Last night Josh and I took a little stroll around town. The weather was pretty mild (a balmy forty five degrees), so we decided to check out some of the local restaurants and shops.

There are a handful of American Style Restaurants and Stores. I actually saw a Seven Eleven and a Dunkin Donuts. I saw some strange things like like street lights that looked like they were installed upside down, and clothes hanging on trees. There was one store that had three small square cages outside of it. Josh said “look it’s a real Korean Style Restaurant, they serve dog here.” I didn’t think that was very funny.

There are some interesting names for bars as you can see in my photo. I am not sure why there is an apple instead of a heart in the “Love Bar”. We didn’t go in yet, maybe for Valentine’s Day. LOL.

We did check out the shoes.com store. I have no idea how to figure out my size though. There was a number that I thought was the price but Josh said it was the size.

Right next door there was a sign for a Korean cooking class for foreigners. We laughed about that because I really want to learn how to cook Korean food since we will be here for at least six months. Maybe I will have to check it out.

We chose a Korean style restaurant. It seems like most of the restaurants have “traditional” Korean style seating (on the floor), as well as Western style (at tables), which is where we were seated.

The server handed one menu to Josh, I guess the men do the ordering here. It was in Korean but fortunately there were pictures. We ordered the beef. They cook the beef on a grill in the table, but unlike the restaurant we ate at the first night this one had a venting chimney.

The food was good. We were not sure exactly what we were eating. There are many side dishes that are served with the meal. One was Kimchi (that one is easy), a salad, a type of shredded cabbage with an apple flavored dressing, some kind of baked egg, greens that looked like spinach, creamy corn, and these green patties of some kind of vegetable mix. I have no idea what it was but it tasted good.

It’s definitely a weird feeling, not knowing what it is you are eating. It certainly makes life interesting.

The sever put the beef on the grill initially, and came back to flip it. When it was empty she came back and put more on but she never same back to flip it. Josh and I looked around to see if anyone else flipped their own beef, but no one else was in our predicament. Josh finally grabbed the tongs and flipped it and lowered the flame. It was a little well done.

When we were finished eating we were not sure if we are supposed to get their attention for the bill or just go up to the counter to pay. At other places we have just gone to the counter to pay because we got tired of waiting. This time we just rang the buzzer (they have them at each table).

Josh and I had both read that it is not customary to tip here but we did anyhow. Some habits are hard to break.

We did stop at a Baskin Robbins on our way home. I don’t usually have room for dessert but I don’t feel stuffed after eating Korean food, even though I ate a lot.

It’s amazing how something as simple as a walk around the neighborhood and eating at a local restaurant can be so entertaining.