I HAVE THAT ISSUE TOO!

Is this the same poster that tried to defend the Egg Man a while back? Sounds like it.

The way the story is written, politely educating them is EXACTLY what the manager and the server did, so I don’t know why she’s having a serious case of cactus-ass over this.

No.

Um...POC don’t exist to educate you and be your teaching moment whenever you need one. That, it and of itself, is some racist bullshit.

I’m kinda fascinated by this. What size town are we talking about? How far to the nearest big city? Did you grow up prior to WWII? What kinds of food were served in restaurants there? Are food/cooking shows not shown on TV there?

Yes! My spouse and I (not Korean) went out with another couple (not Korean) to a Korean BBQ place where we were the only people who weren’t Korean. We let our server know it was our first time and we were kind of out of our element. The staff were so kind about helping us order and explaining what everything was. They…

GAH I get that all the time! I’m sorry that they’re busy? I’m sorry that I don’t have the ability to force them to be available at your convenience? I’ve had guys (they’re almost always guys) ask me to go find said person because they have a question that needs to be answered right now, very important engineering work…

Nope nope nope nope nope.

Exactly. If they had approached it as, “When I go to Chinese restaurants, I usually really like to order lo mein. What kind of things would you recommend here?” I doubt anyone would have written in about them.

ew. no.

THIS. Just find something with ingredients you like and give it a try. Do not ask for items not on the menu at all.

You stop racism by not being racist.

Ethiopian is fucking delicious.

You stop racism by embarrassing racists, actually. These girls somehow got to college without knowing the basics about two of the most influential and populated countries on this planet. Now that they’ve hopefully felt stupid (if they’re self-aware enough to realize that they were being stupid), they’ll learn…

You don’t have to understand that your actions are racist for them to be racist. That’s kind of the point.

I am a food snob, a restaurant lifer and I am ALL ABOUT guests saying straight up that they are unfamiliar with the menu. Please, do this. Do this every time. I will gladly help you. Let me help you order something you might actually like, as opposed to playing like you have a clue and then just being unhappy when it…

Nah.

When I first became interested in sushi many years ago, I new nothing about it and the internet didn’t exist (also, cars rode on tree-trunk suspension with stone wheels). To learn, I went to a local sushi bar, threw myself on the mercy of the hostess, and was given a masterclass in the cuisine and its attendant…

Sorry but if you can’t tell the difference between Japan & China as a college student then you deserve people laughing at you. If a restaurant says they don’t serve something and you insist that they do, you’re an asshole.