Dinner With Landlords
Last night our landlords took us out to eat; a very nice family with two boys aged five and seven. They took us to Mr. Pizza in the new downtown area of Gunsan. The food was delicious: we had Kimchi and Seafood spaghetti, all-you-can-eat salad bar (which included crab), and a deluxe seafood pizza with crab and other goodies overflowing the crust.. All the waiters at Mr. Pizza wore headbands with crabs bouncing around on little springs, and the place's motto was interestingly "Love For Women"... we never figured out why. After the dinner we took a walk down Gunsan's beautifully-lit pedestrian bridge (crosses over the lake that is near our house). Check out the pictures of the bridge in our photo album.
PS: One of the interesting things in Korea is that you are expected to share, even at restaurants, which means that they've got no problem with two people sharing one all-you-can-eat salad bar dish, or a free-refills glass of Cola (they'll bring you two straws!). I'm sure my dad would think this was great; if he were here I could see him ordering one dish and one glass of Coke for our family of six to share.
Love for Women
It's probably relevant to point out that near Andong there's a "Foreigner Shooting Range." And one of my schools' bears the slogan, "2008---Happy Dream!" My co-teacher even found a way to include this phrase in an English test. I just didn't have the heart to tell her...
On a different note: free drink refills?! You are in a veritable Korean Paradise.
sharing - yes, that's my kind of place!
Okay, you keep reaching new heights of enticement in your Korean adventure. not only interesting (very interesting) food (I love seafood), but people sharing an all-you-can-eat or drink order?! No way! You're right we'd order 1 for 6! We'd push their sharing values to the limit (probably make them end up making rules about the sharing, special for us :-).