MORE BOUNCE TO THE OUNCE (SLIGHT RETURN)

Good morning. It’s Monday.

The bad news: George Nissen – the man who invented the trampoline – has passed away.

The good news: it’s an excuse for Uncle Frog to repost this clip of Tony Curtis watching Sharon Tate work out on Nissen’s unwitting yet invaluable contribution to cheesecake pop culture.

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Sure, I could have gone for clips from The Man Show, but we run a classy blog here. Plus, the music in the Tate clip is better.

Right. And with that, I am off to Taiwan for a few days. Broadcasts will continue as scheduled.

Up and down and all around,

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SEOUL CITY VOLUME 2: THE FOOD

Here’s something you may not know about me: the first ever “Asian” food I ever tried was Korean food. I tried it in Clarksville, TN at a Korean restaurant near Fort Campbell, and became a regular for the 4.5 years I lived there – which is also how I learned to use chopsticks long before I ever moved to Hong Kong.

So of course, when I go to Korea, food is a highlight. And as you can see, it’s not all kimchi.



Which isn’t to say we didn’t have much kimchi. Quite the opposite. We even made our own (the woman at center row, right? That’s our kimchi instructor).

But that mosaic is a bit misleading in that 80% of our meals (included in our tour package) looked a lot like the 8th photo (bottom row, center). They were good, but hot pots get tedious after a few days – especially when yr looking forward to Korean BBQ where you cook yr own meat.

So we took advantage of street snack stalls when we could – such as that corn dog coated with french fries (top row, right), or the BBQ chicken/kidney kebabs (top row, center). The chicken kebab was the one that almost killed both me and the bridal unit from Spice OD. The french-fried corn dog was okay but messy and something I should probably never eat again.

The best snack food: the pancake on a stick with a fried egg in the middle (center row, left).

Not pictured: the donuts we had at a Mister Donut in Myongdong, and the banana crepe handrolls in the Doota food court.

A word about the moose head:

That’s the Beer Liquor Cabin, a place near our hotel in the suburb of Gunpo. We went kicking around after dinner, saw the moose head and instantly needed to walk in and drink something. As you do. The whiskey was pricey, so I stuck with Cass beer. We also had clams. In a hot pot, of course.

Final note: one thing I noticed in Seoul was that cafes and bars aren’t always separate businesses. I lost count of how many signs I saw saying: “Coffee, Beer, Whiskey”.

Also: the last time I was in Seoul was something like 2002. One obvious difference: there are a lot more Starbucks now.

Next: the police!

Are you going to eat that,

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