher CVD death rates than Koreans, who have higher rates than Canadians or Japanese.