I forgot to put my photograph drive back into my camera, so I had to take pictures on the actual camera this weekend, but I happily found this picture of Joseph and I in the old teacher office on one of our first weeks of school. We have come such a long way ( and both of us have much longer hair now) But it was fun to reminisce and think how much has changed and how much we done and how much we have learned.
Us in early October, Picture by Sen.
Now onto this weekend. We decided to be Adventurous with our appetite. We stopped at a street stall and order a Japanese fad food item called "Unbelievable Taki Yako"...which is a piece of octopus tentacle cooked in a breading dough outside layer topped with Mayonnaise, BBQ sauce, Fish shavings, Seaweed pieces and vinegar... It sounds awful, but it is actually quiet tasty, but you have to wait for them to cool off a bit or it is more like octopus tentacle covered by LAVA.
We actually passed this octopus in a bucket near the Okpo fish market, he was still alive and blowing water bubbles, so I got a picture. WE ATE THIS!!!! VOLUNTARILY!
We did a bit of Shopping in Okpo before we went to dinner, and while looking for fun gifts to send to people we came across this coolest combination, Keychain, toenail clipper and bottle opener... I have to add this to the list of Mustard with Paper towels.
While doing our shopping an interesting thing happened, Joseph is so powerful he broke the sidewalk... Literally he was walking and the sidewalk gave out underneath him... just one brick though, which was really odd... here is a side view with his food exactly as it was placed when said collapse occured.
The offending brick. Crazy.
On our shopping adventure we stumbled arcoss a photo studio. I still maintain that Koreans are weird when it comes to photographs. Here is a picture of a baby looking out the window at the rain, crying, completely naked and taking a leak all at the same time... I would have a hard time having this above my mantle place with company coming over..
This was right off the main street as a promotion of what kind of work they do... yeah.... 
And I love how the underwear stores do the same thing... Gee I guess Valentines day must be coming up.... I doubt many American boys would be caught dead in this get up!
We also found another bookstore (SCORE) with some aswesome english books, this one caught our Eye. The Obama story, he is so famous here, there were several biographies of him as well.
I like how the back cover makes it look like he had to escape Kenya via hot air baloon to live in American so he could be President.
We also found this comic book retelling American History in comic form, unfortunately these comics are not as funny as Calvin and Hobbes. According to the comic, the Native American Indians were peaceful hippies corrupted by Europrean Greed.
Here is a selection of the wooden tables to use for the Solar new year holiday, they also had a chart that told what kind of food you had to eat for a successful new year and the placement it needs on the table. Very traditional, and beautiful.
We actually had Indian food in Okpo but Sunday night we went out for our other favorite food, Shabbu Shabbu! I figured I would show pictures of this meal instead since indian food all kinda looks like mush!
And I love how the underwear stores do the same thing... Gee I guess Valentines day must be coming up.... I doubt many American boys would be caught dead in this get up!
We also found another bookstore (SCORE) with some aswesome english books, this one caught our Eye. The Obama story, he is so famous here, there were several biographies of him as well.
I like how the back cover makes it look like he had to escape Kenya via hot air baloon to live in American so he could be President.
We also found this comic book retelling American History in comic form, unfortunately these comics are not as funny as Calvin and Hobbes. According to the comic, the Native American Indians were peaceful hippies corrupted by Europrean Greed.
Here is a selection of the wooden tables to use for the Solar new year holiday, they also had a chart that told what kind of food you had to eat for a successful new year and the placement it needs on the table. Very traditional, and beautiful.
We actually had Indian food in Okpo but Sunday night we went out for our other favorite food, Shabbu Shabbu! I figured I would show pictures of this meal instead since indian food all kinda looks like mush!
They start you off with a big pot of beef flavored broth, and fill it with several different kinds of mushrooms and cabbage. They give you different sauces to dip the boiled mushrooms in. They also give you a big plate of thinly sliced beef, and you put it in the pot to cook it ( another place you cook for yourself) The you place the cooked meat on these already prepared rice balls on a type of lettuce. (they also garnish it with black seeds and crab meat.)
Plate -o- meat
Half of the mushrooms, the other hald are in the pot.
Here is the pot, the table acutally has a burner in the middle of it so you can adjust the heat as needed. Joseph is picking out some meat right now.
They also put additional things in the broth including shrimp, a weird bread/noodle thing and dumplings. All of it is boiled in a delicious broth.
After you eat your fill of all the different mushrooms, and the meat, they then take the leftover broth and cook rice in it adding seaweed, dried carrots and mushrooms, soy sauce and an uncooked egg to create a rice porridge so nothing is wasted. You can also get noodles, but they tend to put spicy kimchi with the noodles, so the rice is a bit more bland and more to Joseph' s and my liking.
Plate -o- meat
Half of the mushrooms, the other hald are in the pot.
Here is the pot, the table acutally has a burner in the middle of it so you can adjust the heat as needed. Joseph is picking out some meat right now.
They also put additional things in the broth including shrimp, a weird bread/noodle thing and dumplings. All of it is boiled in a delicious broth.
After you eat your fill of all the different mushrooms, and the meat, they then take the leftover broth and cook rice in it adding seaweed, dried carrots and mushrooms, soy sauce and an uncooked egg to create a rice porridge so nothing is wasted. You can also get noodles, but they tend to put spicy kimchi with the noodles, so the rice is a bit more bland and more to Joseph' s and my liking.
It is so delicous, and we have gone several times, but this is the first time I have ever remembered to bring my camera.
Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm with all the Snow... we hope it will start warming up here soon!
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