After braving pubic transportation yet again, we safely made it to Herb Island. This is a Western Style restaurant and we thought it was cute so we wanted to take Mama there. It serves Italian food.
It has a shop downstair to look at little trinkets. Similar to a little country store and they gave us these muscle relaxers that they heated up in the microwave and we got to wear while we ate. The food was pretty good, the only problem was when my pasta came out with little shrimp and I had to try and explain that I didn't want the shrimp. =) Food is always...always and adventure in Korea.
After our lunch we headed back to the apartment because some of the All Day Club members were going to come over. At the time we didn't know that they were going to also prepare some food for us. Luckily it was just bu-chim-gae (Korean pancake/pizza thing) so it was more of a snack. They made two types of bu-chim-gae and both were good. They also put together their own soy sauce.
Cindy, Judy, and I in the kitchen.
This is the group of us, after food, and playing Pit. It was so much fun to teach them how to play. We played using spoons, so whoever got their set first grabbed a spoon and it made it even funnier.
During that week we took Mama to E-Mart and then wanted to try eating at a Korean traditional restaurant where you sit on the floor. The first few places we went did not have what we know so finally we found a place to eat.
Food is always exciting to think about at first (as you can see from his grin) but later that grin does not always stay.
Our table.
Hopeful smiles! Notice that Mama looks skeptical in most of these pictures...hehe.
Matthew still looks positive and Mama still looks uncertain.
"What am I eating..."
The food was...okay. It was cold and really not that good. Plus we ordered one thing and it turned out to be something totally different. It was a type of soupe and had clam in it. We didn't eat it thankfully, because I used my spoon to stir the soup before we tried any. That's when I found the clam. We had tried to order bibimbob. Later we would realize how to really order it, but that was still a month away.
We survived our meal and went home to have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. =)
This is a video of playing Dutch Blitz. This is especially for my cousin Jaden who enjoys fast movies!
The day after New Years Audrey came over to have lunch with us and meet Mama. Audrey is a from SDA student who we met through the other teachers. Matthew made rosemary bread and we had spinach/cheese ravioli. Both of which Audrey had never had. It's always fun to feed them food they've never experienced since we are always being forced to do the same with their food.
After lunch Audrey showed us how to get to a mall and a stationary store so Mama could look at some stationary =)
Our last meal out was to Pizza Hut! Matthew and I were very excited about this endeavor because we had not had any "normal" pizza since being in Korea. We were excited until we saw the menu.
Can you see the crazy pizzas on here? We ordered one cheese pizza and one cheese pizza with green peppers. The one with green peppers was difficult to explain and difficult to get them to do. It was a totally foreign concept to just have one topping on a pizza. Even the plain cheese pizza wasn't on the menu and we had to specially ask for that.
Hoping for the best! Like I said, food...is always an adventure.
This is our bruchetta appeiteizer. They were really fun looking so we ordered them. They were okay, but we all thought that regular ones on bread were better.
The pizza ended up being really good...and really expensive. So that was a once-in-Korea experience.
One of the days we went to take Mama to underground shopping. Matthew and I had never seen anything like this in America. Korea has to use all their space wisely so they build shops underground. Everywhere. And then it can go a few stories underground. It's pretty incredible. They go on for miles and miles. This one was relatively small but we walked at least a few miles. The reason I say it is small is because it was only one level.
Here's a picture...
And here's a video of a 360 degree turn.
We loved having Mama come and visit and would love to have anyone come and visit!!
Leaving her at the airport was very sad but we are anxiously awaiting our turn to leave Korea and go home for good. We'll miss the people here, but our hearts long for home.
2 comments:
Wow, that pizza menu looks amazing!! Why don't they have that type of pizza in America??
Well, unfortunately, if you could see a larger picture, you'd see that most of it is meat, and a weird arrangement of vegetables. We don't mind the vegetables too much, but pork? shrimp? other misc. sea creatures??? We voted 'no'. :-)
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