Sunday evening we had a small housewarming party. MyeongHee worked her butt off in the kitchen making an elaborate meal while I busied myself cleaning up the place. She made a meat dish, noodles, soup, side-dishes too numerous to mention and the ubiquitous rice. I made a barbeque chicken with some western-style bbq sauce I’d found in one of the bigger department stores. I was going to make Rotel and cheese dip, but there was too much food already. We’ll save that for just us on the next movie night.

I took this picture early, before any guests arrived. Once they did, there was no time for posing. The table is just beginning to get full and by the time the school director and his family arrived there was no room left for even a single dish. DongHyun was camera shy, so all I could get was of him setting the table.

The school director had to leave early as his kids start the new school year on Monday. In typical foreigner fashion, my American, British and Canadian friends came late, arriving just as the Koreans were leaving. There was still massive amounts of food, so we ended up having essentially two separate dinner parties; one Korean style and one more western. We ate and drank and laughed until the early morning.

I have to really hand it to MyeongHee. After everyone had gone home, she admitted that was the first time in her life she’d ever had guests over for a dinner party. Apparently when she was first married, her husband was a drunk and mostly out of the house so they never did anything at home. She did a stellar job making the food and making sure everyone had full glasses throughout the evening. She was a fine cook and hostess.