Yesterday my husband arrive with sets of Korean tea, from his co-teacher. We’ve been planning to drink a tea while we are on juice fasting but as we can’t read Hangul we don’t know which tea is caffeine free so my husband asked his co-teacher from the list he wrote if they are caffeine free or not.  After break time , his co-teacher gave him this treat below which she manage to buy while its break. Well it serves as her Chuseok gift to us him (Thanks Jade) just too bad we don’t have any gift for her but she said its okay, oh well maybe next time.

Chuseok  is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday in Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. Like many other harvest festivals, it is held around the Autumn Equinox. As a celebration of the good harvest, Koreans visit their ancestral hometowns and share a feast of Korean traditional food such as songpyeon and rice wines such as sindoju and dongdongju.

I have eaten all this treats (Songpyeon) yesterday as my husband is already in juice fasting, I didn’t started yet as I still need to finish the rice but I drink juice in the morning and gives me a weird feeling.

Anyway Songpyeon is a traditional Korean food which is eaten during Chuseok. It is a crescent-shaped rice cake which is made from rice or non-glutinous rice powder. It is a variation of tteok, consisting of small rice cakes. They have become a popular symbol of traditional Korean culture.

Tomorrow will be the start of our juice fasting but dunno if we can start together because I cooked too much rice and I have to eat one pot of it for one day, which is today. It feels like I am pig, pigging out with the rice I can’t rely with my husband because a cat ate more than he ate rice, 70g of rice per meal that’s what the amount of rice he ate.

Oh well as I have said from my other blogs we shopped for vegetables in Lotte Super, we had a nice deal with carrots 4 kilos for $6 only. As you can see our fridge is full of vegetables and there’s no extra space for our water filter so my husband has no choice but to drink warm water.

Wondering why we shop in different supermarket this time? Oh well we’d done canvassing last week and Kim’s Mart wins as the cheapest deal but we decided to visit Lotte Super yesterday to look for my husband brush for his electronic toothbrush and then we found out the good deal for carrots and we ended shopping all the vegetables we need. The carrots are located in the top and below.,

This past few weeks our daily diet consists of coleslaw, which is sometimes simply called slaw in some American dialects, it is a salad consisting primarily of shredded raw cabbage. It may also include shredded carrots and other ingredients such as fruits and vegetables, apples, onions, green onions, peppers and various spices.

 Our coleslaw version is just shredded cabbage and carrots, the mixed it with salt, black pepper and the coleslaw mayonnaise. The first photo was prepared by my husband which is too much carrot and the second one is mine.

We had a take-out of Chinese food from Chai Wok today dunno what comes to my husband mind, he just told me last Friday that his last cheat before our juice fasting is the pizza but he really pig-out. Last night we had ice cream and pre-heated chicken from GS25.

I ordered  set A, which consist of Beijing Style Sweet and Sour Pork with Sweet Potatoes plus Korean Style black noodles, then an order of Chinese Style Noodles of Clean and Light Taste and last but not the least Stir Fried Rice with chicken. I was not able to take a picture of sweet and sour pork when it was full, as my husband already took his share.

I guess it is almost half a year since the last time we ate Chinese food  as we always went for sandwich and cream cakes. And well after taking out Chinese food I went across Paris Baguette to buy some cookies, but I also ended up buying  cup cakes, sort of ice cream cakes and chocolates.

Little that he’d know I pay for the Paris Baguette stuff so he just keep eating the sweet one’ when he asked me if  what do I like  and I say anything, haha. Well, yeah that’s my treat for him desserts not the chocolates though. Haha! Anyway he didn’t eat all of the sweet ones upon knowing I pay for it.

I thought our last cheat day is last Friday before we start our juice fasting but it’s not, last night we had ice cream and today we had Chinese food and some sweets. I went to the Chinese restaurant alone to order a take-out, it is a little far from us around 15-20 minutes away.

The only thing I noticed when I am walking in the shopping district it seems I am the only one wearing a faded old pants and faded old clothes, lol even the few South East Asian people are on their sporting clothes. In short I look more like I am inside the house, I guess I need to change my outfit next time. Lol!

Sweet potato can be served in different way, it can be either boiled or fried in the place where I came from. Here in Korea it can be a flavor of cup cakes or pizza. Yes pizza,  yesterday we had our cheat day and for the last time before we start our juice fasting my husband decide to pig out errr I mean eat all he want, so one of our treats is pizza. I ordered sweet potato for myself, its been a long time since I had this one.

Yes it’s my second time to have Sweet Potato here and I think the first time was year ago, lol.  Oh well if you will ask me how does it tasted, it tasted good its kind of sweet but crunchy and yummy. I enjoyed it this time because I almost ate the whole pizza if my husband didn’t ask for it after he finished his pepperoni pizza.

If motorcycle or jeepney is overflowing in Philippines here in Korea cars are overflowing, looking for evidence? See it for yourself, cars are park everywhere. Yeah, right that’s how it looks like here in the city where we lived the cars are just park in the street that sometimes cause traffic if there are cars in every intersection plus few people walking.

Instead of two cars only one car can passed/used the street as in every corner there’s car on parking.  This is normal in inside streets but on national road you can’t say anything as they are very progressive on infrastructure and it is just amazing how  they connect one city to another.

There are times I feel hungry for Korean food so one fine day and I went out to buy some items for our kitchen, I bought Tteokbokki worth W2,000 (plastic) in some of the mini-canteen just in the school vicinity.  Instead of buying to my “suki” I bought to the other stall owner which is a little farther just to see if who cooks Tteokbokki better.

And to test it, I bought another set of Tteokbokki to the woman I called “suki”, W500 each cup and I also bought the round snack, and if you’re gonna ask me who cooks better my vote goes to my “suki” as her Tteokbokki  has a sticky sauce that taste spicy and sweet while the other one is not that sticky and kind of sour (vinegar taste).

I called her “suki” as I always buy Tteokbokki to her and she always put more than the amount I bought especially when I buy in large container, and since she put a lot it came to the point I feel tired of eating Tteokbokki. Lol!

Tteokbokki, also known as Ddeokbokki is a popular Korean snack food which is commonly purchased from street vendors or Pojangmacha. Originally it was called tteok jjim and was a braised dish of sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning. Tteok jjim an early variant of modern tteokbokki, was once a part of Korean royal court cuisine. This type of tteokbokki was made by boiling tteok, meat, vegetables, eggs, and seasonings in water, and then serving it topped with ginkgo nuts and walnuts. In its original form, tteokbokki, which was then known as gungjung tteokbokki, was a dish served in the royal court and regarded as a representative example of haute cuisine. The original tteokbokki was a stir-fried dish consisting of garaetteo ( cylinder-shaped tteok) combined with a variety of ingredients, such as beef, mung bean sprouts, green onions, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and onions, and seasoned with soy sauce.

There are times when I can’t be disturbed I just dropped the pork in the frying pan and let it fried on its own oil instead of cooking adobo which I need to peel and chopped  potato as well garlic and onion. The easiest way for me to have adobo as my meal for the day is pour a drop of oil and soy sauce on my hot rice and mixed it. Simple isn’t it?

As we don’t have a gym schedule tonight my husband and I went out to pay the internet bill, to canvass the amount of fruits and vegetables between the three big supermarket around us and to pick the juicer that we ordered from Samsung appliance store. Well after canvassing and the jotting down the prices as we want to know which supermarket sells a nice deal of what we wanted. The end result we still picked Kim’s Club Mart.

Anyway when we reached home we excitedly try our new juicer by preparing a carrot juice, we used 1 1/2 carrot and a small piece of ginger and we got 250ml of juice.