A difference in eating. In the west you indulge in 1-5 flavors. a pizza. steak, maybe a sauce. Yes each flavor is a combination of several flavors by never the less you are dealing with a few primary flavors. In korean dining, as far as a sit down restaurant you will have several side dishes. From different broths to pickle leaves that resemble compost. Lots of different flavors. Many dishes that look simple because one thing may look like a root and the other a mushroom, you have an idea of what your eating by its look, in contrast of someone who never knew what spaghetti was having to guess what the sauce was made of. Thought the food looks simple I am guessing much of it takes more preparation than one may initially suspect. While eating you can experience 20 to 30 flavors.  Many of the cuisine involves the food being cooked right there whether it be a mushroom soup boiling in from of you,, and octopus soon to be boiled in from of you or various meats thinly cut and put on the grill in front of you to pick off dip in a sauce or wrap in lettuce.    The foot can be spicy at times. Most of their time their heat isnt all that bad, you can taste what your eating as oppose to the idiots who throw tobasco on everything completely killing off the flavor of what you’re eating. if its spicey and not cajun or asian then it’s just stupid.

Town center: most town centers vary little. The urban sprall from seoul goes on for seemingly forever where cities and districts are a matter of lines on a map. Even though the are 10 to 20 story building everwhere thaey manage to fit in ore trees than I have seen in pure suburbia in the US. The city center is always lively on nice days, close to a large park with courts and track and an odd walking path that i believe is supposed to hit all the pressure points on your feet as you walk it. i did it with some and it was painful, yet i think i felt better after. The city center has to fountains where children can play in. A series of jets shooting fro the groud at one and the other arches with jets shooting down with a circular running mini lazy river where they can dip their feet or trapes about. Doent seem like a cold place at all. It actually made me think of the people in US suburbia as cold. Not sure why, just think it would be weird seeing suburbanite americans being as comfortable piled on top of one another. No real basis on that thought though. I feel the people to become more and more pleasant. I dont get as much of the bigotry I hear others speak about.

I tend to be a bit of a cartoon, everyone love micky mouse. Either walking the cat or running about in shorts and a sleeveless shirt with the long hair out. I have a little bit of a more independent style than some of the other foreigners. Not a week goes by where some one, from any demographic in age or sex will tell me i am handsome. How could you not like these people, their taste is wonderful. Even in Boracay the locals visiting from other parts of the phillipines would ask me to pose for photos. I think its nice to trip out the locals wherever i go as much as they trip me out.

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