Quick update which serves as a bridge for more interesting material and the dullest title ever.

Pictured here is a very popular and typical Korean dish--kimchi bok um bap (bohk oohm bahp), which was meant to be the second installment in my food series. In a nutshell, it's kimchi fried rice with an egg on top, but that's not important right now. I had a grand idea to do a series on Korean food and two things happened: One, My schedule shifted and it wasn't nearly as convenient to visit this restaurant for dinner. Two, which was of bigger influence, I got completely burned out on Korean food. I have been eating this stuff ten times a week for the last two years and have recently decided to take a break. I've been cooking more conventional food at home lately and eating at ethnic restaurants. Some friends and I not too long ago discovered a really good Mexican restaurant (which I never thought would happen here) near the air force base just a half an hour down the subway line, so we've been doing that quite a bit. Aside from kalbi (grilled meat with sides) I haven't eaten Korean food in weeks. I made an exception today and ordered bibimbap, but it wasn't so satisfying.

Point is that this food thing isn't going to happen. Korean food has become so common to me and I have eaten so much of it that I can't see myself waxing poetic about it on this blog. Perhaps someday I'll wax poetic about the Mexican place, which is fantastic. For now, the plan is to sort through my pictures from last weekend's wonderful excursion to Seorak mountain (Seoraksan, if anyone feels like googling it) and tell all about it. I have been playing soccer every Sunday (www.intersuwon.com) and we've been doing very well. However, it has been keeping me around Suwon and there hasn't been much adventure. Last weekend we had the Sunday off so I jumped on the opportunity to take a weekend trip and was not disappointed. In the meantime, I'd encourage everyone to check out intersuwon.com, as the team has a new beat writer. I'll post pics and a few words on the trip very soon. Missed you guys!!!