Mr. Pizza

Korea (and many neighboring Asian countries) love pizza but have no reason to stay true to traditional recipes. Few fight to preserve the authenticity of pizza in Korea, so local chefs take the logical step of improving pizza to fit the local taste.

The result? Bizarre, complicated, full-loaded pizzas.  For example, this one seems to have a think crust, a layer of cheese (no sauce underneath), potato wedges, shrimp, olives, bacon, ranch, corn, and although we can’t see it I’m going to assume there’s mayonnaise in there. Corn and mayo are Korean pizza mainstays, for some reason.

Chicken and Beer

Chicken and beer is a thing. Koreans even have a nickname for it: chi-mek, from chicken and mekjoo (mekjoo means beer). Why this combination, I’m not sure — do the two particularly complement one another? Or is it another excuse for Koreans to drink with their meals? I don’t know where the idea came from, but this year the trend saw a giant boost in popularity from being the main character’s favorite food in hit drama You Who Came From the Stars.