Seems like the chuds won’t leave you guys alone lately, just know you aren’t alone and we have your back.
Just checking in on you guys really
Seems like the chuds won’t leave you guys alone lately, just know you aren’t alone and we have your back.
Just checking in on you guys really
For real, South Korea's a whole lot fucking nicer to live in than the U.S. then again I think nearly anywhere else is nicer than the U.S.
But shit, the food's cheap and nutritious, healthcare's cheap and high quality, the booze is damn near free-flowing although it's hard to find any good liquor over there, folks there tend to be polite and honest, and there's always a place to hike or stroll leisurely just a stone's throw away.
My only gripes that their state actively persecutes communists, their perception of western food's like way too fucking sugar filled - like shit I thought American food was filled with sugar and shit but their American food's literally tooth rotting sweet but without the heart clogging oiliness and the dumptrucks worth of saltiness.
Also their national sport is gaming, and you know how I feel about gamers.
Yeah I couldn't stand eating American food while I was there. There was no Mexican food, either! I actually really got into the Korean-style pizzas though. Pizza with potatoes, corn, even mayo—that shit is fucking amazing. (The mayo love is my whiteness talking.) I ate almost nothing but Korean food though while I was there since it's so good, healthy, and cheap.
For real for real. I loved eating over there but I missed treating my body like utter dogshit with American processed foods once in a while lmao.
Y'know the only pizza I had over there was this sorta Frenchy styled pizza that said it used a sweetened red wine reduction as the marinara and used brie cheese, garlic, and some other French shit to balance out the sweetness, and other than the fact I think they just used grape jelly that pizza was fucking lit. It all balanced out and made a great harmony of sweet and savory that a normal pizza joint could make casually.
Did you get a chance to go to the fish markets? Or even to the coastal villages/towns? Last time I went I got to go see the eastern sea and got to pick out fresh fish to make sashimi out of. Like I thought I've had fresh good fish before, living in Alaska and catching my own shit lol, but fuck me there's a literal whole ocean of flavors out there that you can only experience when you're downing a glass of makgeolli and breathing is the fresh salty air.
Yes, I lived in Gyeongsangdo so we ate all kinds of fish, raw and otherwise, all the time. Going on a hike and drinking makgeolli at the top of a mountain in a little shack with pajeon was just the best. And yeah, we went to all kinds of smaller towns with amazing restaurants. Generally the shittier they looked, the better the food was. As a lib I was actually desperate to leave Korea because I couldn't stand the mild annoyance of being a privileged ethnic minority but now of course I miss it.
Lmao you know when I came back I tried to bring some makgeolli with me, but because of how their bottles are designed they all exploded in my bag and I found out they don't like being stored sideways. Thankfully that all happened the day before I had to take the flight back so I had another drinking party with my family over there.
Shit one of the finest and weirder things I did was hiking through Sinheungsa temple at the base of Seoraksan mountain and finding a little coffee shop that's home to one of the world's internationally recognized masters of coffee brewing. Just spending the half hour watching him make a cup of coffee and enjoying it was one of the highlights of that day, besides hiking up the trails and seeing the clear reflecting ponds surrounded by those spikey mountains.
Damn. I never made it out there. But I did know a cafe owner who was unusually obsessed with coffee. He had like a bunch of special and unique roasting machines which were made in Germany and he also planned to expand his business all over the world, even though my wife said that he owed everyone in town a lot of money. He would slurp his coffee so quickly it would almost make a whistling sound. His cafe was good but expensive. Two people could go through more than $50 there just drinking a few cups of coffee and eating some bread. We were supposed to tutor his entire staff in English which would have been an amazing gig but after meeting with him and seemingly having a decent time he never followed up with us.