Dragon Fruit

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a dragon fruit. I was introduced to them while I was in Cambodia and Vietnam. I've tried to find them in America and I only found them once in two years. They were $16 a pound. Thus, I didn't buy them. Since I'm on the other side of the world, they're much cheaper. This bad boy went for 5,000 won. They don't carry them in super markets and had to buy him on the street. I found him in a giant international district where I'm going to back for salmon cuts later. I personally think it look like a dragon egg, if those in fact existed.

This is a knife. The bride and groom have smooched, let's cut this cake.

This is what the inside looks like. it's sort of like a kiwi, but with different flavoring. It's wonderfully delicious because it's soft and cold. So good.

Sliced and diced into more manageable bites.

Another angle...wait, what's that there?

Oh my goodness. I found some international delegates while wandering the market as well. These were priced better than in America and thus it was a wonderful find. I still don't have any quality tonic water. Or limes. We're going to try and make our own, but we require Cinchona. Amazon trail anyone?

Simply lovely.

Time for a test drive.

No crashes or fatalities.


Also, I met Tane for sushi near his house. Afterwards, I boarded the subway and was stopped by a man named So Cho. After talking for a while, several handsome compliments, and confessing that I wasn't married he invited me for draft beers at a place called Starfish on Saturday. I'm not sure what to make of it. He told me that i reminded him of his grandson who was going to college in Switzerland. He told me to call him and gave me his business card. Apparently he works as an advisor for the "Busan International Environmental Design & Cultural Forum." Their website is here http://www.biedfo.org/forum/symbol.html . I'm not sure what I'm going to do. That organization seems like a major advertising firm that deals a lot in public art. He might be a fascinating contact and good person to know. On the other hand, he's someone I talked to in broken English for three stops on the subway. By the way, this is normal behavior to foreigners in Korea. When Danny, Tane, and I go out, we always get approached by old men who want to talk to us and tell us about the time they lived in America and were stationed at a Virginia army base. Most of the time teachers get propositioned to teach peoples children under the table. So, tell me what you think.