Trip to Korea: Day 7

April 22 Fri.

It rained today, and i was feeling a little sick. I think i got a mild cold. Ended up just resting the entire day and ate dumpling soup my mom made. At night we headed over to my dad's friends restaurant where they specialize in steam cooked pig legs. You wrap it in lettuce with garlic, spicy sauce, and jalapeno. It was pretty good.

After, the parents took off, and the younger kids went to drink. We ended up going to the block next to the University where they shot "My Princess". The area reminded me of the streets in NY next to NYU. Lots of college kids, lots of bars and restaurants. This was exactly what i was looking for the entire time i was here in Korea. The menus are so fancy too. Instead of just Duk Bok Gi (spicy rice cakes), it's Chicken Duk Bok Gi. Instead of Chicken Katsu, it's Fusion katsu. Bars here can't survive if it's too simple, so everything in the menu is a grade higher than what we have state side. We ordered a bunch of food, and it all came out to about $37. Not bad.

I learned a new mix drink i can use when i get back home. It's coke, soju, and beer. It's really good. You get 1 beer mug, and 2 shot glasses. You fill the first shot glass with coke and put it inside the beer mug. You pour soju into the second soju glass and place it on top of the first soju glass. Then fill the mug with beer. No shaking or twirling required. The end result is a Pok Tang Ju with a very sweet aftertaste (due to the coke). Girls apparently love this drink.

Finished off the night by going to a 24 hour coffee shop. Talked for an hour. Man, the way college kids here study English is so disturbing. The books they learn are basically a dictionary. It lists English words alphabetically, then the pronunciation, then the meaning, and finally it's used in a sentence. The homework is just memorizing all the words. That's so brutal.

Looks like i may not be able to go to COEX or a Wine bar this time around. Would have been boring going to those places by myself anyways. Tomorrow some friends invited me to eat Korean bacon with them, so looking forward to that.