Friday, September 18, 2009

Chicken Stick Guy

The lunch they serve at school typically sucks (IMHO).  So, I choose to go to this little hole in the wall resturant nearly everyday which is operated single handedly by a man I endearingly refer to as "Chicken stick guy".  So I see this dude almost everyday and I'm usually the only customer in his establishment as he prepares my food.  Typically I walk in, make eye contact and say, "chicken hana, potato hana" (one chicken stick and one order of french fries).  Chicken stick guy speaks a tiny bit of english and he tries to engage me in conversation frequently. He is by far my favorite Korean.  He's precious.  He's like probably early thirties, tall and skinny.  Today I walked in by myself and he wasn't out front so I was like "hello?".  Dude was in the back room playing guitar! I was so pumped!  He told me he had been playing for a year and I asked him if he was good and together we came to the understanding that he was okay with it.  I asked what he knew how to play and he did the "Dunh duhn duhn..." to smoke on the water, and THEN he was like "Very old american pop song, 'country roads take me home...".  Of course I got pumped and immediately started to sing with him.  He is easily the most interesting and entertaining person I have met here.  He's teaching me one Korean word a day...it's kind of a little deal we've worked out.  Yesterday I learned 'mo' means neck (how ironic is it that the first word he teaches me in Korean in "MO"? lol love it.  Today he tought me mool, which is water.  He had asked me the words I knew in Korean and I was like "uhm, well, mickjoo (beer), ne(yes), anyo(no), and hana(one)".  lol  He makes my day bearable and I love him for that.  (it's getting to the point that I go there for him, not for my chicken stick).  Just thought I'd share.

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