-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 03-05-16  06:49 <=-

 DD>> I wish I had a Korean restaurant here.
 NB>> Maybe someday...  Or if you come out this way, you can try ours... :)

 DD> Deal.

:)
 
 DD>> Got lotsa Chinese, some Thai, couple Vietnamese, couple Indian,
 DD>> couple Japanese(ish). Thankfully the Benihana type joint went tits
 DD>> up a long time ago. Osaka and Wasabi remain.
 NB>> At least you have some variety... :)

 DD> It seems like we used to have an "International (Chinese/Oriental)
 DD> Buffet" on every corner. But, the market got saturated - plus INS got
 DD> busy and we are down, now, to three Chinese/Oriental buffets, a couple
 DD> South Asian places that offer a lunchtime buffet and Lulu's Diner which
 DD> has a Lebanese/West Asian "International" buffet from 11 to 1430 M-F.

Not too bad...  :)  Lulu's is the one we've talked about before, that
you've offered chili recipes etc to, right...?

 DD>> Our sole Korean restaurateurs ran the Golden Dragon and only had a
 DD>> couple of Korean things among the Chinese offerings. And they are
 DD>> closed, building for sale and the owners taking the dirt nap. But,
 DD>> they didn't even offer kimchi.
 NB>> When Yang's was remodeled, and went from Chinese to Japanese/Korean,
 NB>> he'd been told by his Korean friends that the market was wide open for
 NB>> a good Korean restaurant here... and when he opened, indeed there was a
 NB>> large clientele waiting for him... :)  Mrs. Yang was already making
 NB>> kimchee before that, though, and it showed up on their modest lunch
 NB>> buffet offering...  Now we have at least three Korean restaurants just
 NB>> in the Henrietta area, and Yang's has been closed for over a decade...

 DD> What got him? Saturation of competition? Ready to retire? Health
 DD> dept.? 

Overdue for retirement, I think... :)  Certainly not the health
department, as he was the one that worked with them to get the signs
translated into Chinese etc for the kitchen workers that didn't speak
English, and encouraged other restaurants to follow the health rules and
regs...  And I don't think it was likely saturation of competition,
either...  Originally, when he opened his restaurant (as Chinese), it
was to put his two girls through college... he was early retired
(possibly laid off, with a good package) from Xerox, and put that into
the restaurant... ;)  Got the girls through high school and college, and
then ended up remodeling everything for the new incarnation, and got the
one girl through grad school and some post-grad...  Even after they
closed the restaurant, Mrs Y was still (with Fu's help) making large
quantities of sushi to deliver to the UR and RIT campus cafeterias on a
weekly or maybe more often basis... But I think he was just tired, and
perhaps already not doing well health-wise at that point...  Right up to
the end, there was always a good steady business there, for both the
Japanese and the Korean cuisines.  :)  He always hired none but the best
chefs, bought none but the best ingredients, and took none but the best
advice on what to stock in his bar (although he didn't drink)...  Well
respected on all fronts..   :)

 DD> At one of my favourite Chinese places (Mandarin Palace) the owners
 DD> returned to Taiwan to care for aged relatives and turned the operation
 DD> over to the next generation ..... and it didn't last six months. Plus
 DD> they were dogged by the place six blocks south having regular issues
 DD> with the health inspectors. I used to get a lot of "How's the Moo Goo
 DD> Cat?" after China Inn was nailed for keeping a couple cat carcasses in
 DD> their cooler (for the staff). Of course it wasn't Mandarin Palace but
 DD> with the mass of Walmartians around here - Chinese is Chinese and don't
 DD> confuse them with facts. 

After all, they all look alike...  ;0  Fortunately that's been less an
issue here... but then, there are lots more to choose from... and
apparently enough people that can properly discriminate between the good
and bad even when next door to each other...  :)

 DD> My rejoinder to those clods was always a jaunty "Tastiest cat I've
 DD> ever eaten!" 

An appropriate response, given the circumstance... even if not
particularly accurate...  (G) 

ttyl       neb

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