Finally, an excuse to wear one of those suits I've
had made. For their seventh anni- versary, the Manhattan threw a 007-themed birthday party. And like all great seventh birthday parties, this one had half-priced martinis! So off we went in our finest British spy-wear to celebrate You Only Live Twice style.
Our first order of business was introducing our Korean friend Daniel to Vodka Martinis. He took one sip, declared "that was gross," then promptly finished it and ordered three more. Later on, he had to fend off his own Bond villain, a young woman who had obviously had a few martinis of her own.
Shortly after arriving, I was dragged behind the bar for a contest, the details of which I'm still not sure about as the instructions were in Korean. Despite the facts that 1. I had no idea what was going on, and 2. I was wearing a clip-on bow-tie (NOTE: no one in Korea has heard of a real bow-tie, they don't exist here), I apparently won a 50,000 won gift certificate! Unfortunately, we bought three rounds of shots before we realized that we couldn't use the gift certificates that night. Oops!
