Although Atlanta's Koreatown pales in comparison to Los Angeles', it was still fun to have the Korean food, drink, and karaoke experience in another city.
The night started with dinner at Chung Dam with more guests making an appearance. Here's Sun, Heman, Jason, me (Joe), Carol, Stephen, Julia, and Devon:
Dinner was good, but it was finally time to drink! A quick jaunt from the restaurant took us to Debut, a pretty trendy looking Korean bar where we were seated on impractically stylish and accordingly uncomfortable lounge furniture. We quickly opted for some standard tables with four legged chairs instead. When our drink order came up, I showed everyone how to play 'Titanic', a drinking game that when in Korean bars due to the dimensions of Korean beer glasses in relation to Korean shot glasses.
How2Play Titanic
1. At a Korean bar, order beer and soju. The beer glass should be short and narrow and the shot glass should be wide mouthed.
2. Pour enough beer to fill half a glass. Float an empty shot glass in the half filled bear glass.
3. Each participants takes a turn pouring as much soju into the shot glass as they like. However, whoever causes the shot glass to sink must drink it all.
It's really not too bad since it's effectively just a soju bomb (called bokchan in Korean).
We actually thought Carol would sink it but she actually did pretty well. Look at that concentration:
The big winners (or losers) of the evening were Sun, Heman, and Devon. The last round we played seemed to have no end but Devon was finally able to sink it:
Once we were sufficiently buzzed, we headed down the street to a karaoke room called Luxor. The interior walls had Egyptian hieroglyphic molds which were pretty cool, and colored lights shot around the room making the ambiance fun and cheesy.
What to sing, what to sing:
What to drink, what to drink:
When does it end, when does it end:
Stephen and Jason representing Triage:
Heman representin' his namesake:
There was a smaller screen mounted above on the opposite side so that you can be an awesome karaoke superstar:
Towards the end of the evening and on my way back from the bathroom, I passed by another party's karaoke room that had been vacated only minutes before and noticed that a carafe of whiskey had not been finished. Asian frugality took over and I performed a salvage operation on it (I took the bottle back to our room) which was convenient because Luxor decided to stay open longer for us.
After we finished, Jason really wanted to go bowling, so Stephen, Devon, Sun, and I joined him. Stephen hurt his wrist as he bowled into his leg instead of the lane, I'm left handed so I'm handicapped from the start, and Jason wtfpwned all of us.
After bowling, I had to work. I wasn't drunk, but I was pretty tired. It was 6:30 AM when I finally slept.
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