World Cuisine
A particularly good lunch today at a Korean restaurant today made me reflect again on the many advantages provided to our town by our immigrant community. A good lunch is not only good food, of course– something in a mild day, relaxed company, getting lost on the way there and not caring, drinking an entire tall glass of sweet tea, being two minutes late back at the office and not hurrying; all these things are part of a good lunch. Savory barbecue bulgogi was a nice complement, and Korean-style land-sushi was always good.
I would like to offer a tribute to all those Korean slash Japanese slash Vietnamese restaurants in our town, who can give you cuisine from their own or any other Asian nationality in about 10 minutes flat, even if you order tempura and squid in a Thai place. If they are only open three hours a day four days a week, or if they never close up but I never see anyone eat there– then far be it from me to accuse them of anything underhanded. Chicken teriyaki is delicious.
And God bless the Korean wives, because without them we would all have to learn how to sew. And who else would think to offer a free neck massage with each haircut? And this may be a half-way podunk town, but I’ll be darned if we don’t have some good sushi places. I still get all my sushi straight from the supermarket. But I like having the option.