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 So it was a birthday weekend for one of the teachers who came in at the same time as me. A bunch of us went out to dinner and decided to go to a Korean BBQ place.

As a side note I'd like to point out that the birthday boy was an hour and a half late. We didn't head to dinner until 9:30...and one of the girls got kicked out of her cab on the way there because she lit up a cigarette. Now that's “ok” in some cabs, but a lot of them are starting to enforce the law. A separate related side tangent: Most of them started smoking in the restaurant and didn't get yelled at but there was a smoking area in the hallway right outside the main door...

So we go to this BBQ place, twenty of us sit down and have no idea what's going on. I guess someone figures it's all you can eat and we start grabbing plates, grabbing meat, and grilling it up at the table. There is a menu on the table that lists the dinner price, side dish price, and beer prices....

At the end of a rather awesome and super filling meal we grab the clipboard with the receipt...receipts.

There are four receipts...for just under 300,000 each. We start having a panic attack because we weren't sure if that was right and we didn't know how this worked or what....was that a different receipt for each table or....uuuhhhh oooohhhhh.

So someone goes and asks and I guess they kept adding on the receipts each time they ordered more beer. It was 15,000 per person for twenty people, all you could eat, with like 18 or so beers (if they didn't clear any). And these weren't 20oz beers, these were like a liter. Not a bad deal. So that's like around $14.50 a person back home. Like I said, not a bad deal.

What's funny is it would have cost WWAAAYY more than that to eat in, fresh food is crazy expensive here.

For anyone here: That is in Busan at Deokcheon (brown line), take exit 9 then your first right. Walk past the intersection with McDonalds and take a right at the next one. It's up the road about a block on your right, second floor. Yum yums!

On a side note, if you go right at the McDonalds, like one or two doors down is Blue Ketchup. I've heard they're awesome rave-like bars (glowsticks and club music for half the night)...personally I skipped out before they went because that's just not my thing but everyone loves it, worth checking out.