So yesterday was 정월대보름....cheongweol daebo reum....everyone knew that right? Of course you did. It's the first full moon of the Lunar New Year.....who doesn't know that?
Actually, half of the Koreans I talked to didn't know that yesterday was the day...so it's obviously not THAT big a deal.
Anyway, there's a cafe that I go to occasionally, that opened last month, and the lady there is really sweet and speaks English....one day last week she randomly told me that her mother and her had been talking and thought it must be hard for foreigners in Korea so far away from home (no kidding). So they wanted to do something nice for us, and I was supposed to bring a couple friends by at lunch time. (Enter Kyle and Amy)
Her/her mom made a whole bunch of traditional Cheongweol Daebo Reum food....mostly vegetables, but also soup, rice, seafood pancake type things, it was really good. And desert....hmmm....It was really sweet of them. And I can now add sesame plant leaves and ferns to the list of things that I have ingested. Haha. But Really.
Surprisingly, Kimchi is actually contraband that day....and I am supposed to be itch free for the rest of the year because I successfully bit through a peanut shell. I think my head just itched actually, oops, there goes that. Dang.
6 comments:
Hey Matt.
The full moon was yesterday for us, and it was huge and swollen-looking as it rose off the east horizon. Very cool!
Great story, great food, and a very kind gesture on behalf of your Korean Hosts. We should all be as thoughtful in our own situations, there are always folks around us who probably feel out of place, or homesick.
Not sure what the 'itch' and 'biting through a peanut shell' are all about - but I know that if I bit through a peanut shell it would be Bub-Bye Billy! All she wrote. Etc.
Have a great week!
Yea, it was really touching...she's a sweety...
Bub-Bye Billy....I like it.....the alliteration that is....not the concept...:)
I was supposed to walk over a bridge yesterday as well to make my legs strong for the rest of the year (the word for bridge/legs is the same) but I forgot. So chicken legs brouwer it is....:)
Chicken legs...hahahaha!
I quickly went to babelfish to translate the word bridge into Korean so I could impress you with my multilinguaility. But my keyboard is woefully inadequate and doesn't have the ability to make those cool geometric/robotic squiggly characters.
So you'll just have to trust me that I know the word. Can't spell it, pronounce it, recognize it, but, well, there it is!
Hi Matthew,
Nice story. :) I'm glad you were given such a lovely act of kindness.
I woke up thinking of you this morning, and prayed for you early. Thought I'd check your Blog before work - you know, with my coffee and gingerbread biscotti (thanks, Gramma!).
I see there's an earlier Blog I missed, so I'll read that, too.
Hope you have a happy Thursday ... even though it's only Wednesday. :)
I love you,
Mom
was it 다리? Horatio is now quadra-lingual...his keyboard has cute korean stickers on it to enable the addition of the fourth language...Can your computer read those characters?
Thanks for reading y'all....hope the lovely coast is treating you well.....
Hey, great to see some Korean grace extended to foreigners. What did Kyle think about it? I'm very encouraged myself, so I hope you (and Kyle) are too. It's too bad this wasn't experienced much earlier, but better late than never! - Dad
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