Today's Events...
1. Big Foot's first taste of kimchi jigga (kimchi soup) at a favorite restaurant of ours.
2. Took Big Foot to a traditional Korean village.
3. At the village, Big Foot enjoyed some Korean pizza and mock-ga-lee (rice wine).
4. Entertained Big Foot with a downtown "street food tour".
5. Good times at a local wine bar where we met and chatted with some sweet university students.
6. Taste testing of banana coffee and beer-wine.
I'm a huge fan of Korean food so it was only obvious I'd be introducing him to various street food vendors. Tonight Big Foot was introduced to several street food items and we took a bunch of them to a local wine bar to snack on. While at the wine bar, the two girls at the next table eyed our goodies so I stirred up a conversation with them. Super sweet girls.
So far I think it's safe to say that Big Foot has got a good impression of Korea and its' people... and of course its' food!! Tonight Snickers headed out of town to help his friend with work so it was just Big Foot and I. We cruised around downtown and chatted up a storm.
On a different note, when we visited the traditional village Snickers noticed that there was an empty house. It's advertising that it needs a resident and Snickers is convinced that we should live there. It's got a huge yard and there's a main house with a little side house on the same lot. I love the look of it and love the fact it's got a massive yard but the fact that it's way out in the middle of nowhere -- the country side, Asan -- doesn't interest me at all. Well, Snickers ended up calling the guy and the owner is wanting to sell the place not rent it like we had hoped. Oh, and I should note that living here means that you're basically living in a live mueseum, a village that's on display, so paid visitors would be peering over your yard wall. Anyways, so the guy isn't renting the place but because I'm a foreigner he's definitely interested in pondering the idea. I guess I could represent one of the first foreigners in Korea... hahaha.
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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Ahhh! Please Romanize better! It's jjigae or chigae not jigga, and makgeolli!
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