Spoiler alert: Chic Fil-A spicy chicken sandwich defeats smarmy weeaboo New York imposter.
I mean, was there any surprise? Chic Fil-A beating up on a restaurant whose chef basically is quoted saying that he wanted to create the next Chic Fil-A. Man, sucks to be him to open up a restaurant with a copycat item, only for the originators to move into town, and then start owning up on some bitches like Korean Starcraft players jumping onto American servers.
But speaking of Koreans, the chef who came up with this imposter jobber that failed to best the originals, is this Korean “celebrity chef” guy named David Chang. Typically, I’m all about rooting for and supporting the Koreans in just about every possible endeavor, and I often times don’t need to know any more than the fact that a person is Korean for me to consciously and unconsciously want to root for them; Koreans are kind of racist like that.
Except, a pet peeve of mine that I’m quite passionate about is when Korean restaurants open up and instead of declaring themselves Korean restaurants, they go with Korean slash Japanese. Basically, “Korean/Japanese” typically means “100% Korean,” but they have a guy on site that makes sushi, or they serve Asahi and/or Kirin beer on the menu.
But it makes me sick to my stomach that Korean business owners don’t have the faith or confidence in their own fucking culture’s superior cuisine that they have to denigrate their business to /Japanese it, with hopes that it can appeal to weeaboos or any other shitheads who have hard-ons for the Japanese culture.
And here we have this David Chang guy, who not only runs a joint called “Fuku,” where his second-rate Chic Fil-A spicy chicken sandwich imposter is served, he apparently has a lineup of restaurants that are all given these weeaboo-ey Japanese names, serving a bunch of food all supposedly inspired by Japan.
I kind of get it, I went through my hardcore weeaboo phase too, where I thought Japan was the absolute shit and everything about their culture was superior. The difference between me and a guy like David Chang is that I fucking grew up, grew out of it, and remembered that Korea is simply better than Japan.
Better food, better fashion, better actors, singers, rappers, artists. Better currency, more efficient automobiles. Better at League of Legends. I mean, shit, just about better in everything except maybe perversion, because Japan is playing chess when it comes to pervy shit while the rest of the world is still trying to learn checkers.
I’m not mad, as my satirical tone may lead my six readers to believe, but really just disappointed. Disappointed in a guy like David Chang to be such a weeb, that his entire yakuza of restaurants are all named Japanese. It’s like I’m disappointed in him as a Korean, but I wonder if like actual Japanese people resent the fact that this Kankokujin is using their culture as a means to operate business. I mean, if I were from the inferior land, I probably would be too. Although we’d both probably agree that the more obvious name for his restaurant probably should be FUK U with the requisite space added in.
It also disgusts me to learn that he too, is from Northern Virginia.
Needless to say, I’m ecstatic, not just because I live in Atlanta and the Chic Fil-A loyalty is absolute, but as a goddamn fucking KOREAN that David Chang’s bullshit weeb copycat sandwich fails in comparison to the original. Not just in taste, but in price, as his FukU sandwich is nearly twice the cost of a CFA spicy chicken.
Here’s hoping, but not holding my breath, that this bitch slap of reality is enough to snap him out of his weeby phase, and that if he really wants to leave his mark on the culinary world, should perhaps tap into his native culture, and start churning out the best food in Asia and try and not act too surprise when the tidal waves of profit start rolling in.
