Merrill's trademark bull was so little known here that more than once people walked in the door expecting to order a Korean beef barbecue lunch.
I hope that Coke will serve as a bridge for relations between the two governments," says Park, a slight man with a toothy smile and a taste for liquor, over a traditional Korean hot pot lunch and beer.
Lunch, a Korean corner-my glasses clouded by a tribal broth, a soup that tamed shaggy Mongolian horsemen in steaming tents while their mares stamped the snow.
Hunger is no longer a concern — he recounts this story at a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan's Koreatown neighborhood over a massive lunch of Korean barbecue, kimchi, and banchan side dishes.
So this happened - at The World Conference of Science Journalism, at a lunch sponsored by Korean female scientists and engineers - just yesterday.
They then had a working lunch (prawn cocktail, Korean stuffed cucumber and beef ribs were on the menu) before taking a quick stroll through the hotel's grounds.
At lunch time, young Korean American dudes bury their heads in the large bowls, looking up only to comment on the soccer games shown on the flat-screen TV.
