Korean Kosher....

I can't imagine them with pickled ginger (thinks...) but I haven't tried pickled radish, might like that. Is that daikon or regular old red radishe?

You get pickled radishes in Korean grocery stores, and all the ones I've seen are yellow. I slice them with a gemusse-hebel which I picked up in Germany last time I was there.

I sometimes use pickled ginger with my smoked salmon and creamed cheese on a bagel. It seems a natural to me. Just a touch though (I don't like too much lox either).

I admit to being somewhat off of ginger, which up until recently I've really enjoyed. Meantime I've three kinds of ginger (root, pickled, candy) in my fridge. What set me off were the dishes in a local vietnamese restaurant: ginger overdose to the brain. And just last week I picked up some packaged (I know, I know) Palak Paneer at Trader Joe's. Gingerama, too much. Like the Gits (Indian) brand much better, and the Saag Paneer at a local indian restaurant way much better.

There's only one asian market here that I'm aware of and it's a fair drive away. But they do have a good veggie section and very detailed aisles of different asian regions. Will keep my eye out for yellow radishes..

One thing I noticed about Korea was that the food being served in restaurants was mainly Chinese or imitation Chinese and that what I'd figure to be the good national cuisine was out in the streets with the vendors.

You'd see an old guy pushing a cart along the sidewalk and the kids would all come running up and a westerner who figured that to be the ice-cream man would be wrong; that was the octopus man....

Mmmm, octopus tapas..


I've eaten korean food in LA (a place on S. Vermont, forget the name) but not all that much. Oh, wait, I remembered the name, that's strange, it was a couple of decades ago. Woo lae oak. Or something like that.

Anyway, never any street vendor food. And I tend to like street vendor food, just never ran across it then.

We have a restaurant here in sandtown that features japanese and chinese food. I've gone there a couple of times with friends. First time I hated it, and my cohorts were quite happy their meals. I picked a japanese shrimp thing and the shrimp was all... fakey. Cheap stuff. And something else that tasted good for a few seconds and had an icky aftertaste.

We went there again, me thinking miso soup.. I could deal with that. This time I ordered from the chinese list, something I tend to like, green beans with fermented black bean sauce. Yes, it was fine (from a jar, me thinks).

Don't know what the story is there, mixed heritage partners? cooks? marketing idea?

Reminds me of Los Bagels in Humboldt County. The owner couple has, or had, a jewish mexican mix. Not the worst bagels I've had since the era of overblown puffies. Actually on the plus side. Not quite like the bagels just out at the place on Temple St. (LA) around 11 pm..

But wait. My beginning landscape design teacher, a fellow well versed in design history and urban life, took the class for a walk in downtown LA, where we could pro and con to our beginning designers' hearts' content. I might like a tape of that walk now, could be funny. Anyway, he brought us to the lunch place... The Kosher Burrito stand (forget what I ordered.)

The Beijing government has restricted the serving of dog in Beijing restaurants during the olympic games - whether kosher or not.

Link on the Kosher Burrito stand, interesting history (now an office building).
http://www.route66university.com/study/inthenews/21.php





You probably know me and dogs, CI.
I was looking up corgi rescue dogs to torture myself this morning, and had a weep about a six year old that will likely be put down in Santa Clara.

But in a situation with starvation and an non pet culture re dogs, I can understand it. My ex's bro's wife was a tribal woman from africa, and she didn't get the pet thing.

I don't know if pets are a luxury key, or a natural instinct..
another thread.

That's actually a great question.
I'm reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " right now, and it's like worlds are colliding in my head.

The Kosher \ oriental idea is cool, I'm pretty sure it's something common in Israel

Welcome to a2k, sabixatzil..

Dogs aren't kosher by definition. Only land animals (mammals) with cloven hooves and who chew their cud are kosher. Hence cows and sheep are fine, pigs, horses, dogs, etc. are not.