Taste of the Moon

A couple of weeks ago, I met up with Jiyoung and Becky in Hongdae to check out Taste of the Moon, a bar Jiyoung had read about in some travel article or something. But they had a bunch of different flavors of makgeolli as well as makgeolli cocktails which sounded interesting and it certainly was. We tried a bunch of different flavors, honey, chestnut and tomato are a few that I can recall. We had to order anju (a sidedish) so we chose the kimchi pancake with haloumi cheese and it was super delicious.

Tea in Insadong

Bucket List Check: Cinnamon tea in Insadong.

Nick and I met with KK, Tadhg and Caitlin in Insadong to get some traditional Korean tea. Tadhg had also never been to Insadong, which is just entirely absurd. It was a nice Sunday evening.

Tea! 

KK got bamboo tea. It tasted like leaves.

Ginger Tea

Omija Tea

Leaves!

We both got cinnamon tea.

It was cute.

Plates!

A Visit to Osan

Yesterday afternoon, I hopped on the Line 1 to Osan to visit Nate, Val and Aliza one more time before I take off. They picked me up at the station and took me to the base to get dinner at Chili's. It was amazing and super weird like being in America. THERE WAS UNSWEETENED ICED TEA!!!!!!!!!! I had a great time but wish I'd thought to have someone take a picture of the whole group instead of just my food.  ㅠㅠ 

Chips and Salsa!!!!

Chicken Ranch Sandwich with Swiss Chz!!!!

Aliza being adorable.

Enjoying the luxury.

After dinner we tried to go to the BX but I couldn't get in with my visitors pass, so we headed back to their apartment to drink some tea and look through the pictures from the vacation they just took to Thailand and Vietnam. It was a pleasant evening and gave me lots of good ideas for my trip! 

11 more days!!!

Bau House Dog Cafe

The light fixtures were dog bowls~

One of these things is not like the others.

Noryangjin Fish Market

Last week I took KK and Tadhg to meet Jaeyeon at the Noryangjin Fish Market, so we could have a very scary life experience. It was interesting to say the least. 

So many scary, theoretically edible sea creatures!

Horrifying.

I think these are the ones we ate.

More horror.

Never ending buckets of sea creatures.

KK and Tadhg are ready.

I'm not, but Jaeyeon is.

Live baby octopus. Why??

Slimy sea creature.

Raw flounder and some other dead fish.

Slimy sea cucumber.

Chewy sea penis.

Giant crab.

Me being as adventurous as I get.

KK's claw earring. 

Crab head fried rice.

Fish head soup.

Oh the horror.

Jaeyeon was the lucky winner of the fish head.

All in all, it was an experience I am glad I had, although the probably unrelated food poisoning a few days later will definitely prevent me from doing it again. The saddest part is that I can't figure out how to get the video of us eating live octopus to load. It's priceless, let me reassure you.