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.

There are times I searched online for free samples, the last time I grabbed free samples online it has a dishwashing soap on it. As we don’t have dishwasher here at home we have sent it to a friend.  Those times dishwashers were considered something of a luxury when they first came on the market that most restaurants have it but now a days most private home have it too, a dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning dishes and eating utensils.  Dishwasher has different models, the new one is a  slimline models that  fits with a small kitchen. They are also effective in cleaning as the standard model, it allows  you to adjust the temperature, depending on how dirty your crockery is.  Some of the highest-rated slimline dishwashers use only ten litres of water per wash and have Eco Wash and Quick Wash options to help reduce water and electricity consumption.

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.

I have been busy these past few days on cooking in our kitchen and what is expected after that stressful time I can’t face my blog and do my job in front of my computer anymore. All I want is to relax and chill, watch some TV shows online and read.

Anyway I wish we have range cooker here in our apartment I have notice our burner is being rusty maybe because of keeping the pot in the gas range while they are newly wash and water is dripping. Since I found it I am now very extra careful to dry the pot first before letting it sit in our gas range and keeping it in our kitchen cabinet.

Range cookers are far bigger than traditional cookers and they come with a larger main oven and more hob burners. They are designed to look like the olden style cooking ranges found in older styled kitchens and have numerous features. They are free-standing and come in widths between 90cm to 150 cm.

Range cookers can be electric only or the more popular dual fuel option where the hob is powered by gas and the oven by electricity. Most range cookers come with six hob burners

I only know two doughnut shops in Philippines, that is Dunkin Donuts and Mister Donut, that’s why when my husband told me about Krispy Kreme I thought it is a new doughnut shop but I was wrong

Krispy Kreme  was founded by Vernon Rudolph on 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it is  an international chain of doughnut stores. The parent company of Krispy Kreme is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) and is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.

My husband told me Krispy Kreme is a way better than Dunkin Donuts, yeah right but it is also a way expensive too. This is my favorite flavor Blueberry and honey glaze. Honey glaze is the signature item of Krispy Kreme and traditionally served warm.

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.

As I am not feeling well I am sleep the whole day and when evening came I am quite busy cooking, I have cooked five different meals. While frying some eggs and luncheon meat for my husband I am cooking the soup, then when it’s done I ate then I cooked again, this time  chicken tidbits and after it I have cooked rice. When I’ve done all my task it was so tiring.

Not really what you are looking at, just a version of my cheese sandwich.  Early this morning today before we sleep I felt hungry so I took the mayonnaise bottle in the fridge, I am planning to eat some buns with mayonnaise but my husband told me to add cheese on it. I don’t really like this processed cheese but to make it more flavorful I followed his suggestions and its a good thing I did, its yummy.

My husband asked me afterwards if the bread and mayonnaise is poor man thing in the Philippines, I told him its normal you can even buy bread with mayonnaise spread in most student canteen eh.,

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.

Well after more than one month I have already decided what this blog all about, this will be my journal in expat living here in Korea. To start with it is chilling cold today with -16 degree Celsius, the frost from yesterday are still in the street but most of them are clean and shoveled by locals.

We went to Lotte Super today to shop for our weekly supplies and I have found out that in the nearby building where Family Mart stands is now under-renovation, soon Starbucks will rise in that area. Within two year of living here in Icheon I have witnessed how the city progress, more and more building, establishments are built.

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