I had dinner with the Sogang history department tonight at a Chinese restaurant. The food was significantly different and better than any Chinese food I have had in the US. I gather it was closer to "real" Chinese food. Most of the food was extremely spicy and very good. I have never had sea cucumber before and it was quite tasty, sort of a cross between jello and portabella mushrooms. The most interesting thing may have been the fried jellyfish. Eating jellyfish is something I have never thought of, but it was delicious.
CHAOS WASHING MACHINES
My apartment comes with a washing machine called, imposingly, a Goldstar Chaos Hi Tech Washing Machine. I thought it was a dryer too but that doesn't seem to be the case. Korean apartments have these alleys between the living areas and the outside wall in which clothes are dried. There are sliding doors between the apartment and the alley, and large windows between the bedrooms and the alley. I thought I wouldn't have to use it but if the washing machine is also a "hi tech" drier I sure can't find the right combination of buttons. Not that I haven't looked. I tried to decipher everything with the help of my dictionary and limited knowledge of the hangul alphabet (which includes only a dim understanding of the actual letter order--still working on that). The word pronounced (I think) "saw" is a simple two letter word. But according to my dictionary, it means, "a cow, a bull, an ox" or "dressing, stuffing," "little, few,
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