Pig Trotters
This was served to the table a dish ladden with pig trotters and a dish of pig sausages - I was not used to the taste of the sausages.
This was served to the table a dish ladden with pig trotters and a dish of pig sausages - I was not used to the taste of the sausages.
Porky pig...to be precise I had pork trotters - deliciously cook around the Mapo-gu area. It was my first time to this dinning area of many small restaurants all selling different types of pork dishes. 
Side dishes include 2 different dishes of kimchi, kimchi soup and fresh white cabbage (to be dipped into chilli bean paste). My observation is that Koreans eat lots of vegetables at every meal - this is excellent for dietary and health reasons.
These small eating houses had rows and rows of cooked pig trotters displayed like above. For payment, these small family restaurant takes credit card - it's so convenient in Seoul - credit card payment is accepted almost everywhere.
Drinking Etiquette
Visitors to Korea for the first time need to understand some drinking etiquette and this involves Koreans offer glasses of liquor to each other as a gesture of camaraderie. When someone offers you an empty liquor glass, you are expected to hold it out and receive a fill-up, drink it empty, and in likewise fashion return it to the person who offered it to you. This drinking tradition helps promote close ties around the drinking table.
These small eating houses had rows and rows of cooked pig trotters displayed like above. For payment, these small family restaurant takes credit card - it's so convenient in Seoul - credit card payment is accepted almost everywhere.Drinking Etiquette
Visitors to Korea for the first time need to understand some drinking etiquette and this involves Koreans offer glasses of liquor to each other as a gesture of camaraderie. When someone offers you an empty liquor glass, you are expected to hold it out and receive a fill-up, drink it empty, and in likewise fashion return it to the person who offered it to you. This drinking tradition helps promote close ties around the drinking table.
Business in Korea begins after office hours and that is the time when you get to know your Korean partners and make friends. This is how I made great friends with Koreans.
It was my first time having a different type of Korean liquor called 막걸리Makgeolli. It is an acquired taste with it's milky colour but with low alcohol content around 6%. My understanding is that this drink is a traditional commoner's beverage and enjoyed by farmers and laborers, but by business people as well.
They are served at drinking houses around universities, at festivals, picnic areas, or anywhere people might enjoy a mild drink with a fermented flavor. It taste better mixed with a bottle of soda like 7Up.
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