Bennigans

On Sunday my friend Leslie and I decided we would escape our families for a while. We tried to go to the fabric market, but they were closed. We tried to go to the ribbon and flower markets, but they were closed. At this point we were driving around Daegu trying to find someplace to go, because there was NO WAY IN HELL we were heading home. Eventually we found E-Mart (Korean equivalent to Target) and checked out what all they had. By now it was time for lunch. Hmmmmmm.......where to eat??? We decided to go downtown and eat some American food at Bennigans. After climbing the two flights of steep stairs we reach the doors and are greeted by two very sweet Korean young women. We follow one to our table and Leslie starts cracking up laughing. When she caught her breath she finally says to me, "did they just say "Welcome Americans?'" Once I finished crying from laughing I told her that they had said, "Welcome to Bennigans." Now we are both rolling on the floor. Eventually we calm down and pick up our menus. In the right hand corner of each of our menus, in big white letters, are the words "Foreigners Menu." Wow, I have never been the foreigner at a restaurant before! Everything about Bennigans was the exact same as it is in the States. Leslie and I both ordered the Monti Cristo and each of us ended up taking half home to our husbands. It was so nice to have a little piece of home for a little while. While we waited for our change, I figured I better go to the restroom since we had a long walk back to the car. I don't know why this shocked me, but there was a bidet (toilet that squirts you with water). It had a heated seat and buttons so you could control the angle of the water spray. It was crazy! Had I been able to get over my phobia of germs I might have given it a try, but there was no way since it was a public toilet. The really sad thing is that this is not even the strangest toilet I have seen in Korea. Some places just have a hole in the ground for you to use (Americans call these "squatty potties"). I prefer to just hold it until I get home.