After our long, but successful first week of school, we
headed to the Subway to go to John and Katelyn’s house (friends from church)
for dinner. What we weren’t expecting
was the Korean Cultural experience that we so wonderfully were treated to. For dinner, John called in an order to a
Korean Chinese restaurant. Apparently the
Koreans say they do Chinese food better than the Chinese do. We were so impressed with his ability to
actually phone in an order and then were equally impressed when the right food
came. What we weren’t expecting was to receive
our meal on real plates. What is that? They
told us that after you finish eating, you put all of your plates back outside
your door, and later on someone will come back by to pick up your dishes. Again, what?? So of course we ask how much
the delivery charge is, but it’s free! It’s the same price to eat in the
restaurant as it is to get it delivered and picked back up. Unfortunately, we are not advanced enough in
our Korean, seeing as we don’t even know how to say our address yet, to order
food over the phone. Something to strive
for, though.
The food was very good, too.
We had Sweet and Sour Fried Pork and several different sauces to dip it
in. There were also noodles, fried rice,
and mandu, which is a sort of dumpling.
Koreans LOVE their side dishes, so we probably had close to 12-15 dishes
for 4 people. Everyone then just dips
their food in the same bowls. It was
such a treat to have something other than chicken for dinner!
We are so excited to have made these friends here! They live almost an hour away, but it was
well worth the trip, and really it didn’t seem that long at all. We were sad that we left our camera at home,
so unfortunately there are no pictures to document this excursion. Next time!
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