After our lovely afternoon sojourn at the temple we returned to a meat fest at one of the local Korean BBQ joints followed by an outing to a Karaoke Bar but not like anything I have been to before. First the dinner, this was your typical affair where each table has a few cookers built into it.
There are several types of cookers and earlier in the week we went to one that had just. Flat ceramic hot plate. But tonight's place was the real deal, a sunken sloped metal plate sitting over a bed of charcoals which must have had some way of raising Nd lowering heat because there were also buttons on the table for that. But it really was charcoals because they removed them once we were done eating.
our table was a pork table, you had to pick, so it was thick slices of what looked like bacon but then as it cooked they came along and cut it up with the biggest pair of kitchen scissors I have ever seen. If I hadn't been leaving the next day I would have gone loking for those. We had our own cooking lady for 4 of us, me and three tall guys, and once the meat was cooked she would just pile up morsels in front of each person. We each had many small sauces in front of us and the ubiquitous basket of leaves, or green bread as our table liked to call it. All delicious, Sara you would Have been in heaven.
Just as things were winding down a call came through for a Karaoke outing and of course I was not going to pass that up. But I have to apologise as I have no pictures, My camera does not work well in poor light and I did not have my phone. There were many people taking photos so some may come my way but at this stGe I am sort of happy that I have not photos.
Marlene from the Phillipines and I were the seniors with all the other young ones and the local Korean girl SeongBo was our guide. Our first group was all girls and our destination was a Karaoke club where you have your own small room with screen and remote to select your songs and you can sing and jump around to your hearts content. There are video clips that go along with each song and these were a bit freaky, but after a while you just stopped watching those. Aziza was with us and she turns out to be a Karaoke addict, I kid you not. Marlene and I were on the same page so pushed for a few Burt B songs and although the young ones did not seem to recognise the titles they knew the songs when they came along, but Marlene and I were the stars for those numbers. After about an hour there a small crowd of the men folk found us and after a few more songs we relocated to a more up market Karaoke joint where the room had extras, more comfortable seating, strobe lights, a box of Crazy wigs, a dancing Dias (no I did not get up there but others did), snack plates and beers. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Most popular song of the night that went across cultures and ages and gender? YMCA. So ended my last night in Changwon.
That bacon looks just like ours. you must wrap it in the green leaves or bread, as you say. I think you can get long scissors like that here. I've seen them at a restaurant supply house. I can get a pair if you want. The Karaoke night sounded great. Wish you had pics. For some reason the asians really like that stuff. I'd have to be pretty blasted to do it. I'm going to be sad this blog is over. I've been having fun reading, seeing the pics, and responding. Can you take another trip next week?
ReplyDelete