I made my first trip to Dongdaemun market on Monday. Stalls..and stalls..and stalls of clothes, leather, watches, jewelry..and a huge 24/hr mall called appropriately am/pm. In the mall I discovered the most glorious booth that makes eye glasses...prescription eye glasses..in 10 minutes..for $35. Needless to say I now have the first of what will be many new frames.
So my friends and I are walking through the market and these 2 men in robes and turbans come up to me. The conversation went a bit like this:
Man in turban: Kazakhstan?
Me: umm..no.
Man in turban: Afghanistan?
Me: no..sorry.
Man in turban: Uzbekistan?
Me: America
Man in turban: No..you joke!
His friend: You joke!
Me: Haha..no..really..I'm from America.
Men in turbans: You joke!! You joke!!
My friend Rachel: Well at least you know you're really tan.
It was pretty funny.
Equally funny was our hunt for dinner. Korean food is great..unfortunately the menus are all in korean..so we wandered around for half an hour trying to find a restaurant that served one of the 3 Korean dishes we knew how to pronounce. We finally ended up going back to the first place we tried..and the owner and his wife made us a "special menu" of beepimbop which is basically rice, veggies, and chili sauce. They gave us all 3 kinds..cold..hot with an egg...and their special beepimbop with fish eggs on it (which was actually pretty good.) The best part was that after we got our food the owner came over and instructed us to "mix" the veggies into the rice...which apparently I wasn't good enough at..so he and his wife did it for me. Thanks. Really.
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