Years ago I was talking with a friend about travel and the places we've been. Inevitably we got to the point where we were discussing the places we've been that we didn't care for. I said that there's nowhere I've been that I wasn't able to enjoy at least some of it. Then tried to give an example by mentioning Korea. Love their culture. Love their music. Really love their television. But I found being a vegetarian there is so difficult there that I didn't feel I could ever fall in love with the country. Indeed there were times I would fly there on one day. Work the second day. Then fly back the third day.
Unless I went to an "American" restaurant or chain, I'd always end up eating kimchi or some kind of vegetarian bibimbap with a red bean paste dumpling for dessert. And, as good as it is, I get tired of it for every meal. Koreans love love love meat...
I did remember having a 16 course vegetarian meal that was nice... but it was essentially the same food in different forms.
But anyway... I ended up Googling "Vegetarian in Korea" to see if I was missing something other than pickled vegetables and garlic. It was then I ran across a YouTube channel called "Korean Englishman" and this video...
The channel was excellent and I checked in from time to time. They do a lot of cool things there, like exposing famous people to Korean food.
At some point the same guys (JOsh and OLLIE) created a new channel called Jolly. I never really looked into it.
But recently rediscovered it. Because of this video...
And now I'm addicted to Jolly. What a fantastic channel. The boys visit the US from time to time, and those videos are gold...
Nothing like seeing your country from the viewpoint of foreigners! And yet they're always so positive, which is nice.
So if you're looking for a Youtube rabbit hole to fall down, here you go.
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