Our Chinese Food Trip

Last night we decided that we would attempt to get to an American Chinese restaurant that is in the city of Daegu. One of the problems with living in a large city like this one is that you need to rely on mass transit to get to different places and that can often take a decent amount of time. Amber and I decided to invite our friend and fellow teacher, Samantha, to accompany us on our trip. The trip started with us boarding the bus in order to get to the subway. The bus was super crowded and we had to stand up... at which point I informed Samantha (after she had begun to talk loudly on the bus) that it was not a good idea because it upset the Koreans (they don't like people talking loudly on the bus). We traveled along and finally got to the subway entrance. We boarded our subway and traveled along the way looking for the transfer station... where we were suppose to make a train shift. When we got to the transfer mark, we exited the station and began to walk around looking for the restaurant. Along our way, we found "dog alley" which is a row of pet shops that all sell dogs... I may have mentioned earlier that in Korea, they like making commercial areas sell all the same things, so you will see a pet shop alley, a cell phone alley, etc. The dogs were so incredibly cute, especially one of the miniature dogs that was wearing a tiny green vest. It was at this point we realized that there was no restaurant in sight... I then made the comment, I don't even see the bank... it was at that point that Amber realized we had gotten off at the wrong spot since we did not transfer trains.

We went back to the station, switched trains, and finally got to the right location. The next issue became trying to find this place. We walked in one direction and found nothing... so we decided to go the other way... still no place. Eventually we stopped for directions at a chicken place and found out where to go. Our directions were fine up until the point where it said to leave the station and walk 200 meters south... we neither had a tape measure or a compass, so we had issues figuring out which direction and distance that would be. After an hour and thirty minutes, we arrived at the restaurant only to find out that it was closed for the holiday... At this point we were so hungry that we tried to find a new place to eat at. I said "how about Japanese" and we stopped at the place only to realize that the place had no English menus, and that it was a Japanese restaurant with a Korean waitress who had no idea what the menus said because she did not read Japanese.

We finally settled on a Korean BBQ place and had a nice meal. On our way home we decided to stop for ice cream only to realize that place was closed too... it was one of those days, but we did have a fun time regardless of the issues.