Friday Night

(warning, all pictures taken with cell phone so the quality is not the best)

Hello! Harland and his friends Charles and Pete let me tag a long for a night out. We went to a restaurant in "New City". New City is an area of Dongduchoen that has recently been built and it has a lot of places to eat and go drinking. There are some American type places too (Pizza Hut, Dunkin' Donuts, and Baskin Robbins). BTW, is Drew Barrymore in ads for Baskin Robbins over there? Because she is all over the place here. Just wondering.

Anyway we went to a Korean restaurant and this is what we had: Talkkalbi


It is a very spicy mix of cabbage, chicken, yams, mint leaves, and rice dumplings all cooked in this huge stone pot. We also had some cold buckwheat noodle soup (mulkuksoo). It was pretty good even though I admit I was quite the skeptic. I wasn't sure I would like noodles in ice cold soup (it literally has ice in it). You know I'll try anything at least once and it was very tasty.

You can also see there is a bottle of Soju and a small glass of soju in front of me. It is hard to describe it, it is a little like vodka. That is the closest drink I can come up with. There is a lot of Korean culture surrounding Soju. You shouldn't ever pour your own, And usually I think if someone makes a toast you have to drink it. Anyway, Pete and I mostly drank the soju because Charles doesn't like it, and Harland can not drink due to the TB meds.

Anyway after dinner and a stop at Dunkin Donuts for Charles and Harland, we ended up going to "miller time" a bar that specializes in, well, miller products. A few icehouses later and suddenly this sounded like a good idea:


going to a karaoke place.

Now in the US usually there is just one Karaoke machine in a bar somewhere... but in Korea they have Karoke places. You walk in and it is like a hotel. You get a room and it has karaoke in there and you sing with your friends.

here is a picture of Harland and Charles picking out a song:


Here is a picture of Harland singing. I think to Radiohead's "Creep".


Anyway, that was my night.
Hope your Friday is just as fun!!