Thanks to Mike and Joe for getting me laughing last night.
This one does it every time:
Last night was not the time for highbrow humor ;)
I'm just helping my friend Joe out a bit here to spread the word.
I got a message from him today that his sites are down. There seems to be some kerfuffle with the web host.
Anyway, here is what he had to say.
In case you're interested, the Seoul Podcast and all the ZenKimchi sites are down for a little while. The hosting company says that something is using too many CPU resources and has suspended my account. So I'm trying to figure out what is doing it--when they reinstate me, which I don't know when.So don't despair ZenKimchi readers and Seoul Podcast listeners, the sites will be back as soon as things get worked out.
I'm on another podcast. This time it's with Joe, aka ZenKimchi, and Jen who have taken over the Seoul Podcast website.
It was fun doing a more news style/talk show podcast where it wasn't just one subject. I'm on it to talk about my opinions of Seoul Fashion Week. However, we hit a list of various subjects.
Click over and listen for all of the fun: Episode 2: Seoul Fashion Week — Regina Walton, EV Boyz
Oh and note Joe's April Fool's post at my expense: Not Again, ExPat Jane
He did a few of them. I'm not the only K-blogger that got hit.
Here is another good one he got from the JoshingGnome: Government to Fund Pouting as National Treasure.
The initiative comes as no surprise to long time residents of both South and North Korea. Korean culture places a great emphasis on the power of Bbijim, an untranslatable native Korean concept that represents the sense of injustice one feels when something that never should have happened, happens.I think this is hilarious because Korea is a nation where pouting and other forms of baby-ass behavior in adults is thought of as cute. Women do it to excess, but I've seen men pout and whine too. It irritates me quite a bit because instead of taking action, accepting responsibility or just moving the hell on it ends up becoming the problem of every person surrounding the selfish person who is acting out for attention. Sphere: Related Content
Stylish Beer With Fiber
Oh, The Chosun Ilbo has an article highlighting products to suit consumers’ wishes. This includes items such as a Hite beer (called “S”) that has extra dietary fiber. They claim that it’s to help people lose weight. But we all know how it will accomplish the task.
And it’s too much of the stars aligning just right that they are planning to call it “S,” as in “S Hite.”
So now, literally, “Hite makes you shite.”...
It's past my bedtime and I have to get up early to work on my internship stuff.
However, I just wanted to send out a big virtual hug and congratulate Joe over at ZenKimchi for beating the rap on the criminal libel case against him.
Yes, I said criminal libel - read more about it here, if you dare. It's honestly beyond ridiculous.
He sent an email out late Thursday morning while I was working away on internship stuff. I sent him a congratulations immediately. I then proceeded to go to a meeting but ended up sick and writhing in pain on the floor of my supervisor's apartment due to what seemed to be mild food poisoning. Thank goodness for a nice internship super, apple cider vinegar and the pillow she gave me so I could nap.
However, since I see he's shared the great news on his blog, I can now share it on mine.
At least, dear Joe, I don't have to go out and see if Felon Clothing Company has a "I Used to F%^k People Like You In Prison" t-shirts I was considering getting for you ;-) 
Instead, I can just offer you congratulatory liquor credit sometime in the future.
I tripped over the Mary Eats blog a few weeks ago. I was in my office trying to decide what to order for dinner. At that point, I'd spent a few nights in a row studying late and the local 초밥, cho bap, restaurant knew me when I called AND knew what I was going to order complete with my passionate dislike of, 단무지, dan mu gee (the yellow stuff pictured on the right).
It was great they knew me, but it was time for a culinary change. I ran a search on a dish I had a taste for and the Mary Eats detailed post on 김밥나라, Kimbap Nara, came up. Well wouldn't you know I had a their menu handy. However, I chose to order from another place instead. Better food and the delivery guy has a crush on me, so I get extra kimchi. LOL...I'm serious, they've got GOOD kimchi too.
Speaking of kimchi, I was browsing ZenKimchi's blog today and he linked Mary Eats' post on Korean Culinary Vocabulary.
This is pretty much essential for anyone interested in Korean food. If you don't know this stuff know, you'll learn it as you go, so this gives you a head start. Newbies to Korea will appreciate it unless you like constant surprise and confusion.
Also, it's great for people like me. If you didn't get a sense of it yet, I tend to fall into food ruts. It was a 초밥 rut a few weeks ago. However, in San Francisco, it was wheat grass juice and carrot juice daily for lunch one summer. I was stylish, bartending and many dates girl at that time - gotta be cute, healthy food and a gym membership helps. Believe it or not, I liked it as something can't become a rut unless I enjoy the taste. I like my ruts, but I also know when to break them. Mary Eats will be able to help when I need to break the next one I fall into.
Here is the post: Korean Culinary Vocabulary
Enjoy and I hope you learn something new. I know I did.
This is the thing, people seems to think that in Korea there are no trappings of home. In some ways, they're right. However, in many ways, as I said in my No Offense post, that's just not the truth. One example of this is food.
Koreans like African-Americans have had a hard time of it, so our foods are very similar in some ways. This is particularly true in terms of the cuts of meats that are in some of our traditional dishes and meals.
One thing that is really similar is Koreans love of fried chicken. I won't go on too much about as the Koreans Share Their Secret for Chicken With a Crunch article does a great job of explaining it. It's just another verification what I've been telling folks all along.
I'll paste a good quote and then I'll leave it up to you go click on the link above and read more.
When Joe McPherson moved to Seoul in 2002, he thought he was leaving fried chicken behind. “I grew up watching Popeyes training videos,” Mr. McPherson said. His father managed a Popeyes franchise near Atlanta and fried chicken was a constant presence in his life.It's excellent! I'm glad to hear that Koreans are bringing their style of fried chicken to the States. That means it will be there when I get home. Sphere: Related Content
“Living in the South, you think you know fried chicken,” he said. But in Seoul, he said, “there is a mom-and-pop chicken place literally on every corner.” Many Asian cooking traditions include deep-fried chicken, but the popular cult of crunchy, spicy, perfectly nongreasy chicken — the apotheosis of the Korean style — is a recent development.
