Graham Holliday > Quotes

“More and more university students lack social skills after growing up in small families and suffering intense competition at school. If people prefer eating alone this may be a sign of psychological problems,” said Kim Hye-sook at Ajou University.”
― Graham Holliday, Eating Korea: Reports on a Culinary Renaissance

“Look out for the women walking around with two bamboo baskets attached to a pole and slung over a shoulder, " said Chris. "But steer clear of the meat and shellfish in the afternoon.”
― Graham Holliday, Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table

“Push-button motorbike horns, once aroused into action, were like a gaggle of intermittently disgruntled geese caught a in the middle of a very large swarm of fat and lumbering bees: a rumbling engine noise. The bees lurch, barge, and buzz. The geese grumble, natter, and quack. Every day the geese and the bees wake up in the same mood and in the same place.”
― Graham Holliday, Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table

“Korean pizza was, and still is if you look for it, the stuff of Italian nightmares. Bulgogi, wasabi, sweet tomato sauce, gochujang (고추장, Korea’s potent red pepper paste), cream cheese, raisins, nuts, cheap canned pineapple, strawberries, kimchi, and potatoes . . . All these are legitimate Korean pizza toppings.”
― Graham Holliday, Eating Korea: Reports on a Culinary Renaissance