The food courts in Asian grocery stores have some of the very best eating in the country. But I have to admit that I didn’t know that when I first came to the food stalls inside my local H Mart. There were nine stalls, featuring many dishes with ingredients I'd never heard of before. It was overwhelming to look at a menu where every single thing was unfamiliar.
I could sense there was an etiquette, but I couldn’t quite figure it out. And all the while, grocery carts would come whizzing by, pushing through the throngs. I don’t think that the presence of discomfort is bad or wrong or even avoidable; the key is to push past it because there is almost always a commonality that makes discomfort dissipate.
