COEX, wine, and live octopus oh my!

After volunteering, me and one of my friends (from the previous post about meeting the North Korean refugee friend and her boyfriend) went to the COEX aquarium (last pic is explained below):

You see that second to last pic?  Doesn’t the traffic director look like a pimp?

After finishing there we went to my home subway station, SNU, and found a place to eat.  I had told them I wanted to try live octopus so we found a place which had it and decided to go there.  The last pic from above is me eating one of the legs while the suckers have latched onto the top of my mouth lol.  We drank some 복분자 (wine made from fruit, something like a strawberry) which was pretty tasty.  For the main meal we had 갈낙볶음 (Fried ribs and octopus) which was also scrumptious.  Here’s the video of me first trying the octopus:

  1. It is the Korean Joker.

  2. what does “It is the Korean Joker” mean?

  3. Man, I hate how the server talks to you as if you are a child.

  4. @박상현
    I get that a lot (a lot of other foreigners have noticed that too)

  5. I was referring to The Joker from “The Dark Knight.” lol

    If you can show that you know Korean from the start you’ll rarely have a server talk to you like a child. I try to be the person in charge in a small group and ask any questions I might have. If you guys are talking about 반말 then… well I’ve never had that except from old women at a lower-end restaurant like 김밥천국. :/

  6. I didn’t have the guts to try it. Hopefully next time

  7. Hi..I found your blog on Google..
    I am helping some Korean friends to win a corean food competition between students..
    They upload this video related to Bibimbap (corean food..you should know it..)
    Please..can you spread this link to all your corean friends?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsrEs6BN7zI&feature=player_embedded

    Paolo, Korea fan ;) ))

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