Day 2 in Seoul

Breakfast was bacon, eggs, fried rice, black sesame flakes, smoked duck, smoked salmon, 2 different kinds of caviar (black is much better than red), bamboo leaf dumbling rice thing, japanese seaweed soup, potatoes and some purple thing that looked like a potato but wasn't. I could imagine Morimoto whipping that up on Iron Chef Battle Turnip or something.

Then we were off to Itaewon before heading out of town. Itaewon is sort of the international seedy clubbing and shopping area where American GI's hang out after hours. We went in the day time so we didn't see any barfights or have to dodge the working girls on "hooker hill". When you are shopping there it helps to be the first (or last, I'm told) customer because it makes bargaining easier. Take your time, negotiate, walk away several times, pay in cash.

After about noon it got kinda crowded, but unlike yesterday there were lots of different types of faces, black, white, arab, Chinese, you name it. There was even a guy with an Alabama golf hat. Tourists were definately here as was Outback, MacDonalds, Burger King, Starbucks. It was a relief to see something that was non-Korean. Also all the shop keepers spoke english and they had a little bit of everything, even Shawerma.