Happy Birthday Sung Ho!

Saturday night was supposed to be dinner and then drinks. Turns out it was just a lot of drinks. Sung Ho was still in his apartment getting ready while we all met so we went to a bar we knew had snack like foods because Heidi was starving. When Heidi's hungry we're all hungry. We shared a plate of assorted deep fried potato starch and waited for Sung Ho to show.

He eventually did an hour late and by then Saejin's cousin was worried the ice cream cake she bought may be melted. So we got the bar to play a horrible birthday song and clapped along before digging in to Green tea ice cream. After a few hours here it was time to move on and thought about going to the "bed bar" (we rarely use bars real names) down the road. We were told we'd have to wait an hour to get a table so while others used the bathroom we thought about maybe hitting a ministop to drink outside when I noticed an old familiar sign.

I ventured over and peered into the bar and saw the decor was the exact same as a run down, dark, stuffy, dirty bar we used to frequent (aka...The Hole in the Wall Bar...not it's real name). This bar suddenly closed down more than a year ago when the street it was on became trendy. The grungy hot spots with cheap drinks got muscled out for brightly lit clothing shops to take their places. We'd heard the bar had moved but getting directions in this country is next to impossible with all the tiny streets that run behind, between and around buildings.

Finding "The Hole in the Wall Bar" was great because the drinks are cheap (60 dollars for a bottle of Vodka compared to the 100plus dollars you pay in classier joints) and the music is the best (the owner has an amazing taste in music and plays anything but pop tunes). We stayed around for a couple of hours and filled our tummies with gin by doing "one shot" (Konglish for drink it all you @#!$$%) of highballs. This was Sung Ho's brilliant idea before he realized his drinks were doubles.

It was a good night but messy for some and we did finally eat around 2:00 am. Heidi and I shared garlic Chicken while our Korean friends ate fish. Sung Ho was home in bed.