What's Cooking Korea?

I have never been on an international flight that took less than 25 minutes to get out of the plane, go through immigration, wait for the luggage, go through customs and out in the exit. Incheon airport is arrival at its finest!

1210am Asiana flight wasn't the best of times so that took half a day off of my Friday. The guy from the concierge of the Grand Hyatt looked like one of those guys from the Koreanovelas so that's a pretty nice welcome I should say not to mention the fantastic view(s) from the hotel room.

After a quick buffet in the hotel at 12nn, Markus and I were off to some (window) shopping at Shinsegae and Lotte. SALE! So I ended up with a few stuff. But it's raining!

But the highlight of the day was seeing a tradional Korean musical, Miso, at the Chongdong theater in traditional live music and costumes, a cool drumming act and almost circus-y performance coupled with some audience participation.

It was a worthwhile hour away from the pouring rain.

My first day in South Korea would not be complete without that yummy Korean bbq! OH MY GOD! It was amazing! The Korean colleague of Markus, Mr. Yu, brought us to the best in town.

The table was full even before the bbq arrived!

Yummy, juicy, Korean bbq!!!

And tried some cold soup. It was.. interesting. I'm not a big fan of cold soup.

We wanted to end the night at JJs Mahoney's which was just at our hotel but the bartender was such an a-hole. So we just left my Cosmo at the bar.

We ended up sitting around at the lobby bar entertained by a drunk Korean-American and, surprise surprise, a Filipino band!!! A trip outside Manila would not be complete without it!