I live in the Korean part of town. My school is Korean, my students are Korean, there’s a No-Rae-Bang next to my work (Woo Hoo!) and every other business in the building is fundamentally Korean. This is fine, I like Korea and Korean culture in general. After all, I did spend over three years there. But there was one thing I didn’t like in Korea, one small but very major flaw in their social fabric. I am talking, of course, about corn on pizza.
Not so much the corn itself, repulsive as it may be, but the whole laissez-faire approach to Western food that Koreans have. Korean recipes are revered like some sacred text, whereas Western recipes are regarded as some kind of rough guide that is neither here nor there. Time-honored recipes such as pizza, tacos and sponge cake become completely different entities, looking right but tasting oh so wrong. They butcher brownies, cannibalize cream puffs and do horrible, horrible things to hamburgers. Even the simple sandwich gets a culinary smackdown at the hands of buttery bread and incomprehensible ingredients.
When I left Korea, I thought it might be over, that Koreans in China would try other foods and see the error of their ways. Oh how wrong I was. It seems China has worsened this situation. Korean cooks in China have completely lost their minds. Without their usual social order to preserve what little inhibitions they had, they have decided that, when it comes to food, nothing is off the counter.
Now I warn you, the following picture is quite shocking. Please, look away if you have a sensitive stomach. For those who are brave, continue and observe the horror that is the Fruit Pizza:
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fruit piza! yummy~ kkk
koreans are just very creative.
YUK YUK
fruit pizza~! tastes quite funny~ huh
actually, that stuff is even not common for Koreans
I don’t like it either.