Through the Eyes of the Waygook - Pizza

Like any change in a person's life, you are bound to experience exciting, exotic, erotic, or even egregious events, evenings, and excursions. And so we begin the notes of the Waygook (foreigner):

Pizza:
This has been a major disappointment for me. Not just one thing, several. I have found out by sampling pizzas all over my neighborhood that Korean Pizza is, for lack of a better word, awful. There is always one good aspect I can always rely on, the cheese. That warm gooey creamy feeling I only get here from pizza since cheese on its own is an arm and a leg. Each pizzeria has some sort of unique unappealing novelty to it. The most recent pizza had a crust the colour of blue corn chips, and tasted similar. There's never dipping sauce, some times they'll give you a packet of two of hot sauce, but they always give you bread and butter pickles. The first time I opened one of these containers excited to dip my crusts, to discover pickles? I wanted to scream. However, one blasphemy I will never for get is the stuffed crust pizza. Koreans have this odd notion to put potato (sweet and regular, pureed or wedged) onto pizza. This seemed manageable for me because I love Boston Pizza's Spicy Perogy pizza, however, its not the same in Korea. Back to the stuffed crust, I order it walk around for a bit, come back and pick it up, and head home smelling the cheesy goodness. It was a long day at work and I just wanted some nice greasy food to sink me into a food coma and deep sleep. I open the box and pull off one of the little rolls of crust. I prepare for it like a kiss, eyes closed, lips puckered, mouth slightly open... only to heave it back into a napkin. I have shunned the taste from my memory but having paid 4,000 won for this sweet potato stuffed crust  I wasn't going to waste this. Special shout out to hot sauce for that one. I didn't even open the pickles that night. I sulked until I was too tired to sulk. I have discovered that pizza from places that claim to be Italian are the closest to Western pizza. There are Domino's and Pizza Huts but its overpriced and it looks like the Korean style pizzas with their sweet potato and corn bits (yeah, they put corn on pizza). My advice is to stick with Korean food when you're in Korea, it just makes sense.