It's been awhile...

Sooooo....Long time, no write. I know! It seems facebook has been monopolizing all my online time. I'll have to do something about that soon...Anyway, I've been planning on doing a blog entry on food, so here it is. For some reason being in Korea has encouraged eating out like nothing else...when asked what I had for dinner, if I say "oh, I cooked something at home." (meaning, of course, something "instant"...), my co-teacher always says, oh thats not good. Its expected that I go out for dinner. And lately, I have...my stomach enjoys it (mostly), but my wallet does not.

So, the list of "foreign" (anything not Korean) begins with Thai, Indian (3 different places so far), Mexican (though they don't use nearly enough cheese), The Wolfhound (an Irish pub, amazing pub food, and home of the Apple Crumble...), Iranian, American Diner food (here, this is foreign;went for a full diner breakfast, it was amaaaaazing), and lastly, Spanish (Spain-spanish, different from Mexican-spanish). Indian food seems to be the most popular, and I have to say, I enjoy it immensely. And they usually have some sort of Ballywood thing on the tv, and that is always entertaining.

I have also, of course, gone for Korean food. All Korean meals center around many little bowls of side dishes. This includes several kinds of kimchi, the national dish, a soup of some sort (kind of like a miso soup), bean sprouts, and sometimes a "korean pizza" which is, as far as I can tell, an almost flat omelet made with egg and rice meal, with chives and other things cooked in. Most Korean restaurant food is "barbeque" style. This means you have all the side dishes, and the main dish is raw meat that is cooked over a hot plate set into the middle of your table. It is quite delicious, and bonus, relatively healthy. Yay!

So that is the low-down on restaurant eating; there is also street food eating, but as that is a whole other ball game, I will have to save that for another entry. (yes, I will attempt to go back to semi-regular blogging, due to popular demand).