| Culture shock. |
[May. 12th, 2004|04:45 am] |
The real culture shock occurs not when you spend half of the evening wandering around the town in search of food with a readable name. No. This is almost expected. The real shock happens when on TV the babes from "Sex in the city" start talking in Korean.
In culinary news, Koreans eat thin slices of cooked pork laced with fat. In Russian this kind of food is generally called "salo". Acutally, I just remembered that my parents used to call it "koreika", which would be consistent with the idea that this particular kind of pork dish came to Russia from Korea. Though, in Russia, and, especially, in Ukraine they eat it raw. I guess, this is some kind of asymmetric response to Japanese sushi :)
Also, among other unimaginable things, Koreans eat something like cabbage tortillas. Except, instead of regular, e.g. Mexican, flour tortillas they use pickled cabbage leaves, stuffing them with all kinds of shredded, deep fried, chopped meat, seafood, rice, and etc. Reminds me of russian "golubcy" a bit.
What else. The first impression of Seoul is, in one word, "crazy". The streets in the center smell of exotic Asian food and car exhaust. On a small square with an Italian-sounding name Mogiori or Mogiliani...
tbc. |
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| Comments: |
It's exciting, I envy you.
Keep reporting please!
I'll try, just need more time :) | |
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