Walking and Hiking Tours of Busan

Uncle Lee (phone # 515-4701) Directions: Get off at the Kuso-dong subway station, exit on the west side, turn right, and go all the way to the end of the street, and turn left. Go up that street, until you are at the top of the hill, and turn left at the traffic light. Uncle Lee is on the left-hand side, second floor, with a bull's head in the sign. The buses that stop in front of uncle lee's are 21, 29, 29-1, 49-1, 51, 51-1, 80, 100, and the 301. Come on down and bring your hungry heifers to Uncle Lee's so-ko-gi buffet. For only 5500 won, you'll sit down to an all you can eat meat buffet. For the amount of food you will eat here, you could easily pay triple or more. Here’s a rare treat: you cook at your table! Uncle Lee and his wife are friendly, and the decor is warm and cozy. You can pick up some kal-bi, sam-gup-sal, o-ri-ko-gi, so-kop-chang, bul-ko-gi, dwae-ji, dwae-ji-ko-gi, as well as bean paste soup, rice, garlic, leafs, plenty of dwen-jang (bean paste sau...

Last Saturday night and Sunday morning (97/8/7), I ate at a (Pal-u hang-yang) Buddhist monk's dining ceremony in So-myon. The organizer, Jay Oh, invited foreigners, so they could see how monks eat every night. Most of the Koreans there were experiencing this for the first time as well. The night started off with the monk, Shin-san, explaining to everyone how the evening's meal would proceed. Everyone there was nervous, including me, because the rules seemed so complex. I soon realized that this form of eating is in reality very simple, indeed. We then broke for about half an hour, and at around 11:30pm, we sat down to eat. We had a special way we were supposed to hold our bowls, a way to serve the food (in a buffet manner) and we were not supposed to make any noise, not even to hear ourselves chew, because this would take us out of the meditative state of mind. The monk seemed to be really intrigued that there were some foreigners present, and was keen as to make sure that ...