On my corner there’s a little store.
The stock is old, the selection poor.
It says “You musts be wear shirt/shoe!” on the door.
Little Korean grocery!
Nothing past experation is ever withdrawn.
The weirdest selection I’ve ever sawn
Who buys cookies flavoured with prawn!?
Funky Korean grocery!
Lottery tickets and 40 oz. beers
Spices and vegetables whick look pretty queer
Friendly non-English speaking cashiers
Mack-Daddy Korean Grocery!
Take it …!
Saffron, ginger and the smell of decay
Ramen imported straight from Tei-Pei
But I’m just too lazy to walk to Safeway
Convenient Korean grocery
There’s a food store on our street,
Run by Korean folk.
And they keep good things to eat
But to me it is a joke!
When you ask them anything
They never answer “No.”
They just “Yes” you to death,
And as they take your dough,
They tell you:
YES! We have Gochugaru,
We have Gochugaru today.
We’ve Jinmi Ssamjang and Miso,
And Bulkogi Yangnyum.
And all kinds of soy and rice!
We have an old fashioned Kanarit
And fresh new Åimizuame
And YES! We have Gochugaru,
We have Gochugaru today.
Business got so good with them,
They wrote home to say:
“Send me Fan and Wan and Kim,
I need help right away.”
When they got them in the store,
There was fun, you bet!
Someone asked for “Sparrow grass,”
And the whole quartet
All answered:
YES! We have Gochugaru,
We have Gochugaru today.
We’ve Jinmi Ssamjang and Miso,
And Bulkogi Yangnyum
And all kinds of soy and rice!
We have an old fashioned Kanarit
And fresh new Åimizuame
And YES! We have Gochugaru,
We have Gochugaru today!
Eve are you related to Sel Siverstein?
Excellent
Zebra’s clueless, it appears -
That song’s been 'round for ninety years.
Eve just boxed it on the ears.
Song of Korean grocery!
Kimchee’s all I know 'bout food;
Them Koreans prob’ly think me rude!
But I got internationalist attitude.
Shop the Korean grocery!
That cashier’s cute, just by the way -
so if I’m ever there one day,
“Komapsumnida!” I’ll say.
Flirt at the Korean grocery!
Dig it.
Hokay, how about something romantic, from “East Side Story?”
Korea!
I’ve just found a shop from Korea,
And suddenly that food
Is tempting, cheap and good
To me.
Korea!
I’ve just tasted sauce from Korea,
And suddenly white rice
Tastes better with red spice
Oh, gee!
Korea:
I just can’t eat enough of their nifties;
Though my uncle fought there in the Fifties . . .
Korea—
I’ll never stop eating . . . Koreeeeaaaan!
Jumped in the door to escape the rain
Damned if I haven’t done it again!
He don’t want me in if I ain’t payin’
“One Snickers, please”, Korean grocer.
Membership Free
Short videos or long
Cho ban do a dong
Pornographic Korean Grocery
Hot rice and gogi
all topped with some kimchee,
been sprouts and bean curd,
mung bean and some lychee
Strawberry pocky
and various meats,
These are a few of my Korean treats!
Rice candy paper and
good mango jelly,
You’ll know it’s Chinese
if it’s rotten and smelly,
Stick to Korean
and not chicken feets
** These are a few of my Korean treats!**
When it’s jampong
that you’re craving
and nothing else will do,
you simply walk down to the Korean store
and they’ll be happppeeeee to help you!
San tokee
Tokee ah
O dider gon un ya
Gon chun gon chun deem yun sa
O dider gon un ya!
[sub]with extreme apologies on the horrible phoenticization to anyone who actually speaks Korean [/sub]
Oh would that I were so creative.
My half Korean self is in heaven right now. I sat at my desk and read these and choked on coffee.
Amazing.
forgive the tangent, but:
points
Hey look, one of my clones!
So, how are good old 50 and 600 doing?
Ok, so I amused myself.
I liked it, Gravity (the first Gravity)
I’d love more Korean grocery poetry. It makes me smile like you would not believe. More! More!
Zette
When I come home late you are open
I can get a Snapple at 4am
or seltzer for my dad. So here’s hopin’
Others will praise you as I am!
Open all night Korean Grocery!!
Korean Grocer
You speak Korean, English,
AND Spanish. Whatta guy!
I admire your stock
What are kumquats for again?
Who cares! I’ll buy them!
When I wants some Seollungtang
I walk down the street to Chang’s.
And for a 30 pack of Miller beer,
It’s only nineteen-fitty there!
Check out the owner: God damn!
That dude be lookin’ like Lo Pan,
From Big Trouble in Little China,
Wanna make your jorim mine-ah.
Buddha be on the shrine with the incense,
People eatin’ kimchee don’t make no sense!
Lookin’ for doinjang I spot two hotties,
Yo, Lo Pan’s daughters got bodies!
Hey Lo, thanks for the kangjeong.
Health inspector gonna be here before long.
That’s aight, you gots what I need,
I’m goin’ back to the Ko-rean Grocery.
I’ve dated boys who made me eat that way
So now I like lumpia with soy sauce-ay
I’m such a rice queen - what can I say?
Ex-boyfriend Korean Grocery
To heck with the daughters - check out that son!
If I ask him out, would he be the one?
I’ll teach him the way us 'mericans have fun!
Sexy Korean Grocery
Unfortunately English he learned on the fly.
If I asked him out would he reply,
“For only five dolla’, me love you long time!”?
Let-down Korean Grocery
For anyonne out there who, like me, is ignorant of Korean Cuisine but familiar with children’s boardgame commercials jingles of the late 1960s:
(To the tune of “Mystery Date” jingle)
Mys-ter-y food
are you ready for your mystery food?
Open the door for your – myst-ry food!
On second thought, the original lyrics go better with Esprix’s post.
Canned bamboo for sale.
“Fresh in spring sparkle water.”
Expired in '90.
Oh come on. Someone had to do it.
Get a nice Korean recipe here.
Sung to the tune of… Along Came John
Along came Kim,
Along came Kim,
Skipped out on the draft…
came here on a raft…
now he runs an all night grocery store.
Along came Kim,
Short yellow Kim,
his country makes cheap cars…
his movies don’t got stars…
and he eats things we wouldn’t feed to our hogs.