How to feed yourself in Seoul

by Matt Dela Peña

Kimbap from Dongdaemun

When I went to China last summer, the one thing I did not get to try was street food and I'm probably going to regret it for the rest of my life, or until I go back to China. Street food vendors in Nanjing could not speak English and I, likewise, did not know a lick of Chinese.

So last year, when I finally found out I was going to be living in Seoul for four months, I knew that the first thing I needed to learn was the how to order food in Korean. And after having been here for two weeks already, I'm pretty convinced that my decision to study a little was completely worth it.

Best worst week of my life

by Matt Dela Peña

Where I'm writing this post.

Things don't always go as planned, but rarely are these things ever a big deal when they happen. Other things, however—like things that require months in advance of meticulous planning and sunk costs of up to several hundred dollars—these things are a totally different story. When these plans go unrealized, all hell breaks loose and life changing lessons subsequently come into play.