Seoul Night Life

I am sure that many people have been waiting for this post. Well here it is and away we go. On Saturday night Lt and I were invited out on the town with some of our new friends. One of the Canadian girls we met was leaving in less than a week and her friends wanted to send her off right. It was a group of nine of us to start and we all met up a restaurant near our apartment. Super convenient. We met some new faces and had a nice meal. It was the same kind of restaurant we had mentioned before with the grill in the middle of the table and everything. Once we filled up on food we went back to Tidus' apartment to begin the pregaming, which is really popular here in Korea. Party lingo definition number one: Pregaming for those who don't know is when you buy some cheap drinks before you go out so you don't end up spending all your Won at the bar. I know pretty smart. I would be surprised if more than a few of you had no idea of what I was talking about. Anyway, we drank some beer and had a little soju. We played a drinking game and listened to some music. It was fun getting to see everyone's personalities start coming out. After a little while we decided to hit the road and head to Hungdae. It was around 10pm by the time we left. We walked to the bus stop and got right on. The timing was perfect. We took the bus to Donong Station and then proceeded to wait for 20 minutes for the stupid subway. For some reason that subway line only has two trains that go back and forth, not really but it might as well have been. We immediately regretting not bringing any roadies at this point. Party lingo definition number two: Roadies are drinks you bring with on the "road" so you can one, keep pregaming (see above) and two, keep the buzz. So there we were just waiting and finally the train pulled into the station. We then hopped on and continued our adventure. We were on the train for about five minutes when someone reminded us all that they had brought a small bottle of soju. So I was obviously excited, but no one else was. What the heck, here I was all pumped and no one else seemed to care. I could only guess that because all but Tidus and I were all women. They all said they wanted something to mix with it. So I then said pass it here and took a guzzle or two. I offered some to a nice man on the train but he said no but smiled. He held up two fingers and laughed. We didn't know if he wanted two shots or what. But he passed on it just like everyone else. Oh ya, drinking in public is totally legal and people here do it all the time, so no big deal. Just in case anyone was worried about it. After one transfer and 11 more stops we finally arrived in Hungdae. We met some other people who had been waiting for us for awhile. We went to this Canadian bar called the Rocky Mountain Tavern. It had live music and was a little crowded but we seemed to find seats for all 16 of us. We squeezed into a booth and brought some more tables over to complete our entourage corner. I went to the bar and grabbed a few pitchers of Hite, for a mere 9000 Won each, which is about $6 American. Not too bad for a bar. We drank a few pitchers and then decided to hit the club. By the time we got to the club it was about 1am. It was crowded with people wall to wall. The music wasn't bad, it was a good mix, just like back home, for the most part. They over played Low by Flo'Rida, but whatever. We continue to get some drinks at the club and it was a good thing I still had some soju left over from before. I just added a little to our drinks and we were in business. Of course Lt and I were tearing it up. I was working my moves for the Koreans and they loved it. We must have danced for about 4 hours or so, by the time we decided to leave it was around after 5am. I know I was certainly all sweaty from the dancing so it was nice to get back out into the cool air. After the club were introduced to the best after the club munchies. It's called Mandu, and it's served on the side of the street from a little cart propped out of a pickup truck. They are similar to pot stickers but round. Basically we were eating little pieces of heaven. There's nothing like delicious munchies served of the street corner after a long night of dancing. Since it was another half hour before the subway opened back up, we decided just to split a cab. It super cheap and we made it hope safely around 6am. We crashed out pretty quick. I had to wake up a 9am to do my fantasy baseball draft. But after that I was back to bed. Or first crazy Seoul party night was a success. We had some much fun. We met some really cool people and got a feel of how to do Seoul style.