Cycle 17 – Item 42

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16 (Mon) February 2026

Beef Brisket Pho Bo

2.0

at Nana Bangkok

-Changgok, Sujeong, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-

with W

Yesterday, while working out with IZ at the gym, I had dropped a 10-kg weight on my toe.  Hurt like a bitch at first but didn’t seem broken, soon easing up to the point where it seemed fine enough to go out and shoot pool with JS (see generally 17.041 Palbochae).

But this morning, severe swelling and bruising gave rise to concern, so we went to the emergency room –  I was denied treatment at Samsung Medical Center, because they only treat “serious” cases, so we went to Soonchunhyang University Hospital, our family go-to facility when we’d lived in Oksu – where x-rays showed a hair-line fracture.

The good news is that I have an excuse not to join the lunar new year family dinner at the cabin tomorrow.  The doctor hadn’t actually said anything about bed rest, but that was his strict recommendation in my telling of the story to my mother.

This probably means that I’ll feel compelled to join Chuseok dinner in the fall, though I’d been determined to skip it this year, as a matter of principle (see generally 16.274 Saewoosal).

After the hospital, we had dinner at Nana Bangkok.  W agreed that the food is not good.

(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)

(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See HANSIK)

(See BOOZE)