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Japanese Food in Korea: Tokyo Domburi House

Jan

2013

I love domburi, katsudon in particular, so I am pretty stoked that this chain store opened up in Daejeon. Tokyo Domburi house in Dunsan dong, a half a block from City Hall station delivers domburi up at a reasonable price. Domburi is simply a bowl of rice with a topping. Katsudon is a breaded and fried pork cutlet, ...

Playing with CK

Dec

2012

CK is a superb pianist that I have had the pleasure of playing with a couple of times. I play solo acoustic often but hardly ever get the opportunity to play standards, let alone with players of this caliber. The gig was at the Navy Club on Yongsan base in Seoul. At the gig, I had ...

Macchinetta Morning

Dec

2012

I rarely use my macchinetta and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the putting it together, taking it apart, cleaning, resetting the grinder–I don’t think any of that should be a barrier but it appears like it is so because I love the coffee it makes but hardly brew a batch at home. This particular ...

Dealing Coke in Tokyo More Trouble than It’s Worth

Dec

2012

So I finally got out of the tiny town out in Aichi-ken and managed to work my way to Tokyo. Okay, the town wasn’t really that tiny – about 200,000 people – but in Japan, 200,000 people is a small town. After a couple of weeks of searching in the common areas that foreigners look ...

Hilariously Bad Cover Letters and Resume Blurbs

Dec

2012

Having lunch with the incomparable Van Walker today at the Solpine International Restaurant, the restaurant connected to the Woosong University Culinary School, and this topic came up right after the Fumblerules of Grammar. Van and I had a good laugh and I realized that I hadn’t posted this on my blog. ************************************************************************** I put ...

The European Christmas Market in Seoul: Too Odd to Be Truly Disappointing

Dec

2012

Last week I went with My Bish (Abigail Flores) and her sister and her friends to the European Christmas Market. When you’re an expat in a generally non-Christmassy country, you look for events and activities to provoke that holiday spirit and this looked like it was measured to size. Took the #143 trunk bus to ...

Throwing Parties

Dec

2012

I’m throwing a party this coming weekend; the first real party I have thrown in this apartment. It’s a lot of work but I like throwing parties. I like seeing a lot of the people I know all in one place; this really is the thing I like about throwing a party. A person knows ...

Top Things Filipino-Americans Hate about Being in the Philippines

Dec

2012

These people never really annoy me; cousins are the best. People talking in the movies. Being asked if we’ve ever tried pancit or sisig. Being asked if we’re “pure American” or “half American”. Having the supremely obvious things explained to them “In the Philippines, there is no “v” sound so we substitute with a “b” sound.” ...

Multiple Online Personalities to Keep Your Private Self Private

Dec

2012

Every couple of months or so I Google my name to see what comes up. I see the few people who share my name who have died, I see places that I’ve been years ago but the web page isn’t dead, and I occasionally see my name in a place that I think it shouldn’t be. I Bing my name as ...

Teaching Kids Prepositions Naturally

Dec

2012

When I traveled to Fukuoka for the visa run in 2007, I met an Aussie at the airport. David Langeneckert was a nice enough guy living in a town I’d never heard of –but that’s not unusual; I didn’t know too many towns then—who had a gig teaching children. He’s had the requisite education and experience teaching ...