Hi gang. I really enjoy Korean food and watching Koreans cook.
Unfortunately it’s hard not to notice that most of the food is semi-finished products and highly processed food.
I know that Korea imports vast majority of the food they eat but it’s really weird seeing simple cheap restaurants AND high end more expensive restaurants all using products all packaged in plastic, meat in plastic not from local farm/butcher, fruits and veggies in hermetically packed foil, often frozen stuff and everywhere the weird obsession with instant noodles
I watch cooking from lots of countries and continents but Korean restaurant cooking is… unpleasant to watch.
They just open milion plastic bags and mix it together, the end product is awesome but i rarely see them do their own thing from beginning to the end.
nice sauce to meat? not combining 10-15 ingredients just add 2-3 sauces from a bottle. noodles? bought, never made in restaurant. rice cakes? always bought, never made in restaurant. kimchi? rarely some do their own
I got unlucky after seeing like 50+ videos from 50 different restaurants or it just is the case that there is not much fresh food (by fresh i mean not all packaged, frozen, in bottles and jars etc.)
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