Korean-Japanese restaurants

[noname]

Something a friend of mine brought up but didn't quite understand. I didn't quite have an answer, so I turn to you...

Are there many restaurants in your area that serve both Korean and Japanese food? Are they usually like Korean restaurants that happen to also serve Japanese?
Is there any particular reason for that? Cultural reasons, business reasons, or something else?
For the same reasons we see Chinese-Japanese restaurants?
Are there many people who are both Japanese and Korean, and is that a factor?

[amietron]

I think it's got a lot to do with Japan's influences on Korea (and vice versa) from the wartimes. Either having lived in Japan or relatives who lived in Japan, being raised eating Jap food, etc. Lots of Korean snacks and dishes are similar to Jap ones.

[mrazntre]

it's the same with Chinese-Thai, or Vietnamese-Chinese food places.

Usually the restaraunt will be started by a person who is culturally one thing (ie japanese), yet ethnically something else (ie korean).

[Saiko]

There's a Chinese & Japanese restaurant that opened up a few months ago at a nearby plaza. I go there occasionally, but just to buy hot and sour soup. I'm too cheap to buy anything else.

[wylin]

because even tho japanese seem anti korean and koreans seem anti japanese those resterants prove that they both love each other deep down or sumones copying sumone else.

tho it seems to me alota korean stuff and culture is derivative of japanese stuff and food wise vice versa.

similar products and activities

mitsubishi - hyundai - cars and technology

kendo - kumdo - stick fighting

Sony - Samsung - electronics

Japanese death camps/ experements - Nor Korea political camps

Anime - korean animation

Manga - korean comics

Jpop - Kpop

Samurai - Hwarang

Rampant sexuality - Rampant Drunkeness!

who knows JP and KP ussually get interjected and this is what i observing being the middle kingdom cast off taiwanese person.



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[SunWuKong]

hmm... but i'd have to disagree with the comparison between samurais and hwarangs.

[thaite]

Originally posted by mrazntre@Sep 17 2002, 07:01 PM
it's the same with Chinese-Thai...
Really? I've never seen any Chinese-Thai restaurants. I don't even see the similarity of the two cuisines.

[DaBestSpooner]

I think its not because of cultural similarity, its all about making a buck. Also the fact that most asians, asian americans, feel everyone thinks they all look the same, and cant differentiate between chinese, japanese, and korean.

What about those japanese owned italian, chinese owned mexican, indian, cajun places popping up all over.

[thaite]

Hmm, maybe I can put together a Ramen noodles and kimchi cart on the corner and sell oriental food.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Originally posted by wylin@Sep 19 2002, 09:07 PM
mitsubishi - hyundai - cars and technology

....

Sony - Samsung - electronics
weirdly enough, samsung was started up with the intention of edging in on mitsubishi's market, not sony's. everything right down to the brand names (samsung = 3 Stars, mitsubishi = 3 Diamonds). but now they're fighting to be associated with high quality electronics at a better price than japanese brands. (WSJ article (http://www.collegeofbusiness.fau.edu/pollack/man4720articlesamsung.htm) which also talks about their global marketing director - a Korean-American from Cali ... hehe).

[wylin]

thats ok the only korean things in my car are that dam nokia cell phone 8890 which i hear is samsung OEM's it, thus explaining it constant breaking, and what ever random korean person is in passenger seat if at all.

kendo sounds better then Kum-Do dammit!

[kasia]

it's funny--in the east bay, a lot of restaurants serve japanese and korean but the owners are chinese.

[mrazntre]

BW: like i said previously, it is not the similarities of the cuisine that matter. it is the fact that ethnically chinese people who have become culturally thai have opened restaurants. you know the ones that moved from china X amount of years ago down the ancestry line to become entrepochinkas and have lived there all their life, yet at home they still maintain chinese culture although they live in Thailand. It's the same with us. We live in the U.S. (i think you do) but we speak another language at home and eat ethnic foods at home. Think of it as you moving to mexico and you open a restaurant of Thai/American food. Do the foods mix well? Who knows. but that's what you know. You know both Thai food, and you know American food. so you mix them to attract a more general crowd.

you really haven't seen chinese thai places? do you live in southern california? i can show you a whole bunch of them.

[kasia]

what's the dish with sashimi, rice, and korean hot sauce? something bap.

[SunWuKong]

what i really want to try is Baba Nonya dishes. i haven't tried them before. they're like... OG fusion food.



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[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by kasia@Sep 21 2002, 09:41 PM
what's the dish with sashimi, rice, and korean hot sauce? &nbsp;something bap.
bi bim bop? i think?



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[kasia]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Sep 22 2002, 02:43 AM
Originally posted by kasia@Sep 21 2002, 09:41 PM
what's the dish with sashimi, rice, and korean hot sauce? something bap.
bi bim bop? i think?
no--with the sashimi, it's different. it's specifically a korean-japanese dish. ha to bap or something.