Korean Customs: It’s impossible to order just one

We are just beginning to try all the different kinds of street food, so we often point and hold up a single finger to ask for one. It seems to be impossible to order just one of anything. When I point to a circle of mandu and hold up a single finger, the vendor nods [...]

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Soup or Sauce?: Chinese food inspires a foreigner nothing fight

Photo by Anna Waigand The two bowls arrived together with two large spoons. Large enough that I would call them soup spoons, but this is where Anna would begin to disagree. We were at a Chinese restaurant on the top floor of an all electronics mall near the famous Yongson Electronics Market. We’d spent the [...]

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