Saturday Night Makkoli Adventures

Our first stop for the night was our favorite makkoli place near Sookmyung Women's University Station. I got my usual sal makkoli, but some friends ordered a new menu item, Fruit Makkoli. I was skeptical, so I didn't order it, but it turned out to be quite tasty. Though, it didn't really taste much like makkoli, more like a smoothie, but anyway, it was a nice tasting makkoli smoothie.

And served in a wine glass no less...

Next stop was a more traditional makkoli house where our makkoli was served in a kettle and poured into bowls, rather than glasses.

And of course we ordered some pajeon to go with it... it wouldn't really be makkoli without some sort of jeon...

Stop three was a tiny little shop run by a hunchbacked ajumma. We've always been tempted by the cheap prices of jeon (Korean-style pancakes) in the window, but we've never venured our way in until this night. As you can see here, we ordered a plate of a little bit of everything, hobakjeon, some kind of meat jeon, hot peppers, and some other unidentifiable things. Anyway, the jeon was good here, but the makkoli on the other hand was completely flat and we didn't stay long.

After that we headed to a new convinience store in our area to drink more makkoli on their nice new patio seating area. The story didn't go so well from there, so I'll leave it at that and with a warning that makkoli is great in relatively small quantities, but can lead to rather unpleasant results in large quantities... just like any alcohol I guess... :-)

Happy drinking...