Pyhap2ev / Sunday

Pyhap2eva hiline hommikusook v6i varajane l6una sai soodud kohalikus pisikeses kohvikulaadses soogikohas. V6tsime fusion bimimbapi. Bibimbap on selline kohalik riisiroog (sarnaneb mingil m22ral Itaalia vormiroogadele, aga ilma juustuta), milles lisaks p6hikomponent riisile on veel k6ikv6imalikud juurviljad ja kindlasti ka liha. Kogu kupatus on tulikuum ja podiseb veel tykk aega peale lauale toomist.
Yhes6naga... kohe kui toit olemas tuleb see lusikaga korralikult 2ra segada, vastasel juhul k6rbeb lihtsalt p6hja. Bibimbapi kusjuures syyakse lusikaga :) P6hiroa juurde k2ib veel muidugi hulk vyrtsiseid kastmeid ja ka supp. Joogi p2rast ei pea siin kunagi muretsema, puhas vesi on alati k2ep2rast ja selle eest
ei pea midagi kuskil maksma. Nimetus fusion viitab tihti millelegi ebatraditsionaalsele, teistsugusele v6i kasv6i pisut l22nelikule. Nt fusion bibimbap v6ib sisaldada endas ka ananassi, mis ei ole yldse tavap2rane.

Edasi l2ksime linnapeale ringikondama. Myongdongis k2is kauplemine t2ie hooga, kuigi ilm oli p2ris kylm. T2nava22red olid t2is br2ndipoode, nt Nike ja t2nava keskel lettidel myydi k6ikv6imalikku muud kaupa alates beebitarvetest ja l6petades soogiga. Juhul kui kylm oleks hakanud, siis saanuksid sealtsamast endale ka kohe kootud kindad/salli/mytsi muretseda. Sellist t2navapealset intensiivset 2ritegevust, lageda taeva all ja keset detsembrit pole kyll veel nt yheski Euroopa riigis n2inud.

Dongdaemun oli j2rgmine koht kuhu v2lja j6udsime. See kvartal koosneb suurelt jaolt suurtest mitmekordsetest kaubamajadest, mis myyvad valdavalt ainult riideid ja aksessuaare v6i muud l2hedast riietumiskraami. Uue reisikohvri saab sealt ka, kui k6ik enam k2tte 2ra ei mahu. V2ljast n2evad ehitised v2lja nagu tavalised suured kaubamajad ikka, suurte klaasustega, aga sisenedes v6ib end leida Kadaka turult :) Sees ei ole eraldi poode, vaid igal myyjal on oma lett, nagu m6nel turismimessil ja ruum on v6imalikult tihedalt asju t2is laotud. Seet6ttu pole siin v6imalik ka riideid selga proovida, vaid tuleb nn p6rsas kotis osta. Enamik riideid on muidugi ka kohalike moodus, aga mul vedas, pluus sobis t2pselt :)
Naabrusest siiski leiab ka m6ne eraldi 2ridega kaubamaja, aga hinnad neis on juba kallimad.

Yhe eheteleti juurde j2ime pikemalt seisma, et paar asja v2lja valida ning sattusime myyjatega r22kima. V6i noh, mina pigem olin kuulaja rollis ja yritasin aru saada, millest koreakeelne jutt kah k2ib. M6ni asi j6udis isegi kohale, kuigi viivitusega. Myyjad olid t6en2oliselt ema ja poeg ja nagu ikka tunti huvi, et kust me ka p2rit oleme jne. Kuna minu koreakeelne s6navara piirdub k6igest m6nigate s6nade ja v2ljenditega, mida ma kah v2ga kasutada ei soanda ja kuuldes, et me Euroopast ja ma korea keelt ei r22gi, sain nooremalt myyjalt kohe ''Bonjoir'' tervituseks. No bonjoir sullegi!
M6ne aja p2rast l2ks poiss arvutitaha ja hyppas sealt peagi pysti: ''Tere p2evast!'' :O Vot see oli lahe! Seda enam, et v2lted olid t2iesti 6iges kohas ja k6ik k6las v2gagi 6igesti.. Hiljem sealt korra veel m66da minnes tuli letitagant kohe r66mus ''Tere!''.. :)
Nagu 6eraas kenasti 2ra mainis, siis need olid esimesed kohalikud, kes arvasid, et meie oma keel on vene keelest ikka v2ga erinev.. tavaliselt on efekt vastupidine. Arvatakse ikka, et Eestis r22gitakse vene keelt v6i on keel sellele v2ga sarnane.
Tallinnas on yks korea restoran, mida peab korealane ja tolle venelasest elukaaslane. Mees ei oska eesti keelt, aga need v2hesed s6nad, mida ta 6elda oskab, k6lavad v2ldete ja r6hkude poolest perfektselt. Siin Koreas olles hakkab mulle j2rjest rohkem tunduma, et eesti ja korea keelel polegi nii palju vahet kui v6iks olla. Viimasel lihtsalt on v2hem konsonante ja laused l6pevad tihti pikkade t2ish22likutega, v6ibolla seet6ttu tundubki mulle, et korealastel kukub ka eesti keele h22ldamine p2ris h2sti v2lja :) Igal juhul on vene ja eesti keel kordi erinevamad.

Selles riieteparadiisis l2ks p2ris tykk aega, kuigi meie saak piirdus k6igest m6ne r6ivaesemega. Rohkem lihtsalt ei j22nud midagi silma, mida kohe kindlasti oleks tahtnud v6i vaja l2inud. Muidugi voode ja pyksirihmade valik ning eelk6ige nende pannalde valik oli siin kyll selline, et yht tavalist siinse leti valikut ei leia t6en2oliselt mitte yhestki Eesti kauplusest. Praegu tundubki juba kahju, et m6nda vood 2ra ei ostnud, aga valik oli valimiseks lihtsalt liiga suur.

6htu otsustasime l6petada DVD bangis. See on analoogne koht karaoketubadele, ainult et privaatse ruumi rendid endale DVD filmi vaatamiseks, mille valik omakorda h6lmab paari-kolme seina. Suur ekraan, kinoheli, mugav lamamisdiivan.. milleks yldse peaks keegi tahtma filmi koju laenutada?

6htusoogi s6ime sushirestoranis. See oli ysna l22nelik restoran, tavaliste laudade ja muu sellisega ning ka road olid siin California sushi menyyst. Veider m6elda, Euroopas pannakse tihti m6nele teistsugusele roale uhke v2lismaa, veel parem kui aasiap2rane nimi, siin j2lle vastupidi – tundub ikka uhke kyll, kui s66d lausa California sushit! Muidugi hinnad on ka vastavalt selle pisut kallimad.

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We ate the late breakfast or early dinner at a small diningplace. We ordered us fusion bibimbap. Bibimbap is, as the Lonely Planets city guide refers, a mixture of rice, vegetables and meat. For me it looks a bit similar to one certain italian dish, but the italians ofcourse, add a lot of cheese on the top..
Anyway, the whole thing is burningly hot and you need to start mix it with your spoon at the same moment it arrives on the table or else some of the food may just get completely burned. But at least you can eat bibimbap with your spoon :) As sidedishes there are again some kind of spicy sauce or paste and soup. You also don't have to worry about getting anything for drink, as there's always a bottle of fresh water nearby and you don't have to pay anything for it either.
As much as I understand, the name fusion often refers to something unnatural, different or even western. For example fusion bibimbap may contain also some pineapple, which is not usual.

Our next goal was to look around in the city. The weather was quite cold, but in Myongdong still a lot of trade was going on. You will find all kind of shops selling some brandclotching (Nike etc) on both sides of the street while in the middle are marketstalls selling everything from clotching for babies to warm food. Or if you'd feel cold, you could get a new handwear/scarf/headwear from the next stall. I haven't noticed such an intensive streetsale in the middle of december anywhere in Europe, with minus degrees outside.

Dongdaemun was our next place to visit. There were a lot of departement stores around, usually with smaller stalls inside, where you can buy all kind of clotching and accessories. And in case you think you wouldn't be able to carry all your staff with you anymore, get a nice new suitcase from the next stall. Usually you can't try the clotches on, so you just have to buy them hoping that they'll fit. Mine did :) You may also find that most of the clotches are quite smallsized. If you'd still like to try the clothes on before buying them, then you can look for a departement store with separate shops in it, but the items there may be a bit more costy too.

We stopped at a stall with some jewellery and found ourselves soon in the middle of a conversation, in korean. Or actually, I was more a silent listener trying to understand the point. I even got a couple of things, but with some delay :) The two koreans on the other side of the counter were probably a mother and son and they were also curious where we come from etc. As I do know only some words in korean and I am usually shy enough to use them and after hearing that we are from Europe I got a nice greeting in French: ''Bonjoir!'' Hehe, well bonjoir to you too!
After a while, the younger korean, the man went behind a pc and was soon back behind the counter saying happily: ''Tere päevast!' That was surprising! :O especially, because it actually sounded just as it should, better that usually foreign europeans can say it out..
When we later went past that counter once more, we got a friendly ''Tere!'' again.. he still remembered the word :)
Btw as my sis noticed... those were the first koreans that actually were in the opinion, that our language, estonian, is certainly very different from russian. Usually, the people think that the official language of Estonia is russian or that the language is very similar to russian.
There's one korean eating-place in Tallinn, which is ran by a korean and, I think, his wife, who can speak only russian. The man can't estonian, but those few words he's saying out in estonian while trying to explain the menu sound very natural, all the 'degrees of quantity' and accentuation are just in the right place. Being now here in Korea, it's seems to me even more clear, that estonian and korean actually sound a bit similar. Korean just does have less consonants and the sentences often end with long vocals. This might be the reason, why it seems to me more and more, that the koreans can actually spell estonian words very normally, so that the words actually do sound very natural, just as they should. :)
Anyway estonian and russian are much more different languages than estonian and korean.

It took quite a lot of time in this paradise of clothing, but yet we managed to get away only with some new 'items'. Luckily we didn't notice any more stuff we would have wanted to buy right away or what we could have needed. Yeah, there were really a lot of belts to choose from and I'm already feeling a bit sorry that I didn't buy any.. I don't think there's a store back home with such a wide selection.

As next we landed on a DVD bang. It's a similar place to noraebang (karaokeroom), but you'll rent the room for watching a DVD and there's really a lot of DVDs to choose from. A big screen, good sound, comfortable coach/sofa.. Why should anyone want to rent a DVD and watch it at home?

For dinner we went to a sushirestaurant. It was more a western-style than an ordinary place, with ''normal western'' tables and Californian sushi menu. It feels kinda weird if you think that people in Europe will be proud to add all kind of asian names to a place where they offer asian or asian-like food and here it's vice versa – doesn't it make you feel special, if you're eating Californian sushi?! :) And ofcourse, as always with 'foreign dishes', the prices are a bit higher than it would be in an ordinary sushiplace.