A bunch of us went out for Korean Barbeque for dinner tonight. It's delicious, you order the style of pork BBQ you want to be grilled in the centre of your table and it comes with a lot of free side dishes; lettuce salad, fruit salad, kimchi, radish, and more. I was really looking forward to the lettuce salad because I've discovered salad can be hard to come by in Korea and this one is really good.
So tonight the salad arrived and I placed a bunch in my bowl, then I took my first chopstick full and what did I see??? A long dark hair hanging out from the leaves!! ewww... I wasn't sure what to do at first because that's the first time something like that has happened to me here. Yuna, my Korean friend, told the owner about it and he had a server take the salad and our bowls away. After the owner and server left our table we all had a short conversation about whether or not that would be seen as being as unhygienic as it is in Canada, the US, etc.... We concluded, that yes, it probably is because no one likes to eat hair!!
Just after we finished talking I looked up to see the owner with the hair in his hand closely examining it. We all thought this was pretty funny... but it got worse! Moments later he walked over to our table with the hair. He went up to Yuna and told her in Korean that it wasn't a hair from anyone that worked in the restaurant. I don't understand a lot of Korean but I could tell that he was showing her the root and saying it wasn't Korean!! We couldn't believe it because it definitely didn't come from any of us that were near the salad, we all had shorter and lighter coloured hair!! Yuna was quite disgusted and just told him to go away!
We had a good laugh about this because it was such a different reaction than we would have gotten in a restaurant at home. There they would be so apologetic and probably give you a discount on the meal, and here they bring the hair back to your table to prove it didn't come from the restaurant (and no discount)!! Afterward I was thinking I should've had someone take a picture of it, but it's probably best we didn't, I'm not sure anyone else would want to see it! It's always an interesting experience when we go out!
1 comment:
Hello, Yes dining out is always a unique experience isn't it? But to be that rude and bring the hair back to your table really is bad manners and inexcusable. I hope you can find another Korean Bar-b-que withowt hair in the salads. Have a good weekend!
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