Junk Food Review: Vol. 3. The Squidburger

Lotteria is Korea's version of McDonalds. With burgers ranging from the good ol' Hamburger, and Shrimp burgers to the infamous Lotteria Squidburger, along with its modern, but bright decor and uniforms that are starkly similiar to Mc'D's aprons of doom, the reign of the "L Restaurants" is solid in Korea.

Thus enters the Squidburger.

A small, 1,200 won burger, the Squidburger is a small square of squid with lettuce, some weird hot sauce and a sort-of-toasted bun all wrapped together by the metaphysical promise of its squiddy goodness. One bite, of course is insane as the squid is chewier than pretty much anything you'd ever put between two buns, but the hot sauce kicks in, essentially killing all taste sensation you may possibly get from the squid. Not only that, but the sauce is so intense, at some point the burger becomes nothing more than a vessel for a 15.4 bites of pure hot sauce and deep-friend rubberyness. Honestly, I don't know what I was expecting when I bought the Squidburger, but what I ate, didn't really match whatever bonehead and fucked idea of what a Squidburger might taste like in reality.

Next time, I check out the Shrimp Burger, smothered in, of all things, avacados.

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Board to Death 2

Pardon the oncoming postgasm of blog stuff. I've been very busy not sleeping and battling a broken Korean toilet. First up, Board to Deatttthhhhhhh Part 2.

Board to Death Part 1

A new feature on the blog, a sampling of the random things that end up on my whiteboard after a week of class. These are completely real and usually come a result of discussion with my Korean English Students. Enjoy!

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Downtown Cowtown

In the Church Hospital, no one can hear you scream...

As per Korean government regulations, all incoming foreigners with Visas must submit to a full health screening. Of course, I didn't know this, so when the nice lady up at the front desk of my Hagwon told me I had to get a health check, I was a little scared. Not that I have any horrible ailment like Swine Flu or Habitual Retardation (It's only occasional.) Anyway so we walk to the church hospital where for the next hour I am inspected from head to toe to make sure I won't die of some health issue in the country. Best part of the health screening: When the school assistant tried to explain to me that I needed to give a Urine sample, but all she could do is point to the bathroom, raise the daisy cup they gave her and giggle a little bit. Also on Thursdays the neighborhood i'm in, Sinmae, has an open market where you can buy pretty much any fruit or veggy or seafood item for super cheap. Also some pictures of my first day at school. Check out the photos, leave comments and enjoy.








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Daegu where? Daegu to Korea.

Hey yall. I made it to Korea and even after what was actually more than 24-hours traveling and a totally fried brain, I managed to survive my first 48 hours in Daegu. So rather than write a huge diatribe about the excentricities and weirdness of Korean culture and being about the only blond person in all of the Sinmae neighborhood, the insanity that is trying to hail a taxi, only to have them not take you somewhere because the destination is too far for them, or the strange awesomeness that is E-Mart, Korea's way awesome version of Wal-Mart, i'll let my first day of photos from walking around Daegu tell the story.

Seoul'd Out...

Well, today is the long-awaited day where I leave my comfortable suburby digs for the mega cities of southeast Asia. It's 14 hour flight that takes me from Vegas to Seattle, then Tokyo, the Korea. All-in-all, 14 hours of grueling flight love. Anyways when and if I get Internet, I will post my day on the road and the events of the night before.

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