Korean Food, Bread and Coffee - 1.9
Korean food, bread and coffee
Back to the supermarket! Warning! Be careful of Korean bread, as things are not always as they seem. What looks like a normal Western loaf of bread, can when you bite into it, leave you with a mouthful of cream. The centre of the bread is often full of cream and it can be 
quite a surprise the first time. Not because there is anything wrong with cream, but just because you are not expecting it, and you are caught off guard. I do not know why there is cream inside the bread, but there is. It could be because Koreans usually eat rice at every meal, rather than bread, hence bread for Koreans is more like a dessert. Maybe it is a new thing in Korea just to keep the Westerners on their toes!
As an Englishman, the tea section in a supermarket can be very important. In Korea, the only black tea you can find is Twinnings, which you can only find in expensive supermarkets and is not as strong as one is accustomed to - Green tea and barley tea are more common in many Korean supermarkets. Tea is probably as important to many British as Kimchi is to Koreans. When travelling, I sometimes take some good tea bags (a good brand of Indian tea) and a travel kettle. In the English language there are even expressions which use tea in the expression, such is the importance of tea in British culture. A typical expression is:
“I wouldn’t visit the South Pole for all the tea in China”
‘(To do something) for all the tea in China’ is a common expression in British English to express when there is no way you would do something. Maybe there is a proverb or expression in Korean involving Kimchi.
