Dinner, vacuums and toilet paper.

Tried a different culinary experience this evening. After shooting at the Lantern Festival, we dropped in a restaurant where you cook your own meal right on the table. There are these metal vacuums hung over each table to evacuate the smoke, but you leave smelling like your dinner anyway. This guy at the right takes on the duties of chef while his girlfriend is probably checking her e-mails. It's a Monday evening in Seoul!

They put everything raw on the table and you take the pinchers and scissors to cut the pork in pieces which you wrap in a lettuce leaf with rice, kimchi (very spicy fermented cabbage) and garlic. Yumm!! It really wasn't bad all mixed together although I don't really like the ingredients by themselves. 


Smoking is forbidden almost everywhere in Korea, but in these restaurants, many seem to be smoking because the smoke is sucked up in the vacuums and it doesn't smell smokey there.

Last bit of interesting tidbits... Here at the left you see innovative napkins... toilet paper hung on the wall. Pretty handy, I guess.