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This was SUPER spicy and very yummy chicken and noodles. Jeong Woo came over tonight. We had some beer and Soju at my place and then went downtown for some late night chow and revelry. We walked around for a bit and a lot of places were either closed or out of food. It was after 10:30pm when we stumbled on a place that served chicken at your table cooked on a burner. It was really really good. It was also very very spicy. The menu said it was chicken rib meat, but I think it was mostly what Americans would call breast meat. It had that and vegetables, small rice cakes, and potatoes with thin noodles. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once again, I've found another dish that alone is worth the trip to Korea.
This is the exterior of Boss. I wanted to try a downtown club, but Jeong Woo suggested we go to a club from a flyer advertisement that littered the streets. It was for a club called Boss. It listed the waiters HP (hand phone). The bars are different here. It's the waiter's job to advertise and get people in the club. Then you sit in their section and order exclusively from him. I learned two amazing things about Korean clubs tonight. Number one, the cheapest thing on the menu at this place was 215,000 won (about $215.00). You can't just start out by ordering a beer. You have to order a set first. Then you can add beer or whatever later. It was a plate of fruit (Koreans eat when they drink), 3 beers, 2 bottles of water, a small bottle of Jim Bean whiskey, and 3 cans of tea. The second and probably one of the most amazing things I've EVER seen in my whole life was legal kidnapping. On the way to the club, Jeong Woo asked me if I knew what "booking" meant. I said I knew the American definition but not the Korean one. He said it was when the waiter of the club brings over girls to your table. I then said, "Do you mean hooking?" He said "No...booking." I had no idea what I my eyes were about to see. Apparently, you don't really just walk up and talk to girls. You order your $200 bowl of fruit and the waiter LITERALLY goes up to random girls and DRAGS them over to your table. Yes...I mean the waiter walks over to a table of girls and GRABS one, and brings them over to your table. That my fine feathered friends....is "booking" in Korea. I saw waiters all night walk up to girls and grab them by the arms and pull them over to the tables of men. Some of the girls go willingly, some really put up a fight. Sometimes, you could tell, the girls were putting up a fight just for show and to be coy, but some were really putting up a fight, but most ended up going anyway. Very very few were able to fight off the waiter and say no.
Lighting the candles for a birthday party. A few rounds of girls were brought to our table. It consisted mostly of me saying "Do you speak English?" And the girl replying "No" or "A little." Every one of the girls there were cute. I think, with no exaggeration, there were about 100 girls there and maybe 15 guys. I was, of course, blown away at this practice of "booking." I asked Jeong Woo why did he think clubs worked this way. He said he thinks because most Korean men are shy. I then asked him who came up with this idea? He said..."A genius." What I learned today about Korea: 1) Kidnapping in a club is legal as long as the girl acts coy.
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