http://www.kfckorea.co.kr/menu/burger_01.asp?mc=3&ps=6
I went to a KFC here today, because I needed some grilled chicken.
While I was successful in it, I also stumbled across that.
It's a fried chicken patty with a hashbrown on top, all stacked into a sandwich. The meal comes with fries (what no fake mashed potatoes?).
Artery clogging? Yes.
Tastey? I have no idea.
Too much potato for one person? You decide.
Does anyone have a soft sugar cookie recipe? I've tried a few, but I've yet to find that perfectly soft one I'm looking for.
@wookie-- your korean wedding sounds like what mine will be like. ive joked around about it with my mom, even though there's not one in sight, and she's always said they're going to make all the food themselves, hehe
there's definitely going to be 2 separate receptions.
the most fun wedding I've been to was in upstate-upstate New York, in the Adirondacks. The ceremony was on on the 2nd level of a boat dock, it was really small and intimate, but the reception was huge. They grilled, we danced, we drank, we swam (pre-drinking and there were sober people watching), and it was just so relaxed. The bride, groom and wedding party did dress up for the ceremony, but got more casual for the reception. They're both way too into nature and chill to have the typical reception in a rented hall, so I feel like it suited them both perfectly.
They're both vegetarian, and I don't know who or where they got the food from, I think they brought in a friend from Ithaca, but it was by far some of the best vegetarian food I've ever eaten. They also brought in steaks and chicken for the meat eaters.
I was a vegetarian for over 4 years, and then I decided to move to the ROK. It's possible to be a vegetarian, but it's difficult. And I had issues in the states making sure that I was getting an adequate supply of iron and protein, and I knew it would only be more difficult here. So I've started incorporating fish and chicken. Still no beef or pork though. I'm working on it :)
Love it!!
Mix it with my white rice so I get some protein
Make a "vegetabley" tuna salad and stuff it into tomatoes for a cool summer lunch. If I have time/patience, I stuff them into cherry tomatoes because then they're a great snack.
Sandwiches- for melts-- i do a little amount of mayo and a sharp cheddar on sourdough- mmmm. - If I want a plain tuna salad sandwich, i like to add halved purple grapes and walnuts. Sounds weird, but I love it!
If you decide to send baked goods, like cookies, stick a couple of slice of regular sandwich bread in the bag/container. I just got a box of homemade cookies that took over a week to get here and they were still soft! The bread on the other hand...straight to the trash
@catpurrson: My dad adds butter to his PBJ also! He insists it's great...Personally I don't think I've ever eaten it that way, unless he did it making one of my sandwiches growing up.
It baffles my mind
Kraft is also selling those here in South Korea. I'm not so sure if the cookies are the reformulated recipe or the original, but those wafer sticks taste like paper with a hint of chocolate. There are also white chocolate covered ones.
But then again, my taste buds are probably a lot less sensitive to sugar.
@wookie- I'm pretty sure that by now I have the smells of kimchi and garlic radiating out of my pores. My fellow American co-workers spend tons of money buying Western food but I say forget that, if I wanted to eat hamburgers and drink Budweiser, I would've stayed home and paid a lot less. I'm sure I've eaten both our shares of dukbukki and dolsot bibimbap by now. The little lady that owns the restaurant I always go to has started giving me a mandu appetizer for free I guess.
I saw that pizza in a cone thing! I'm going to go back and grab one sometime, but I think that there should be a SE post (or series of them!) on all the street/fast food here. From the dukbukki, to the fishcake on a stick, the chicken/pork/beef on a stick, watermelon/pineapple/honeydew/cantelope, corn on a stick, the roasted chesnuts, the sweet potatoes (I love seeing the wood oven carts!), the rotisserie chicken trucks, the dumpling bars, I could keep going...
Oh and I think there was something about bulgogi burgers. I wonder if they come with cheese....
it depends on my mood. for certain salads, i prefer mayo, others miracle whip. I think it depends on the salt content of the food. Like, if I'm eating a ham sandwich, I'd go for miracle whip. I need a little contrast
@alacto-- I grew up in Williamsburg! If you're still there, I'm quite jealous of your accessibility to Aroma's. I was a slave at the Cheese Shop for a few years, and while I can't stand the house dressing any more, oh the cheese and wine selection....mmmmm
Although this memorable story isn't all about food, I feel like I just HAVE to share:
Last summer I attended the wedding of my little sister's high school friend, who had just graduated college and was marrying the "man of her dreams."
*To start things out, the rehearsal dinner was held at the local BOWLING ALLEY and hot dogs were the day's special.
*The groom spent the ENTIRE time during the ceremony "stretching it out." He was literally up there cracking his neck, shaking out his arms and looking like he was preparing for a 100 yd dash.
*We got to the reception, and it was pretty normal, aside from the absence of anything edible and nothing to drink if you're not a keg-stand fan.
*The bride went to cut her cake and, alas, her husband was nowhere to be found. That is, until an announcement over the PA system called attention to the fact he was out behind a decorative bush "relieving" himself.
*Finally, it was time for this wedding from hell to end----the bride and groom left the reception, were about to jump in the Extended 4x4 Truck limo when all of a sudden the groom ran back inside. He reappeared moments later ROLLING THE KEG behind him and stuffed it in his wife's lap before he jumped in the limo.
I still shake my head and can't believe it happened.
i have never been married, and all these stories make me laugh and also scare me to pieces... at a large party like a wedding it's so difficult to please everyone, although I am sure that attention to detail and good taste should always rule.
When I do get married, it'll be a lacto-vegetarian wedding. And I want the appetizers, food and cake to be so spectacularly delicious that those who are not vegetarian will have to TALK about how good the food is.
Those are the plans... hope they get realized soon!!!!
oh boy. just starting to plan a wedding for next summer. we are going to check out our first venue next week. we have heard amazing things about the place and the food, but i am dreading it being a disaster. i know how judgmental people can be about weddings... all the personal expectations... all the gossip. yikes!
My beautiful niece had a gorgeous chuch wedding with lots of family participation. Well-to-do families and couple. My SIL is cheap, cheap, cheap and she obviously planned the reception at a room in a Mexican restaurant. I won't even try to describe the tacky table decorations she and her sister made, but if you saw them, you honestly wouldn't believe it. Another one of those times when I wished my mother were alive so we could gasp and choke and gossip afterward. The food choices were fish or chicken and they pretty much tasted the same. Every person at every table took one bite of the rice and meat/fish.. The canned fruit salad was all that was edible. I wonder what the families and the restaurant staff thought when every full dish went back to the kitchen. It honestly was that terrible. I had out of town family staying with me, and cooked when we got home, even though it was very late - we were starving! That was last summer and to this day, nobody has said anything for fear of hard feelings, but Mom and I would have dished and got it out! I needed to laugh. At least the bride and groom were too happy in love to even notice that nobody ate the food.
I had a similar experience to yours, AuntJone ... The reception was held a an upscale venue - the former private home of Liberace! It was an evening reception so we expected to have a meal. Instead there were a scant few trays passed around finally. When people started to line up for what we thought would be a buffet, there was none! We found carrots and celery ... well, that was pretty much it! I vaguely remember thare may have been champagne, but I don't remember having any. I did get a soda at the "bar". The bride and groom did not mingle with the guests - and there were about 200. The last insult has been that after several years, I have still not received a thank you note for the very expensive gift I gave to them!
at my wedding we had argentinien asado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asadostyle meat. We had 7 kinds of meat and each came on sticks and they cut the meat in front of each person. We also had about 7 different salads, eggplant with tehini salad, , cherry tomato salad with pine nuts, a beet salad and tons of sides. It was in Israel on the beach
Oh, and here's my most memorable wedding food story. Unfortunately it isn't a good one. So much went wrong I'll just give the condensed version in bullet points:
- guests on two different levels of the venue. Neither the couple nor their parents made any attempt to go upstairs to visit any guests. AND WE WERE FAMILY. The bride is my husband's 2nd cousin.
- tables set for 9 people. Dinner rolls, at least at our table, for 6 people. And served cold, in a plastic bag. A plastic bag. I'm still shaking my head over that one.
- we arrived at the reception around 5:30. We were still in line waiting to get food at 7:30. There were no appetizers, see above comment about dinner rolls.
- plates were placed on the tables instead of at the buffet line, so while we waited in line we also got to hold our plates
- drinks were inaccessible and damn near non-existent once you found them. except for the keg, of course. that was right inside the front door.
- by the time we finally got to the buffet line most of the food was gone. There was plenty of gravy, however. An older Amish gentleman refilled the gravy while we were in line. I nearly said "Why the f**k are you putting out more gravy, there's nothing to put it on!" but I refrained. I work in foodservice part time. We don't run out of food where I work. It just doesn't happen.
- people were cutting into the sheet cakes before the bride and groom had even cut the main cake. I don't think there was nearly enough cake.
- we left and went out to eat. No apologies from anyone in the wedding party or the family. My husband saw the bride's mother the following week and she said "Did you know that some people didn't get to eat? We ran out of food." and my darling husband said "Yes, I was one of them!"
I wanted to take over the "kitchen" and kick some ass but my husband wouldn't let me.
We had a very small wedding with just immediate family and our attendants. The wedding was in a small chapel at a resort nearby. After the 90 second ceremony (oh I'm so not kidding) and pictures were done, we gathered in the private dining room of the hotel restaurant and had a fabulous buffet of roast beef, salmon, green beans, potatoes and a killer turtle cheese cake. It was wonderful to get to chat with everyone right after the excitement of the wedding instead of being rushed to a reception and bombarded with people.
The wedding was Friday night, so on Saturday we had an open-house style reception at the local community center. No DJ, no ceremonial crap aside from us cutting the cake, which I made. Our families kicked in to make the other desserts- gooey butter cakes, frosted chocolate chunk brownies, red velvet cupcakes, a veggie tray, mixed fruit and a killer n/a punch. Everyone visited, we made the rounds to as many people as we could and they were all free to come and go whenever. We also rented the gym so the kids could run amok without bothering the adults who were trying to talk in the main room.
The only thing I would have done different is to have had everything at the camp where I work part time. By the time I started working there we'd already put down deposits and made tons of plans and I didn't feel like making changes. Now I wish I'd bit the bullet and just done it!
I loved my wedding!! mmmm..... Food? Absolutely deliciuous. Wait Staff? egg heads. The cooks were friends of mine who cater. They made the best Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Garlic Green Beans, "Olive Garden Salad" and rolls. Dessert was my dream come true. A beautiful tiered cake made from white and chocolate cake and "wedding frosting". Except the top tier which was made with spelt for me bc I am wheat intolerant. It turned out exactly like I had dreamed for .... a lot of years. The bad part?? There is not a single picture of the whole thign without cake or flowers cut off. grrr. Food was served family style and everyone thought it was elegant, beautiful and fun. To me, that is the perfect mix.
I made my dress and I loved it!! The whole place was decorated with these HUGE gorgeous mums in rusty red and burnt orange and candles.
If I were doing it again I would hire more experienced wait staff and a different photographer. And my bouquet would be all Carmela roses instead of half astremaria. It does not dry nicely and my bouquet molded. I used it to mark my dog's grave after she talked back to a semi the next week. :(
When my husband and I got married, we were pretty poor and our parents weren't really contributing - so we served a buffet brunch at our reception (the ceremony was in the morning, reception right after). It wasn't fancy, but I think everybody enjoyed it and it was more affordable than dinner or a sit-down meal.
I haven't been to many weddings, though I am attending one in St. Croix, USVI in a couple of weeks - the bride is a native Cruzan and is serving foods unique to the islands - VERY excited about it and can't wait to find the local eats on the island!
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Last bite on earth: a perfect oatmeal raisin cookie or a good chunk of brie on a fresh, warm, crispy baguette with a little cherry preserves. Mmmmmm.