Passing through downtown, I saw a restaurant that’s going to be opening soon. The name of the restaurant literally means “mom” in Korean (not pictured above). So obviously, this is going to be a Korean restaurant.
“Korean / Japanese Restaurant”
Okay, this shit pisses me off. Everyone knows that this restaurant is going to be 95% (probably poorly made) Korean food, but have a guy on site to cut raw fish and pass it off as sushi. Why pretty much every Korean restaurant in the United States needs to add the slash-Japanese to their description is purely beyond me, and it agitates the fuck out of me.
Korean food is fucking awesome. Korean barbecue is better than Japanese hibachi any day of the week and fifty times on Sunday. Korean soups and stews are hearty and satisfying, while the Japanese renditions of such are watery and minimalist. Japanese food is hipster feed. Korean food is soul food. Good food.
Fuck Japanese food. Why Korean restaurants denigrate themselves by feeling the necessity to add Japanese to their description is completely beyond me, but if I can help it, I won’t ever eat at any Korean / Japanese restaurants. I’m proud of my Korean heritage, and I wish the people that ran these fucking restaurants would be proud of theirs too, to where they’d be proud to serve Korean food to people of other races with confidence and pride, and without the veiled deception that adding loosely Japanese items would draw them in instead.
I blame weeaboos, and anyone who watched Lost in Translation and thinks everything is better if it’s Japanese for creating this stigma that Japanese shit is so great. It pains me to see Korean restaurateurs feel the need to add / Japanese to their names thinking it would enhance their business. If I ever opened a Korean restaurant, I would proudly declare it as such. I would give it a Romanized name based off of an appropriate Korean word, but underneath it would say “FUCKING KOREAN FOOD RESTAURANT.” And if any weeaboos or any similar noobs enter my establishment and try to order a fucking bento box or yakisoba, I’ll kick them the fuck out, and dispute the shit out of their one-star Yelps.
Korean food is the best food in all of Asia. The sooner people realize this, the better off the world will be.