The day of Korean food

Franchy Santana

Eng 112

9/7/17

                                     The day of Korean food 

 

 One day I went to downtown with my friend to  deliver pamphlet about the bible. 
 My friend gave a role of paper to a young Korean woman and they stated talking about the bible
and religions almost for two hours. Then, after a while they exchange telephone numbers.
The next month my friend surprised me with  the news that he had eaten Korean food. I told
him that i always wanted to try Korean food because its something new to me I have never 
eaten before and it seen delicious. One day, Friday morning at 9 am, my friend calls me and 
tells me if I was free that day  because he was going to eat with the Korean woman again 
and I was invited. I excitedly said yes. We gathered in the evening at 8 pm. We went to a
Korean restaurant called Bann. It was a restaurant traditional where people were comfortable 
and with a big smile on their faces. When the waiter arrived at the table where we were it
called my attention the way they put they meals in order. When I sat at the table I opened
the food menu and I was impressed of how much different kinds of  they had there. 
I was a bit nervous because it was my first time in a Korean restaurant, I did not know
what to choose, my friend  told me to try this food called Kimchi. According to mister Lee
Kimchi "Its every comfort food for us; its what you make to your kids when they come
from school,"Lee said. I saw how  fried rice becomes a companion for life, a taste that
does not change." I was in shock to taste the fried rice with egg and i never thought
it was good because in my culture Latina we  eat rice almost every day but not fried rice.
I told my friend that if i go to another Korean restaurant I will try the Kimchi again 
because it has a taste that I never knew about it. It is amazing how a plate of food can
bring people of different languages and cultures together because the day that I went 
to the Bann restaurant there were many people from another country who were excited 
about eating Korean food and I could see that the people who ate there were comfortable 
and happy to try a new taste form Asia that they will never forget.



                                                           Work Cited:
Lam, Francis. "Kimchi fried rice, Korean comfort food." The New York Times, The
New york  Times, 5 May 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/Kimchi-fried-rice
-Korean-comfort-food.html?mcubz=0. Accessed 7 sept, 2017.