kimchi breath...

in one of my previous posts, i mentioned being able to eat kimchi, korean bbq, and whatever other "fragrant" kinda korean food there is, and not worry about your breath stanking while you're out drinking. it's pretty crazy. i guess everyone's breath just kinda stanks here so no one cares.

ex:
i hung out with a friend last weekend and we were talking about a bunch of stuff... she's korean korean. been to the US once, and stayed in jersey for a month or so. so there's a lot of stuff she's not familiar with. kimchi/korean bbq breath is one. she asked if back home i eat a lot of korean food. do i? aside from the binge drinking and late night meal at arang, i really don't. and it's not like we eat korean bbq before going out right? makes perfect sense to everyone back home yea? she was perplexed. like, i told her no one really eats korean food before going out because of the horrific smells that permeate from your mouth into a 3ft radius around you, and she was just in shock. cuz people don't care here. you can go eat some kimchi stew and be like... yo. no toothbrush, but no one cares anyway. let's kaaaack it! back home, if you eat korean food, there's a high likelihood that you're going straight home afterwards and even the 3 showers you take once you get home will probably have no effect on the garlic smell that will seep out of your skin for the next 2 days. utter shock i tell you.

ex2:
one of the lessons i taught this past week was about superheroes... they had this cartoon drawn of this kid with a cape on, and his super power was burping. so i asked what's the worst smell you could burp would be... silence. ok. so i gave them an example... i said... oh kimchi burps are pretty bad... in fact, they're the worst because they're smelly! *dead silence* OK, So moving on....

i guess stankin here is not like stankin back home. i think the definitions are worlds apart... like if you wore too much cologne here you'd be stankin... almost like eating kimchi and korean bbq before going out back home... neither are advisable... but i would probably prefer the more cologne. i guess over time i'm sure i'll adjust my opinions of stank...


anyway, here's a couple pix for your viewing enjoyment....

got my vans but they look like.... huge.




this made my day...