Re: Koreanisms -- Was: ( scraggly tree)

<anonymous@bogus_address.con> wrote in message news:u7l...@corp.supernews.com...
>
> On 2002-02-25 dwe...@kornet.com said:
>
>    >Ooh, ooh, one more story:
>    >
>    >I was at the airport in Inchon a while back, and after spending
>    >most the afternoon trying to find a friend of mine who was heading
>    >to Thailand (who I missed by 18 minutes... oh, I was perturbed), I
>    >went to a McDonald's.  I figured I had practised my language enough
>    >for the day (what with "which plane goes to Thailand?", "No, I
>    >don't have a ticket, I'm here to meet a friend", etc.), so I was
>    >ready for "Number one please".  I ordered my Big Mac meal (which is
>    >pronounced "set", not "meal" here, FYI) and looked around for a
>    >place to sit to get into a corner as quick as possible (I don't
>    >exactly blend in here).  Then the cashier caught me off guard -
>    >"dud-kes-oh-yo?" or "Will you eat it?"   I looked at her for a bit,
>    >then figured I'd heard her wrong, so I had her repeat it.  Nope,
>    >same thing.  Of course I'm going to eat it, it's -food- isn't it?
>    >I told her such, to which she appeared quite confused.  After a bit
>    >more struggling across the language barrier, I resorted to nodding
>    >and saying "yes".
>
> The cashier was asking if you were going to eat it THEN and THERE
> -- in the restaurant, on a tray -- as opposed to wanting it packaged
> for 'take-away.'

Yeah, I figured that one out eventually. :)

>    >I got the hamburger, and for the same price as
>    >was up on the board, so it worked out in the end.  It would be nice,
>    >though, to eat in a place where the little kids blatently stare at
>    >me, while their parents blatently avoid eye contact. *sigh*
>
> I assume you mean "...in a place where the little kids DON'T blatantly
> stare..."  :)

Yup, oops.

> Well, next time, you can reply "No" to the "dud-kes-oh-yo?" question.
> They'll put your food in a paper bag, and you can carry it home...or
> to some secluded spot in a park, where you can eat in peace.

But I was at the airport, and it would've been a while before I got home.  Cold french
fries == bad.  I didn't see any nice park areas either, maybe I'm just not seeing them.
There is a cool-looking old castle that I need to check out, maybe they've got a courtyard
type area that would make for a nice picnic. :)

>    >What was I talking about?  Oh yeah, Korean hamburgers.  Well,
>    >Koreanism seems to leak into everything they try to import from
>    >abroad, but that has been the case with every country I've been in.
>    >-Including- America.
>
> Sure.  Happens everywhere.
>
> Let's see...did the Korean McDonald's menu include Dog McNuggets?

Nope, that's a specialty, you have to go to a more traditional spot to get it.  I did see
a dog farm the other day though (fleetingly), they raise them just like cattle,
apparently.  Only less of them.

>   >I could ramble on about that for a while, too.  But as this letter
>   >is quickly getting bigger than the ones I send to my parents, I
>   >think I'll refrain... THIS time... ;)
>
> Heh!  Just paste your story from this message into a letter to
> your parents.  They'll love it! ;)

*smacks self on forehead again* Doh! Yeah, looks like they send the countries best and
brightest overseas, eh?  We can do less damage that way. :)

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>  The obligatory bowl of
>       steamed rice. -- with diddled
    hand and chopsticks... yeah, that
          was as close as I got.

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