Shh!  Don't tell the Japanese that I am bragging about a KOREAN food item on my Tokyo blog but I simply could not believe what I experienced last evening while dining at a corner Korean cafe.  After we bumbled into the pleasantly-lit restaurant and settled ourselves upon a long bench with empty tables, the waiter delivered two cups of steaming tea.  I sipped the delicious drink while watching streams of men walk by on their way to girlie bars. (or perhaps restaurants?)  Like the view, the tea was different than anything I had ever experienced.  I had to learn about the latter.  So, after a meal of guessing ingredients and grimacing at the kimchi (fermented vegetables), we paid the tab and I inquired about the tea.  The waiter spoke unusually fluent English and was delighted by my interest in his restaurant's tea.  He plucked a for-sale mesh bag from the counter top and explained that the contents were not really tea at all!  It was sweet corn tea!  He was so pleased at my interest that he gave me the tea bags for free.  I grew up on an Iowa corn farm, lived outside a tiny town with a sweet corn factory, I never heard of sweet corn tea?!  Apparently it is a popular drink in eastern South Korea and is called oksusu cha.  The corn is dried, roasted, and brewed with boiling water. Then the tea is strained to rid of the kernels.  If you like kettle corn, this drink would probably delight you too!   It is naturally sweet and, for me, feels just like comfort food.