Before I am judged and berated by angry foodies and lovers of Korean cuisine, please hear me out.
I have lived and studied in South Korea when I was in my late 20s and have gone back many times since for business travel. I have eaten authentic and traditional Korean food both in South Korea and in Sydney. I want to be clear that i don't hate Koreans or Korea but let's all be honest, Korean food in general is terrible. And you know what, that's ok because you can't win them all.
Why is Korean food bad?
- 99% of all Korean food consists of these ingredients soy sauce, garlic, onions, gochujang, and sesame oil. Gochujang is used in almost everything.
- On balance and subtlety, there is basically none. No skill involved with the seasoning/preparation. Everything is either saturated and over-seasoned or totally unseasoned.
- When seasoned, its basically let's throw water, ingredients and gochujang.
- Beef, pork and chicken dishes are either simply fried or seasoned with more gochujang or not seasoned at all.
- I once asked for no chilli in my chicken and rice dish. It came out with plain rice and plain flavourless, unseasoned chicken!
- Seafood dishes are basically made by grabbing any nearby fish, crab, octopus, throwing them into a pot, add gochujang and boil. 3 Michelin stars please.
- Take a slice of meat. Don't season it. Slice an onion. Slice a pumpkin. Put it on a flat top grill. Dip in gochujang. World's Best BBQ.
Am I crazy or is Korean food more over-hyped than bitcoin?
Please discuss this. I would like to hear everyone's thoughts.
To me, what you have just said points to Korean food lacking variety rather than "bad". I guess you have never had mum's boiled broccoli and Brussels sprouts? Now that's bad!