How would you like that done? Ummmmm....fried?

I know I'm not a chef or anything (okay I kinda think I'm a chef...but that's just in my own little world), but somebody needs to tell these Koreans that there is more to cooking than just deep frying everything.

I know a few restaurants back in Canada have attemped a few different things deep fried, the deep fried mars bar, deep fried cheesecake, deep fried cheese...and we all know how bad it is but every once in a while we order it anyhow.

Here if it isn't deep fried you are probably eating it raw. The other night at the bar there was deep fried bacon, (you might wanna check your cholestrol just after reading that last line), and then today there was the tempura platter, which at home consist of sweet potato, shrimp, and other veggies or seafood. Here is a list of what was in the various pieces on this platter:

1. Tuna sandwich rolled in seaweed, tossed in tempura batter and deep fried
2. Octopus (okay that was acceptable)
3. Glass noodles, wrapped in seaweed tossed in tempura batter and deep fried
4. A piece of plain bread, tossed in tempura batter, deep fried and sprinkled with sugar
5. Pepper stuffed with tofu, tempura fried (okay that's borderline acceptable)

I guess maybe this would be a little easier to take in if I was living in a country that has high rates of obesity but Asians are tiny people! This is also a good time to point out that they aren't all super skinny most are pretty average, the only difference here is you don't see the extremely obese, but for the things that they eat on a regular basis they should be having hard attacks and shopping at the Big and Tall stores!