Sushi in Korea

In Jeonju, we went to a roast your meat on your table place.  So at that place you have a tiny stove and a small grill.  You put your soup on the stove and you cook raw meat on the grill.  Once your meat is all cooked you put it on top of one of these rice ball things that they give you and you eat it.  Yum!

I had more fun doing that than I thought I would, probably because I liked making sushi (in Korea!).  I did not know I could make sushi there.  I thought I could only eat sushi in Japan! (I mean I can only eat real sushi in Japan.)

I think going to that place was very fun!

 

Korea

We are in Korea now! We have a huge awesome apartment and the lady who owns the place put a lot of food in our fridge, so when mom went shopping, she only had to get one cucumber and a loaf of bread.

On the plane here Dad taught me what some of the Korean letters sound like.  Here are a few I learned:

ㅏ (ah)
ㅁ (m)
ㄹ (l)
ㅜ (oo)

There is a playground in front of the apartment that I played at today, while mom went shopping. 

I love Korea so far.  I'm excited that we are staying here for ten days. 

Cat Cafe and Kawaii Monster Cafe!!!

Do you remember my post : Fun Places I'm Excited to Go In Tokyo? Well, I went to the Cat Cafe and the Kawaii Monster Cafe back in Tokyo.  

At the Cat Cafe, there were about 18 cats and most of them were sleeping. But there was this one cat with very short legs and he was very fluffy.  It looked so funny when he walked!  There were three other cats I liked.  The first one was a black cat that I loved because he would let me brush him with a cat brush.  The other two were twin cats that were sleeping the whole time but I still liked them because they were super cute.  Half way through the time we were there, dad gave me some money to buy cat food.  It was SOOOO fun to feed the cats because they loved the food. Most of the cats that were sleeping got up to eat.  One cat even tried to sneak food from the cat food bowl.  After all the food was gone, one cat was licking the food on the floor.  I had a great time at the Cat Cafe.  

Me feeding the cats

The Kawaii Monster Cafe was very colorful and wacky. The food was yummy and it was colorful too.  I got rainbow spaghetti (which was sorta spicy) and for dessert I got an alien shaped cake which turned out to be, basically, just frosting. I went into the bathroom and the sinks were SOOOO weird.  It is kind of hard to explain what they looked like so I will just give you a picture. I think the craziest thing there were these animal heads hanging from ceiling with bottles in their mouths.  It was SOOOO fun!!!

Animals with bottles in their mouths

Living in a Spa

We took a five and a half hour long bus ride to Takayama and now we are staying in the upstairs of a spa.  The guy that owns the place is super nice and he has a kid (Yuka) my age!  I played GO with her yesterday.  If you don't know what GO is it is kind of like chess but in Asia.

GO Board

Me, Yuka, and her dad

There was a tsunami passing by our house.  (A tsunami is a hurricane in Asia.)  It was very windy and rainy so we had to stay inside.  After most of the storm passed by, my parents and I went outside to check how fast the river by our house was moving.  It was moving REALLY fast and the water was brown.  It was kind of scary going out in the middle of a tsunami, but it was also very fun.

We went to a market the morning before the tsunami and basically every shop had this type of doll called a sarubobo (which means "baby monkey" in Japanese).  The dolls were traditionally made by the grandmothers for their grand-daughters for different wishes.  Each color for the doll had a different meaning.  A red doll means luck, marriage and love.  A gold doll means wealth and luck.  And a black doll means luck and helps bad fortune go away. There are more different colors of dolls but I only listed three.

Sarubobo

We went to this cool shop with a lot of bird magnets and other things like that.  But one thing that caught my eye was a small sleeping kitty figurine.  I looked that the price and it was only 250 YEN ($2.25).  It is SOOOO soft and it is SOOOO kawaii.