On Jan 18, 12:15*pm, (Victor Sack) wrote:

> Korean restaurants here are frequented mostly by Koreans, with just a
> sprinkling of the Japanese and Europeans, so it is not as though they
> have to adapt to foreign customs and customers.

My wife is from Montana by way of Ireland but she was raised by a
Korean step-mother. We went to a Korean restaurant on the mainland and
they gave her a watered down version of the hot sauce. They were a bit
confused when she told them to give her the real stuff. I like it when
people get there assumptions shocked. OTOH, my brother in laws are
visiting from the mainland and I was shocked to see them put bread
spread on their rice and then shoyu. That image still haunts me... :-)

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> Victor