After gym I went to our favorite canteen to buy Korean street foods the people are happy to see me and one of them started to ask me again in Hangul and as usual all I can say is Mulayo Hangul. Anyway I just pointed out what I like and how many pieces by showing finger sign and when it was total I have samchon left but my husband asked me to spend all the money he gave me so I sign of getting more twigim (friend fritters) and mandu. The owner add more twigim and it she referred it as service so I said my thank you.

The photo photo below is butter and deep fried stuffed pepper twigim and Sweet Potato Twigim or Goguma, twigim means fritters.

And of course we had mandu, the long one are made of vegetables and noodles while the round one is kimchi flavored.

I happened to see corn as well 3 pieces for samchom (₩3,000)

My husband’s daily meal is white eggs with variety of anything like Kimchi, onion or chicken strips.  I always copy his meal and cook my own food after cooking his meal. So this is what I got, I chopped some onions and sauteed it with Kimchi and instead of using just white eggs I add two yolks and scrambled it, I also added green onions as it is present in our fridge.

Trying my new plate.  This is my favorite meal when I am busy and too lazy to cook a viand, plain rice, fried eggs and kimchi on the side. I eat a lot when I have kimchi and eggs,  kimchi served as my appetizer.

Nothing else to do today I decided to cook in the kitchen, I cooked pancit for the first time. I got the bihon  from Philippines it is one of the thing I requested from my mother to send here few months ago.

Cooking pancit is very easy. I just learned it from watching, when there’s an affair in our family circle expect me in the kitchen helping on washing dishes or chopping garlic and onions. So I learned few menu to cook,

My ingrediets:

• Bihon, chicken, carrots, cabbage, soy sauce, oil, garlic, onion, water, black pepper and seasoning

Procedure:

• Rinse pansit bihon with water and drain it.
• Saute the garlic and onion in a small amount of oil
• Add the chicken strips and cook it until brown
• Add water and soy sauce, let it boil
• Then add the pancit bihon, let it simmer and stir it to loosen the noodles
• Add the carrot, cabbage and baguio beans (if available) when the pancit  bihon is almost dry, black pepper
• Cooked for few minutes but don’t overcooked it

Macaroni soup is already part of my diet these past few months.  At first it was just a vegetable soup but  I just thought of adding macaroni in it like the breakfast soup in the Philippines called Sopas.

 Chicken Sopas is a soup dish filled with  chicken strips and  macaroni noodles but mine is not chicken sopas it is just plain vegetable.

We went to the immigration today to renew our visa. It took us one hour to get there, my husband’s co-teacher drove us to  the immigration, and as usual there’s a lot of people on queue that took us about one hour and half to wait for our number.

When we got our visa renewed we took a taxi to the  station little did I know that my husband told the driver “subway station” so when we got there he’s shocked not to find the bus station, I told him bus station is in a different place. We went to tourist information and we are given a small paper on what bus to take to the bus station but instead of waiting for the bus we took a deluxe taxi to the bus station. We got the bus in time to Icheon, we arrived 10 minutes before its departure.

When we arrived to the bus terminal here, we directly went to Lotte Super to buy smoked turkey, fluorescent lights, cheese sticks and few more other stuffs.  After it we separated our ways, me going to the canteen and him to the bank, we agreed to meet in the canteen where I am going to buy our favorite street food.

As usual the owner’s are trying to communicate with me but all I can say is Mulayo Hangul (I don’t know Hangul).  The moment we arrived home I have fried the cheese sticks and heat the smoked turkey and we ate.  We feasted in a lot of food eh and it is not enough we had cake as well. It’s the cake I bought for my husband on Valentines Day, we  saved it for cheat day.

The potato I have bought few months ago are already growing  that made me cook  Chicken Adobo the other day and I am still eating it up to now even my husband had used few pieces of chicken  for his  egg whites. Well it is also been a while since I have cooked this Filipino dish.  I have been contented making soups because it is the easy way to do for a busy person like me. I have added the remaining carrot in the fridge it is better than I let it rotten for keeping it too long.

Cooking chicken Adobo is a very easy thing to do. All you need to do is to saute garlic and onion, and when it brown add the pieces of chicken, vinegar, soy sauce and water. Let it boil until tender, add black pepper to taste. If you desire you can also add potato, carrots and hard boiled eggs.

We have a different treat tonight we prepared our own version of Nachos. Last week I bought Nachos chips as it is on sale, on  that we had an idea of preparing Nachos on the coming weekend. So we bought our ingredients the last time we shop except for the salsa that we bought tonight.

If you don’t know yet Nachos are a popular food based on nixtamalized corn, of Mexican origin associated with Tex-Mex cuisine that can be either made quickly to serve as a snack or prepared with more ingredients to make a full meal.

We just combined all the ingredients in the plate, the Nachos chip first followed by Nachos cheese, the hot salsa, green olives and green onions, meat with kidney beans and lastly mozarella cheese to taste.

According to what I have read in Mexico itself they are rather called “totopos”. In their simplest form, nachos are tortilla chips (totopos) covered in melted cheese and salsa. First created circa 1943 by Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya, the original nachos consisted of fried corn tortillas covered with melted cheddar cheese and pickled jalapeño peppers.

The other night my husband asked me to fried zucchini for him, he is craving for soup but it is too late for me to cook it. As he requested I put a lot of onions and garlic into it.,I never heard about the vegetable zucchini until I arrived here. It looks like cucumber but taste like upo or patola.,

The zucchini (also courgette) is a summer squash which often grows to nearly a meter in length, but which is usually harvested at half that size or less. It is a hybrid of the cucumber. Along with certain other squashes, it belongs to the species Cucurbita pepo. Zucchini can be dark or light green. A related hybrid, the golden zucchini is a deep yellow or orange color.

It’s been a long time since I cooked chicken for myself because these past few months I only ate vegetables, eggs and meat. So today to have a change I stewed chicken in kimchi, I wake up very early to do it. While stewing my chicken I am also cooking my husband chicken meal. So both of the gas range is working to avoid the stench inside the apartment I open the window in the bathroom and closed the door, the fan in our kitchen is connected on the exhaust fan in our bathroom, it is passing through the bathroom ceiling.

The soup is not that strong because I only used left over kimchi, the kimchi is been here in our apartment before Christmas so to empty the container I used it on my chicken.