Southern BBQ at the Songtan Pink Carts

As an Alaskan I'm a sucker for folks who step out of their comfort zone and take a risk on a dream, especially when they are doing it off the beaten track. It's a little something we call The Frontier Spirit, so when I found jps_bbq on Instagram a few months ago I knew I needed to track them down. For a while they were doing nights at the O'lounge Comedy Club near Osan Base but I always seemed to see the announcement too late.

A few weeks ago they announced they were going to start doing weekends in the Pink Carts and I jumped on the opportunity, rounding up the Songtan Language Exchange folks to come along with me. 

Needless to say, I was tickled pink with my sandwich, so much so that I went back the next day with my Southern Fried boy for some more sweet tea and bbq. Now is hooked as well.

If you love southern BBQ and have 5,000 won burning a hole in your pocket, get your butt over to Songtan, stuff your faces with deliciousness, and support another expat living his dream and making our lives a little bit more tasty.

The Pink Carts are located at toward the end of shopping strip walking away from Osan Gate. They are down the ally along the old train tracks. You can call jps_bbq with questions at 010-2626-7437

5 Water Parks to Cut the Heat this Summer

Summer is just around the corner and things are going to be seriously heating up. If you are like me you are going to be looking for some fun ways to cool off. This year my plan is to mix it up a bit. 

For the last five years I've had the habit of going to the beach, but I think it's time I tried new things so I've made a list of Korea's water park/spa hotels and I'm going to try to see them all. So grab your pool noodles, pack up the kids, and let's go get wet.

Here are my five top-tier choices for a summer of water slides and lazy rivers. Just click on the links for their MollaKorea listings. Sorry it's click through. Once I get to them I'll write all kinds of info about them:

1. Tendin Waterpark & Spa Cheonan

   

2. Spa Valley Daegu

3. Waterpia Water Park Sokcho

4. Vivaldi Ocean World Water Park

5. Gimhae Lotte Water Park Busan

 

Welcome MollaKorea.com to the Neighborhood

Not long after launching the South of Seoul blog I was approached by www.MollaKorea.com who asked if I could develop Pyeongtaek content for them. After learning more about the website I became enamored with its possibilities.  Three months later, here we are. Multiple sections dedicated to Pyeongtaek content. 

Each week I will update new listings to help make life in Pyeongtaek a lot more fun and delicious.  You can follow MollaKorea.comhttp://www.mollakorea.com/ on Facebook as well. They post lots of different events and activities across Korea.

MollaKorea.com will change how we live in Pyeongtaek. Content includes such things as:

• Restaurants
• Hiking trails
• Adventure sports
• Hotels and pensions
• Beauty treatments
• Healthcare
• Dentists
• Events
• Flea Market
• Forums

This is not a set-it-and-forget-it website. It's designed to last, with staff and systems to support the continued development of content. If maps are wrong they will fix them, if restaurants go out of business they remove them, if something new comes to town they go check it out.

Not only that, it's also a bit like yelp. You can review places you visit, things you eat, restaurants you love and much more. Members of the site also get rewards and perks for participating which honestly just gives me a good fuzzy feeling so I dig it. 

In addition, the people running MollaKorea.com have years of experience in Korea and speak the language so they can find things you can't, try them out, and recommend them to you. This isn't the blind-leading-the-blind. This is a group of experts, both national and foreign, on life outside of Seoul doing all the hard research so your short time here can be has enjoyable as possible.

It's been truly exciting to work on a project that will make life so much easier for so many people. It's certainly a new dawn and a new day in Pyeongtaek.

Molla Korea on Facebook

Molla Korea Website