- Early 2000s: homemade bubbly kimchi soup
- 2005/'06/'07: cup ramyun (a.k.a. instant ramyun, "SHIN" brand)
- Early 2010s: everyone goes to the ONLY coffee shop/restaurant in town and does all their meetings there
- 2017-2019: Subway

Well I guess I already wrote about this when we did the February fan wall posts.

Oh boy! I have so much material that I may not be able to submit a cohesive write up!

I tried kimchi for the first time last month.

I always try and jazz up my raman noodles.

I am searching for where to buy soju stateside or get it delivered.

I already love bacon and steak so my meat game is already on point.

So, I feel like this theme of the month is calling for the official Melona historian to tell the tale of @sicarius and how the kingdom came to be. Didnt it start with the mistreatment of melona in Strongest Deliveryman?

Craving ramen!
Wanting to try soju! (though I'm a not-even-one-drop alcohol person)
Every show that featured some sort of food, I'd want to try that ie
Salongtang (definitely spelt wrong but its the oxtail soup thing from shiny inheritance)
ummm...
Magoli (from Cinderella's sister)
and....
deep fried Chicken!! (from many showsie Empress Dignity, Psychometric guy, etc)

Throwback to my "soju fantasy" writeup for a similar Theme of the Month! Maybe I should write about the darker side of Korea's alcohol addiction this month...

I wonder if I can write something cohesive in 500 words about how dramas taught me not to eat while watching it. 🤔🤔

immediately going to the korean restaurant, fortunately (or unfortunately?!) located down the road from my house and ordering whatever the characters were eating - tteokbokki (lets eat 2) kimchi jiggae(most dramas i think) pajeon (also lets eat), bibimbab (i hear your voice), all sorts of grilled meat (my gf is a gumiho). plenty more actually but thats what i remember off the top of my head.

one thing for sure: Steaks in K-drama are always looks dry and unappetizing

When it comes to food in kdramas...I remember kimchi slap, kimbap slap, bread, ramen and lots of subway...😆

Will you people ever accept me as your Melona Overlord? Will you ever recognise its impact? Don't lie; you've totally bought a Melona because of dramabeans and dramas haven't you? HAVEN'T YOU?

How have dramas shaped, changed, or influenced your relationship to food?

I'm a Queen now, that's how.

My dictatorship queendom aside, I don't think I would have ever eaten Korean food in the first place if it weren't for Kdramas, so I guess since it's now my second or third favourite cuisine, you could say they impacted it a lot.
Shin ramyun is literally the only two minute ramen I will eat.

Although this is only kind of related- I feel like we've had a lot of kdramas focus on coffee. I need a drama that focuses on bingsu and Korea's teahouses because I would happily live in a Korean teahouse and never leave. Have there been any kdramas that focus on teahouses and bingsu Beanies? Have I just not seen them?

Dramas and food:

Junho.

Is this going to be a recurring yearly theme? http://www.dramabeans.com/2018/05/theme-of-the-month-dramas-and-food/

This is actually a great topic. Thank you Stroopwafel.

In a sense this is part of a larger topic: How have K-dramas shaped or influenced our lives? Because they certainly have.

Umm this theme has already been done before though...

ooh i didnt try last year. I might try this year. *cracks knuckles*

R A M E N

The only thing that comes to mind is deliberately going to subway to get a sandwich to watch during the CT finale. Which I did not eat because of tears.

I remember in episode one of MAD DOG there was a spectacular building collapse (which led to a wonderful discussion in the recap).
Anyway on the ground floor of the building was a dakgalbi restaurant. I googled “dakgalbi” to find out what it was and it sounded very tasty. I still have not experienced having dakgalbi. Hopefully someday I will.

I was going to write something but then I made kimchi instead.

Kdramas ALMOST tricked me into eating at subways but then I remembered the food taste like plastic.

But on a serious note I like to cook and I've been making alot of Korean dishes now because of Kdramas (Tteokbokki, kimchi stew, spicy braised chicken, Jjajangmyeon & a bunch of other meals.) I'm really health conscious & one thing I like about Korean food is how alot of it is really healthy without even trying.

And I definitely been eating more chicken with beer. I learned that a light beer works well, don't want anything with too strong of a taste.

Having another food theme reminds me that my Dad always insists I cook him dakjuk when I go home - even in the middle of summer. And it was his breakfast of choice for his birthday recently as well.

Very aptly chosen theme. Yesterday I finally managed to try out ramen with kimchi.

Korean food in the news:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bbc-kimchi-video-so-odd_n_5ccb10fae4b0913d078e2f04

I wanted to test korean food because of dramas. So I asked my sister to be my guinea pig and come with me. And it was so good. So we took my parents and my other sister, then every member of the family loves korean food :D

But in my region, there is no more a good korean restaurant. But I'm lucky where I work there are plenty, so my parents are jealous because I can eat korean food once by week!

Post submitted! Keeping my fingers crossed, otherwise it will be on my fanwall in early June.

I knew almost nothing about Korean cuisine until I started watching kdramas, but they prompted me to start visiting the nearby Koreatown (Garden Grove, CA) and I discovered the world of Korean supermarket food courts. Omurice is now one of my favorite things, and I also like abalone porridge and spicy seafood ramyun.