Today, I cheated. On food!! I've been enjoying a wonderful diet of amazing food, but today I just had this inexplicable desire for a BURGER. Not a teriyaki or marinated meat burger, just a good old boring fast food burger. So...I went to Burger King!! Haha like I mentioned before, the fast food places here are not like the ones back home. They are all sit down, since there's no drive through obviously and are really nice inside. There's fancy glowy lights everywhere and cute cafe-like chairs.
I had my food for here, but I saw the take-out bags they use: they're sturdy paper bags with handles and stiff frosted plastic bags to hold your drink. Seriously?!? We get flimsy, grease-soaked paper bags all scrunched up lol. I got a Whopper Jr. meal for 4,400 won, which is $3.95 in dollars.
I had the hardest time trying to explain to them I wanted no sauce on my burger hahah, the older woman helping me just stare at me then smiled and looked embarrassed. She motioned for me to wait, then waved her young male coworker over to talk to me. This happens a lot; if they are older and I inflict my English on them they look scared or embarrassed and go find someone younger to speak to me haha. I know it's cuz the younger generations have had more schooling in English and are more open-minded towards it; for them, a high level of English speaking is cool.
I had my food for here, but I saw the take-out bags they use: they're sturdy paper bags with handles and stiff frosted plastic bags to hold your drink. Seriously?!? We get flimsy, grease-soaked paper bags all scrunched up lol. I got a Whopper Jr. meal for 4,400 won, which is $3.95 in dollars.
I had the hardest time trying to explain to them I wanted no sauce on my burger hahah, the older woman helping me just stare at me then smiled and looked embarrassed. She motioned for me to wait, then waved her young male coworker over to talk to me. This happens a lot; if they are older and I inflict my English on them they look scared or embarrassed and go find someone younger to speak to me haha. I know it's cuz the younger generations have had more schooling in English and are more open-minded towards it; for them, a high level of English speaking is cool.
They also don't give you receipts or call numbers, which confused me when they finished my order and just turned to the next person. I tried asking how am I supposed to know when to get my food but it was hopeless lol. I watched for awhile and noticed all the (business suit wearing btw) men and women were waiting by the counter. I guess they just stand and wait? Also how weird is it that this place is frequented mostly by power suit wearing women and suit-wearing men?? I did see one kid here and his mom, but that's it.
They also give you your drink for here in an actual cup. I've noticed that everywhere; even for water cups they have a counter set up with a water machine and glass or plastic reusable cups for you. Then a container to put your dirty water cups in! So classy. No wonder there's barely any trash cans around, and a conspicuous lack of litter lying around...they also had this funny little trashcan looking thing with cup holder suspended above it. It took me minute of curious staring at it until I realized it was to dump out the contents of your cup, then place your cup upside down to drain before they collected them. I LOVE THIS. Way to eliminate the nasty liquid in trash bags things.
They also give you your drink for here in an actual cup. I've noticed that everywhere; even for water cups they have a counter set up with a water machine and glass or plastic reusable cups for you. Then a container to put your dirty water cups in! So classy. No wonder there's barely any trash cans around, and a conspicuous lack of litter lying around...they also had this funny little trashcan looking thing with cup holder suspended above it. It took me minute of curious staring at it until I realized it was to dump out the contents of your cup, then place your cup upside down to drain before they collected them. I LOVE THIS. Way to eliminate the nasty liquid in trash bags things.
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