[NYT/08/07/20] The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately, Sublime

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The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately, Sublime

Basil Childers for The New York Times

At Hongik Sootbul Kalbi, a barbecue restaurant near Hongik University.

By MATT GROSS

Published: July 20, 2008

SOMETIME after midnight on a Sunday, the streets of the Myeongdong neighborhood in Seoul were quiet and cold. The young shoppers who flit from Adidas to Tommy Hilfiger to Club Monaco had gone home to study for December exams, and restaurant workers were setting barrels full of leftovers onto the curb to be picked up by early-morning garbage trucks. The city was going to sleep.

 

Seoul’s Foodie Scene

But over near the subway station, in a little orange tent, or pojangmacha, a good night’s rest was on no one’s mind, least of all mine. Inside, a semipermanent kitchen was working overtime, cranking out hearty, salty, spicy dishes to warm the air and fill the bellies of the drinkers around plastic tables.Behind me sat a pair of university students practicing Mandarin; to my left were hip-hop hipsters in knee-length Nike parkas discussing, partly in English, how to pick up girls in Tokyo; before me, a man in late middle age regaled a group of 20-somethings with stories and jokes. On every table stood bottles, tall ones for beer and petite emerald ones for soju, the Korean spirit made from sweet potatoes.Suddenly, from one corner of the tent came a crash! Bodies and bottles tumbled to the ground, and for a moment all conversation halted. One fallen tippler pulled himself back onto his stool, and a grim-faced waitress rushed over to wipe the blood from his head and bandage the wound. Then it was back to normal. I sipped my beer and plunged my spoon into a bowl of kimchi jigae, a rich stew of pork, tofu and kimchi, the pickled cabbage that is Korea’s national dish. I had been in Seoul 30 minutes, with plans to eat my way through the city, and already, I felt, I was getting to the heart of things.

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외국기자가 우리나라에 와서 우리 식당문화같은 걸 보고 느낀게 좀 있었나봐요.

갈비집, 포장마차, 길거리음식도 되게 다양하구요. 술도 많이 마시고 .. 흠 ㅎㅎㅎ

그리고 우리 젊은이들 옷차림이나 느낌같은것도 ㅎㅎㅎㅎ

저번에 우리 발표회때 음식문화했었잖아요. 이런식으로 나갔어도 괜찮았을거 같단 생각이 드네요

물론 포차같은데는 우리는 어리니까 초이쌤이 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

원문이 좀 길어서 좀 잘랐답니다

원문보고싶은사람은 http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/travel/20CHOICE.html?scp=15&sq=korea&st=nyt 여기루 ~~

[쑥으로굿모닝]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 못난이 핫도그 뜯고 있는 분 표정 깜칙해.............해석은 내일 꼭하께!!

[쿵후팰까?]

난 술을 안먹어서 포차에는 근처도 안감 ㅋㅋ 그리고 무엇보다 너무 비싸 ㅠㅠ