Boiled Denim

     Hi everybody! Hope it's a beautiful day out there on your special piece of the planet. I have more posts about things I have done in the past couple of weeks, but today I'm going to write about something a little more recent. You are all going to have an amazing opportunity to learn about the tasty greatness of shabu-shabu.
     Now, besides having an exquisite name, shabu-shabu is probably one of the best meals we can get around here for 10 bucks a person. It's also a few extra bucks for a couple of tasty drinks. Because it is such a tasty deal, Emily and I decided to have it for dinner last night. I decided to bring along the camera and take a bunch of awkward photos while we ate. By the way, I don't want to act like I know all kinds of stuff about shabu-shabu, so here is the link to the Wikipedia article I would have ended up stealing my information from in the first place.
     So today was a pretty cool and rainy day. It's perfect for shabu, because the steam from all the cooking kinda sucks if its warm and humid in the restaurant.

Super rainy early in the day.

The restaurant is right across the street!

Walking into the building.

Welcome to shabu-shabu

     After walking in the front door you take off your shoes, put them on the shelf, and find a place to sit. The seating is on the floor and my legs fall asleep every seven seconds, but that's okay because shabu-shabu is better than boiled denim. 

A view of the entire place from our seats.

     When we sit down the waitress comes by and gives us the menu. After a few minutes the waitress comes back and Emily uses her Korean skills to order up some food. Before you know it we have a feast in front of us. 

The left side of the table.

The right side of the table.

And of course my tasty coke.

     Now, we cook! Cooking the food is pretty fun and easy. All we really have to do is put all the veggies and meat into the pot and let it boil for a few minutes. Of course we do have to cut up all of the big veggies...

Me doing a horrible job cutting.

Em stirring that whole thing up.

Hookin it up with a tasty bowl.

The final product.

     When we finish cooking we end up with a few bowls of meat and veggies like you see above. But wait, there's more! We also get to cook noodles and something else that I can't remember the name of right now. It's not even a hard name. Oh well, if I remember it later I can always come back and edit. Anyways, when we finish eating the noodles we move on to the final portion of shabu-shabu. We call this juke, or rice porridge... I think. I can't remember things right now so here are some more pics!

First we add the rice. Next we add the egg.

Let it cook for a bit...

Before you know it we have some stuff that looks gross
and tastes amazing.

All that's left is to serve and enjoy.

     So that's about it. We have a few bowls of this tasty juke/rice porridge/unknown food, and the meal is over. My legs are usually well asleep at this point, so I try to wake them while leaving. After we are done it's only a short walk back home. Anyways that's all I have for you guys today. Until next time, Seoul long!

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Always boil the denim that you find washed up underneath bridges.

Postage stamp museum

     Hey everyone. So a few weeks ago we had a really long vacation. That's right, we had an entire week off. Emily's mom (Margaret) came over from Canada, and we did almost every single tourist thing we could think of. One day before going to a palace we decided to go to the Korea Postage Stamp Museum.

     Now, before we got there I kept thinking it was going to be boring. I mean how fun could it be to look at a bunch of stamps? Well, it turns out that looking at these little square pieces of paper can be pretty cool.
     When we walked in it seemed pretty basic. The first part of the museum was pretty much the history of postage stamps. This section had some good information and a few cool action figures.

A little history to start of the experience.

Delivery guys then and now.

A couple of action figures.

I thought these cars were pretty cool.

Cat stamp!

Some super old stamps.

     The history stuff was okay, but around the corner everything got way better. As we come around the corner we find a mirror to take a picture with. They also had cartoon stamps, dinosaur stamps, scented stamps, and all kinds of other stamp related stuff. I was most excited about the cartoon stamps btw. I never knew that stamps could be so cool. We took way to many pictures at this place, so check em out.

Emily and I becoming a stamp.

Possibly old Soviet Union stamp.

Shoe stamps.

These were pretty cool.

This is when the stamps started to get really cool.

Pokemon!

DBZ!

I don't understand this, but it looks cool.

Cartoon stamps of Korea.

Cartoon stamps of Asia.

Cartoon stamps of the U.S.

I used to have a set of these when I was younger.

Mickey! Anyone want to hit up Disneyland?

Dino Stamps!

     After seeing all of these great stamps we moved on to the next section. It had some more cool figurings. There were also stamps from all around the world. The world stamps were all inside of special drawers. You pick the country you like then pull out the drawer, and you get to see a bunch of cool art from that country. Then we played a little video game. The entire game was in Korean, but it was still fun.

"No way... that's great. WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!"

     There were stamps with birds.

     There were dancing dolls.

     There was a room that shows us how to collect stamps, and a computer that let us color our own stamps.

     And finally, we came across all kinds of drawers that contained most of the stamps that the Korean postal service has made.

     Now, I am officially tired of talking about stamps. All in all the stamp museum was pretty cool. It was the first thing we did that day. Later on we got to see a palace and see another museum that was pretty awesome. I added way to many pictures to this post. I shot a video of the entire museum, and I will add it at the end of the post. Anyways, I need to stop typing. I hope you guys have a wonderful day, and until next time Seoul long!

This video is a bit shaky, so apologize if you start puking 12 seconds into it. I also forgot to turn on the sound. Don't worry though, I added some music to help get you through all the shaking.