Some Strange Snacks

I know that I comment on the food here several times but I am not finished with what I find fascinating.

When I first came to Korea and stayed in the hotel, there was corn tea in the hotel fridge.  I was told it was very good.  I tried it, but I think it is an acquired taste and is one I choose not to acquire any time soon.  Well, I also found there are corn popsicles.  The melon popsicles seem more normal but corn?  One of the other teachers told me he tried a sweet potato ice cream substance.  I asked him if it was good.  He said, "It tasted just like sweet potatoes.  I guess if you really like sweet potatoes you would really enjoy this."

Corn and melon popsicles

Another strange thing is the tendency to combine garlic with sweet.  I really cannot get used to this tendency.  And, OK, I know it is fashionable to combine several types of flavors, but why must there be sweet with everything savory?  Why can't we separate the two just sometimes?  

The fast food burger joint is interesting here too.  They have beef (well it pretends to be beef I am not sure what it really is but it isn't like US beef), chicken and shrimp burgers.  The shrimp burgers are ground shrimp like ground beef is.  They serve french fries, crab cakes, cheese sticks and squid rings on the side!  They even have burgers with hash-browns on the burgers. Even when going into a burger joint, you can't get the same food here as in the US.    

The pizzas here have much sweeter sauce than is usual in the US.  There is a good pizza here that is a gorgonzola cheese pizza, but they like to add mayonnaise to the top of it.  They also serve sweet potato pizza along with others.

When I go to somewhere to eat I just cannot have any expectation as to how it should taste.  OH for a bowl of macaroni and cheese!