Mexico City’s vibrant Korean community is creating new food traditions in the Zona Rosa.
There is a chaotic charm to dinner service at Mexico’s Na De Fo. In the expansive, brightly lit dining room, Mexican waiters in black vests shuttle platters of banchan and white rice to tables of Japanese businessmen, Korean families, gringo tourists, and local foodies. Bottles of soju clatter on the metal tabletops as patrons turn thinly sliced beef tongue or marinated meat over charcoal grills. A Mexican-league soccer game plays on the televisions overhead. On any given Friday night, dozens of Samsung executives might descend on the already-busy restaurant. Recently, some minor K-pop stars and their entourage dined at Na De Fo during Mexico City’s first KCON Korean Wave music festival.
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