in korea, instead of happy hours, companies host hweshiks, aka company sponsored dinners and drinks. yummers! last thursday, the p-town gang went to our hweshik and had a ball eating amazing beef, pork, and whatever else you can toss onto the barbeque: peppers, onions, kimchi, garlic and mushrooms.
now, you can't have a dinner party without drinks! most, if not all of us, got sufficiently liquored, aka, blasted on soju. oh the soj. we have the beginnings of a serious love/hate relationship...after our meal and more than several rounds of soju shots, we went out to, in classic korean fashion, none other than the nohrehbang. there we brought our best american idol-ish attempts. it was a blast. embarrassingly, there are significant chunks missing from my memory. yikes!
the soju drunk is unlike any other...after a few shots, i feel totally fine and it doesn't hit me until of course, i'm way past the buzz. yeah, i know right, you're thinking, uh, that's like everytime your drink more than you can handle...but! the thing about soju is, is that the gauge for drunkenness is in slow-mo. and so you don't ever feel out of control, which is fun, but, the hangover the next day is a wicked doozy.
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