Exploring our City

Figuratively speaking of course. It's not really ours. Anyways, Saturday was a beautiful day in Daegu! The weather was a nice, hot 85 degrees or so. Humidity was high as usual, but I'm getting used to it just fine. So we decided today that we wanted to check out Bukbu bus station. Apparently, near this station is a international market of sorts. Here is where you were supposed to be able to find Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, etc. cooking ingredients, and restaurants. We met up with our friend from San Diego (California represent!) and got on a bus near our apartment. The bus ride took about an hour, and when we got off, we looked around for this market.

Bukbu Bus Station!

We saw a lot of international food stores. They had authentic Indian curry, long-grained rice, Vietnamese stuff, Chinese stuff, everything. It was nice to see all the diversity and food stuffs. But...we were hungry, and we had heard that this area had a real authentic Chinese restaurant. What do we mean by that? Well, in the states, there is Chinese food right? But for the most part, it's Chinese-American. Meaning that it is Chinese food..sort of. But it has it's own American twist. Because you'd be mistaken if you ever thought Panda Express was authentic Chinese food. It doesn't even come close! Anyways, my point is this, Korea is the same way. Korean-Chinese food is good, just not authentic Chinese. So yes, we searched a lot of the Chinese restaurants, and we finally found one. Our friend figured it was authentic because the menu and name was Chinese, and not Korean. (She knows how to speak and read Chinese!). We sat down and pretty much let our friend order for us, because we had no idea what was on the menu. What we ended up with was pretty darn delicious. Stir-fried beef, pork with vegetables, and some rice. Best Chinese food I've had since I've been here, and closest I've gotten to the authentic Chinese restaurants in California (Sam Woo, Yank Sing, etc.). 

After our delicious meal, we walked around and checked out some more goods. Jenn and I finally found some Jasmine rice, which I have been looking for...for a really long time. Korean rice is fine, but its a little bigger and stickier. Jasmine rice is just so much better, and we were super excited to find it. After that, we took the bus back home. 

Then, we met up with some of our other friends a couple hours later for dinner (Chilli Cheese burger and hot wings), and went to watch the new Transformers movie. It was awesome, but it also disappointed me some. But I could write a whole blog post about that, and since that has nothing to do with Korea (and would probably not interest anyone who didn't live and breathe Transformers like I did), Im not gonna write it. Hehe. That was our Saturday!