KOREAN RESTURANT I go to this little Korean resturant in the University District once in awhile. I've been interested in all thing Korean for a couple of years now. When I was a kid one of my neighbors was half Korean. His father was in the Korean War and he married a Korean lady and brought her back to the States. Back in those days it was a stigma to be anything but white in that neighborhood. When I was in Vietnam me and a couple other guys came upon a Korean hospital near the South China Sea one time. A Korean doctor showed us around the place. Then in the early 70's I was working in a sawmill in a little town called Arlington way up north from here. There was a guy there who just got divorced from his Korean wife. He was just out the military and we used to talk alittle. He was really freaked out because his wife and her girlfriends would go down to the Puget Sound to collect seaweed and then she'd bring it home and process it. He just couldn't hack all this Korean activity. I was always open to new things and one day I asked him if he knew of a Korean food that would be good to eat. He told me to try kimchee. The next time I went to the grocery store I bought a jar of it. I tried it and I like it and I've been eating it ever since. I don't have it all the time, just once in awhile.
You go in and you give the guy behind the counter your order and then you pay for it, then you go over a get a little glass of barley tea and you sit down and wait til your order is done, and they bring it out.