Tchalee and the Chocolate Factory: Part 2

This is the continuation of the Tchalee and the Chocolate Factory story by Candy and Sean. However, it is being finished by Sean and Cindy.

The Galbee House where Tchalee was to get his birthday dinner was owned by Wonje Wonka. Wonje Wonka had developed the most fantastic recipes. People came from all over Seoul to see Wonje Wonka and eat his amazing Golbee dinners. No one knew how he had made them. No one ever saw the chefs who worked in his kitchens, and no one ever saw any trucks arriving to bring the meat and yaechae (vegetables)!! There was great speculation about how his food came to be as extraordinarily delicious as it was.

But Tchalee's hal aw baw je (grandfather), Ginbum Buket, had his theory, and it was a most fantastic theory. He believed... no, he knew, that the Galbee House had cooks that were the tiniest of humans. They spent their entire lives apparently in the Galbee House. And it appeared that the beef cattle for the Galbee came from within the walls of the Galbee House. No one had ever seen them, but they clearly had never come from the United States and no one ever protested about how they were inspected.

On Tchalee's birthday, he and the other six members of his family got dressed up to eat at Wonje Wonka's Galbee House. They were all going to gather around the one dinner that Tchalee would get for his birthday. The seven of them would have to share the one spoon and the two metal chopsticks that were provided. The room where they ate was collosal and the sick tack (low table) where they sat with their legs crossed was made of the most beautifully polished wood in all of Korea. The Galbee dinner was extraordinary, but the seven members of the family had to hold back their appetites. Each one took a tiny nibble of the Galbee, and munched on the most delectable morsels of kimchi and ggack ttoo gi.

When Wonje Wonka heard of these unusual patrons, he had to see them. He was used to people who loved his dinners but left some of the food uneaten, and the sight of these seven people lovingly consuming his masterpieces so touched him that he burst into nun mul (tears). From then on, he announced, Tchalee and his family would always be welcome at his Galbee House. And from then on, once a week the Bukets would arrive there to have a wonderful sumptuous dinner with Mr. Wonka.