Here's Why I'm not Skinny

I have recently figured out how to order delivery. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It is good because I have the opportunity to try different foods. I always wish I knew people who lived near me who wanted to get different stuff, but I don't. So delivery is a good way to do that. And I can use it to practice my Korean, which is getting better and better these days- more on that in a second.

But it is bad because I order too often, and I usually get chicken, or less often, pizza. I rarely get Chinese, in part because Korean Chinese food is an awful, awful thing, and partially because I feel bad for the delivery guys. They have to ride with one hand on the gas (motorbike), and the other holding a huge metal box filled with plates of food. It is incredibly dangerous. Like any Korean blog, it is my duty to inform you that Chinese food comes delivered on real plates. They return later to pick them up from outside your door. And all for no tip! Korean food is available via delivery as well, but most of the dishes are for many people, so too expensive, and too big. I can eat a lot, but not that much!

Oh yeah, this is how I order food in Korean:

안녕 하세요. 지금 배달 해요?
(hello, do you deliver now? they say "sure")

네, 여기 가요... 연희2동, 723-12 연희빌, 302호, 현관 비밀번호 8145#.
(ok, come here...yonhui two dong, yonhui ville (my building), apartment 302, my door password is 8145#)

숫불순살바베큐 치킨 하고 생 맥주 1000cc 주세요.
(ok, give me the boneless barbecue sauce drenched chicken and 1000cc of beer (that they take from the draft and seal it in a plastic bottle) please)

And then they say they will come quick, and they do.


Below is 찜닭 (chim dak), actual Korean food.Its spicy chicken in soy sauce with peppers, sweet potato noodles, carrots, potatoes, and some other stuff. It is good. Its hard to tell how big it is, but look at the full sized plate behind it for some perspective.



Below is some Vons barbecue chicken, which is the chicken I used in the ordering script above.
It is good, though too much makes me feel very bad. The guys on the front of the bag are some no-name comedians, though other places like 네네 chicken have the real stars on their boxes. For the record, the box on top of this post, from 굽네 chicken has some stars on their ads, 소녀 시대 (Girls' Generation) , pictured below.





Oh yeah, here's the Vons chicken



Coming later- more pictures of stuff I eat, and who knows what else.