31 Flavors…
Well you guessed it there is Baskin Robins over here and it seems to be fairly popular. Drew Barrymore is advertising for them it seems. I guess this post will be a hybrid post, journal / traveling post.
My favorite ice cream flavor here in “Corea” is green tea, surprisingly green ice cream tastes good, who would have thought? It is has been an interesting experience thus far in the area of culinary cuisine. I’ve been keeping mental notes of various restaurants I think people will enjoy when they come visit me or the country, sometime in the future. So as for restaurants you have your corporate American chains such as, TGIF, Outback Steakhouse, Pho Hoa, McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Bennigans, Popeye’s, KFC, Starbucks, and that’s all I can remember at the moment. There are also several “hole in the wall” restaurants run by the residents of wherever you live. These are the places I’m sure many people in Boulder would like.
It seems restaurants that are more “preppy” have several congregations of women in circles with a few couples to go along, whereas the men like to congregate generally after work at these outdoor grill type places. It’s the Korean equivalent of a hibachi I guess. Basically there is a grill for every four people generally built into the table. Those of you back in Denver if you ever check out the Seoul Restaurant in Aurora or Shila, know what I mean, both of course are Korean. People here love to drink, smoke, and thanks to the small amount of land, there is trash everywhere, just like any other metropolitan city. Of course I’m not saying there is trash literally everywhere, but I hope you get what I mean. So my friend Fred says that walking down the street is “31 Flavors of smells,” which is true, whether good or bad.
The prices aren’t too bad; the chains have similar prices to the states, minus ice cream. Ice cream is very affordable. I love ice cream. I don’t know what it is about it, but it’s very tasty, I wonder what ice cream in Heaven tastes like, assuming there is ice cream in Heaven. They also have some unusual flavors of ice cream such as Tomato. I don’t like the taste of it, really…
Some other brief points I would like to mention is that I have always have full bars on my cell phone. It’s weird I have cell reception EVERYWHERE I go in Seoul, it’s excellent, and it’s always full coverage, even 5 levels underground on the subways and parking lots. Text messaging is very popular here and unfortunately hardly anyone uses voice messages. The phone number system is unusual as well, each company or subsidiary has their own area code, for example my company I use right now is called KTF, which is a subsidiary of KT Telecom. KTF uses the area code 010, and KT which is used for land lines is area code 02. As the company becomes popular the phone numbers start growing, for example my phone number is 8 digits long, so there are 11 digits totally. It’s weird memorizing numbers this way and it has taken me a while to learn this new system.
The same thing goes with names, I’m not use to Korean names, and so memorizing them in a completely new language has also been a difficulty. I’ll be uploading photos of pictures I have taken the past couple of weeks pretty soon. I’ll have separate comments for them so that you can learn people’s names with me, and mostly so I can remember.
Anyway I hope that was somewhat useful, I’ll talk to you all later. It’s almost October!?!?! Time flies doesn’t it. Let me be the first to say Happy Halloween, because they don’t celebrate it here. I know it’s a month early.
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