History in the peninsular

John and I made an uncharacterlisticly (try getting that one past autocorrect) sober and unaccompanied trip to the national war museum today. It's humbling just how much strife the Korean people have been through over the thousands of years they have been there. Everyone has attacked them! Japan, multiple times, Russia, the States, even France had a go (and lost, hah)! And yet, we all came together to support them against the North. 

There is no shortage of weaponry here. Daggers, to muskets, to cannons, to bombs. The Korean peninsular has seen so much trouble, it makes Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber seem like the perfect couple. 

After the museum, we had some Korean BBQ shoulder pork. Kind if expensive, at $20 for 200g and a beer each, by Korean standards, but tasty all the same. The only reasons we went there was that we had decided that we'd had too much fried chicken lately, and that it was right next door to our favourite fried chicken place. Priorities. Convenience. Seoul caters to all. 

After dinner, it was back to the hostel for a few drinks. John had to talk me into them, given as we had been walking around in 29degree heat. Took him all of one second before we were into last  night's left overs, and a couple frenchies coming back with a few bottles of beer and soju to get me in the mood. 

They decided to go clubbing again, whereas I'm kind of over it for now. We've been drinking so much lately, for the cost of peanuts, that I hung back tonight. 

Instead, I went to the local GS25 for some snacks, and to attempt these damn triangle things. 

These can be best described as triangle sushi. I didn't notice at first, but this one is bae-i-kon flavoured. Bacon! Phoneticised for great diciousness. 

These are complicated because it's wrapped in such a way as to keep the seaweed and rice separate until you open it. 

You open these by first pulling the central strip, and cleaving the wrapping in two. 

Next, you tear off one half of the packaging, followed by the other. The way the plastic wrap separates from the rice and seaweed sticks them together, leaving you with a handheld meal. 

Not a bad whee triangle. Tastes like bacon and mayo. How much I've drunk to be teaching you about opening a rice-based snack I'll let you decide. It's important information as far as I'm concerned! It only costs $1! Eat that sushi time lovers. (myself included)

It's 2am.