柏林行是美食行。被台灣人熱力推薦的其中之一就是在maßenstraße上的韓國餐廳。
菜單上東西該有的都有。大部分是jigae類, 石鍋拌飯。
重點來了……
這家的的老闆們是超虔誠基督教徒，菜單上的前幾頁哩哩辣辣寫了好幾頁介紹他們宗教的東西。連牆壁上都貼滿了神的話語和文字。在一家飄滿著濃烈蒜香麻油香泡菜香，色澤從桌子到湯頭都是大紅色的夠味餐館，被那些牆上他們親手寫的大海報環繞，面對我面前的湯麵，心中莫名其妙的感到有被保佑到的感覺。 那種感覺應該就像是小時候過年去廟裡拜拜，吃到廟方提供的一碗羹湯類食物的那種，心甘情願想暫時當個虔誠的教徒。
於是我用力吃之前有禱告了一下，感覺心中有踏實。
對於廚房東西不多又想偶爾來解個饞的異鄉遊子遊女們，快來這朝拜一下。
p.s 南韓的基督教人口占總人口的29.3%. 台灣的是4.5%
Korean Restaurant with Christian flair (Korean kind of way)
Compared to Vienna, Berlin just seems to have endless little nice restaurants, and endless people hanging out. Every time I go to Berlin I cannot help but noticing that country, provincial part of me, which is a funny mixed feeling. Raving about this kind of stuff is one one of symptoms. So here it comes.
There’s this tiny restaurant in the Maaßenstraße. The food is basic korean, jigae pots, bulgogi on rice, you name it. What’s unusual about this place is that it’s surrounded by Jesus Christ’s words, in the first a few pages of the menu, and on the posters on the walls. All hand written. Religious, and Asian diligence.
The interior is simple, mostly just garden furniture with red surface, just like my jigae pot. Somehow it’s just a very peculiar atmosphere being surrounded by all the warm red tones, intense smell of chilli, garlic, and chimchi, and last but not least, God’s words. For many moments I did feel blessed so I did say my prayers before digging into the hot jigae.
We should really appreciate food more while there’s nutrition shortage worldwide, and when there’re bulimic, obese and other people with eating disorders out there.
This unexpected gratitude I felt reminded me of one Chinese New Year when I was still a kid, visiting a temple in Keelung with my family. It’s traditional for the temple to offer every visitor a free bowl of hot soup. Supposed to bring good luck and all. Getting free food has always been one of my favorites! Course I enjoyed it. But as I was slurping down the goodie down to my tummy, I felt more something more than the physical warmth that came with the soup. It’s
the sudden lovely fuzziness that almost made me very religious at that single, specific moment.
That moment is worth searching for in the same way as going to the Christian Korean. For hungry and lonely Asian souls who study abroad, the smell and taste of finely cooked jigae provides instant comfort.
yeah, that’s our kind of comfort food. Get yourselves away from fries, chubby whities! 
p.s 29.3% of Korean population is Christian, while only 4.5% of that in Taiwan.
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