Under normal circumstances, there’s a certain calm to The Four Hour Body’s regular regimen. It’s best described by someone from the book by calling it ‘The freedom of no choice.’

The real challenge comes in when that no choice isn’t possible with presently available options, or as I’ve come to discover, there is a certain haphazardness with which cheat day rolls around.

Just because you can do a specific thing doesn’t mean you should do a certain thing, or even that you have to do a certain thing.

I’ve been pondering taking a different approach to my cheat days to get them to take a slightly different form.

Not a wholesale change in the what I eat specifically, but the plan of attack.

All of this is just a long winded way to say that with so many options in Korea, sometimes it’s better to keep your options open.

So I didn’t really have a monster day on Sunday, but the halavah I got at the Salaam Bakery in Itaewon was delicious, and the Chinese-American food at Ho Lee Chow in Myeondong was very good (eaten Korean-style by sharing one entree), the Dunkin Donuts NY ‘cronut’ was still a little lacking, the Pizza School beefmeat pizza (yes, a real thing) sufficed in place of the Italian restaurant that we wanted to go to but was closed, and one of the two schneeballen we got last week at Hyundai Dept Store paired excellently with both the Haagen Dazs vanilla and chocolate fondant I got at the gourmet GS25.

Halavah

Ho Lee Chow lunch

Schneeballen w/ Haagen Dazs

Happy Chuseok e’erbody!