Seoul - Day 10

We had a leisurely morning as took the subway downtown to Yonghui-Dong to meet up with Scottie's Aunts (the two younger sisters of Mrs. Lee)and cousin for a lengthy lunch at a Korean well-being restaurant. It was a 4 course meal starting with two different appetizer-like courses, a main course of scallops, fish, and some chiggers, and ending with a light dessert of ice cream and a rice drink. It was at least a 2-hour affair, but it was nice bonding time with some family.

Post-lunch, we spent some at the middle Aunt's house (who has a son that we met the following day currently serving in the South Korean military) for some tea, some fruit, and duk. While we were certainly pretty full from lunch, for some reason, we found room for the fruit, and well, the duk too because that stuff was tasty. I received the tour of the house and learned that this Aunt is an avid and quite good painter.

I told Scottie to ask these ladies where we might find what I suppose is a scroll with Korean characters on it that says something like "Welcome" or "Home". I was looking for more of Korean characters painted that I could frame. It was certainly amusing when Scottie was trying to explain this to his Aunts and Cousin. They performed various google searches to see if they could find a place nearby that sold something like this. Eventually, we just hit up the streets near Hongik University down the street that had a cluster of restaurants, shops, and bars. After a little shopping, they decided to throw in the towel to head to a bar.

After some drinks, we grabbed a quick dinner at nearby noodle house where I was fired up to finally get some Duk Boki, Korean Spicy Rice Cakes, but the noodle dish was quite tasty as well.  Not to mention spicy.  The amusement at this restaurant was that while Koreans are pretty much immune to hot spices, they all knew better when ordering.  They would request "less spices" but the chef would yell out that that it's impossible, so everybody was slurping up their wee glasses of water at this joint.

Post-dinner, we took in some jazz at a club nearby where I sampled some Cafri, another Korean beer, and Scottie tried out the Cass Light!  While these were certainly no Bell's or Founder's, they were Korean, so we felt like we were supporting the local country. 

More pictures located here.  A map of our trip located here.