Unexpected flavors of food

Today I came in for lunch and had two particular items that looked quite familiar to what I might have in a meal back home: What appeared to be some sort of meat or chicken fillet and a fruit salad.  What puzzled me, however, were the flavors and combinations of foods that I was not expecting.  For instance, in this fruit salad that appears to have apples, raisins, grapes, and marshmallows there are certainly no grapes in it but rather tomatoes.  The fruit salad itself is not very sweet either as one might be in the US.  I could only subtly taste the marshmallow.  The other was the little patties or fillets.  My initial guess is that it was chicken with a honey mustard (since I have had other dishes here with honey mustard).  However, this was a fish fillet and the sauce is mustard that seems to be mixed with some mayo so it isn't as strong.

Where is the tartar sauce you ask?  I don't think that exists here.

This is just one of the many food I've eaten here that had a flavor that I was not expecting.  The one that I noticed early on was garlic bread.  Naturally, as a westerner, you would expect garlic bread to taste garlic-y and a bit salty, perhaps.  However, in Korea it is sweet.  You still taste the garlic, but they seem to put some sort of syrup on it.