Chicken Butt and Potty Humor.

- Turns out I was wrong. So wrong. My Korean age is 31...not 30! Give a girl a break. However, I did get carded at the movie theatre the other day. This happens a lot in the states...I didn't expect it to happen here. Turns out we even fool ourselves.

- Korea is very high-tech. Everyone has a smartphone here. Even the streets have giant interactive, touch phone-shaped screens that provide maps of the city, tourist attractions and will take your picture and send it to your smartphone. This has to be the coolest/germ-ridden thing ever.

(us examining the picture and putting a tasteful frame around it before sending it to our respective phones)

Yet, the bathroom I tried to use in the subway looked like a porcelain hole in the floor. I had not the patience (nor the knees) for the gymnastics involved in trying the relieve myself. I was later told by my cousin that the hole in the ground/floor was an old school thing. I am so glad I am visiting Korea after most of the buildings caught up with more modern plumbing.

- The cars have small wide screens for GPS...and get this...a TV. This has to be dangerous.

- I'm learning lots of good Korean cusswords.

- I finally got a night out in the city to do some drinking. Turns out I am a heavy drinker, even for a Korean. My cousins told me that Korea was number 3 in big world drinkers (after Ireland and Russia)....so I wore my extra thick drinking pants. You serve yourself liquor here. It's pretty tight...and can get out of hand fast. Soju is a lot stronger than I thought.

In Kangnam...famous for its impressive bar (or "sul jcheep" translated literally to "house of booze") per square foot.

- I ate chicken sphincter. Please do not confuse this with the delicious "Pope's nose" or the area by the tail feathers. This is actual chicken asshole. "Dak-Ddong-Jcheep". This literally translates to " Chicken Poo House". So descriptive when you think about it.

Harness Your Chicken Butt

Anthony Bourdain ate this on the Korean No Reservations episode. I too was downing soju (distilled rice liquor)...which I think is required to drunkenly forget that you are eating chicken asshole.

Me. Dropping chicken butt. A combination of inebriation and weak chopstick hands.

- I was a little full from the chicken...so I missed out again on some street food...but it was tempting. It's been cold out, so the venders all have thick plastic curtains around everything.