Korean BBQ

Korean BBQ is a unique eating experience; the food one orders is brought for you in little trays, uncooked and marinated, and one cooks it on an embedded flame grill in the center of the table. There are vents all the way around the grill or above your table to suck the smoke away from the food. Typically there is an all you can eat deal, available, where they bring you as many beef strips, spare ribs, salmon strips, pork strips, chicken breasts, cow tongues, cod strips and cow liver as you want for $24.95... give or take a few bucks. Some places may even offer an all you can drink deal on top of that. While all this is happening, the main course is surrounded by bottomless side orders of classic Korean cold dishes and condiments. Avoid these distractions at all costs, however tasty they may be. You must keep your eye on the prize. The meat.

These restaurants must make their money by bringing smaller portions of the food to slow down one’s eating, letting the food sit in one’s stomach to get fuller faster, along with the fact that they don’t have to pay anyone to cook. One would imagine, they just hire an army of dishwashers instead. But the genius of it all is the atmosphere it creates, and the fact if you hit up the right place, it is damn tasty. The gluttony that exists in American society isn't necessarily unique, it's just more often than not, executed poorly.