What. It's perfectly normal to stand in line for several hours at the Korean taco truck.

univac — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:02:50 -0800

We've gotten all stupid over the Kogi taco truck. I was not going to post this, for fear that more publicity would lead to longer lines. Then I waited in line for two-and-a-half hours, which I assume approaches the theoretical limit for taco truck lines. So I guess it doesn't matter anymore. (I can personally only vouch for the tofu tacos, which are downright delicious.) Not everyone loves it, but a lot of people do. Sometimes they have to impose strict rations, but most of the time you can walk away on your tired, shaking legs with an armload of food. But really, folks, it's such a long wait. Don't even think about it. Please.

On Kimchi

jason's_planet — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:03:00 -0800

These days, spice is integral to ideas of kimchi in both the West and Korea—it’s always a funny game trying to convince various restaurant ladies here that I can, in fact, eat kimchi without spewing two ribbons of fire from my nostrils, thereby singing the wallpaper and confirming their suspicions that we white folks are just a bunch of food pussies. “Maeun-kot” (“spicy shit!”), they say, making flamey-flamey motions with their hands; “Yes,” I say, “Maeun umshik-ul chal mogoyo” (“I can eat spicy food, no lie, please stop looking at me like I’m a recalcitrant goat who’s about to try to eat a roll of barbed wire”).

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What. It's perfectly normal to stand in line for several hours at the Korean taco truck.

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