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When unpronounceables are listed on a menu, you're almost sure to be corrected – even when you're saying it right. Then you commit the item to memory and the next time you enunciate with newfound pride when ordering, say, Gewürztraminer, cassoulet, bacalao or bruschetta.
We are the takeout generation who grew up with Chinese dives on every corner and can now just as easily find sushi, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian joints. But there's still an authentic Asian cuisine that's exotic to most of our tastes – Korean.
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," the cinematic candy maker Willy Wonka once pointed out. And with that, a world full of 7-year-olds were scratching their heads wondering what alcohol and candy have in common. Then they shrugged their shoulders and went right on gorging themselves on gummies, lemon drops and jawbreakers.
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