Food and Restaurants October 14th, 2013 | No Comments »
The other night my husband feel bored of eating the same food again and again from his diet plan so he asked me to buy him an instant meal and dumplings at the nearby convenience store but as usual I went out buying another food more than what is asked to me. I bought cheese dog because I have thought my husband will like it as a few weeks ago we are craving for cheese dogs, I also bought onion rings for myself while the soft drink in is a freebie from the meal.
My husband didn’t eat the cheese dog because he thought I bought it for myself, so I’ve eaten it the next day as well the onion rings.
[ Tagged In ] Instant Meal, Korean Convenient Store, Korean Dumplings, Korean Food, Korean Instant Meal, Korean Snacks, Living in Korea, Living in South Korea
Food and Restaurants November 18th, 2011 | No Comments »
Did not do much today, we’ve sent the box of goodies home. It’s been here for few months already and I didn’t have a chance to send it until today. My husband got annoyed when I didn’t open the door for him in the postal office, it just happened that I forgot about it, haha plus I am walking after him, so he told me that next time he wouldn’t carry my box anymore.
After gym we walked to the bus station to buy street foods like hotdog, sundae, teokkbogi and a lot more which I cannot remember the name. We feasted at them when we reached home,.
[ Tagged In ] Expat Living, Icheon, Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Korean Food, Korean Pig Blood Sausage, Korean Snacks, Korean Street Food, Life in Korea, Living in Icheon, Living in Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Living in South Korea
Food and Restaurants November 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
At first I thought it is espasol a cylinder-shaped Filipino rice cake originating from the province of Laguna. It is made from rice flour cooked in coconut milk and sweetened coconut strips, dusted with toasted rice flour but its not it is Injeolmi is a variety of tteok, or Korean rice cake, made by steaming and pounding glutinous rice flour, which is shaped into small pieces and usually covered with steamed powdered dried beans or other ingredients.
Injeolmi is not only a popular snack but also is considered a high quality tteok, used for janchi, party, feast, or banquet) in Korea. It is easily digested and nutritious.Injeolmi can be stored in a refrigerator and taken out when needed. If the tteok is heated slightly in the microwave, it may taste almost as good as the newly made one.
[ Tagged In ] Injeolmi, Korean Cake, Korean Food, Korean Local Food, Korean Rice Cake, Korean Snack, Korean Snacks, Living in Korea, South Korea
Food and Shopping, Home and Living September 26th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This is my favorite treat on weekdays Croquette. Croquette is a small fried food roll containing usually as main ingredients mashed potatoes, and/or minced meat (veal, beef, chicken, or turkey), shellfish, fish, vegetables, and soaked white bread, egg, onion, spices and herbs, wine, milk, beer or any of the combination thereof, sometimes with a filling, often encased in breadcrumbs. It is usually shaped into a cylinder or disk, and then deep-fried.
My favorite is mashed potato, chicken and beef. The sliced croquette is chicken, the one in the left is chicken curry and the one in the right is beef, I bought this in Paris Baguette when we I take-out Chinese food.
Croquette (Goroke) is sold in most bread shops in Korea. The most common type of Goroke are deep fried rolls stuffed with Japcha ingredients or chicken curry. There are also Goroke filled with Kimchi, pork, and sometimes Bulgogi ingredients. Many Koreans stores often advertise the Goroke as a French product and is usually sold in most European style bread stores all over Korea.
[ Tagged In ] Bakery in Icheon, Expat in South Korea, Expat Life, Expat Living, Icheon, Icheon South Korea, Korean Snacks, South Korea, South Korean popular food
Food and Restaurants, Life in South Korea July 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
There are times I am curious to food here in Korea, so the other day after shopping, when I passed along the student canteens across the elementary school, I return a little bit and decided to step in one canteen/food store and ordered a cup of Tteokbokki. Oh well I did great because I was able to pay the right amount, haha!
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.
[ Tagged In ] Icheon, Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Korean Food, Korean Rice Cake, Korean Snack, Korean Snack Food, Korean Snacks, Life in Korea, Living in Icheon, Living in Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Living in South Korea, Rice Cake
Food and Restaurants June 26th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I am not active in blogosphere lately, sort of busy and I have nothing to post, the ironic thing is when I am out of blogging world I have so many ideas on my mind to blog but once I log-in and plan to blog, nothing is left. Either I am empty on idea or it feels like it is worthless to share or to blog.
Jezz, few days ago I am craving for corn because it was a long time ago since I ate corn. I am craving because I always see corn in the food place near the gym so one day I bought one packed for 3,000 won about 3 dollars maybe, imagine how expensive is it, in Philippines I can buy a bunch of corn with that money but the fact I am not in the Philippines I have to eat the corn to the fullest..Haha!
[ Tagged In ] Expat Life, Expat Living, Icheon, Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Icheon-si, Japanese Corn, Korean Corn, Korean Food, Korean Snacks, Korean Street, Korean Street Food, Life in Korea, Living in Icheon, Living in Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Living in Korea, Living in South Korea, Sweet Corn
Food and Restaurants April 6th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It just come to the point that I am sick of eating eggs and spam, its been my food since the last two days, so tonight I want a change, I went to Family Mart to look for an instant meal but what is left is meatballs, I hate to say this but meatballs makes me sick as well, so the last resort is to buy gimbap to feed my hungry stomach and this is my dinner for tonight.
Hopefully I am not going to be hungry again in the middle of the night because I am also sick of of frying eggs and eating big serving of rice as if I am not going to sleep, two hours after 12 in the morning. Just wrapped these with gim (sea weed) and ready to eat. Yum!
[ Tagged In ] Bimbap, Expat Life, Expat Living, Gimbap, Icheon Gyeonggi-do, Kimpop, Korean Food, Korean Snacks, Life in Korea, Living in Icheon, Living in Korea, Living in South Korea
Food and Restaurants March 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
Here’s a tray of my treats few weeks ago, gimbap and some chocolates. You know some of the gimbaps are spicy so I really need some sweets after eating a spicy one, I can’t tell what’s the flavor not until I open it because I can’t read Hangul. I love to eat gimbap today but when we visit Family Mart, nothing has left maybe it is all sold out.
The flavor or other term varies to tuna, bugolgi, bugolgi hot and spicy, meat with kimchi, and many more.
[ Tagged In ] Bimbap, Expat Life, Gimbap, Kimpop, Korean Food, Korean Snacks, Korean Street Food