New DIning Experience

On Monday night we were invited to dinner by Mary, who is engaged to our friend Sam.  We were told it was in the new Lotte Mart building.  Lotte Mart is a new 5 story grocery store, not far from our apt.  They have these amazing escalators that hold your shopping cart in place while you go to the next level.  It is similar to a Wal-Mart in that they sell everything you need.  I like it because I can get many western food items there.  The fifth floor has a food court, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, and a cafe, they have cafe's on every street corner here, oh and the famous arcade room that every mall has here, so loud.   We met Sam and Mary on the 5th floor and they took us over to a seperate restaurant that had bar stools around a counter and in front of you was a conveyor belt that held plate after plate of meats, veggies, noodles, seafood etc.  You ordered your hot pot, a pot that comes with a brooth, the choices were, Thai, Chinese, or Japanese.  The only none spicy was Japanese so that is what I ordered.  Also in front of you was a burner set into the counter and you had a knob to control the temperature.  You first put it on high to get it to boil then you add whatever you want from the food that passes before you.  After it cooks for a few minutes you turn it down.  Our friends, Sam and Joseph, the brothers were trying to see how many plates of food they could rack up.  Mind you the amount of food on each plate is maybe a child's portion but they still ended up eating a lot of food.  Those two can put the food away.  They love to help us out so they were constantly pulling off plates as they passed us.  I would then put them back on after I found out what was on them.  They had one flower, not sure what it was but they kept saying it was healthy, I have tasted some of the stuff they say is so healthy and I just can't seem to develop a taste for it.  I always try them out but so far very few appeal. They called this a buffet and the price was an amazingly low $6.00 per person, for all you could eat.  It was a fun evening which we ended by stopping at the bakery back on the first floor and buying some chocolate croissants for Mark to eat the next week.  We love these new experiences.