This Time in Seoul

Seriously, there should be an izakaya on my street. I’m that obsessed. I first discovered these lovely Japanese pubs the night I was taken under the wing of my incredibly flexible and beautiful yoga classmate, June. We tried to get into one but the waiting list was too long. I did love how incredibly small and narrow the sliding doors were, the luminous paper lantern shaking in the breeze. Dammit! I wanted to go inside! Alas, months later I got the chance to enter and taste my new dish of pure love:Okonomiyaki! Okonnomiyaki is shaped like a crepe. It’s made up of shredded cabbage, shrimp, squid, pork, beef, eggs and vegetables. It’s just good for you and is a perfect mate to several cups of sake. It’s the first dish that I’ve ever eaten that when placed in front of me, looks as if its moving. Huh? There’s paper thin, as thin as tissue paper, dried fish sprinkled on top of the oko’ (my name for it). You should see the way it moves! It moves like seaweed underwater. Oddly beautiful.

Here are just some photos taken while a friend and I were hanging out. Sorry, I’ll get you a picture of Okonomiyaki later, I inhaled it along with my sake as soon as it arrived. I live to eat well.