Saturday, November 22, 2008
Evergreen - lunch
This is the chicken curry at Evergreen, an Indian restaurant in Itaewon. Instead of chunks of chicken, you get real chicken pieces, in this case, a drumstick and a thigh, with a small piece of white meat. The samosas were nice and spicy. And the garlic naan was good. The service here is very slow, and lunch can take a really long time. I need to check the place out for dinner or for the buffet and see if it takes just as long then.
Gingko leaves
The ginkgo trees all lost their leaves in one single night. The temperature dropped precipitously and the weather turned bitter cold over night last Tuesday. The evening before it was windy, and the next morning as I headed to the bus stop, the sidewalks were carpeted with the gingko leaves. By the time I headed home in the evening, the street sweepers had swept all the leaves up.
Patio -- dinner
A week ago we had dinner at Patio, an Italian restaurant in Itaewon. It was quite good. We went with the fixed price menus. I had the pasta, he had the steak. We both had a green salad, that came with some shrimp, followed by cream of asparagus soup (see photo), then the main course. Dessert was tiramisu.
Everything was quite tasty. The soup was excellent. We will undoubtedly go back at some point in the future.
Everything was quite tasty. The soup was excellent. We will undoubtedly go back at some point in the future.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
On my way to work...
The other morning I took a couple of photos from the pedestrian overpass that I take each morning from the bus stop to my office. The ginkgo trees are turning yellow and losing their leaves, and the view up the street of the trees has been amazing to watch. Each morning, the colors get just a bit more vivid.
This first photo is the one looking south towards the Han River (not visible). On the left side of the photo is a side street, which is the street the office is located on. The bus stop I get off at is on the right side of the photo, right about where the break between the ginkgo trees is.
I'm actually standing in the middle of the pedestrian overpass, looking out over the Cirque du Soleil Alegria billboard that's now on the overpass. As someone from Southern California, I am still amazed to see road signs, freeway signs, and billboards completely open and unprotected without barbed wire. They even leave the parts of the billboard sitting out on the pedestrian overpass while they're changing them. In Southern California, if they didn't magically disappear, they'd end up completely covered in graffiti in seconds.
This first photo is the one looking south towards the Han River (not visible). On the left side of the photo is a side street, which is the street the office is located on. The bus stop I get off at is on the right side of the photo, right about where the break between the ginkgo trees is.
I'm actually standing in the middle of the pedestrian overpass, looking out over the Cirque du Soleil Alegria billboard that's now on the overpass. As someone from Southern California, I am still amazed to see road signs, freeway signs, and billboards completely open and unprotected without barbed wire. They even leave the parts of the billboard sitting out on the pedestrian overpass while they're changing them. In Southern California, if they didn't magically disappear, they'd end up completely covered in graffiti in seconds.
Korean bbq
Several of us went out for dinner the other night to a Korean bbq restaurant. We had our own little room, and had to take our shoes off outside in the hallway. There were little cushions at each seat.
On the table when we arrived were dishes with kimchi, tofu, pickled radish, a soy paste, and a green onion salad. Plates of meat were delivered, then placed on the grill in the middle of the table. There was also a plate of mushrooms and a bowl of garlic cloves that we added to the grill.
After the meat was cooked, you could either eat it wrapped with the lettuce leaves, with some of the soy paste, a piece of garlic, and some of the green onion salad. My personal favorite was lettuce wrapped around a piece of mushroom, a piece of meat, a piece of garlic, and a bit of the green onion salad.
Otherwise, you could quickly dip just an end of the meat in a small dish containing salt and pepper and eat it as is. Either way, it was very, very tasty. Along with all of this, we also had a bottle of soju. I don't particularly care for soju, but the point was made that it went very well with all the flavors on the table.
On the table when we arrived were dishes with kimchi, tofu, pickled radish, a soy paste, and a green onion salad. Plates of meat were delivered, then placed on the grill in the middle of the table. There was also a plate of mushrooms and a bowl of garlic cloves that we added to the grill.
After the meat was cooked, you could either eat it wrapped with the lettuce leaves, with some of the soy paste, a piece of garlic, and some of the green onion salad. My personal favorite was lettuce wrapped around a piece of mushroom, a piece of meat, a piece of garlic, and a bit of the green onion salad.
Otherwise, you could quickly dip just an end of the meat in a small dish containing salt and pepper and eat it as is. Either way, it was very, very tasty. Along with all of this, we also had a bottle of soju. I don't particularly care for soju, but the point was made that it went very well with all the flavors on the table.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Vote
If you are a U.S. citizen, please, go vote.
This is your opportunity to be heard.
If you're not registered to vote or you didn't bother, shame on you. Many people around the world are working to help make sure that people just like you have the right to vote, the right to express their opinion. The least you can do is actually exercise that right.
As for me, I'll be checking the news first thing tomorrow morning -- we'll still have a few hours to go before the polls close on the west coast after I get to work tomorrow morning. I mailed my ballot a couple of weeks ago, which, by the way, I actually received via email.
This is your opportunity to be heard.
If you're not registered to vote or you didn't bother, shame on you. Many people around the world are working to help make sure that people just like you have the right to vote, the right to express their opinion. The least you can do is actually exercise that right.
As for me, I'll be checking the news first thing tomorrow morning -- we'll still have a few hours to go before the polls close on the west coast after I get to work tomorrow morning. I mailed my ballot a couple of weeks ago, which, by the way, I actually received via email.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Chef Meili's - dinner
Czech beer, real apple strudel, sausages, and home made sauerkraut -- must be Chef Meili's, an Austrian restaurant in Itaewon.
I've eaten here for lunch before and really liked it. Dinner is just as good. Unfortunately, we ate our dinners before recalling that I did have my camera with me. So no photos of the mixed grill with potatoes or the roast pork with sauerkraut this time. The mixed grill contained medallions of beef and pork, chicken breast, and a sausage, served on potatoes, with a small dish of mustard. Everything was excellent. I was a bit concerned when I ordered it because in the US, ordering any dish described as having beef, pork, chicken AND sausage would come out on a gigantic platter and I'd have enough food for over a week. But the portions are highly reasonable. And the next time we eat there, we will probably split a salad or appetizer first.
The roast pork was served over sauerkraut, and was quite good, apparently, seeing as how there wasn't anything left at the end of the meal. The observation was made that the sauerkraut was definitely home made, and tasted quite good.
The beverage menu had a fair amount of bottles of wine available, along with European beers and some schnapps. This is the Czech beer available.
And this, this is the absolutely delicious apple strudel. I was ready to order a second serving of this. It was served hot, with a dollop of whipped cream on the side.
I've eaten here for lunch before and really liked it. Dinner is just as good. Unfortunately, we ate our dinners before recalling that I did have my camera with me. So no photos of the mixed grill with potatoes or the roast pork with sauerkraut this time. The mixed grill contained medallions of beef and pork, chicken breast, and a sausage, served on potatoes, with a small dish of mustard. Everything was excellent. I was a bit concerned when I ordered it because in the US, ordering any dish described as having beef, pork, chicken AND sausage would come out on a gigantic platter and I'd have enough food for over a week. But the portions are highly reasonable. And the next time we eat there, we will probably split a salad or appetizer first.
The roast pork was served over sauerkraut, and was quite good, apparently, seeing as how there wasn't anything left at the end of the meal. The observation was made that the sauerkraut was definitely home made, and tasted quite good.
The beverage menu had a fair amount of bottles of wine available, along with European beers and some schnapps. This is the Czech beer available.
And this, this is the absolutely delicious apple strudel. I was ready to order a second serving of this. It was served hot, with a dollop of whipped cream on the side.
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