Tonight’s episode of No Reservations in Korea was one of the best yet. But maybe I’m biased because it featured his oh so cute production manager Nari Kye who had me from hello (where hello was when she first appeared on the “Off The Jersey Turnpike” episode from a prior season, taking Tony to my favorite soft tofu restaurant in Fort Lee). I’ve always said my ideal woman must have two very specific qualities- be easily amused by little things, and be capable of true indulgence (preferably in food). Nari has both in spades for sure. Back in that NJ episode, I knew Nari was my kind of girl when she was sitting with Tony in So Kong Dong and the tofu arrived at the table and she eagerly said “You see this? This is the good stuff right here”. She also talked about burping and sweating at the end of a good meal. How can you not dig a chick like that?? So I was pretty psyched when I saw the commercial last week and noticed she was going to be Tony’s guide for this episode. And boy did it live up to my self-induced hype. Top to bottom it was a killer episode, from the live wriggling octopus tentacles for breakfast to one of Tony’s best lines yet during the karaoke scene which he described as “a nightmarish Greco-Roman prison seemingly decorated by Laura Ashley with the remnants of Hilary Duff’s childhood toy chest”. Hahahaha that is fuggin genius. And out of nowhere there was also the somber part of the show where I got all choked up listening to her grandfather’s story of how his only wish would be to be able to see his parents’ graves in North Korea but that he had accepted that he probably never will. Very truly sad. But later in the show Grandpa goes on to make another wish- that Nari get married this year. You know, I could help fulfill that sweet old man’s wish if somebody would just get me Nari’s phone number… 😉