  I don't eat Korean food all that often, but there are some regular provisions that I require, so I headed over to the California Market on Garden Grove Blvd., which is where I usually go. I don't know if it's just this market or all Korean markets, but they usually play Korean pop music over the speakers.
While it's not the greatest music in the world, normally I'm OK with it. Today, however, they were playing that really amped up hyper-speed techno music that I usually only hear at my Vietnamese hair salon. They were also playing it really loud. I'm looking at all these Korean grandmas and housewives pushing their carts around to this absolutely horrible music--it was surreal. Not only that, I noticed that the song was a techno version of A-ha's "Take on Me. " To take an already over-produced, highly synth-sounding song and making it "techno"--it was almost too much!
It's like making a Muzak version of a Carpenters song. Needless to say, I grabbed my tofu, ramen and frozen dumplings as fast as I could and hightailed it outta there. Maybe it's time to try another market... 
