I quickly threw my carry on bag and said "gichayeog", (train station). I had to say it twice since he didn't understand, my pronunciation is off sometimes but I am pretty sure that I had said it correctly, because when the cashier called the taxi, I heard her say "miguk". I felt like this taxi driver was f$&@ing with me. I mad sure to watch were the meter is because taxi drivers sometimes scam you. If they press thoses buttons, there is extra surcharges up to 2000 won. Well, I was right his itchy fingers was there. I'm pretty sure I was staring real hard and he saw that I'm not stupid and slowly withdraw his itchy hands away..ugh.. I didn't have the time, way to early for that sh$&@, and there was a mere possiblity that I was missing my train. I told the taxi driver "Bali, Bali!" (Hurry, Hurry!) he didn't understand and started to break....I was like Aniyo, upeyy! (No, up!). I felt like that was the slowest taxi ride I have ever been on.Korean taxi drivers are very wreckless, speedy, ignorant and they think they own the streets. They drive super fast to get you from point A to point B really fast so usually you are holding on for dear life when your in a taxi car in Korea. The funny part is that they get offended if you put on your seatbelt and start talking in Korean or smacking the selt beat out of your hands. This happened many times wih me because I always put a seat belt on. I don't care if your a good drivers or whatever. Seat belt is a must. Things can happen!! Let me stop with this taxi rant and get back to finishing the story. I finally arrived at 5:48am. I ran as fast as could with a carry on in my hands and an oversized bag, up a flight of stairs and down a flight of stairs to catch the train. I was getting stares running but I didn't really care it's Korea. I had a train to catch. I get stares were ever I go as I mentioned I'm a standing tower in Korea. This morning was a rough start!
Zzzzzzz....5 hours later.....I finally arrived in Seoul. My friends and I were meeting up at the Hello Kitty cafe in Hongdae. I had the most difficult time finding the cafe I was literally circling around Hongdae with a carry on luggage. I was following direction from a blogger online and she said that it is near a Watson and Ho bar. There are about 3 Ho bars in Hongdae. I was such a tourist. This was my third time in Hongdae. I love Hongdae nightlife it is pretty awesome. My friends were coming a little later because their bus arrival was alittle later than mine. By the time they got to Seoul, we ended up going together...me with directions not so good I guess...haha
Before heading out to go clubbing, we decided to get dinner before chugging down massive amounts alcohol..haha jk I'm not a heavy drinker, but I like to drink moderately. We went to eat at Mr. Cheese Rib, apparently it is a new popular food in Seoul. I am always up to trying new things especially when it comes to food.
When we walked into Mr. Cheese Rib's restaurant it was really busy, In my head, I was assuming it must be really good since it was packed. We had a choice of choosing how spicy we wanted our ribs, of course we choose the lowest level we can possible pick (mild). We had are Korean friend order since she knew more Korean than anyone else at the table. While waiting for our food, I was looking around and man did the food look amazingly good. While we were chatting up a storm, are food finally came to the table. We had a ghetto gas stove with a hot cast iron plate full of marinated ribs and massive amounts of cheese. Hooray for me because I love cheese.
In Korea, cheese is super expensive and hard to come by especially were I live, unfortunately. The only time I eat cheese is when it comes with our food that we order. (pizza, cheese dakgalbi, etc) So, this year I will be cheese deprived.. TT haha really tho. We got these special gloves to use to eat our ribs with to prevent our hands from getting dirty. The first bite into my ribs, my mouth was on fire, literally!!! I couldn't help but prance my legs around as that was suppose to soothe my pain in my mouth...hahaha but that hella was spicy as #$&%*! and the sad part is that we had to champ it out and finish it. My grandma and mom always nags when throwing out food, so they make sure that we eat all our food before letting us play when we were little. It always stuck with me, therefore I don't let food go to waste. I was eating ribs after ribs because if I stopped it was much more painful but there was a point were I couldn't handle the heat anymore. I was sweating eating theses ribs; one of my friends said I looked like I was giving birth..haha.. Most of my friends had a couple and called it quits. I told my friends after eating these spicy ribs, we don't need to put lip gloss on because we would have plumped lips ready for the club..hahaha... We were probably the most obnoxious table and loudest table in the restaurant but we had the I don't care attitude like most foreigners...haha
Yep! I also tried Nitrogen ice cream before I left Seoul treating my home sickness. Before leaving I usually like to get something sweet as I head back to my town.hahaha
That's all I have for ya'll now but I should be posting another one about my birthday weekend in Cheonan!!
Xoxo-Chuieeadventures
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