Last Wednesday was Children's Day, so we had the day off work. Since Wednesday also happened to be Cinco De Mayo, we thought we would make a Mexican feast on Tuesday after work. We found tortillas, salsa, Tillamook cheese, and even some ridiculously expensive refried beans. However, we had a slight problem... we couldn't find cumin. Anyone who has ever made Mexican food from scratch knows that you absolutely need cumin and chili powder. We looked at our local grocery store, Costco, and even the specialty foreigner store, "I Love Cookie" (yes, that's the name of the store), but we could not find it! Instead, we had to settle for pre-packaged taco seasoning. It worked for the purposes of our feast, but we were still determined to find some cumin for future cooking endeavors.
On Wednesday, we decided to take a trip into Itaewon, which is the area near the military base. I needed a haircut, and we had heard that there was a salon where the stylist spoke very good english. We had also heard that you could find cumin there.
Welcome to Itaewon! Who needs to take the actual picture when you can take one of a wheely-cart on the sidewalk!
Itaewon, aka foreigner central, comes complete with street vendors selling strange sunglasses. It is really unfortunate that we didn't purchase these.
Gotta love living in a country where anything above a size 2 equals "big size"
Cheap shades + sepia = Cool
Success! Bring on the mexican food, curry, and other cumin-y delights!
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