2. Staff in the kitchen of the Asadal
“this restaurant was a little bit of Korea brought into a very English town,’’ says Young-il Park, the manager of the Asadal restaurant in New Malden. The Asadal is famous for its kimchi-salty, spicy chilli peppers and vegetable. Young il’s father opened the Asadal in 1991-the first Korean restaurant in the town. Young-il was the only Korean in his school. ‘’The thing I noticed most was that people stared,” he says. “Now you see a lot of Koreans here”.