Indian Restaurant -- Beomgye

I ate at an Indian restaurant in Beomgye today that a co-worker recommended.  It was good!

The menu offers a large variety of Indian dishes (6 or 7 different kinds of naan, for example, and more mutton choices) and is also a bit cheaper than the Kinza restaurants in Sanbon and Pyeongchon (though I like them too).

The name is Swoyam Bhu (수엠부).  If you take subway exit 2 in Beomgye and walk straight about 25 meters the restaurant is in a building on your right, 3rd floor.

Namul Restaurant

This namul (나물; seasoned/prepared vegetables) restaurant in Ansan (Jungang/중앙 station area) is quite good.  They have 3 set menu choices, priced at 9,000W, 12,000W, and 13,000W.  Since all I had eaten for breakfast was a banana, I opted for the 13,000 W option (I think the lower priced option doesn't include fish or 더덕, the root of a flowering plant, considered a health food).

Yapche (sweet potato noodles with vegetables, served as an appetizer at this restaurant)--yummy!

The two oval dishes on the right middle are the fish and 더덕 (the root dish, on the far right)

The rice is put into the large bowls to make bibimbap (비빔밥), rice mixed with vegetables and red pepper sauce (and, at this place, sesame oil), using the vegetables on the round serving dish on the left middle; so, rice, vegetables, oil, and hot sauce go into the bowl and then it is mixed with a spoon and eaten with the spoon--delicious!

Student Santa Pics/Posters

As you might notice, several female students asked if they could make "girl Santas".  I said, "Of course you can.  It's your picture . . . do what you want!"

More Signage

Interesting:

Maybe "Attention: Slippery!"?

Ottogi Teriyaki Chicken

The outside has a nice picture:

but the inside is not like that at all.  I wish I had taken a picture of the shriveled bits of meat that the Ottogi (오뚜기) company chooses to call 'chicken', let alone 'meat'.  Those desiccated bits of stuff should not be on sale--they taste nothing like chicken!--and the company should be heavily fined for false advertising.

Shame on you, Ottogi! Stop misleading consumers!

English Signage

Most of the English that I see on signs in the Seoul area is fairly good, but sometimes you just stop in puzzlement at some of the advertising slogans; for example:

(No doubt there where some Koreans wondering why a foreigner was taking a picture of this; then again, today is so cold and I was bundled up so much  maybe they couldn't tell I was a foreigner, just a strange photographer.)

Animated History

Interesting 'animated' history . . .

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-william-harvey-misunderstood-genius-human-anatomy-180953682/