big william's world

On my third dinner alone I returned to "Muscus" where I went on Sunday night because I enjoyed it a lot.
It's a large seafood buffet restaurant that seats several hundred people and you can sit and eat all night for $26 including sushi of many kinds, cooked meats and fish, MUCH kimchi and many things I don't know what they were.
Not a word of English is spoken and scoring a beer (excellent local brew) was a challenge.
Suddenly while I was eating somebody started talking loudly over the public address system. I thought they were never going to stop and the waitress came to me, speaking Korean and making rectangle signs about the size of a handkerchief - I just shrugged my shoulders. She came back with a small square of paper like a postage stamp with Korean writing and the number 35 on it.
The talking over the speakers continued and I realized it was a raffle - I waved the ticket at the couple on the next table, pointed my fingers in my ears and made circles - trying to imply - which they probably already knew - that I did not understand what the numbers were.
Of course they must have called 35 so they gestured to me to go get the prize and it was a plate of, obviously very special, mushrooms with a small bowl carved from daikon or turnip or something containing some little yellow berries. I ate half the mushrooms (with chopsticks of course) and gave the rest to my neighbours who seemed to really appreciate them. I think they might have been king mushrooms or something.
On a menu earlier in the day I saw the translation quote of the week "cold raw entrails"
Tonight they had "sea squirt sushi" - thoughts of little boys at the seaside?
When I Googled "Muscus" for the pictures it said "did you mean mucus"