Saturday Night Movie...and street food

Oh Korea. Here's a man playing an accordion outside our subway station. I took about five pictures of him...him posing the entire time. How sweet.

Dan and I went out on Saturday night to see District 9. Don't go: save the $12 and buy a bottle of wine instead. It was a strange Nazi-war-crimes-onhumanity-but-on-aliens type of movie (if that is a "type" of movie) and it was entirely creepy. Gave me nightmares. Then again, maybe the nightmares came from this street food. Hmm...not entirely sure.

Nothing conjurs up an appetite like a strange movie. Here's what Anyang has to offer in the way of street food:

Here's Dan, explaining something about something. Or something like that. Still can't believe he's leaving in less than two weeks. He's off to Thailand before going home, so I'm sure Leanne and I will get some pointers (and see some pictures) before The Big Thai.

Okay, here is an example of a fine array of meat on a stick, Korean styles. What is this meat?, you may ask. I have no idea. I know that something resembles chicken, but nothing else really seems to be anything I have ever seen before (or trust). They do serve a lot of spam in Korea (thank god for the tofu in my fridge).

Here's a vat of sauce (as in, "Maria, tell them about the sauce"). After purchasing your meat on a stick, you take the paintbrush that's been dipped all day and night in this bowl, and wipe the sauce all over your meat. There are about ten to choose from. It's great: it is the best part about the stick for sure.

So today we noticed a small sign indicating that an area by the school was known as a "Green Zone" for the next 200 metres. We obviously had to know what that meant: organic food? Vegetarian food? Who knows. JiYoung knew (she's Matt's coworker. She's only allowed to speak English, though she's Korean. She's awesome) Because the area is near the school and plenty of kids eat around there, this tiny area is only allowed to serve, as she called it, "clean food". Hmmm...another quandary. She went on to explain that some food in Korea is known as "dirty food"...meat that doesn't quite meat the grade, that sort of thing. Think, not FDA approved. I'm cringing: it's that gross. Apparently they import some food from China that doesn't meet anyone's standards and sell it dirt cheap to kids, because they're hungry, they're poor, and they'll buy it. After that, I am seriously reconsidering my penchant for Korean chicken (fondly known as, "meat on a stick").