Today was Chuseok and we didn't locate any great Korean food though we were compelled to get some as I noted before. We've been making a lot of Korean food since getting home anyway so it was ok the restaurants were closed. We did get the makings for kimchi at least, as well as some impassioned and somewhat bemused advice for making it.
The recently opened Korean supermarket near us was actually open, to my surprise. Everyone working there seemed resigned to having their Chuseok ruined by work.
(This being America, where everybody has to work... unless they run the nation's largest banks, where apparently they play computer solitaire all day or make origami cranes or some other task while the banks run amok and hurry towards oblivion and failure)
One woman working in the food counter in the back of the store said resignedly, "oh, it is the same as it is every day--work." She didn't cheer up when we bought some gimbop from her.
This was gimbop in the regular style, with the yellow pickled radish in it. We've been making it without that since we got back. I don't think I have noted here that we found the same brand pickled radish we ate virtually everyday in Korea at this grocery store. The only difference is that it has some English on the package now since it is sold here. It says quite clearly in large red letters angling across the package: "Contains saccahrine, May cause cancer." Oops. Sometimes it is better not to know what the labels say.
We also found some green tea ice cream, which I have never seen in a store even if some restaurants serve it. Certain people in this household were quite pleased by that discovery.
We just needed a little Hite to celebrate, but that may have been asking too much for this year.
The recently opened Korean supermarket near us was actually open, to my surprise. Everyone working there seemed resigned to having their Chuseok ruined by work.
(This being America, where everybody has to work... unless they run the nation's largest banks, where apparently they play computer solitaire all day or make origami cranes or some other task while the banks run amok and hurry towards oblivion and failure)
One woman working in the food counter in the back of the store said resignedly, "oh, it is the same as it is every day--work." She didn't cheer up when we bought some gimbop from her.
This was gimbop in the regular style, with the yellow pickled radish in it. We've been making it without that since we got back. I don't think I have noted here that we found the same brand pickled radish we ate virtually everyday in Korea at this grocery store. The only difference is that it has some English on the package now since it is sold here. It says quite clearly in large red letters angling across the package: "Contains saccahrine, May cause cancer." Oops. Sometimes it is better not to know what the labels say.
We also found some green tea ice cream, which I have never seen in a store even if some restaurants serve it. Certain people in this household were quite pleased by that discovery.
We just needed a little Hite to celebrate, but that may have been asking too much for this year.
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