How's that, Jason?
Meanwhile, I had a good weekend.
Saw Bobby Kim on White Day/St. Patrick's day, and had the third-worst sangria so far on my mission to find the best sangria in Seoul, and bummed around a bunch with Girlfriendoseyo. Then on Sunday, I took her to Wolfhound for the first time, and got to enjoy watching her experience her first taste of the fantastic Wolfhound burger.
Now, I love Wolfhound, but I do have one gripe:
Dear Wolfhound Pub:
I like your place. I like your food. I like your beer. Your breakfast ain't too bad, either. However, I'm asking you to do one of three things:
Either
1. serve your coffee in a smaller mug, so that I don't feel ripped off by getting a coffee mug that's 40% full
2. fill your flurbing coffee mugs to the top, or at least near the top
3. charge less than three thousand won for four mouthfuls of coffee, when down the street, Rocky Mountain Tavern gives free coffee refills with all their breakfasts, and Starbucks gives nearly a PINT of coffee for a tiny bit more than the price of your tiny coffee puddle.
I like your food a lot, Wolfhound, but the paltry amount of coffee you serve to your poor, hung over customers on Sunday mornings, for THREE FREAKING THOUSAND WON, is, frankly, insulting, and every time I order a coffee from Wolfhound, I hate the place for a while, until my hamburger comes out. And it wouldn't take much to fix this problem. Just do it, and I'll love you forever.
Some pictures from a while back that I wanted to share:
Hey? Wanna get paid to be really good looking? VIOP has hired live people to model their little thingys instead of having them holler into microphones and do sexy dances... it was a bit surprising, but it sure gathered a crowd.
Mustve been boring as heck.
So the Seoul City Tour Bus got some sponsors... it's kind of bad planning, though, to have a poster on the side of the bus which obscures the view.
Yeah, you can see through it, but, uh, still...isn't this getting the priorities wrong for a tour bus trying to put Seoul on display as well as possible?
Other than that...
It's official. Girlfriendoseyo was asking me about the Canadian health-care system, and I couldn't answer her questions. I have been in Korea too long to be up on stuff back in Canada. Which is awkward when I'm regularly asked to speak for Canadian culture, as well as Western culture at large (jeez. What do I know about Denmark? How can I answer for all of "THE WEST"?)
also...
Get your hands on the old Hong Kong Movie "Master of the Flying Guillotine". Just do it.
2 comments:
I've got my own open letter to the Wolfhound:
Your burgers are great. Your beer is good. But your service needs an upgrade.
I was at the bar with a friend the other night. What with all the partying going on behind the bar, it was hard to tell the staff and the customers apart. I'm sorry I interrupted your partying a few times to ask for things like the check. I won't do it again.
A formerly-satisfied customer
The health care system is still predominately free.
Worst part about it is wait times, meaning that you have to wait something like 3-4 hours sometimes to get treatment, but its still free.
That being said, quality of treatment is going down because its getting harder and harder for us to (A) bring in good doctors and (B) keep good doctors in the country 'cause the government is refusing to put more money into the system so that we can pay them.
Instead, its much more important waste money holding unnecessary elections every 1.5 years, and shutting down government for over a month cause opposition parties disagree with you.
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