Ordering Take-Out

Within a very short time of us being in Korea, we figured out that just because a restaurant doesn't have delivery does not mean that your food cannot be delivered to you.  Korea has a system called "Quick Service".  Basically, you can call any restaurant and say 퀵서비스 (quick service) and someone on a motorbike will pick up your food from the restaurant and deliver it to you.  Even McDonald's does this.

*I did not take this photo.  I copied this photo from Google Images.*

Zach and I have said from day one that we cannot learn how this system works.  If we figured it out, we would be fat, lazy slobs ordering in food for every meal.  **The great thing about quick service??!!  You don't have to pay the delivery person.  You also don't have to tip them.**

Well on Monday, we decided that we wanted to check out the Chinese restaurant near us.  The sign on the door said "Take Out".  That was fine with us!  However, after we ordered our food, the man asked us for our address (in very broken English).  Zach told him our address (in Korean, of course!) and we were shooed out the door.  We walked back to our apartment and within 10 minutes, our doorbell rang.  Our food had arrived!

We ordered one meal to share plus a side of fried rice -- too much food!

The food comes in real plates and they even gave us a couple of real spoons and wooden, disposable chopsticks.  When you are finished with your food, just leave your dishes outside your door and the delivery person will come back to pick them up!  It's as easy as that!