A Wee Ma Weh A Wee Ma Weh

My friend Megan's birthday was a few weeks ago and for her birthday she was given a lovely stomach bacteria that postponed the celebrations by a week and a half. So Saturday night we had birthday festivities.

My ears jumped at the word birthday because this meant I got to show off my culinary skills and whip up a birthday cake, only problem was that it is pretty hard, if not impossible, to bake a cake with only two elements and no stove, and a country that doesn't seem to sell icing sugar. So I improvised and bought mini angel food cakes, whipped up a white chocolate mousse and did 14 three-layered white chocolate raspberry mousse cakes. I didn't get to decorate them all fancy because when packing for Korea I must have left my cake decorating tools at home, despite all of this I was happy with the final result, and I must say they were pretty tasty.

We started off the night by going out for sam-gup-sal (definetly not the way you spell it), which is bbq pork, that you cook yourself on the grill at your table, sprouts, kimchi, garlic, hot sauce and then you roll it in lettuce leaves. They also brought us bondaggi (bugs) but we declined them and sent them back to the dirt...er..I mean kitchen.

After that we went back to Trey's for some drinking fun and cake. Following this we headed out to the Noraebang (like karaoke only each group of people gets their own room). Now I have stated many times that I will never sing (tho I did do it once when I had about 10 too many shots of soju) and I started off the night by restating this fact. It's not that I like being a killjoy, but I am actually the worst singer in the world. About half an hour into it I realized I probably wasn't that much worse than some of the others so I decided to give it a go with not 1 but 3 (THREE!) songs. I wasn't totally brave I had a partner each time, but my playlist went like this: The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Trailer For Sale or Rent, and Sweet Caroline. And ya know what? It was kinda fun, I am still the world's worst singer, but at least I am loosening up a little. And before you all start in on your comments I would like to say that, no I was not intoxicated - I think I had one, maybe two drinks all night. So to quote Matt, "Shut it!"

We sang our hearts out for about 2 hours, we only paid for one hour but because there was about ten of us there and most people were buying drinks the person in charge kept adding minutes on. Finally around 3 or so I made it home and got some sleep to prepare for the fun that was Ginseng Expo. Anyhow you can see more photos here if you are so inclined: http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=e9ujen3.bb19rwcj&Uy=-jevdjx&Ux=0