Living in Seoul, Korea: Same but Different. Fast Food in Seoul

If you must have the American style fast food, it is everywhere in Korea. However, you will notice that things taste a bit different and the menus are not quite the same. Griffin was furious when he couldn't find a dollar menu at the Burger King! And there is no such thing as Super Size me or large or extra large or gallon size drinks. There's a reason why people are thin and svelte and healthy here. The portion sizes are much smaller, their food is mostly vegetables with protein and I have never been offered a dessert menu at a Korean restaurant, no such thing! They have lots of bakeries, but the cakes and treats are much lighter and not near as rich or decadent or buttery or chocolaty as at home! You do not see people drinking pop and the frozen sections in the markets are very small. People shop every day or other day, they do not stockpile pantries with processed food. Even the aisles in the grocery store with boxed and canned food are labeled Processed Food as if to say, BEWARE!!! Add to that an active lifestyle walking with lots of stairs, small living spaces that make you want to go outside and the cultural expectation of being thin and you get a height/weight proportionate society! There's plenty of crappy delivery food to be had in between the veggies and rice:

Nobody sits down and eats at the fast food pizza places. The scooters will have it to your door in minutes. And look, the delivery box has shelves! The All In One includes: pizza, chicken tenders, fries, pasta, assorted dips, pickles, a giant cookie, and plastic utensils. Oh, and there's a 2015 calendar on top, just in case you want to plot out which single day per week you need to order food.

You will find some interesting ingredients on your pie like sweet potatoes, squid, octopus, blood sausage, radish, bulgogi and not much cheese! For the pizza lover who also craves shrimp and cheese wrapped in dough, Pizza Hut has created the Whole Shrimp Cheese Bite. Because nothing gets the stomach juices flowing quite as well as a ring of shrimp with tails dangling in the air and heads swaddled in tubes of cheese-stuffed dough.

You don't know this pizza. It's made with cookies, blueberries and shrimp! Sweet and savory madness. The shrimp sits on the flat, cheesy expanse on the pie along with raisins, potatoes and pumpkin seeds, while the blueberry comes in the form of a dipping sauce. If you haven't figured it out yet, you treat the shrimp as your entree then tear off the cookie crust and dip it into the blueberry for your desert. It's available in outlets across South Korea if you want a slice of the action.

Many of the donuts are the same, but they also have green tea flavor, red bean and purple sweet potato. Below are glutinous rice donuts in chocolate, strawberry, sour green apple and banana.

All the pastries and cookies and sweets in korea are adorable! Everything here is about appearance.

Burger King has about half the items on the menu than you would see at home. A bulgogi burger is always popular. It's meat in a sweet marinade. Corn salad is also a favorite.

Yes, the guys really do look like this this!! The men here are very effeminate. It's normal to see guys wearing a starched shirt, khakis, a blazer, matching shoes and perfectly coiffed hair for a stroll in the neighborhood. They dress like they've popped out of print ads in magazines! They're also willing to wear matching outfits with their girlfriends and carry the purse!