Since then, she's used Groupons for a Korean restaurant that she'd never tried and Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum.

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Those involved in the Korean restaurant industry say kimchi, and fermented foods like it, shouldn't be considered potentially hazardous at all.

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Mr. Shore's picture of a scarred window at a Korean restaurant on New York's Lower East Side continues his longstanding interest in American eating and commerce.

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But those in the Korean restaurant industry questioned the idea that they have the time and means of using a pH meter and doing acidity tests.

WSJ: Restaurants: City Failing on Kimchi

The hotel and elite restaurant food was very good, especially if you like Korean food.

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But Ja-Boon Kwak, owner of Kang Suh restaurant in Koreatown and chairwoman of the Committee for the Globalization of Korean Food, said through an email translated from a spokesman that "many" Korean restaurants have received health-code violations for fermented foods.

WSJ: Restaurants: City Failing on Kimchi