People: Meliana and gang

Apart from Mr. Lee's, New Year was funtastilicious catching up with Meliana and her entourage who were on tour in Korea for 5 days... after a bit of a runaround in Seoul that is. This was attributed to a last minute change of plans on part of the tour guide, as well as communication problems. They could only rely on public phones when not on the tour bus!!

It was the first time I met the others who came with Meliana, including her sister ~ Mei Hoa, Rio and Esther. They are all Indonesian-Chinese working in Singapore.

Events of the night: I brought the bunch out for a *REAL Korean dinner after we met up.

*Hey... can't get any REAL-LER than having a meal cooked by a KOREAN in KOREA right?

So I get them all settled in with the cultural do's and do not's. There was also the necessary introduction to Mr. Soju, one of the most influential figures in the Korean culinary scene. *Wink wink

What I did NOT tell them however, was that the grilled eel (Jangeo gu-i ~ 장어구이) we had, was considered as one of the most potent natural aphrodisiacs (Read: V.I.A.G.R.A.) that the Koreans hold dear too. Eel ranks up top with the likes of Ginseng, as well as dog.

*If you 4 people are reading this, sorry lah... I just remembered!

After the meal, we continued to stay up for a bit, catching up on details we might have missed out on during the meal. Unfortunately though, our time together only lasted 11 hours, of which 6 of it was spent with me bunking over in Rio's room for the night.

Humbug ~ wished we could spend more time... but the gang had to run off to do their sightseeing with the tour group the next morning.

I MISS YOU GUYS!!

Before I forget... They brought me some coconut jam, or fondly known as KAYA from home!! I never knew how much I missed the stuff until I had it for breakfast yesterday.

Mmmmph!
.....Oooooh!
..........Aaaaah!

God bless their little two shoes!