No, thank you, I do not need any more falafel

Ann Arbor has a lot of great food. There's Rendevous which serves great middle eastern cuisine, Jerusalem gardens with great middle eastern food and oh, that Greek restaurant on the corner which serves - you guessed it - amazing middle eastern food! Not that I don't enjoy a good hommus and falafel wrap every now and then, but please. Of course there are other restaurants, plenty of Chinese, Mexican, Indian and American places, but they're usually quite expensive. Earlier today I was pretty close to just walking into any place and ordering some pad thai with mock duck. Pretty close, that is, until I walked down Church street and found an unassuming building with the words "Korean Food" on the front. It looked a little small, even intimidating for someone unfamiliar with this particular Asian food, but it looked quiet and while it wasn't from the particular peninsula off of the main Asian body that I was looking for, it would do.

There seemed to be few vegetarian options and I settled on Spicy Tofu, ordered it and sat down to wait for it to come to me. Eventually a lady came to me with a tray of various foods. It didn't look how I expected it, but when she looked at me and said "Spicy Tofu?" I had to nod. The presence of several Asian people eating with chopsticks scared me - what if I did something wrong - and there were three other little dishes of stuff next to the HUGE plate of food in front of me. The little things didn't look too scary - some cooked bean sprouts, a cup of some brothy stuff and a little dish of what appeared to be cabbage in a reddish sauce - but I didn't know if they were supposed to go on the spicy tofu or be eaten separately, so I left them alone. I learned very fast that the spicy tofu wasn't like spicy tofu would be in Minnesota and got up to get more water. Now it wasn't *amazing* and the tofu needed to be marinated a little longer, but it was Asian food, and a lot of it for less than $7 so I was happy. I found out that the broth was Miso soup and that I don't like Miso soup and that the cabbage dish was just that, called Kimchee. Nothing was supposed to go on the spicy tofu, I did it right and found a great new place to eat.