3.10.2010

Korea-Pizza Hut- never never never again!

So even though I insisted that I maintain a traditional Korean diet while I'm here, my aunt took me to Pizza Hut today. I don't miss "miguk" food... I actually love Korean food and prefer it 99.9% of the time.
Pizza Hut in Korea... well, at least in Mokpo... is blasphemous! There are only four different types of pizza on the menu... none of which seem even remotely appetizing. The salad bar came with our order. I intended to get full off of the salad bar because I was afraid of eating the pizza. The salad bar consisted of... iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes, corn, tofu, jello, yogurt, strawberries, grapefruit, mandarin oranges, sunflower seeds, egg salad, potato salad, and a few strange looking pasta salads. The choices of dressings were thousand island, mayonnaise, apple dressing, and salsa. It was a challenge attempting to make a decent salad from the odd arrangement of choices. The challenge was kind of a failure. Instead of eating...I actually spent more time wondering what the salsa in the salad bar was supposed to be paired with.
Then the pizza came...
I couldn't get out the "nO thanks! I'm not hungry!" before my aunt shoved a pizza slice in front of me. She insisted "moego! moego! Tell me if taste likeu miguk peecha!"
So, I very reluctantly sacrificed my taste buds...
shrimp... okay, had to remove the tail, but not too strange. Then... it got weird. Bacon wrapped rice cake, pineapples, broccoli, black olives, and mozzarella cheese. And of coarse they couldn't use normal pizza sauce! Why would they do that?! Instead of a standard marinara sauce... or even alfredo or pesto... they used mashed Korean sweet potato as a sauce base! And on top of all the strangeness was an even stranger sauce garnished all over the top of the pizza.
I couldn't even muscle this one for politeness.
I am staying far, far away from Korean "miguk" restaurants from here on out. It's not worth the risk!!


1 comment:

  1. haha oh angela! I love all the details in your entries. salsa? taco salad! too bad they didn't throw a few other options in the salad bar, that could've been good! that is a strange pizza. My mom and brother like seafood pizza but I'm pretty sure it was nothing like that!

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