After class I went to lunch with my two friends at a restaurant in nearby Sinchon called Hong Kong Noodle. Most of what they had was noodle dishes (obviously) but I was able to get a good spicy seafood rice dish. It was delicious!
An extremely washed out photo of our food at Hong Kong Noodle.
After lunch, I headed back to the dorm and met with my group for my Premodern Korean History project and we did some planning for our presentation coming up on next Wednesday.
After that I went to my room and just relaxed for a while before meeting up with 5 other friends for dinner. It seems I spend the majority of my time in Korea eating food! The food here is extremely cheap and I don't have a kitchen so I essentially have to eat out every meal. You can frequently find full meals in a restaurant for $3-$4. The breakfast that I eat every morning, called onigiri (a Japanese rice-based food), only costs me about 70 cents.
We went and ate dinner at a sushi buffet that was delicious! It was actually my first time having Japanese sushi in Korea, as I normally eat kimbap which is sort of like a Korean version of sushi. I stuffed myself at dinner!
The entrance to Soul PC, the PC 방.
After dinner, I went to a place called Soul PC which is a PC 방 (pronounced like "bong"). 방 means "room" in Korean and it is essentially a place where you pay by the hour to play video games on computers. Instead of playing computer games by yourself in your room you can go with a group of friends to a PC 방 and play them in a more social environment. I met 4 other friends there (not the ones from dinner) and we all played video games for a few hours. It was very fun and there were about 30-40 people there besides us. It was an interesting social environment!
One of the various rows of computers inside Soul PC. I'm not sure why the dividers have hearts on them!
I finally decided to call it a night after a few hours and went back to Yonsei University to hit the sack!
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