Dinner Time!

Last night after work a few of us decided to try out this Korean restaurant down the street from the school. It was a Monday night, which is a Friday night for us since our busiest days are Saturday and Sunday. We had just planned on having a nice meal then going home. Fist the doors are opened for us by these pretty, traditionally dressed Korean waitresses and they show us to our seats. Their eyes glued on us due to the fact that we are westerners (except one of us who was Chinese). We sit down and there are 3 waitresses around our table, one pouring our tea, one taking our order, and one basically just staring.
There is a stage area in the back of the restaurant and we are informed that there will be live entertainment in about an hour. Sweet, I've had a need for live music lately, I don't care what it is. We order our food" sushi roll thing, kimchi (my fav), a plate of fungus, shrimp, and leeks, a rice bowl with vegis and a fried egg on top, and also some hard boiled eggs that have been wrapped in pork and pan fried. We also have about 5 beers. (Well, Mike and I have 5 beers between us) We eat, drink, and have good conversation. The waitresses putting food on our plates for us and swooping in to fill our glasses with beer or tea if they are getting close to being empty. We see about 5 or 6 of the waitresses go into a room by the stage and one of the cooks comes out and sits behind the drum set. The waitresses come back out with these big traditional Korean gowns on. One sits behind the keyboard and the other sits in a chair beside the first one. The girl sitting in the 3rd chair is sitting there very properly with her hands on her lap waiting for the music to begin. When its time she reaches over to her right and picks up this electric bass that has to be bigger than she was and puts it in her lap. The music starts slow then the cook/drummer puts down this beat and the bass girl lays down this lick that made Mike and I simultaneously turn to each other with out mouths open and eyebrows raised. This girl was amazing! Her fingers were all over the place! She even did a little slappa da bass.
Later on 3 girls came out also wearing Korean gowns and they sang a song together then all came out individually and sang a song. Some of them coming out to the tables to sing to the people sitting there. After the first wave of singing a dancer came out and hopped around there for a while and then the singers came back out. The each did one more song and one group song then went back into the room from which they came. The exited the room back in their waitress garb and went back to work. The room was exactly the way it was 45 minutes prior and no one seemed to be acting as if we just watched an awesome performance with a bass player that that played like she was taught by Vic Wooten himself. 5 minutes after the show we all look at each other and Mike asked "Did that just happen, or are we all having a group hallucination?" Well it happened and I have the pictures to prove it! We sat there for a while after and talked. When the bill was requested it came to 155 Yuan which is roughly 25 dollars USD. It was definitely a pleasant surprise and I'm glad we chose that restaurant. I'm going back!