Dragon Eggs, Fire, and Hal

For breakfast one day, we had to have waffles. There are so many waffle shops in Seoul, so we chose Beans Bins for its proximity to Myung Dong. It did not disappoint. The texture of the waffles was crispy, moist and chewy, and it was covered with toppings. As a bonus they gave Haagen Dazs on the side.

We were treated to another bonus at the waffle cafe. Educational bathroom signs! 

Another thing we simply had to experience was the Jjim Jil Bang, or steam room. But this was no ordinary steam room. This was Dragon Hill. This was a multi plex with 5 floors. You can stay here for 12 hours, any time of day. So people end up sleeping here after a rough day at work or getting hammered at bars. There's a main large room with heated floors:

I introduced James to the art of sheep head towel dressing. He asked why Koreans do this. I told him, "Because." That seemed to be good enough for him. They also sell these hard boiled black eggs, and I told him lots of Korean like to crack them on their heads. He asked why. He really does ask too many questions.

Dragon Hill has multiple smaller rooms with different features like jade energy or very hot rocks. Here, James is asleep on very hot rocks:

They even had an ice room. It was cold.

These are rock seats with elevated wedges for God knows what. This time it was me asking James why. Took him about an hour to relax that grimace:

3 hours of slothfulness naturally made us very hungry, so we went to get some Korean barbecue (again). This time it was beef ribs and marinated pork rib:

To cap off the fire theme night, we had cigars and whiskey at a place in Itaewon owned by a Turk named Hal. So of course he named the place Burn In Hal. We are both kinda spendthrifts, but it was a celebratory year for us (we both turned 40! uh, I mean 30!) so we splurged on the good stuff for one night. Yamazaki 18. For those of you who do not regard this as the good stuff, bear in mind that this is a significant level up from my usual Colt 45.

Yamazaki was like butter. And baby wallabies. And Menudo on ABC.