"The whole experience at this diner was horrific. At first the circumstances, looked at individually, would not warrant such a harsh claim of discrimination but all tolled it was more than just a busy night at the diner. I 'm sure those of you who are not Korean will not experience this. This is what happened, you draw your own conclusions. We were a party of three and there was a line at the door. Two parties ahead of us and two behind us on the list. One party behind us also had 3 people. We were seated LAST. We had to ask a busboy and the maitre d ' until we finally got our waiter after a good 10 minutes. We had a 6 year old with us who was starving so I asked the waiter if he could do us a favor and bring us a basket of bread so she could munch on it. This request was met with a brusque, Yes, I 'm brining it all , as if we had asked for something out of the ordinary and it was huge inconvenience. Bread and coleslaw arrived at the table but no drinks. We don 't see our waiter for another 10 minutes. We flag him down and remind him that we didn 't get our drinks if he could get that to us when he had a chance. And also let him know that we would like to place a take out order as well. This was met with Just give me a minute honey . He walks away and takes care of other tables. 5 more minutes pass and I see him sitting at the counter with his feet stretched out in front of him talking with the owner having a relaxed conversation as we still had no drinks. We finally get our drinks, place the take our order. We are served our dinners. The broccoli that was served to the 6 year old was spoiled . Not cooked too much to the point of turning grey or burnt as the owner claimed. But let me point this out, why are they KNOWINGLY serving burnt food? We flag over the maitre d ' because, again, our waiter is no where to be found, and ask him to smell the broccoli. He makes a sour face and says oh yes that went bad. He ran off to find the owner only to have the waiter come back to us saying I hear you didn 't like your broccoli, do you want something else? THIS is how they respond to serving someone SPOILED food. No apologies about how that could have happened, nothing. As we discuss the finer points of food being spoiled as opposed to being overcooked, he looks at us with a smirk on his face and asks if we 're from the Korean church next door. Wait a GD minute. What does my religion or affiliations to any organization have to do with spoiled food you 're serving to your customers?!?!?!?! At this point we are IRRATE. How DARE you ask me that question when we 're trying to tell you you just poisoned our 6 year old girl? The owner comes by and tells us the same thing, offering us something else because we didn’t ' like the broccoli. As I said when I started this tirade, that the individual acts aren 't unusual. All restaurants get busy, all waiters get frazzled. That 's not the problem. It is a HUGE problem when you start asking me if I 'm from the Korean church next door because of my Asian eyes. If they thought for one moment that we wouldn 't challenge what they did to us because we were meek soft spoken broken English using Asian folk they were sadly mistaken. As we tried to get an explanation of what the world the waiter would bring up anything about religion or race when we 're discussion food, he back peddled saying we took it the wrong way. How would you like for me to have taken it?!?! You draw your own conclusions about what happened that night. You would think in this day and age and area, being in the melting pot of the United States of America in New York, I am completely disgusted by the behavior I experienced at the Blue Angel Diner, the owner and their wait staff. Sadly enough, the matri’d who said that the broccoli was spoiled shrank back into his chair as all this was going down obviously fearful of contradicting his boss. As we finally left the diner after being forced to pay for 2 of the dishes that was served to us that night, he apologized to us quietly when the owner and waiter walked away. He obviously knew we were in the right and felt bad about what happened."
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