Thursday, 22 January 2009

Ambiguballs

In one of my lessons an elderly lady said: 'I don't like English food.'
'Have you had English food?' I asked. (I'd dealt with this situation before).
'No.'
'So what don't you like about it?'
'I don't like it because it's not good.'

I eat Korean food, and I have some favourites, but there's a lot that I don't like about it. Some problems:

Ambiguballs = balls of meat made from unknown animals that turn up in a lot of food. I once got a 'vegetable' meal that still had them in.
Squish = flattened dried fish. It's okay, but terrible to look at. Especially the squid ones. It looks like it's washed up after a chemical spill at sea and been taken straight to the restaraunt.
Kimchi = cabbage and hot pepper sauce doesn't work. They eat it with everything here, and it's attributed with amazing healing properties. When bird flu failed to kill anyone here, as the media had predicted, the government said it was because Koreans eat Kimchi. In my view the food's national effect is most obvious in the sulphurous farts that cling to the walls of the subway here.

There's some good stuff too, but nothing that I'll miss that much. Usually 'good' is just based on the surprise that something doesn't taste bad. It's no way to eat. Pictures imminent.

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