![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The land of the not-quite-right
Jun. 19th, 2009 08:02 pmThis week has had its share of suck and fail, but there has been win as well. Needing to go into work on Saturday qualifies...
I've been going out to dinner with Han and Sonmi. We've been hitting Korean joints of one sort or another. Inexpensive is one of the key words here. Tonight, we stopped at a sushi joint. The kind with the conveyer belt and color coded plates to tell the prices. My compatriots were amused and a bit awed. I had eleven plates (of nigiri -- two pieces each). Nothing bad and mostly pretty good. Were I paying in dollars, I might have gotten change from a twenty. Walking down the street, we were accosted by folks peddling ttok. Han and DP passed, but I examined the wares. I picked up a bag of ttok moons with red bean paste in them. They're not great, but they are OK. Ttok is Korean rice cake -- soft and slightly sticky. In Insadong, there is a ttok shop with a guy out front pounding rice with a muckin' great mallet.
This time, I'm staying at the Novotel hotel in the city center. There is a lot of activity right to hand, and the Seomun market is less than a mile away. I'm hoping to get a chance to go over there to see about some silk shopping.
On a different subject:
I've been watching baseball. One interesting thing is that the Korean announcers use English terms. For example, when giving the count, say, 3 balls and two strikes, they say "two three". "Ball", "strike", "out", "foul", "swing" all appear in the lexicon among the Korean commentary. It's probably AA or AAA equivalent ball that I'm watching.
Then there was watching some billiards. There's an obscure game.
I've been going out to dinner with Han and Sonmi. We've been hitting Korean joints of one sort or another. Inexpensive is one of the key words here. Tonight, we stopped at a sushi joint. The kind with the conveyer belt and color coded plates to tell the prices. My compatriots were amused and a bit awed. I had eleven plates (of nigiri -- two pieces each). Nothing bad and mostly pretty good. Were I paying in dollars, I might have gotten change from a twenty. Walking down the street, we were accosted by folks peddling ttok. Han and DP passed, but I examined the wares. I picked up a bag of ttok moons with red bean paste in them. They're not great, but they are OK. Ttok is Korean rice cake -- soft and slightly sticky. In Insadong, there is a ttok shop with a guy out front pounding rice with a muckin' great mallet.
This time, I'm staying at the Novotel hotel in the city center. There is a lot of activity right to hand, and the Seomun market is less than a mile away. I'm hoping to get a chance to go over there to see about some silk shopping.
On a different subject:
I've been watching baseball. One interesting thing is that the Korean announcers use English terms. For example, when giving the count, say, 3 balls and two strikes, they say "two three". "Ball", "strike", "out", "foul", "swing" all appear in the lexicon among the Korean commentary. It's probably AA or AAA equivalent ball that I'm watching.
Then there was watching some billiards. There's an obscure game.
