New Series: Idiotic Things Poseurs say about Korean Food
Lots of tsk tsk’s in the office this morning. It’s really frustrating when non-foodies like us read self-proclaimed food enthusiasts go on and on pretentiously about Korean food… We don’t take eating so seriously as though it were a competitive sport the way gluttons do, yet when reviewing the articles forwarded to us, it’s jarring to see such basic factual mistakes and errors so blatant that it disrupts the smooth flow of our work and gets everyone foaming at the mouth.
“…ddukbokki, Seoul’s famous street-food noodles…” almost caused us to not read the rest of the paragraph, which contains issues that have long been the topic of dismayed conversation in Koreatown.
We could devote a whole website to exposing the most prominent and shameless culprit, i.e., the literally biggest poseur, but our EIC publisher aka the Boss Lady is keeping her staff in check.
The you-know-who’s are wringing their hands trying their best to rationalize it, but sorry, the definition of noodles in my book has always been something you can twirl around and catch with the tines of a fork without piercing. We know how this may turn out… The other publication was notorious for scrubbing things clean after complaints arose (which led to our policy of taking screenshots asap). Let’s see how The Times deals with it.
All those screenshots are just there in one folder. One of these days, I’m going to go through them and just lay everything out there. The state of things is really pathetic and unbearable. Cretins are just so swayed by shiny medals etc that they can’t judge things independently or form any original opinion. But what else is new in LA, right?
