There are starting to be bigger gaps in between my posts which means I'm starting to have more of a life over here. As I had mentioned in my last post, my friends and I went to the Platinum Brewery in Apgudong, but unfortunately it did not meet my standard of beer (damn you Trappist for spoiling me). When we got to Platinum we had spent the day in a recreated traditional villiage where we listened to traditional Korean singing, made wishes for the new year (not telling what I wished for), and waited to see an exorcism. We would have stayed to see the exorcism but... it was so cold! Now before you start judging me for being a wimp from California, let me assure you I was wearing two sweatshirts and a jacket, boots, a scarf and I was still freezing. My friends from the east coast (where it gets quite cold) we also shaking in their respective boots. We shivered through the songs and opening scenes, lots of fruit and a dead tatooed pig (..?)
The villiage itself was pretty neat, all the houses had been moved from their original locations to recreate an old village. Once the cold had gotten to us we retreated to the metro to go to Apgudong to have some quality beer. After some unsure wanderings we were thrilled when we finally found the place and snatched the best booth in the joint (so.. the biggest). Tyler and some more sinchon people met up with us and also one of my friends from Gangnam that I trained with joined us as well. The company was great, the beer... not so much. I was pretty disappointed that the top ranked microbrewery served crap beer. I was so excited to try the belgium white beer, waiting in giddy anticipation as the server brought it over to our booth, and what did I taste? Hmm how to describe the horror? Maybe imagine what a budweiser would taste like after it was a year old from sitting in a hot garage. It was skunky, gross, cardboard-y, yeah basically any flavor that has a correlation with old beer. It was so gross. I couldn't even finish it. Ron was nice enough to drink it for me so I could get another beer. Since it was unlimited beer from 5:30-8:30 you would get one glass and it was refilled whenever you finished one.
Since we had a three day weekend the following week flew by. Another sickness is floating around the office and I'm a little worried about it. I'm going to take it easy this week. This last week I watched the entire first and second season of True Blood, I recommend that show to anyone that has free time it's really good. It's about vampires in the south. Anna Paquin stars in it and I've always liked her, anyone rememeber Fly Away Home?
This weekend was pretty short because I had another Saturday work day but I did go to the War Museum near Itaewon with Tyler, David and Sean. It seems like most of the museums in Seoul are free which is really nice. We walked around all the old planes and tanks that decorate the exterior of the museum like huge lawn ornaments. The museum was really nice, one of the nicest museums I've ever been to. After the museum Tyler, David and I headed to Beer O Clock to have some western style grub. I was really torn between a burger and pizza and I ended up settling for pizza, not a wise choice. The tomato products overhere ain't what they is back home friends. They are very sugary, the ketchup tastes so sweet... but the pizaa sauce wouldn't be like that right? RIGHT? Wrong... the pizza was sweet. Well at least I know now what korean pizza tastes like and I'm over it. The worst part was David ordered a burger and I had to jealously watch him eat a delicious burger while I ate my sweet pizza (shuddering at the memory).
So in conclusion:
Korea is superior in their metro system (yeah you heard me AC Transit) and their public free museums, but back home we have non-sweet tomato sauce and REAL begium beer.
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