Day out to Wolmido island.

Went with a bud of mine, his friend from Yemen and his girlfriend to a place on the coast called Wolmido island today. It's in the satellite city of Incheon. We took the subway there and arrived at the last stop on the Incheon line in about an hour. Outside the station was China town, a small area of Incheon filled with Chinese restaurants and shops. We had some lunch, I had Jajangmyeon, which is a famous Chinese dish here-noodles in a black bean sauce. It was actually really good. Then we took a bus to Wolmido which is like a small theme park with a seafront and lots of restaurants serving seafood. We skipped the seafood part and went straight for a restaurant serving raw seafood of all kinds. I ate the strangest things, like raw squirming baby octopus, raw abalone, raw sea cucumber, this one sea creature that looks rather like a penis, and some other really odd stuff, then we had a full fish served sashimi style and finished it off with some spicy fish soup plus copious amounts of soju. Drinking is somewhat of a lifestyle here, the Koreans apparently are only second to the Russians in terms of alcohol intake per capita as can be witnessed by the amount of vomit on sidewalks in the mornings when walking to work. In Korea, if you work for a big company you are basically forced to go out drinking with your boss almost every night of the week. I get invited to dinners with teachers all the time. I think i have 2 next week alone. Anyway, South Africa has nothing on this place when it comes to drinking and bars. After the meal we walked back, stopped at a food vendor and bought the most vile thing they had on offer as a dare, it happened to be silk worm larvae, and I bought a cup for W2000 (about R12) and the three men each tried one. I went first, I put it in my mouth, ignoring what I was actually eating and chewed on it a bit. I think my response was something like: "its not that bad, taste like shriveled broccoli". The next guy tried and said its the worst thing he had ever tasted, the third guy tried it and threw up on the pavement near the vendor. I discarded the rest of the silk worm larvae and we headed back to Seoul on the train. That night we went out in a unvivesity area where I have never been before, met another South African from Pinelands, drank a lot of Soju and beer, met some Korean university students (some cute girls) and started singing drinking songs and playing drinking games with them. After that we took a cab back as my American friend was covering the streets of Seoul with more vomit. Good night out but the hangover! Spent the day in bed recovering :(. I didn't think I would come to Korea to get drunk every weekend but it seems to be the norm here.