Grilled Clams with Korean Cocktail Sauce

These clams come from the Korean port city of Sorae, where a fishmonger turned restaurateur named Lee Myong Chol serves shellfish at his eponymous seafood restaurant/fish market. Sorae is the sort of town any true foodie dreams of discovering, built around a teeming seafood market provisioned by fishing boats that arrive daily and that is chaotic enough to make you feel like you’re in preindustrialized Asia, not the ultramodern Korea of the twenty-first century. The bivalves pack a double w