Out with the Director

Last night Arielle and myself went out to dinner with my director Mr. Kim. We ended up going to a Japanese Resturant. We had sushi. Not really sushi, but tons of raw fish. I miss cooked food. He ordered so much food for the 3 of us. They filled up our table with various different types of raw fish, and we scarfed it down. Most of it wasn't too bad. Some was a bit chewy for my taste. When we made a sizeable dent in that batch, they come back into the room with this boat. Probably 3ft long and a foot wide and place it on the table. It was more raw fish. They gave us some lettuce leaves to wrap it up in and thus we started eating again. Eating and drinking Soju.

So after getting well stuffed and relaxing for a little bit, thinking the meal is finished, more comes out. This time a bowl of soup. The soup was followed by frozed raw crap. Ah me belly is full. I don't think I can eat another bite. Take down a couple more shots of Soju with Mr. Kim and Arielle. Thinking it is time to move on and finish up, when yeah, you guessed it, more food. I'm a big guy. I like to eat. But come on. This is getting rediculous. They brought out cooked food this time, Shrimp fried in Tempura batter, as well as fried cucumber and potato. Oh yeah and all the other raw fish we couldn't eat, now came out and it was also fried. I was so full after that. Good thing that was the end of the food.

We followed up the resturant, by going to a bar called Beer Life. There we ordered beer. Yummy yummy beer. We had a pitcher of beer. It came in this little mini keg type thing. Kept the beer nice an chilly. Good good stuff. And of course more food was needed because we were drinking. So we ordered dried squid. Not too bad actually. This stuff actually tasted good. I think because of where we are and the freshness of it. It is caught right off the coast here. Looking out across the city, it is usually possible to see squid drying on clothes lines.

Drinking and eating go hand in hand here. Korean men like to drink, but they only seem to do it when there is something to eat. Even at bars, they get some kind of snack. The snack is usually dried squid and a chili sauce.