Having discovered that new eel place we have been doing our heroic best to eat there as often as we can before leaving, if only to get more little checks off our Frequent Eel Eaters card. We will bequeath that hard-earned but not quite filled in card to our friend helping us get all of our stuff and the lil Buddha off to the airport.
What a prize, a partially filled in Frequent Eel Eaters card. It is almost as good as the clothes drying rack I found on the curb (perfect), the large number of paper lotus lanterns given to us at the lantern festival parade, and a broken cuckoo clock I found on the street and brought home with some vague idea of fixing (this was months ago, it hasn't been fixed yet, nor fixed itself I should add). It just needs one reglued cuckoo, I think.
That has been given the executive veto and won't be returning with us to Virginia.
At the eel place, a man who was the cousin of the owner came over and told us (as much as we gathered) that he was buying our dinner. It helped that he was drunk. Sure enough, he did indeed pay for our dinner, which was really nice since we had never seen the guy before and likely won't ever again (though I do have his card).
And, we still got the checks on the Frequent Eel Eaters card...
This being Korea, we also had to pay for our rice (which is 1000 won a bowl = a buck), which we had ordered after the payer split.
One thing that is curious here is that every meal all restaurants will serve and refill innumerable side dishes (called panchan) at no charge (including about everything you can imagine ingredient wise -- various salads, baked fish, octopus salad, acorn squash, steamed spinach, German potato salad, creamed corn (always a question mark about those), little dried fish in sesame oil, many, many, many kinds of kimchi, and so on and on). But order a bowl of rice and you get charged 1000 won.
Rice is actually fairly expensive here. This is good for the Korean rice farmer, and makes you wonder why Koreans want to open their market to American rice via the FTA.
What a prize, a partially filled in Frequent Eel Eaters card. It is almost as good as the clothes drying rack I found on the curb (perfect), the large number of paper lotus lanterns given to us at the lantern festival parade, and a broken cuckoo clock I found on the street and brought home with some vague idea of fixing (this was months ago, it hasn't been fixed yet, nor fixed itself I should add). It just needs one reglued cuckoo, I think.
That has been given the executive veto and won't be returning with us to Virginia.
At the eel place, a man who was the cousin of the owner came over and told us (as much as we gathered) that he was buying our dinner. It helped that he was drunk. Sure enough, he did indeed pay for our dinner, which was really nice since we had never seen the guy before and likely won't ever again (though I do have his card).
And, we still got the checks on the Frequent Eel Eaters card...
This being Korea, we also had to pay for our rice (which is 1000 won a bowl = a buck), which we had ordered after the payer split.
One thing that is curious here is that every meal all restaurants will serve and refill innumerable side dishes (called panchan) at no charge (including about everything you can imagine ingredient wise -- various salads, baked fish, octopus salad, acorn squash, steamed spinach, German potato salad, creamed corn (always a question mark about those), little dried fish in sesame oil, many, many, many kinds of kimchi, and so on and on). But order a bowl of rice and you get charged 1000 won.
Rice is actually fairly expensive here. This is good for the Korean rice farmer, and makes you wonder why Koreans want to open their market to American rice via the FTA.
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