New Bar with a New Friend

On Monday I visited The Outsider with John from one of our partner firms and one of my juniors-plus Peter, a South African expat here on an IT project. He is always asked by Koreans who have never seen him if he's black...um, no, 10% of South Africans (usually those who travel, I'd hazard to guess) are white: bred from the English and Dutch colonists who have been there for over 100 years.

Anyhoo, last night, in a quid-pro-quo manner, he showed me his haunt near the 63 Building: cf. It's a nice place like The Outsider: girls to pour drinks (and nothing else); a bit darker on the lighting; no casino games or special events--but quite nice. cf is perhaps a better place for more private entertaining as there are booths (which The Outsider lacks) there as well as totally private side rooms. All in all, not a bad place. Now we have to check out the sequel: cf2 which is in the same area.


cf usually means "commercial film" (advert) but here it means 'contemporary fusion'. It's fusing drinks and lovely bartenders to arrive at a fission reaction between hammered men and their won.

Just got a call from another expat here: Curtis. He just got in from Indianapolis and is here on a short contract. He just tried kimchi and has yet to try soju or live octopus...this should be fun.