-scissors for cutting meat
-go go girls dancing outside stores for their grand openings
-4 year olds walking alone on the street after dark
-squid chips
-baby octopus spaghetti (with the whole octopus, head and all)
-koreans lol
-$1 soju, 80 cent soju juiceboxes for the kids
-squid, things with tentacles hanging to dry
- vegetables for sale on the street. not in baskets, laying on the street.
- boys holding hands with boys, girls holding hands with girls not because they're gay but because they're friends
-businessmen passed out on the side of the street, soju bottle in hand
-people carrying things on their heads
-Loudspeakers on pickup trucks advertising fruit, fish, plastic containers, hardware, kimchi pots, etc... the first time we heard this we thought North Korea was invading... nope, just a sale on apples.
-your take-out pizza comes wrapped with a little bow. opening it for left overs is like opening a christmas present
-at least a half-dozen complimentary side dishes with every meal. And if you finish something, it is refilled for free very swiftly.
-natives that are very kind and only want to help you
-magpies (the only bird I've seen so far)
-wet tissues in ashtrays, and thin little cigarettes that all the men smoke (every korean man smokes, i believe)
-shopping karts falling over while kids are sitting in them. I've seen this twice and it looks like it hurts.
-straws in your coffee
-bills in denominations no greater than $10
-karaoke rooms on every street
-10 pc rooms on every street
-plastic surgery clinics in shopping malls and department stores.
-noodles, rice
-cleaning ladies who walk right into the men's washroom to clean whether or not you're peeing at the time
-dying your dog's fur
-people spitting a lot
-outdoor gyms at the top of a hiking trail
-public hula hooping
- yummy street food! chicken on a stick! goo filled pancakes!
-motorcycles, cars driving on the sidewalk
-kimchi
-free stuff randomly taped to other products. ex: buy these chicken nuggets and get a free box of kleenex. I love it. They call it 1+1. 1+1 is a big Mel and Shawn joke.
- floor heating (we have it in our apartment, it's nice on the feet)
-free water coolers everywhere
-wedding halls/wedding castles. they're everywhere. weddings are big here.
-umbrella bags. I thought they were garbage bags, but nope. Inside most public doors there's a little bag dispenser for your wet umbrella.
- chocolate that doesn't taste like chocolate
- public exercise and stretching
-bbq your own beef restaraunts (love it!)
-cinemas where you reserve your seats.(we saw "The Departed" and got to choose our own seats)
-chickens for sale and they still have their heads
-beer for sale at the supermarket, on the street
-public drinking is legal. drink a beer on the subway, it's fine.
-matching lingerie for couples
-more men wearing pink than women
-espresso and drumsticks OR espresso and cheese sticks for only 4,000 won. YUMMMMMY!
-bootleg dvds for $3 on the side of the road
-lots of awesome cakes and cake stores
-the popularity of sausage/hot dogs
-a hot dog covered in french fries, served on a stick
-men with tall hats opening the the door for you at department stores
-tomato flavoured popsicles
-big huge crabs/fish/eels that you pick out at a restaraunt and then eat
-25 convenience stores on each street
-clothing stores divided by brand/color, not by gender (today I tried on girl's jeans)
-so many english language schools
-recycling. there's one garbage for your ice/beverage, one for the cups, one for the plastic lids to the cups, one for everything else.
-smelly sewers
-all-night shopping
-christian evangelists that speak good english and want to corner you to talk "God"
-department stores with TOO MANY employees that don't realize how many times they tell you about their toothpaste you aren't going to understand what they mean
-hairdressers that serve you complimenatry coffees
-aloe juice (it's good!)
-korean covers of english songs ("lovefool" is pretty popular right now)
-bidets in my apartment:
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