Sushi i Seoul

Today the weekend starts, which means it's Friday and Saturday that "Lovehotels" make their money, so the price goes up. I.e. the rent increases from 40,000 won to 70,000 won. Some of us were so exhausted from yesterday's city tour that we didn't have the energy to look for a cheaper place to stay :o) Friday we had to pay 70,000 won and Saturday ended up costing 65,000 won. At the end of the day, we headed out into the city. Sinchon is comparable to the Hongik area, both of which offer a huge variety of restaurants and bars. It seems that most Koreans prefer to sit with friends in places that serve both food and alcohol. In Denmark, it's more separated. We have bars that you go to after you've eaten. Koreans like to have food on the table while they drink. The bars we've come across are all tucked away in basements or up on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th floor. They are not at street level. In South Korea, young people go to discos if they just want to drink and hang out with friends, and to nightclubs if they want to "score". The restaurant menu often includes fish. South Koreans eat huge amounts of fish. Many places have large vats of live fish where you can choose exactly which fish you want to be served. Of course, this also means that the country has many sushi restaurants. We found a place in Sinchon that had "running sushi". Each plate was colored so you could keep track of how much you had eaten. I'm sure there are local variations, so the selection looked completely different than in Denmark. Many of the maki rolls contained crab meat, and there were plates with crab claws and king prawns. There were often 3 pieces of sushi on a plate, which cost between 2,000 and 5,000 won - depending on whether it was maki, nigiri or seafood. That's got to be cheap :o) When you enter the restaurant and when you leave, all the chefs shout "Annyeong haseo".