I really didn't expect that before the halfway point of 2024, Korean netizens once again ushered in a national collective defense, shouting "Don't insult Korean food".
Recently, such a news quietly appeared on Weibo hot search: In Hangzhou, there is a Korean restaurant that is popular, and if you want to go there to eat, you have to queue up, and the average person has to wait for 6 hours in line, and the longest has to wait for 10 hours, and even scalpers have come out to do business, saying that a number charges 200 yuan.
Some people even spoke highly of it: this is simply a Korean food that you will never get tired of. Perhaps, this kind of publicity is also the reason why so many people go to line up.
But no matter how these people are sought after, most netizens said they didn't understand: No, you have to have scalpers to eat Korean food?
Some netizens ridiculed: Ah, it turned out to be in Hangzhou, where the food desert is located, it's okay, Hangzhou is indeed less delicious.
Of course, there are many people who are famous, but the results are not satisfactory at all: basically they are disappointed, indicating that the gimmick is very good and the name is very big, but the taste is really not worthy of his publicity.
But even so, there are still many young people who come to the party, and the queue at the door has already formed a long line, waiting for hours just to eat the rumored Korean food.
But when you go inside, it's nothing more than that: the rice is sprinkled with a little black sesame seeds, it is exquisite, accompanied by a bowl of chicken soup, and even the pizza is the "foreign aid" they invited, which has a very shabby but delicate feeling.
Moreover, you know, Chinese Korean food has been improved and is more suitable for the taste of Chinese. So has authentic Korean food been so "praised on the altar", and what is the impression in the eyes of netizens from other countries?
Recently, an internationally renowned food organization abroad published a ranking of cuisines from all over the world on the Internet. Some netizens carefully found that in the list of cuisines of all countries, Japan ranks second, and China ranks fifth.
Mainland netizens respect cultural differences, but they never expected that when they went to Korean netizens, they directly broke the defense collectively.
In this list, Korean food is not even in the top 10, not to mention the top five, and directly ranks 18th, behind Thailand and before Croatia.
At this moment, South Korean netizens directly broke the defense collectively and protested: Who made this list? Why are China and Thailand ranked ahead of South Korea?
Then there was a very conclusive comment: the people who made this list must have never eaten Korean food.
Some Korean netizens are very proud to criticize: Who made the list? Korean food is obviously the best in the world.
Even more Korean netizens who broke the defense began to make personal attacks: Why is American food ranked higher than Korean food?
Actually, let's not talk about this institution, this list is quite authoritative. Although Chinese cuisine is broad and profound, it is rarely liked by foreigners, and it is understandable that it ranks fifth.
First of all, because those people in Europe and the United States are very "lazy" in cooking, and basically eat fast food, such as hamburgers, steaks, etc., and they would rather save the time to eat to do something else.
Therefore, Chinese hot pot and Sichuan cuisine are too troublesome for them, and the tableware is not suitable, and they basically don't know how to use chopsticks, so Japanese food is very much to their liking.
Moreover, in foreign countries, if you cook Chinese food, there is a lot of oil smoke, and it will be judged that it is "on fire", and the police will go directly to the police when the siren sounds.
They don't like smoky food, so many foods in the mainland will not want to try for them, Japan basically does not use fire, sashimi, sushi, etc. are cold food, and they have an appetite for foreign netizens.
Even under such conditions, mainland netizens did not jump to break the defense and respect cultural differences, but they did not expect that a country with a history of less than 100 years, a country with a food desert other than the proud kimchi, directly scolded on the Internet.
Moreover, it is reported that 99% of the sources of Korean kimchi come from the mainland, and the Chinese cabbage, the raw material for making spicy cabbage, is mostly exported from Shandong Province in the mainland.
Even in 2017, South Korea's kimchi trade directly became a "kimchi shame" because kimchi was imported five times more than exported.
In addition to kimchi, South Korea's army pot is also nicknamed "swill pot" by netizens, because the source is the leftover ingredients eaten by the US military in the past, and the local residents boil and boil it, and it becomes a delicacy.
South Korea has a short time since its founding and a long history, and such a country with a food desert ranks 18th, except for Korean netizens who feel aggrieved, netizens from other countries feel that they have been lifted.
Not to mention some time in advance, the "South Korean State Banquet" hosted by the President of South Korea to US President Biden, as soon as the photo came out, it also made countless netizens across the country feel shabby. In addition to rice and vegetables, each small pickle is also small, and it can be offered as a treasure.
Even Japanese netizens couldn't help but complain: It looks like a very poor food, and the president is also despised, (these meals) I ate when I went to a barbecue restaurant a few days ago, is there only this level of food culture?
I have to say that this session of foreign netizens has already given Korean netizens a lot of face, ranking them in the top 20, which is already very friendly.
It's just that they all give face like this, Korean netizens still broke the defense, jumped up and down and scolded angrily in the comment area, and the appearance of the clown jumping off the beam was fully displayed, which made foreign netizens very helpless.
It is still the quality of the people who determines the pattern, and after this wave of operations, the impression of Korean netizens in the hearts of foreign netizens has been reduced.
In contrast, China is more popular, not only rich in food, but also high in national quality, respecting cultural differences, which is a country to be proud of.
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