Tidbits

This weekend I took a quick trip to Seoul with my friend Tina. It was really nice going with just one other person and no tourist agenda other than shopping. Being less touristy does mean I didn't really take any photos, but here are some for you to enjoy.

Amazingly delicious mandu, aka Korean dumplings.
One of my favourite foods out here.
Anyways we got a tasting platter in the
trendy university area, Hongdae.
This whole thing was only 8$!

On the subway I gave my seat
to a woman with a baby stroller
because I am a kind and decent human.
I grew concerned by how much
her baby was moving around,
when I realized it was a dachshund. 

I went to a little pub which served
french fries covered in mysterious powder.
Salt? Sugar? Parmesan?
Also served was a spring roll wrapped
around a "cheese stick." Imagine those
 processed cheese sticks
we got for lunch back in the day.
Obviously any kind of french fry and
fried cheese is always delicious,
but it was amusing enough without
the two fingered gloves given to us
to protect our dainty fingers. 

It was definitely a lovely trip. I feel like such a small town bumpkin in Seoul as I gaze up at every building and am ruthlessly jostled by hordes of people. It's always a lot of fun, but never entices me to move there! I am always fascinated by the freshly cut up "gangnam sisters" aka women who get their faces so plastic surgeried up they look like sisters. Oh swollen eyelids, how you terrify me. I also witness a plastic looking woman apply a full face of makeup on the subway. With her fingers. I am no germaphobe, but caking on foundation with your subway fingers seems like quite an invitation for a blemish or two. 

Back home I had a gloriously successful cooking experiment. I cooked some kimchi (cooked kimchi tastes totally different than raw. Much mellower) and added it to a classic western flavoured sandwich. It. was. amazing. I made a wrap of the same ingredients for dessert. 

Unrelated to anything,
but here I beat
my Words with Friends
MASTER friend with an
OUTSTANDING score.
I want to remember
this forever. 

And in a final note: to others living here wondering How to make a 1-800 (or 1-866, 1-877, you know, toll free) phone call from Korea. Turns out you can't from a phone... buttttttt you can use Skype to! I have no money on my Skype account, but I just pushed "call" and typed in the number and boom instant connection. Hurray success!