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I recently ate at a Chinese restaurant. My Korean roommate took me there with his family and told me that it was run by Korean people. I learned that Chinese fo

I recently ate at a Chinese restaurant. My Korean roommate took me there with his family and told me that it was run by Korean people. I learned that Chinese food in Korea is fine dining, not the cheap shlock they dish out here. Enough Korean people have come to Atlanta that there is a restaurant there aimed specifically at giving Koreans a taste of home, that taste involved a completely different cuisine from both American Chinese food and Chinese Chinese food.

mc32 10y ago
Something to be tucked in the back of one's mind is that in France most French eat normal French food --not fine dining French food, some people do take their time to cook somewhat complicated dinners. In China people eat regular Chinese food, not fine dining Chinese food --based mostly on: fried noodles, rice or soup stock. Each will have some kind of meat and wilted veggies --not many people cook at home. It's greasy, it's tasty (in the way salty greasy things are tasty) --but it's not by any means great food. For fine dining they will go to a banquet dinner, or some foreign fare --even tacos are exotic, if you can find them.
devonkim 10y ago
I never got the impression that Chinese food is upscale as a Korean. 짜장면 may as well be pizza and hot dogs for Koreans, for example. However, the Chinese cuisine meal I had for well over $300 / head in Choson hotel years ago was certainly nice. 12 year old me still asked for 짜장면 and they brought it over from across the street probably. It wasn't Golden Buddha I hope? That place is what celebrity chef David Chang probably would charmingly refer to as "bad" Chinese food that is addictive, and it's decided not nice by any stretch of the imagination. As an out of town Atlanta Korean I'm still clueless about what most Koreans know here ITP and what's around Duluth.
- vinceguidry 10y ago
  Had to go look it up, it was Fung Mei off of Pleasant Hill. Yes, they absolutely loved the Jajangmyeon. (짜장면 for those curious) I couldn't eat it. Now that I'm thinking about it, they didn't really describe Chinese food as upscale. But more as like a treat. We're super spoiled here in America with all these different kinds of cuisines. ITP the best Chinese restaurant IMO is Chong Qing Hot Pot in Chamblee. We had good meals at Northern China Eatery on Buford Highway, but Chong Qing is way better. I'll edit this with the best Korean restaurant when I can get back with my roomie on where it moved to. -- edit, sorry he doesn't know himself. But the original restaurant we used to go to is called Yet Tuh. The owner got fed up with the small space and moved the staff out to the sticks.

mc32 10y ago

Something to be tucked in the back of one's mind is that in France most French eat normal French food --not fine dining French food, some people do take their time to cook somewhat complicated dinners. In China people eat regular Chinese food, not fine dining Chinese food --based mostly on: fried noodles, rice or soup stock. Each will have some kind of meat and wilted veggies --not many people cook at home. It's greasy, it's tasty (in the way salty greasy things are tasty) --but it's not by any means great food. For fine dining they will go to a banquet dinner, or some foreign fare --even tacos are exotic, if you can find them.

devonkim 10y ago

I never got the impression that Chinese food is upscale as a Korean. 짜장면 may as well be pizza and hot dogs for Koreans, for example. However, the Chinese cuisine meal I had for well over $300 / head in Choson hotel years ago was certainly nice. 12 year old me still asked for 짜장면 and they brought it over from across the street probably. It wasn't Golden Buddha I hope? That place is what celebrity chef David Chang probably would charmingly refer to as "bad" Chinese food that is addictive, and it's decided not nice by any stretch of the imagination. As an out of town Atlanta Korean I'm still clueless about what most Koreans know here ITP and what's around Duluth.

vinceguidry 10y ago
Had to go look it up, it was Fung Mei off of Pleasant Hill. Yes, they absolutely loved the Jajangmyeon. (짜장면 for those curious) I couldn't eat it. Now that I'm thinking about it, they didn't really describe Chinese food as upscale. But more as like a treat. We're super spoiled here in America with all these different kinds of cuisines. ITP the best Chinese restaurant IMO is Chong Qing Hot Pot in Chamblee. We had good meals at Northern China Eatery on Buford Highway, but Chong Qing is way better. I'll edit this with the best Korean restaurant when I can get back with my roomie on where it moved to. -- edit, sorry he doesn't know himself. But the original restaurant we used to go to is called Yet Tuh. The owner got fed up with the small space and moved the staff out to the sticks.