@FBM,
FBM wrote: As a matter of fact, I was about to go get a microwaveable Cajun-style hamburger. They suck, but not quite as much as not having one.
Yeah, i know the feeling. They do love hot food. It was still pretty poor and primitive when i arrived there in the autumn of 1970. In the spring, out in the country, there was also the smell of the "honey buckets"--they would save all of their human dung and put it on the paddies in the springtime. When they harvested their chili peppers in the late summer, they'd put them on rice mates on the tile rooves to dry in the sun. Then the countryside would really smell of garlic as they made the kimchee, which they would usually put in a large ceramic pot, and bury in a sunny hillside. The Japanese long referred to the Koreans, contemptuously, as "the garlic eaters." Really nice people, though--where do you live, in terms of the nearest city?