Hadan food

Check out the chicken ass restaurant (literal translation I am told). You don't really need to be able to read Korean to understand what they serve. haha.

So below isn't the chicken ass place, but it did serve fried chicken.  Regular chicken parts. I love me some fried chicken and despite Korea having lots of places that serve fried chicken, it usually ends up a little short of expectations.  This place is good enough for me to go back!!!!  Seasoned? check! Crispy? check! Fresh? check!

They even make there own fresh potato chips! what? yup!

It's also near a college so it's cheaper than fancy parts of town. double whammy!

This happy fellow was cooking our izakaya.  Seemed nice enough just perplexed I was taking a photo.  Found a couple izakaya places around the corner from the fried chicken place. Kind of a fattening dinner.

You pick what you want from the fridge in front of you. The grill cook was pretty good, he was attentive to the food so it wasn't raw or overcooked. Oh and this place was like 20 bucks for my coworker and I with soju. Well soju usually only cost $2-3 a bottle. haha.

Molundae hike II

Another view of the walkway around the Molundae park.

these ladies are collecting herbs from the park. I think they use it to make rice cake.
That lady in the wetsuit was collecting seaweed.
Bunch of people fishing, couldn't see if they caught anything but it seemed like a fun afternoon thing to do.
Hiking trails inside the park.

Molundae hike

That's my apartment building. The land in the foreground is some sort of local farming patch.

Some cherry blossoms on my way down to my hike to Molundae.

View south from Molundae, it's a local peninsula, decent hiking spot.

Old Military bunkers.

Nice how the signs are covered up by the trees.

Cartoon safety signs.

They built this wooden walkway over the rocks along the beach.

Spring flowers

So it was spring flower season last week. Lots of cherry blossoms and canola flowers.

there are fields of this stuff. these parks are about a ten minute drive from my place.
Haha, Koreans and their damn speedtrack racing. I say this cuz these assholes yelled at a bunch of kids as the kids began skating to get out of their way. Sorry guys, other people need to learn and if you're so pro try swerving out of the way. Oh, these douche bags were going about jogging speed, so pretty damn slow too!!!
Hip-hop dance crew!!! They had a drum to keep a beat. They were pretty good.

Koreans bring tents to parks. I guess they like to make a day of the trip, seems nice.

Sadly this skate park had no skaters, just elementary kids going up and down on there bikes.

Lunch

Kind of a cute scooter. It seemed really small too.

this is a Tonkatsu place near a university that is in town.
Quite yummy. Nice and fresh, also a great deal cuz its a student neighborhood. I got this plate for 5000krw, like $4.75 or so.
We ate some blowfish soup for lunch the other day. You realize how common this stuff is when you can go to a local lunch joint and eat blowfish. The entire concept of exotic is really just in the west. Asian eat everything, makes latest trend of restaurants with offal in America a joke.

Shinpyung office

These cherry blossoms are in the neighborhood outside my office.

It's cool to see all the blossoms, it makes the city ten times nicer. Too bad they only last a couple weeks. This area is where a bunch of senior citizens sit and play Korean checkers and chill during the day.
Fruit stalls in the street by work.
Never noticed this market, I though it was only going on at nite. Oops, guess it happens all day.

Gotta check it out and buy fruit and stuff when I have time.
Saw this gas truck and noticed he put a sock on his exhaust. Yeah, that'll reduce the pollution!?

Korea is crazy.

Lotte Town II

Ginseng in the Lotte supermarket.

This is the food court. It's always so nice looking, well for a food court atleast.

View from TGIF. Yeah we went to get a beer, plus it has an awesome view of the sea.
Stuffed squid and some rolls.
Pastry shop in the Lotte department store. It was pretty darn good. Pricey, but good.

This is some of the prepared food and meals you can eat at the department store. Looks yummy. This is where we got the big stuffed squid.
So Korean won conversion is 1 USD us like 1200KRW. So the big fish here is 6 bucks.

Busan April

I went home on tuesday and lok what I found!!! A market in my parking lot. Usually this market is up the street but this week it was on my block. Cool!

The trailer on the left is a shoe repair place. Guess he drives his business around, neat.
My house is in the last building on the right with the yellow top. so only three buildings away.

There was vegetables, plants, some hot food, seafood.

Not lots of stuff but nice to have so close.
Love the traffic! The light is green and no one is moving. haha! Notice how the right lane isn't a real right lane. Such bad drivers here.
Cherry Blossom season! I'll take more pics this week, it's supposed to be at the peak this week.

Lotte town

So this is the newest department store in Pusan. The clothing and food court are open. The theatre and tower and not yet complete.

Roof deck of the Lotte town department store. Most big stores have roof decks which is cool.

The bench features this nice curve that seems good for kids and people of different height but also lame and uncomfortable.

So these are locks that people put up on the railing. It's a copy of an idea from Seoul.

The idea is couples put two locks together on the railing to show their love.

They then throw there keys in this box, which they can't get their key back.

hmmmm. As lame as it is, the store knows their customers. Korean couple like to shop together and hangout at the mall alot!