Food of the week- Pizza (피자)

Last week at Korean class, Mr. Lee from the Metropolitian Office of Education came to class during our break between hours. With him, he had 4 pizzas, and 5 liters of Coke! We were all so suprised to see him again (it had been a while since going to Boseong for reorientation) and even more shocked that he had given us pizza.

Pizza is pretty expensive here. I've had it twice at school as a snack with the other teachers, and Gabe and I split one for dinner once. Going from eating pizza often back in WI, it is a change to not have that kind of comfort food here! The cost depends on where you buy the pizza from, but when Gabe and I ordered a small supreme (we didn't know how to order anything else other than just pointing), it was about $12. We thought it was worth it. For the MOE to buy 4 pizzas each for 3 classes, 2 beginning and 1 intermediate, had to be pretty costly. But much appreciated.

The pizza was unlike any other pizza I've had so far. It had a stuffed sweet potato crust, sauce, cheese, shrimp, olives, crab, shrimp wrapped in spaghetti, and what I originally thought was octopus turned out to be just cuttlefish, as informed by Mihey and Jiyeon. And I couldn't forget the corn, they always put corn on pizza it seems!

Here's us looking at the pizza, my 선생님 is the Korean in the picture.



This is the pizza, the shrimp with spaghetti are around the edges.