The controversial Kimchi Land II

The below picture is for the benefit of Cousin Rain. She wanted to see a sample of the receipt in lego language. I also don't know why I demand a receipt everytime, as if I know how to read it. Usually if we go out eating together, we will immediately settle the bill cause even if you know what you eat, I doubt you can match it back to the receipt.

A day's grocery items

The skinny, shapely Korean mei mei, they eat a lot and the food portion show it. Look at the onion rings. It looked like it's cook in steriod. You can look at the 50 cent comparison that I put near the plate. Their 50 cents is even smaller than ours. My lovely translator admits she can eat 2 big pao and still can eat some more. At times like this I feel the world is not fair. How can she look tall and slim but can eat double of what I eat and still look thin while I can just get fat by walking by a pastry shop. One or two people like that, I say it's metabolism. The whole nation? It's the water that they drink is it? But my colleague said no, it must be the stairs. Now we know why they don't build escalators.

They are so huge they look like fried donuts

Anyway I am not complaining lar, for the price that I paid for food, they should be that big. Can finish, cannot finish seperate issue ler...

After 2 weeks here, I realize one thing. Besides the Pilipinos, the Koreans also like to brush teeth. In fact they brush it more often than the Pilipinos. They brush it before they start work, mid morning before lunch, after lunch and evening before go home. Some even left their toothbrush with paste in a glass in the toilet, testimony on how often they brush their teeth. Don't know about the guy's toilet though. Now, question - how can a population so particular on hygiene can spit? Yes, I still can't get over the fact that they spit. Anyway, the theory after much thinking is they brush their teeth not because of hygiene reasons. It's because they are sien with work. In Lion City, when you are sien, you go Starbucks or Mamak stall and get a glass of teh tarik. In Korea you brush your teeth.

On more train ethics, they actually queue in nice long rows to wait for the train, much like the Japanese. But when the train comes, they ram inside without waiting for people to exit. It looks a bit funny to me. If I am the first in the row, I will actually wait for people to exit and behind me I will hear those tsk tsk tsk noise. Some even propel me forward. Have the awareness to queue, why no awareness to let people out first?

Ok, enough train drama, see this 3 in 1 coffee below? Very famous brand in Kimchi Land or was it only my office (*Shrug). Anyway, my floor provides 2 public teaspoon for you to stir your drink. It's public so you are not suppose to lick it after you stir it and put it back into the glass with water next to the cooler. I have not actually witness anyone doing it, but I guess a lot of people suspect other people doing it so they improvise. They cut the coffee pack along the doted line pour powder inside, pour hot water and stir the drink with the empty packet. Then throw packet away. No wonder they not scared of the nuclear radiation coming from Japan. Luckily I don't need to do that. Colleague of mine steal a lot of starbucks stirrer ha ha ha.

Coffee and stirrer 2 in 1