Before shopping to Lotte Super last Friday we first visit Lotte World Mart, they are not connected to each other. The latter is an Asian store that own by a Thai man/family. Most of the products are around Asia specifically Thailand and Vietnam and few products from the Philippines. It is our second visit to the store since we discover it,  our main purposed is to look for buko juice and as well to buy some seasonings for cooking sinigang, frying and etc.,

So here’s what I bought 2 Knorr Sinigang sa Sampalok Mix (Original), 2 Knorr Sinigang  na may Gabi and Maggi Magic Sarap all-in-one seasoning granules, I don’t know how much this cost in Philippines right now but all of these cost W10,000 here or $9.  I guess I can already buy pork in  wet market if I am in Philippines isn’t it?

Unlike those old times if you want to cook sinigang sa sampalok all you need to do is climb a sampalok tree or use santol to make the soup sour but since we are developing country, most of the trees are now cut just to build a house in the certain land, but I guess this seasoning powder/granule is a little easier than climbing a sampalok(tamarind) tree. Lol!

Fruits. That we have in our fridge in our second week of juice fasting unlike the first week the we shop for vegetables.  Some of the fruits we bought are kiwis, peaches, oranges, grapes, lemon, apples and few vegetables as well,  as usual we bought two bags of carrots (8 kls)  for $10.47  as it is a good deal.

The only thing I don’t like shopping to Lotte Super here in our place is it is quite far that we had to carry heavy shopping bags.

Anyway here are the benefits of eating fruits like:

Kiwi  it is  rich source of vitamins A, C, E, B – complex, calcium, iron and folic acid.

Lime or lemon is the most cultivated citrus fruit with green to yellow colour loaded with vitamins A, C and folate. Juice of lime is good for detoxification and has antioxidant properties.

Orange contains vitamin C, flavanoids, provides pectin and rich in sodium when ripened in sunshine.

This is my version of Beef Steak or Bistek in Philippines, as beef is not around I used pork instead and this is one of  my favorite viand, I love the sweet and sour taste of soy sauce and lime., as of this writing I am craving for this food.

My Ingredients

Pork,  kalamansi (lemon),  soy sauce, black pepper, garlic, onions, cooking oil

Procedure

• Mixed kalamansi or lemon juice and soy sauce then add pork (beef), garlic and ground pepper. Soak if for few minutes.
• Light fry the onion rings
• The fried the pork(beef) until brown and set it aside
• Then cook/boil the marinade for 1 minute
• Arrange beef (pork) slices on a plate. Place the onion rings on top. Pour the sauce over the onions and beef.
• Served hot

I just came to the point that oh my one more hour and I didn’t blog anything yet., I am just quite busy tweaking themes no matter I try to divide my time, I can’t when I am engrossed on what I am doing., oh well just too bad I can’t share anything good today on the food I cook or eat so let me just share the cheats I had few weeks ago.,

I seldom eat junk foods like chips and curls, so mostly when we had a cheat day I run into bread or chocolates but there are times it feels tired eating sweet food and my tongue is longing for something salty and I had this onion rings, my husband all time favorite. Lol

As what I have said on my health blog we bought prunes or dried plums yesterday and we mixed it in the blender with water and turn it to juice that’s how simple it is done.  Prunes taste like raisins but it is not raisins,

Prune juice is distilled from dried plums, usually by re-hydrating the fruit in water and extracting the liquid. The deep purple elixir is a virtual cocktail of beneficial nutrients and vitamins. Although the most famous characteristic of prune juice is its high-fiber based laxative effect, experts suggest many other health benefits are also possible. Source

Yesterday is Chuseok here in Korea,  a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday in Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar so most of the establishment are closed aside from the 24 hours convenient store. Instead of feasting with food I am starving for food because of the juice fasting.

Anyway my husband and I decided to take a short walk to energize and let our blood circulate, the more we walk the more hungry I felt seeing food stores and restaurant.

Dunkin Donuts is among one of the open store which I am surprised because before the donut shop is already closed at ten o’clock in the evening but as of last night it is quite full. Most of the people I’ve seen walking around is family., maybe they’re visiting their parents and grandparents. I have seen a mother and her daughter walking, I have thought the child has a white puppy with her on leashed but when I look carefully she has no white puppy with her. Did I just see a white puppy ghost?

This is my simple version of Egg sandwich, just fry the egg, sandwich it to  bread and top it with mayonnaise and ketchup. This serves as my late meal especially when there’s a lot of bread I need to eat before its expiration. I missed this meal as  right now we cannot eat anything solid even though I cheat last night by eating potato chips I decided to return to our juice fasting, I already loss weight since we started.

Oh well I know this food is  much better to served during breakfast especially if there’s hotdog too.

On my first day of juice fasting I can’t really stop myself from craving foods other than the juices so that night I divulge myself to this box of Toffifee chocolate, it is hazelnut in caramel with creamy nougat and chocolate. My husband don’t allowed me to eat this because I am going to lost on our deal,  but I have a strong excuse the chocolate will expired next month so before it expired I have to enjoy it rather than the garbage or ants will do it for me.

I am not really into flavored coffee, coffee and milk is already fine with me, so I seldom buy coffee on coffee shop.  Few nights ago we happened to stumble to Gs25 for late snack and I have seen this Starbucks Frappuccino (Mocha) and I remember I have these kind of drink last Chuseok when we are in Busan so believed it or not it is almost one year since I had this., haha..

So I asked my husband to treat me a drink in short I got these bottled cold coffee, I found the bottle cute so instead of putting it away on the recyclable bin in our house I keep it.

And I it is not a mistake keeping it as it serves as my bottle on our juice fasting,  here’s my first juice on our first day of our juice fasting (last Friday), it is a mixture of carrots, cabbage, ginger and etc., after drinking this juice it gives me weird feeling, my stomach feels upset it feels like there are rats running around looking for place to hide.

I was not able to started it fully that day because I have eaten the remaining rice as my lunch top with spaghetti sauce and  for dinner the songpyeon.

It’s been ages since I joined nostalgia because I have been busy and partly I can’t think of something that will remind me. The photo below was taken a year ago in our old apartment in Seoul, it has two rooms and the small room that will supposed to be kid’s room is our dresser or room for clothes. We are heading to China the next day that’s why our clothes are already packed and only left on the rack are my day clothes.

That day too my husband new camera just arrived and he took a sample shot of me while closing the door in the balcony.