Reply #154: The only decent Korean restaurants in America... [View All]

[OldSoldier]

are in towns outside military bases. The proprietors know they'll be cooking for other Koreans, so their stuff has to be real.

Something weird: a handful of old Korea vets went to one of the restaurants outside Fort Bragg a few weeks ago to eat Korean food and compare being stationed in Seoul to being stationed in the Second D. We all did as we did in Korea and ordered in Korean. The waitress (who was a second-generation Korean) didn't speak a word of Korean.

The best stuff to eat while drinking mahkollee, or Soju, is the fried food you get from the little street vendor stands. Three hundred won worth of shrimp, french fries and yakimandu would keep a couple of you drinking all night. The bags it came in were the best--they were made from paper out of on-base offices. Once I got a guy's court-martial. (He was a black marketeer, which is the most common court-martial in Korea.)