Question for non-Asian folks who’ve visited Korea
I keep hearing that no matter how much people love Korea, sweet bread is the one thing they just can’t get used to. But is that still true if you think of it as dessert?
Korea is a rice country, so for us bread basically counts as dessert. Sandwich bread, croissants, and baguettes are accepted, but crusty stuff like campagne or sourdough still isn’t really mainstream. Sure, there are way more legit boulangeries now than before, and it’s much easier to find that kind of bread everywhere. Still.
Since we think of bread as dessert, we usually grab it at a café after a meal, or buy it as a gift to have with coffee or tea. So pretty much every bread has some kind of sweet cream in it. Even salt bread, which got super popular here, is a dessert to us, not a meal.
Even the garlic baguette you guys absolutely hate is just dessert to us lol. Think garlic teriyaki sauce. That garlicky, buttery flavor with a bit of sweetness is honestly such a good combo.
Anyway… even from a dessert POV, is Korean bread unacceptably sweet?
I’ve been watching influencers living in Korea suffer through Korean baguettes and it’s hilarious. The whole “why would you eat a baguette with whipped cream” thing kills me, especially when they ask “would you be fine if I put cream on kimchi?” lol. Maybe it’s because they’re looking at it as a meal??
Honestly, we keep those categories completely separate, so it doesn’t bother us at all. Eat sweet potato with kimchi and the kimchi becomes dessert too. And tbh we already put kimchi in a lot of breads and rice cakes… lmao
Genuinely curious what you all think. Even with the perspective switch, is it still a hard no?
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