The Lunar New Year holidays, which is the second biggest holiday in Korea (after Korean "Thanksgiving"), started today. For the past week, the swag has been rolling in from the various suppliers and other vendors who do or want to do business with my wife's company. This is a big deal, and the gifts are rather extravagant: $225 boxes of special dried persimmons (~ 30); ditto for boxes of the tastiest Asian pears and apples imaginable (~10); cases of high-end wine; crates of various dried and fresh fish (my favorite is kalchi, which I think is known as Hairtail in English); and my favorite: kilos of literally melt-in-your mouth domestic tenderloin, sirloin and short ribs (galbi), the prices of which make even the price of imported USDA PRIME, let alone US prices, look like chump change. Even our very rich neighbor who likes to give noisy garden parties and figures he has to do something to ensure to soothe the savage foreign barbarian next door (me), who has been known to complain as rudely as possible if it's in the wee hours of the morning, send over $2,000 worth of the highest grade stuff. I just finished a lunch of grilled short ribs and will be in meat heaven as long as my new stash holds out. Sure beats sitting in a blind in upstate NY for my annual buck like I used to do (although I do miss being in the outdoors like that).
Last edited by Sperwer; 02-08-2013 at 12:58 AM.
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Call me Chris Matthews is you must, but this thread gave me a thrill up my leg.
wild idea buffalo looks legit, might order a little and savor some goodness
I wonder what buffalo brats taste like?
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the best snack food ever!!!! 1st person to PM me I will send you a bag
1. Trust yourself 2. Break some rules 3. Don't be afraid to fail 4. Ignore the naysayers 5. Work like hell 6. Give something back.