thirtytwo

last Friday, me and my friends decided we'll do a korean inspired celebration for tina's despedida and rica's birthday party.

we started out having dinner at "san sung" restaurant in makati ave. It’s a cozy korean restaurant near the makati "red district". The owner (I was just guessing she's the owner), is very warm and friendly even though she cant talk much english or filipino….although we did catch a few "anyongaseo…and kasanghamnida". She's also very generous and gave us so many free "side dishes"....at the end we were begging her to just give the food to the other customers because were just too full.

Its my first time to eat korean food except for "kimchi" but I found myself liking the 'sweet-garlicy-chilly', taste very much. We had tofu soup, steamed egg, hot squid, fried sweet pork (which you have to eat with lettuce and bean paste…I think), rice and lots and lots of side dishes.



As expected most of the customers that night were koreans, so our group was like the thorn among the roses, but ironically we're the noisiest bunch…imagine 12 giggling girls all talking at the same time….what a riot…but we were so unaffected, that one of the waitress asked us to lower down our voice because the other tables were complaining. Ha ha ha whats new?



After dinner we decided to go to a korean videoke place called "dontelmama" , don’t ask me about the name because were out of our wits trying to figure it out. We rented a room for 1000pesos an hour(but we got a 20% discount…how? Secret…:)) the room was great, It's so big we can dance jump or run around if we like, there's a private cr (but they only have urinals no toilet bowl), a huge sofa that can probably seat 15 people, 9 tv screens stacked like a video wall, disco lights, mike stands (if you're in a concert mood) and my favorite tamborines. We sang korean songs (uchi has her own songbook with romanized lyrics) and english songs (I can still hear papa don’t preach on my head until now), we danced (pbb dance steps), we laughed, we joked around, and we partied until morn.




It was a grand time... tina already left for the US…"tina enjoy your stay there and see you in 2 months"…rica's birthday is over…"happy birthday rica, wish you all the best" ... but I will never forget that "korean night"…..guys, guys... lets do it again soon :)