March 27th Marc and I celebrated our meeting on the greyhound bus exactly three years ago, as well as our official one month mark of being in Korea. We enjoyed an evening out after a day of teaching by going out for a pizza and to a lovely Korean tea house afterwords. The pizza was suprisingly delicious. The pizzas here tend to be lacking on the sauce side, really just melted cheese on a crust that is sometimes filled with a sweet potato filling. Really? Who thought that would be a good idea. We actually drank a whole pitcher of fanta too. Ouch. We decided to get the "well being salad" which ended up being a super wierd salad full of kiwis, pineapple, sweet potatoes, egg salad, and fake crab meat. They call things "well being" here as a way of saying that it's health food. It always makes us laugh because the translation just isn't quite right. After dinner we went to the nearby teahouse which I am totally in love with
. Back in portland going to tea chai te was one of my favorite places, so needless to say I was really excited about going to a tea house in Korea. It included a really extravagant setup with many different bowls to pour the tea in. You first poured hot water into a big bowl, then a little bit of hot water into the tea holder, then after steeping the tea you pour the tea into the bowl with the water, then pour that bowl of tea into your cup. Whew! Who knew tea was so complicated. The green tea (called nokcha in Korean) was from a nearby province n
amed Jeollanam-Do. Pretty cool to be drinking tea that's from only a few hundred miles away. Marc had a matcha green tea. It's funny at home I thought that matcha was only some coffee house fad, then I come here and find that matcha is an ancient form of tea, one that is amazing all on it's own. Back home we make it into a latte with sugar and whip cream on top. This simple matcha was a million times better than anything we had a home. We really couldn't speek to the tea lady because we can't speek much Korean, yet, but somehow we were able to communicate enough to get some wonderful green tea and a few wierd tea snacks. The tea lady was so sweet to us. She kept apologizing for not
knowing more english, really we should be apologizing for not knowing more Korean. Meeting poeple like her and going for tea at places like this make me love being in Korea. All in all it was a lovely night, we will be regulars there for sure.
March 27th Marc and I celebrated our meeting on the greyhound bus exactly three years ago, as well as our official one month mark of being in Korea. We enjoyed an evening out after a day of teaching by going out for a pizza and to a lovely Korean tea house afterwords. The pizza was suprisingly delicious. The pizzas here tend to be lacking on the sauce side, really just melted cheese on a crust that is sometimes filled with a sweet potato filling. Really? Who thought that would be a good idea. We actually drank a whole pitcher of fanta too. Ouch. We decided to get the "well being salad" which ended up being a super wierd salad full of kiwis, pineapple, sweet potatoes, egg salad, and fake crab meat. They call things "well being" here as a way of saying that it's health food. It always makes us laugh because the translation just isn't quite right. After dinner we went to the nearby teahouse which I am totally in love with
knowing more english, really we should be apologizing for not knowing more Korean. Meeting poeple like her and going for tea at places like this make me love being in Korea. All in all it was a lovely night, we will be regulars there for sure.
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